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Editorial: Christie gets it right on off-shore drilling Governor Christie pushes back against the Trump administration on offshore drilling. Check out this story on northjersey.com: https://njersy.co/2xfodY1 The oil drilling rig Polar Pioneer is towed toward a dock in Elliott Bay in Seattle in this 2015 file photo.
Words, the stock in trade of politics and public policy, express value with as much volatility and meaning as any commodity, stock or bond. Words can be used subtly in ways that let us find meanings in the deeds and thoughts of people across time from many cultures and environments.
Alabama's special election for U.S. Senate will cost $15 million. That's a small price for a vibrant representative democracy, but a waste of money if people don't bother to vote.
One of the attorneys general who has sought probes against the Trump administration has accepted large individual campaign donations from an energy tycoon with connections to Russian President Vladimir Putin. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has accepted more than $60,000 in small donations from Leonard Blavatnik, a Ukrainian-born energy billionaire with ties to Russian oligarchs, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation examination of the Democrat's financial disclosure reports .
Donald Trump is facing fresh criticism over his response to the deadly violence that broke in Charlottesville last Saturday. A bipartisan group of lawmakers denounced the president's statements blaming "both sides" after counterprotesters clashed with neo-Nazis and white nationalists, leaving one dead and more than a dozen people injured.
I am proud to pen this commentary from my new office space, referred to around the state Capitol as "the Dog House." The Dog House is where you get sent as punishment when you draw the ire of the leaders for standing up to them on principle.
A state Muslim civil liberties group, governor and state Republican party are responding after a Facebook post by a Republican state representative equated the removal of confederate monuments after the Civil War to removing mosques after the 9-11 terror attacks. State Rep. John Bennett, R-Salisaw, posted on his Facebook timeline early Thursday morning "If we're removing confederate monuments after the Civil War, I think we should also be removing mosques after 9/11."
A Missouri lawmaker who temporarily posted a Facebook comment expressing hope that President Donald Trump would be assassinated could face an effort to remove her from office. Republican Gov. Eric Greitens and Lt.
In this June 22, 2017 file photo, Carl Paladino, right, walks with his lawyers outside the state Department of Education building in Albany, N.Y. The one-time Republican candidate for New York governor whose insults of Barack and Michelle Obama preceded calls for his ouster from the Buffalo school board has been removed from the post. State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia announced her decision Thursday, Aug. 17, following a five-day hearing in June.
A Democratic super PAC that sank nearly $20 million into the 2016 presidential race is already gearing up for a potential bid by Vice President Mike Pence. American Bridge 21st Century, a Democratic opposition super PAC funded by liberal mega donors, is seizing on reports that Pence's team has set up a "shadow campaign" to begin compiling opposition research against the vice president.
A Missouri lawmaker acknowledged Thursday that she posted and later deleted a comment on Facebook about hoping for President Donald Trump's assassination, saying she was frustrated with the president's response to the white supremacist rally and violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. Democratic Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal said she was wrong for writing the post and didn't mean what she said, but she refused calls to resign.
Phil Murphy's proposed tax increases would raise roughly $1.3 billion a year, his spokesman told Observer on Thursday, releasing for the first time a cost estimate of the Democratic gubernatorial nominee's plans to pay for a multitude of campaign promises. A separate $80 million to $100 million would be generated through savings from reining in out-of-network health care costs for public workers covered by state plans, the spokesman said, for a total annual gain of roughly $1.4 billion in revenue.
One-time Republican candidate for New York governor Carl Paladino, whose published insults of former President Barack Obama provoked a public uproar, was removed from Buffalo's school board Thursday for improperly discussing teacher contract negotiations. State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia announced her decision Thursday, a day after Paladino protesters disrupted the school board's latest meeting with calls for his ouster.
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.
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.
The combative leftists and self-described anarchists who are ready and willing to use violence as a reaction against neo-Nazis and the alt-right Dancing to her death: Doctor, 38, is filmed entering drug dealer's apartment where she took fatal overdose and the shameful moment her HBO producer friend skulked off after calling paramedics and leaving her corpse in the hallway O Clinton-a: Hillary dotes on baby Aidan as she and Bill are joined by Chelsea, Marc and the grandkids on family vacation in Quebec Woman was left with huge open wound across her entire face from melanoma despite always wearing sunscreen and avoiding the sun Tom Cruise BROKE his ankle during ill-fated daredevil roof jump stunt for Mission: Impossible 6... putting production behind by EIGHT WEEKS Now BOTH Bushes weigh in against Trump after Mitch McConnell joins John Kasich in Republican attack saying 'there are no good ... (more)
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.
The editorial page editor of The New York Times has been grilled in federal court by a lawyer for Sarah Palin, who's suing over an editorial that linked right-wing political rhetoric to the 2011 shooting of former U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords.
New York Times' editorial page editor: No apology for Sarah Palin Times editorial page editor James Bennet testified Wednesday that the newspaper didn't apologize to Palin for the error. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://usat.ly/2wc2pjA Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin attends an event to promote her TV show, "Amazing America with Sarah Palin," on Jan. 22, 2015, in Las Vegas.