City of Merrill favors closing – dark store loophole’
Retail giants like Walmart, Walgreens, Target, and Lowe's are fighting to pay less property taxes. This concept is also being picked up by national fast food giants.
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Inside Casa Padre, the converted Walmart where the US is holding nearly 1,500 immigrant children
A mural of President Trump, the first in a series of presidential murals a visitor encounters, features a quote from a tweet he posted in 2014. Children can play pool and foosball in a rec room at Casa Padre.
SW Florida still dealing with Irma
Although a new hurricane season is here, many Cape Coral and Southwest Florida home owners are still feeling the affects of last year's historical storm. Lee County residents, almost nine months after Hurricane Irma blew through, are still maneuvering through insurance companies, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Small Business Administration disaster loans to return their property to its pre-hurricane state.
Infrastructure
His recommendations for infrastructure disappointed local officials across the nation, and his plan to revive Nevada's Yucca Mountain also received limited funds. Trump's plan calls for $1.5 trillion in infrastructure projects, with just $200 billion supplied by the federal government.
Why Texas ban on ‘sanctuary cities’ divides local law enforcement
From his 844-square mile territory of Texas cordgrass marshes and mesquite prairies, Jackson County Sheriff Andy Louderback responded to a ban on "sanctuary cities" in his state with a virtual tip of the Stetson. A number of Texas sheriffs and most major city police chiefs opposed the groundbreaking law signed on Sunday by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott.
Graphic illustration by Welp’s Michael C. Powell
I have never commented on WDRB General Managers Bill Lamb's "Point of View" editorial. I'm not an expert on it.