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DOTD Secretary Shawn Wilson discusses the governor's task force recommendations to boost state aid for roads and bridges by $700 million per year Monday Feb. 20, 2017, in Baton Rouge, La. While the experts have devices to measure pavement quality, Louisiana drivers are apt to describe their experiences in more personal terms, in the part of the anatomy where the wallet is located.
LESS THAN AN HOUR after Barack Obama was elected president for the first time, I was standing outside our former building at Broad and Callowhill streets and watched as hundreds of young people marched toward City Hall. They were black, brown and white, waving their cellphones, chanting and cheering Obama's victory.
Among the many unintended legacies of Barack Obama, one has gone largely unnoticed: the emergence of a novel form of resistance to executive overreach, a check-and-balance improvised in reaction to his various presidential power grabs. It's the revolt of the state attorneys general, banding together to sue and curb the executive.
Foreign nationals and members of various South African civil society groups take part in an anti-xenophobia march through Cape Town, South Africa. Last week was an ugly, humiliating one for South Africa; a country once considered a jewel of democracy on the African continent has been gripped by a wave of xenophobic violence .
Donald Trump may not be Ronald Reagan, but in his address to Congress on Tuesday night, he delivered a worthy imitation of the 40th U.S. president, in style and substance. In measured tones accompanied by a calm and often conciliatory demeanor, Trump and his speechwriters correctly calibrated the president's address to this momentous occasion, much to the delight of congressional Republicans and the consternation of many Democrats who undoubtedly had hoped he'd fall on his face.
Donald Trump, the human ruler, as in measuring stick, is at it again, this time grading his performance as president. Appearing on Fox News recently, the president gave himself an A-plus for effort, an A for accomplishment, and a C for communication.
One of the reasons I thought the Democratic Party was about to turn the page on the acrimony of the presidential primaries was because the two leading candidates to run the Democratic National Committee were speaking the same language. Not only that, the campaign waged by former labor secretary Tom Perez and Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., was devoid of vitriol and personal attacks.
In this time of tumult when critics of Donald Trump are in the street, there is a notion out there that needs to be shot down, and it is coming from Democrats. Many of them seem to believe that elected officials are supposed to represent the views of the public.
Trump uttered some 5,000 words and spoke for 60 minutes, but not one of those words was "Russia," and not one of those minutes was devoted to the so-far successful effort by our geopolitical adversary to undermine American democracy. The FBI and intelligence community have unanimously charged that Vladimir Putin's government interfered in the U.S. elections in its successful attempt to get Trump elected.
You might think that Jeff Sessions is a neoconfederate who perjured himself. But perhaps he's a noble resister of THE NEW MCCARTHYISM: The Washington Post contacted all 26 members of the 2016 Senate Armed Services Committee to see whether any lawmakers besides Sessions met with Kislyak in 2016.
Every U.S. president has problems with whatever iteration of "the press" exists to bedevil his time in office. Continual, creative tension between rulers and the ruled was quite deliberately baked into the Constitution.
We've all heard of suspicious deaths - when a body is buried before there is time for an autopsy or an investigation into what really happened. I'm afraid that's what happened when the Wichita City Council voted to close most of our neighborhood pools before allowing adequate time for public discussion and debate .
Mr President, please shuffle along and allow someone with credibility to run the country. It's not that we don't like you, it's that we don't trust you, says the writer.
If all the rules and regulations by which we are forced to live are such good ideas, why are so many of them promulgated unilaterally? Why were the checks and balances the Founders built into our system of government abandoned? We're taught in school that basic rules in the form of laws have to be approved by both houses of Congress, then the ... (more)
President Donald Trump delivers a speech at the 44th Annual Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland, on Friday. Photo Credit: EPA / Olivier Douliery / POOL As Donald Trump prepares his first presidential address to Congress tonight, just imagine that, instead of that one-way form of communication, we had the British-style question time in Parliament.
At a recent town hall in Livingston, where Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen did not show, someone saluted the memory of a moderate Republican during the height of McCarthyism. "By remaining silent," Rep. Peter Frelinghuysen said in 1954, "we permit the public to believe that most Republicans condone the senator's tactics.
Scott T. Holland is a former associate editor of The Times who continues to contribute his column plus help with editing and writing. He can be reached at scotth@mywebtimes.com , facebook.com/salmagundi or twitter.com/sth749 .
Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner's real estate firm Kushner Cos. owns 17 complexes in Maryland Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner's real estate firm Kushner Cos.
Judge Neil Gorsuch, President Donald Trump's nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, will be a worthy heir to the man he would replace - Justice Antonin Scalia. His credentials for the post are impeccable.