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According to the 2017 Infrastructure Report Card released by the American Society for Civil Engineers, America's infrastructure is rated a D+. Nationwide, the fix is projected to cost at least $1.6 trillion above current levels, and crumbling infrastructure costs the economy nearly $200 billion annually, according to a report by U.S. Senate Democrats.
Former state District Judge Vickers Cunningham is our choice in the Republican runoff to replace retiring Mike Cantrell in Precinct 2 of the Dallas County Commissioners Court. Cunningham, 55, placed second in the March primary behind lawyer and businessman J.J. Koch, and he will need a strong showing to prevail.
Will President Donald Trump fire Rod Rosenstein? Will Robert Mueller find evidence that Trump has committed crimes? Will Rudy Giuliani and Trump land on a consistent explanation about hush money? Having read and watched a lot of the Trump-scandal coverage, I don't know the answer to any of these questions. What I can tell you is that I'm getting a little sick of some of the cliches that have become regular features of that coverage.
Less than 24 hours before polls opened in the Indiana Senate primary, Rep. Luke Messer pulled out the big guns. More specifically, the Indiana Republican and his family adopted a little West Highland Terrier.
Carol Wick discusses bringing solar power to Puerto Rico with the help of one of her clients the del Sol Foundation Carol Wick discusses bringing solar power to Puerto Rico with the help of one of her clients the del Sol Foundation After serving for a decade as the CEO of Harbor House of Central Florida and helping domestic violence survivors in need, Carol Wick is still on the front lines trying to help others. Now a partner in Convergent Non-profit Solutions, Wick recently went to Puerto Rico to work with a client to try to help stabilize the power grid by bringing solar power to an area devastated by Hurricane Irma .
For many years, Democrats have been convinced that the American people, and even their Republican opponents, are open to persuasion. If they could just have the opportunity to explain why their policies are morally right and practically effective, they could win almost anyone over.
Much has been said and written about President Donald Trump's liberal use of exaggeration and metaphor, and the questionable relationship between what he says and what most people consider the truth. From a philosophical point of view it might be said that he is our first post-modern president, using the term to denote the Nietzschean school of thought that holds that all truth is relative and metaphorical.
Two of those policies have had divergent fortunes in the courts. The Supreme Court, which just heard arguments about Trump's ban on the entry of people from several countries to the U.S., is widely expected to uphold it.
In 2012, Kansas lawmakers cut income taxes in a bigger, faster, more dramatic way than any other state had done. And revenue from tax collections dropped like a rock, causing Kansas to enter a multi-year period of serious financial trouble.
That was the only disagreeing comment I found on the website of a newspaper where a piece of mine had been published. My piece had argued that the fact that some 37 percent of Americans I did not just assert that proposition.
The president, with his usual bombast and bluster, has lashed out at Montana U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, the man he holds responsible for the downfall of doomed Veterans Administration head nominee, Dr. Ronny Jackson.
Many people ages 18 and older haven't taken the time yet to even consider the candidates up for election this year, let alone know what issues are on the table.
One of the reasons President Trump was elected is that President Barack Obama's launched a mean-spirited and heavy-handed campaign to kill coal as a source of electricity. Obama was following through on the threats he made during his campaign: "If somebody wants to build a coal-fired power plant, they can," he said.
On April 18 the U.S. Senate unanimously agreed to instigate a momentous rule change, its first since 1977 when service dogs were first permitted to enter the chamber. Members backed a motion allowing senators with babies younger than one year old to bring the baby along as the mother voted.
John Davis says there should be a moratorium on offshore drilling till it's clear a fair and rational regulatory system has been instituted. Our minister of environment and climate change and our "experts" at the CNSOPB aren't worried.
That unpleasant odor wafting from the direction of the White House is the sour smell of panic, as the president's lies threaten to unravel - and the law closes in. The new public face of President Trump's legal defense, Rudy Giuliani, looked and sounded like a man in need of an intervention Wednesday night as he went on Sean Hannity's Fox News show - the friendliest possible terrain - and revealed that what Trump has tried to make the nation believe about a $130,000 hush-money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels is a total crock.