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The Aug. 4 commentary "Met Council actually serves Twin Cities area quite well" by former Met Council staffer Steven Dornfeld makes an impassioned defense of the Met Council's good works in light of perceived Republican attacks. Dornfeld was half right.
With fallout over President Trump's take on the bloody events in Charlottesville, Democratic Representative Steve Cohen of Tennessee announcing his plans to introduce articles of impeachment against the president. Rep. Jackie Speier wants to remove Trump from office under an article within the 25th Amendment to the Constitution that allows the vice president and a majority of the cabinet to declare the president temporarily "unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office."
AND THIS IS WHERE IT IS INTENDED TO GO, THE NED GAME REMOVING THE FOUNDING FATHERS FROM HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. The other day during the press conference President Donald Trump asked, when does the taking down of statues stop ? The MSM and late night talk show idiots laughed and made jokes.
It has been an emotional journey this week for Maria Mendoza and her family. The Oakland woman and her husband late Wednesday said goodbye to their three daughters and the United States.
The government will make this month's payments to insurers under the 2010 health care law that President Donald Trump still wants to repeal and replace, a White House official said Wednesday. Trump has repeatedly threatened to end the payments, which help reduce health insurance copayments and deductibles for people with modest incomes but remain under a legal cloud.
What about Antifa? What about free speech? What about the guy who shot Steve Scalise? What about the mosque in Minnesota that got bombed? What about North Korea? What about murders in Chicago? What about Ivanka at the G-20? What about Vince Foster? If white pride is bad, then what about gay pride? What about the stock market? What about those 33,000 deleted emails? What about Hitler? What about the Crusades? What about the asteroid that may one day kill us all? What about Benghazi? His campaign may or may not have conspired with Moscow, but President Trump has routinely employed a durable old Soviet propaganda tactic.
Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Wednesday he revived a "bathroom bill" targeting transgender people even though he was told it would never get a vote in the GOP-controlled state House, while signaling that the twice-failed effort is dead for the foreseeable future. A proposal requiring transgender Texans to use public restrooms according to the gender on their birth certificates fizzled Tuesday night, when lawmakers abruptly ended a month-long special legislative session Abbott convened.
If Brooke High School senior Ashley Eby were assigned to write about her summer break for school, it's very likely she would describe her visit to the nation's capitol, meeting President Trump and other government leaders and her discovery of a new potential career.
In his first visit to the Tri-Cities, Energy Secretary Rick Perry offered enthusiastic support for the Hanford cleanup and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, but gave no assurance he will advocate to maintain current funding. Perry's first Northwest visit began with a tour of McNary Dam on Monday and continued Tuesday with stops at the national laboratory, the Volpentest HAMMER federal training center and the Hanford nuclear site.
U.S. Congressman Joaquin Castro, D-Texas , weighed in on the special legislative session and tied it to the president's approach to governing. "This was a Trump inspired legislative session and special legislative session," Castro said in a Wednesday press conference.
Governors in at least two states that have legalized recreational marijuana are pushing back against the Trump administration and defending their efforts to regulate the industry. Alaska Gov. Bill Walker, a one-time Republican no longer affiliated with a party, sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions this week asking the Department of Justice to maintain the Obama administration's more hands-off enforcement approach to states that have legalized the drug still banned at the federal level.
Former CIA Director John Brennan ripped President Trump's response to the violence in Charlottesville, Va., saying the president "will do last harm to American society." "Mr. Trump's words, and the beliefs they reflect, are a national disgrace, and all Americans of conscience need to repudiate his ugly and dangerous comments," Brennan wrote in a letter to CNN's Wolf Blitzer .
Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, learns how the recently reopened Save-A-Lot grocery store on Piney Forest Road helps provide Danville residents with fresh, healthy food options.
The U.S. House Homeland Security Committee will hold a hearing next month about threats from extremist groups, including domestic terrorism, following a violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last weekend. The panel's chairman, Republican Representative Michael McCaul, announced the Sept.
House Homeland Security Committee chairman Rep. Michael McCaul announced Wednesday that the committee would discuss last weekend's violence in Charlottesville, Va. as domestic terrorism during an upcoming hearing.
Debate over school choice finds itself in new territory with proponents and opponents alike fighting over accountability. Opponents of school choice like Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wis., made the news when he pressed Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to include some undefined accountability standards in any federal school choice program.
U.S. Representative Gwen Moore [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons). The Democrat from Milwaukee issued a statement blasting Trump for defending neo-Nazis and the KKK for "the deadly riot in Charlottesville," adding "for the sake of the soul of our country, we must come together to restore our national dignity that has been robbed by Donald Trump's presence in the White House."
Senior communications adviser Hope Hicks will likely take on the role of White House communications director, according to two sources inside the White House and one outside. Earlier this month, a White House official told CNN there were internal discussions that Stephen Miller, a senior adviser on policy, could be considered for an elevated communications role in addition to his current position.
Energy Secretary Rick Perry, left, closely observes as worker trainers Joni Spencer, center, and Dean Beaver prepare to give a respirator demonstration Tuesday at the HAMMER Training Facility in Richland. Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., stands next to Perry and Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., stands in between the workers at right.