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Co-Chair of the House Great Lakes Task Force, today issued the following statement after news that the State of Ohio will declare the open waters of Lake Erie impaired. 'I welcome this long overdue decision by the state of Ohio.
Monday evening, Plymouth Mayor Mark Senter gave his State of the City Address. His opening statement was, "Plymouth, Indiana is a community with a purpose, a community with a plan, a community with a positive attitude, a community with passion, a community with a profound past, a community with prudent financial responsibilitya a city where community and possibilities connect.
One underreported story of the Trump Presidency is how Democrats have abused Senate rules to block political appointees from taking their posts. Senate Republicans have been too slow to press the issue, though they are finally working on a way around Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's obstructionism.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, right, accompanied by White House principal deputy press secretary Raj Shah, left, arrives to speak to the media during the daily press briefing at the White House, Tuesday, March 27, 2018, in Washington. Sanders discussed the removal of Russian diplomats, the opiate crisis, and other topics.
Georgia lawmakers passed dozens of bills Tuesday, as they rush to complete their work before the legislative session is set to end Thursday night. Neither the House nor Senate is convening inside the Capitol on Wednesday, meaning that legislators have only one more day left to send their proposals to Gov. Nathan Deal's desk.
A San Antonio man who became known as the "suitcase killer" has been executed in Texas for the 2005 slaying of a 29-year-old Lubbock woman whose battered, naked body was stuffed into a new piece of luggage and tossed in the trash. Rodriguez was the fourth convicted killer executed this year in Texas and the seventh nationally.
A makeshift memorial for Alton Sterling, seen outside the Triple S Food Mart where he died, in Baton Rouge, La., in July 2016. Louisiana has declined to press charges against the pair of white police officers involved in the 2016 shooting death of Alton Sterling.
The Connecticut Senate's rejection Tuesday of Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's State Supreme Court chief justice nominee, mostly along partisan lines, set off political reverberations in a state where an open governor's seat and control of the General Assembly are at stake in November. State Democrats and various candidates pounced on the 19-16 vote opposing the confirmation of Associate Justice Andrew McDonald as the high court's top justice, linking Connecticut Republicans with President Donald Trump and Washington Republicans.
The US Navy plans to modify 45 more Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornets in the next two years to increase the aircraft's service life and capabilities, the US Naval Air Systems Command announced on 27 March. The potential contract will cover modifications to up to 15 aircraft in fiscal year 2019 and a maximum of 30 aircraft in FY2020, NAVAIR says.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi condemned the Trump Administration's announcement that they will be reinstating the citizenship question on the 2020 census to help enforce the Voting Rights Act of 1965. "The Trump Administration's late night announcement of a new citizenship question violates the clear constitutional mandate to provide an accurate count of all people living in the United States," she said in a statement Tuesday.
Mitt Romney, who is running for U.S. Senate, said during a question and answer session in Utah Monday that he is "more of a hawk on immigration than even the president." "My view was these DACA kids shouldn't all be allowed to stay in the country legally," he said, according to The Daily Herald .
Rarely in my lifetime have I seen the type of civic engagement schoolchildren and their supporters demonstrated in Washington and other major cities throughout the country this past Saturday. These demonstrations demand our respect.
A Michigan State University dean who was Larry Nassar 's boss is accused of groping and propositioning medical students and collecting nude pictures of them on his work computer. William Strampel , who was arrested Monday, is charged with fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct, a high misdemeanor; felony official misconduct; two counts of willful neglect of duty, according to the special prosecutor running a wide-ranging investigation of MSU.
The California attorney general's office on Tuesday joined an investigation into the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black man in Sacramento. While announcing the attorney general's involvement, city officials and community leaders called for calm as Sacramento prepares for events memorializing 22-year-old Stephon Clark, where emotions will be raw and large crowds are expected.
China's special representative on climate change, Xie Zhenhua, took the stage at the Green Carbon Summit on Monday to announce China had already met its emissions goals for 2020. What Zhenhua neglected to mention, however, is that China's global warming pledge was already in-line with what energy experts expected to happen regardless of climate policies.
I have long railed against simplistic ideas that the solution for housing costs in cities is to simply build more housing. First, the so-called "law of supply and demand" is more of a simplistic ideological construction of capitalism than a reality, yet it's power in our society blinds people to the many factors that go into to determining economic markets.
Authorities today announced a $10,000 reward for information that helps them find out who took 31 firearms from a vault in the old Compton City Hall building, where they were being stored following the disbanding nearly 20 years ago of the city's police department. Investigators believe the firearms were taken some time between March 6 and Aug. 31, 2017, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
A question about citizenship status on the 2020 US census has been criticised by Democrats who say it will intimidate immigrants and discourage them from participating. The population count taken every 10 years is required by the US Constitution and used to determine the number of seats each state has in the House of Representatives as well as how federal money is distributed to local communities.
On Tuesday, former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens published an op-ed in The New York Times calling for repealing the Second Amendment, banning civilian ownership of semi-automatic weapons, and raising the minimum age to buy a gun from 18 to 21 years old. Stevens was inspired to write his piece by the "March for Our Lives," which he praised as a uniquely impressive example of "civic engagement" that "demand[s] our respect."