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Jan 24 2024
News
13 Wyoming residents chosen for Mike Rowe work ethic scholarships
CASPER, Wyo. — The work ethic of 13 Wyoming residents is paying off after they were named among the 124 recipients of the mikeroweWORKS scholarships. Mike Rowe is best known as the creator and host of Discovery Channel’s “Dirty Jobs.” After many years as host of “Dirty Jobs,” which took him to every state in the nation, Rowe discovered that there was a disconnect in the country with the
Oil City News
Jan 13 2021
News
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez Says Congress Must ‘Rein In’ Media Environment
Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Tuesday that Congress is looking into reining in “our media environment” to prevent the spread of disinformation.
Ocasio-Cortez discussed how she feared for her life during last week’s Capitol Riot in a live stream on Instagram Tuesday evening, Fox News reported. A viewer asked Ocasio-Cortez if Congress is discussing “truth and
The Daily Caller
Jan 25 2024
News
Glenn Highway closed near Knik River bridges by 35-vehicle crash
Alaska State Troopers and Anchorage police say the Glenn Highway has been closed near the Knik River bridges amid a collision involving dozens of vehicles. Troopers initially said on social media at about 11:15 a.m. that the Glenn’s southbound lanes were closed at the Parks/Glenn highway interchange after a collision near Reflections Lake and the bridges, which mark a jurisdictional line
Alaska Public Media
Jul 07 2017
News
Mainstream Media Can't Avoid June's Good Economic News
The economy is in pretty good shape, according to last month's labor statistics. Heck, the numbers even exceeded analysts' expectations.
Townhall
Jan 24 2024
News
Chicago restaurants, chefs garner 17 semifinalist nominations for James Beard Awards
CHICAGO — Chicago restaurants and chefs garnered 17 semifinalist nominations, announced Wednesday, for the 2024 James Beard Awards. The winners will be announced at the James Beard Restaurant and Chef Awards ceremony on Monday, June 10, at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Established in 1990 and first awarded in 1991, the James Beard Foundation’s Restaurant and Chef Awards are one of five separate
WGN
Jan 24 2024
News
Alaska is back on the Pentagon's radar, Sullivan says
U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan says Alaska is back as a recognized location of importance for the U.S. military and national security. Sullivan noted that a decade ago the Pentagon wanted to close Alaska bases. But no longer. “I would say the Pentagon, which literally, in my view, was the last entity in Washington, DC to recognize the strategic importance of the Arctic, has finally got with the
Alaska Public Media
Jan 26 2021
Opinion
Stand Down @Jack: Why The First Amendment Needs To Be Applied To Social Media
The interplay between the First Amendment and corporations like Twitter, Google, Amazon, Apple, and Facebook is the most significant challenge to free speech in our lifetimes. Pretending a corporation with the reach to influence elections is just another place that sells stuff is to pretend the role of debate in a free society is outdated.
From the day the Founders wrote the 1A until
Guest Writer - Right
Jan 16 2024
News
Blue State Hired AI Company To Track Election ‘Misinformation.’ It Routinely Flagged Conservative Opinions
Oregon’s Secretary of State recruited an artificial intelligence firm to monitor social media for “threats” to election security as part of a program that frequently flagged conservative opinions, according to documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Throughout the 2022 midterm election cycle, the firm Logically AI sent state officials weekly “misinformation” reports that
The Daily Caller
Jan 13 2021
Opinion
Why Purging Social Media of Extremist Speech Might Not Make Us Safer
It's been a wild week on social media. Twitter and Facebook permanently suspended President Trump following the Capitol riots; Twitter removed 70,000 accounts for allegedly promoting violent and conspiratorial content; Facebook mistakenly locked former congressman Ron Paul out of his account, an incident that demonstrates the perils of overly broad moderation; Apple and Amazon moved to
Reason
Jul 03 2017
News
Trump praises veterans, hits media at Kennedy Center event
U.S. President Donald Trump honored military veterans in Washington on Saturday at a Kennedy Center event that resembled both a political rally and an evangelical Christian religious service ahead of the July 4 Independence Day holiday.
Reuters