Walmart honor veterans
Travis Schultz, Gallipolis Walmart assistant manager, serves as master of ceremonies for a tribute Walmart did for veterans recently. A message from West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin was also given in honor of veterans.
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Jenkins exits US House leadership, may mull governor’s race
Kansas congresswoman Lynn Jenkins will be leaving a position on the House Republicans' leadership team when the newly elected Congress convenes in January. Jenkins said Wednesday that she is stepping down as GOP conference vice chairwoman to focus on health care and tax reform legislation.
The joy of jumping into leaves
They brought in 200 bags of leaves, put them into one of the foam pits, and then let customers go to town! By all appearances, everyone had a blast. We now know what police believe caused a man to fire 17 rounds into an apartment complex in Essex Junction.
Police: Drunk driver clocked at 100 mph
South Burlington police say they were monitoring traffic on Interstate 189 early Wednesday morning when Curtis Britt, 21, of Winooski, blew past going over 100 mph. When he pulled over, police say Britt also showed signs of impairment and had a blood alcohol content just over the legal limit of 0.08.
Give life ‘everything you’ve got’
Walter Cronkite, born this month in 1917, once said that he "can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got." To use the music industry as an example; though there is now a fast-track to recognition in the form of televised competitions - spinning red chairs, that's all I'll say - a majority of music careers are still defined by the artist's ability to fight tooth and nail for their relevance.
Senator Carper releases statement on U.S. Postal Service 2016 financial losses
On Wednesday, U.S. Senator Tom Carper , top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released a statement in response to the announcement that the U.S. Postal Service reported a net loss of $5.6 billion in fiscal year 2016. According to the release, this report came after the Postal Service faced the first rate decrease in almost a century with the court-mandated expiration of the emergency surcharge put in place after the Great Recession - which was apparently the only measure keeping the Postal Service from financial collapse over the last two years.
Trump denies transition disarray after sackings
Washington, Nov 16 : Amid reports of disarray in his team, US President-elect Donald Trump has defended his handling of the transition to the White House. Trump said in a tweet on Tuesday that the process of selecting his new cabinet and other positions was "very organised".
Letter: Lee and Love are the adults in the room
I have been no fan of Sen. Mike Lee, but I was encouraged that he conducted his re-election campaign with the dignity that should become a United States senator. He took his opponent seriously and treated her and her ideas with respect.
Senator Barbara Boxer makes push to abolish Electoral College Read Story
Boxer says when all the votes are counted, Clinton will probably win the popular vote by a margin that could exceed two million. She also cited the fact that Trump himself tweeted in 2012 that the Electoral College is "a disaster for democracy."
Morning Digest: Rick Scott flirts with a Senate bid against Bill Nelson
Donald Trump has won the presidency after narrowly carrying a few states to put him above 270 electoral votes.But according... During the Labor Day weekend, when many people are celebrating and preparing for the upcoming school-year, Dakota Access, a... Donald Trump has announced that Steve Bannon-former head of the online racist platform Breitbart-will be a senior adviser in... a- FL-Sen : Republican Gov. Rick Scott, who will be termed out in 2018, might not be done with politics just yet. As early as last year, not long after he narrowly won re-election, Scott reportedly began telling backers he might run against Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson.
Some Bizarre Ideas on What to Do Next
Apparently, people are so frustrated and outraged by Trump's victory, they've begun contemplating some fairly radical strategies to thwart or stop him. In their most wildly optimistic moments, they even imagine forcing Trump from office, forcing him to resign the presidency and return to real estate or show business, or whatever the hell he was doing before he decided to enter politics.
Senate Dems Ready for New Leader, GOP Staying With McConnell
Senate Democrats are turning to Sen. Chuck Schumer, a Brooklyn-bred partisan infighter with a pragmatic streak, to steer them into the Donald Trump era. Republicans are sticking with the genteel Kentuckian, Sen. Mitch McConnell, who lacks Schumer's instinct for soundbites but has been a brutally effective legislative tactician.
Trump-supporting senator: Professor hurled ‘profanity-laced…
Then-presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump with Sen. Bob Corker during a campaign event July 5, 2016, in Raleigh, North Carolina. When Republican Sen. Bob Corker took a stroll by his lonesome along Stringer's Ridge in his home state of Tennessee Sunday, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman probably wasn't shocked that at least one fellow hiker on the trail recognized him.
Kris Kobach, Immigration Hard-Liner, Could Be Trump’s Attorney General
Kris Kobach, the Kansas secretary of state whose hard-line immigration stance has caught the attention of President-elect Donald Trump, could be a candidate for attorney general. Kobach, already a member of Trump's transition team, advised Trump on immigration policy, one of the Republican's top priorities, throughout the campaign and added Trump's promise to build a wall along the southern border to the Republican Party's national platform.
Dan K. Thomasson: FBIa s screw-up cana t go ignored
It's still to be determined how much impact, if any, the FBI's unprecedented last-minute actions had on Hillary Clinton's performance with presidential election voters, who this past week opted to elect her opponent, Donald Trump. What certainly is, however, is whether the bureau as a whole or its director, James Comey, are allowed to skate in what was one of the most bizarre and outrageous missteps in the history of the nation's top law enforcement agency - a flagrant abuse of its own policies and proprieties that clearly had the potential for seriously damaging Clinton's chances.
How Democrats, media are pushing ‘white nationalism’ on Trump team
Alan Dershowitz, who is a famed professor of law and advocate of human rights, defended Stephen Bannon today against accusations that the Executive Chairman of Breitbart News is an anti-Semite. In an interview today with Steve Kornacki of MSNBC, Dershowitz said that there is "no evidence to support that" Bannon is anti-Semitic.
Harvard Kennedy School alumni elected to Congress
Van Hollen served seven terms in the U.S. House of Representatives after 12 years in the Maryland General Assembly. He has called for improving education, expanding the economy, and election reform.
Anchorage, AK executive earns national award at industry conference
The International Bottled Water Association today announced that Terry Clark, chief operating officer of Alaska Glacial Products LLC, based in Anchorage, has won its prestigious Shayron Barnes-Selby / IBWA Advocacy Award. Mr. Clark was handed the award at IBWA's Annual General Meeting as part of the 2016 IBWA Annual Business Conference in Nashville, Tennessee.
After complaints, Trump-branded buildings being renamed
Donald Trump's name is being stripped off three luxury apartment buildings after hundreds of tenants signed a petition saying they were embarrassed to live in a place associated with the Republican president-elect. In all, about 600 residents of the three rental towers in Trump Place signed the online petition, which began circulating weeks ago after the public release of a decade-old recording of Trump boasting about groping women and kissing them without their consent.
Will any Tennesseans be a part of the Trump administration?
Washington insiders say the city is just now recovering from the shock of election night. The Trump transition team is described as a continuation of the campaign-a little chaotic, seat of the pants, at times, and the President-elect is making all the calls.