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LSU is shopping around for new health care deals in north Louisiana, hoping to move some of its doctors-in-training to more hospitals in the region because the university's relationship with the operator of its own hospitals in Shreveport and Monroe continues to deteriorate. The Associated Press reports that LSU President F. King Alexander calls the university's arrangement to have the Biomedical Research Foundation of Northwest Louisiana run the two north Louisiana hospitals "a three-and-a-half-year thorn in our side.
Republicans have a chance to build on their majorities and win a record number of governors' seats in 2016 . Democrats are doing everything they can to stop them.
South Carolina Democrats are blasting the decision by S.C. Education Television not to broadcast any political debates this year, saying the public network is cutting off the voice of a rising minority party that's getting stronger. “It is regrettable that SCETV has apparently decided to focus on political punditry rather than informing the public about the choices facing voters this November,” the party said in a statement Friday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin publicly denied that Russia hacked the Democratic National Committee's data and questioned if it even matters who is responsible. "Listen, does it even matter who hacked this data?" Putin asked during an interview with Bloomberg on Thursday.
The Trump campaign announced Wednesday that Bonnie Foster will lead the Casper office and be the state's campaign director. Foster, a longtime leader in the local and state Republican Party, will be responsible for recruiting volunteers who can call voters in Wyoming, Colorado and elsewhere.
Congressional committees will hold hearings next week on Hurricane Katrina's effect upon petroleum prices, and Republican leaders have indicated they will use the forums to advocate for oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
The Port Authority and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers yesterday announced the completion of a $2.1 billion, 50-foot harbor deepening project for the Port of New York and New Jersey. The Main Navigation Channel Deepening Program, which began construction in 2004, will allow larger ships to access the Port's container terminals, including Port Newark, GCT Bayonne and the Howland Hook Marine Terminal.
The parents of hundreds of infants and toddlers will be able to receive child care services after the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley was awarded a grant of about $7 million from the federal government. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, along with the office of U.S. Congressman Ruben Hinojosa, announced the grant Wednesday afternoon.
Congressman Ruben Hinojosa, center, is embraced by Texas A&M University Provost Karan Watson, behind, as he talks with City of McAllen Mayor Jim Darling following the ground breaking ceremony for the Tres Lagos development Tuesday March 8, 2016 in McAllen. photo by Nathan Lambrecht/nlambrecht@themonitor.com Congressman Ruben Hinojosa, center, is embraced by Texas A&M University Provost Karan Watson, behind, as he talks with City of McAllen Mayor Jim Darling following the ground breaking ceremony for the Tres Lagos development Tuesday March 8, 2016 in McAllen.
Vice President Joe Biden put his working class folksiness to work for presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton in northeastern Ohio on Thursday, delivering blow after blow to Republican nominee Donald Trump. "This is a guy born with a silver spoon in his mouth that now he's choking on because his foot's in his mouth along with his spoon!" Biden began the day in Warren, Ohio, arguing that Trump simply "doesn't understand" the realities of working and middle class people.
Primary races still tight in latest Maricopa County vote tally Republican incumbent Helen Purcell, a 27-year veteran, pulled ahead of her conservative challenger Aaron Flannery. Check out this story on azcentral.com: http://azc.cc/2cjzEYk Maricopa County Recorder Helen Purcell says she was surprised at how close her primary race with challenger Aaron Flannery is.
And knowing Donald Trump has connected with a lot of blue collar workers, Hillary Clinton's campaign dispatched him to Ohio Thursday to rally auto workers from the GM Lordstown and Parma plants along with other supporters. Thursday night in Parma, Biden was more than an hour late to the scheduled event , partly because he stopped to sample goodies at Rudy's Bakery, which is owned by Ukrainian immigrants.
Reid and his caucus already nuked part of it in 2013, eliminating filibusters on presidential appointments . The 60-vote requirement remains in place for SCOTUS nominations and of course for regular legislation.
Some of the construction around the Peace Bridge will finally come to an end. The State announced on Thursday that the new Porter Avenue ramp leading to the bridge is scheduled to open on Tuesday.
Fervently declaring "we will build a great wall along the southern border," Trump kicked off his immigration speech Wednesday in Arizona during which he his plan which continues to ignore the complexities currently facing the U.S. immigration system. Among a litany of unrealistic proposals, Trump called for the deportation of students, even though DACA recipients are currently protected from deportation under President Obama's 2014 executive actions on immigration.
S&P Global Ratings warned on Thursday that the Chicago public school system's B-plus credit rating could fall deeper into the junk level due to its "extremely weak" cash position. "Unless achieves what we view as a credible and sustainable long-term solution to its financial pressures while continuing to demonstrate that it can fund its cash-flow needs, further downgrades are possible," the credit rating agency said in a statement.
His latest-telling African Americans that they are doing lousy so "what the hell have you got to lose?" is his way to promisea nothing. He has no legitimate policy changes he swears he will implement to change black youth employment numbers Trump will do very well with uneducated white voters in former slave states, supposedly.
A freshman Republican senator from Louisiana says he'll press for immediate emergency disaster funding to help his state recover from this summer's disastrous flooding. Sen. Bill Cassidy says he'll seek emergency community development block grants and other help for his state and has already put his case before Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.