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Jan 17 2023
News
US Rep. Peltola’s campaign manager joins congresswoman’s DC staff
WASHINGTON — Alaska Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola’s campaign manager, Anton McParland, will be the congresswoman’s deputy chief of staff. McParland began running Peltola’s congressional campaign just days before the August special election, when Peltola defeated former Gov. Sarah Palin and businessman Nick Begich, both Republicans. As deputy chief, McParland will manage Peltola’s office
Anchorage Daily News
Nov 09 2022
News
Pot Prohibition Continues Collapsing, and Psychedelic Bans Could Be Next
Voters on Tuesday approved the legalization of recreational marijuana in Maryland and Missouri while rejecting similar measures in Arkansas, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Meanwhile, voters in five Texas cities passed ballot measures that bar local police from issuing citations or making arrests for low-level marijuana possession. But the most striking election result for drug policy
Reason
Jun 09 2022
Analysis
Invasion News Fits on Front Page More When an Enemy Does the Invading
The New York Times’ slogan “All the News That’s Fit to Print” has appeared on the paper’s front page since 1897. But a comparison of Times coverage of the 2022 Ukraine War and the 2003 invasion of Iraq shows that the same kinds of news don’t always fit on the front page.
FAIR examined front pages of the New York Times between April 1 and April 30, 2022, and compared them to those from
FAIR
Jan 17 2023
News
DeSantis appoints a private school staffer to the Miami-Dade School Board
Maria Bosque-Blanco will be the new Miami-Dade County School Board member, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Tuesday night. Bosque-Blanco, 48, a guidance counselor at Our Lady of Lourdes Academy, a private all-girls Catholic school in Miami, will replace Lubby Navarro, the former vice chairperson, who stepped down Dec. 30 to comply with a new law that went into effect New Year’s Eve that barred
Miami Herald
Aug 19 2022
News
Biden’s Climate Law Is Ending 40 Years of Hands-Off Government
On Tuesday, President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law. It is no exaggeration to say that his signature immediately severed the history of climate change in America into two eras. Before the IRA, climate campaigners spent decades trying and failing to get a climate bill through the Senate. After it, the federal government will spend $374 billion on clean energy and climate
The Atlantic
Jan 13 2023
News
Furor over documents creates unexpected political peril for Biden
President Biden, facing a special counsel investigation amid new revelations of classified documents in his possession after the vice presidency, suddenly confronts a ballooning political problem that threatens to hamstring his agenda and blunt the momentum he hoped to seize at the halfway mark of his term.
Congressional Republicans, who just days ago were displaying bitter discord and
Washington Post
Jan 05 2023
Opinion
Kevin McCarthy’s Predicament Is a Warning
Kevin McCarthy’s humiliation, and that of Donald Trump alongside him, offers a tall draft of schadenfreude. At the end of that, though, the nation is left with an empty glass and a bitter taste.
For many reasons, McCarthy is unfit for the speakership: He undermined the 2020 election, he is dishonest, he is (as we see) unable to marshal his caucus. But his defectors aren’t really
The Atlantic
Jul 22 2020
News
White House and GOP struggle to unite around virus relief plan
Senate Republicans and the White House remain plagued by deep ideological divides over major elements of the next coronavirus relief package, creating an opening for Democrats as the pace of negotiations accelerates.
With coronavirus cases soaring across the country, the U.S. economy in near tatters, and elections just over 100 days away, senior White House officials and the Senate GOP
Politico
Nov 11 2022
News
Voters rewarded governors who reopened fastest from COVID
For many governors on the ballot this week, the pandemic was the defining issue of their term — and those who pushed for the fastest reopening after the initial wave of lockdowns were among the biggest winners.
Greg Abbott in Texas, Ron DeSantis in Florida and Brian Kemp in Georgia led the way in reopening in 2020, in some cases even defying President Trump’s calls for a slower approach
Washington Times
Nov 11 2022
News
Haberman: Trump ‘willing to burn it all down if he doesn’t get what he wants’
Amid new pushback to former President Trump in the wake of Tuesday’s midterm elections, New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman tweeted on Friday that he is “willing to burn it all down” if he does not get his way.
“Trump has made clear he’s willing to burn it all down if he doesn’t get what he wants, which is maintaining his grip on the product line he’s been developing for six years
The Hill