Category: US Governors

Washington’s “Cross-Pollination” of Business Blossoming

Construction cranes define the Seattle-area skyline, where luxury apartments squeeze between offices of major tech corporations, as part of a recent growth explosion that has attracted newcomers from around the world and helped transform Washington state. The boom, which extends beyond the urban economic hub to out-state areas as well, has in part over the years readjusted the way state and local leaders consider higher education, infrastructure and innovation.

Pence demands apology from AP for releasing wife’s email address

Vice President Mike Pence took to Twitter on Saturday to demand an apology from the Associated Press after it published his wife’s private email address earlier this week. Pence demands apology from AP for releasing wife’s email address Vice President Mike Pence took to Twitter on Saturday to demand an apology from the Associated Press after it published his wife’s private email address earlier this week.

Schwarzenegger on ‘Celebrity Apprentice’: I Quit

Arnold Schwarzenegger said Friday that he’s through with “The New Celebrity Apprentice,” and he’s blaming President Donald Trump for the television reality show’s recent poor performance. The former California governor said he wouldn’t mind working with NBC and producer Mark Burnett again “on a show that doesn’t have this baggage.”

Schwarzenegger on ‘Celebrity Apprentice’: I Quit

Arnold Schwarzenegger said Friday that he’s through with “The New Celebrity Apprentice,” and he’s blaming President Donald Trump for the television reality show’s recent poor performance. The former California governor said he wouldn’t mind working with NBC and producer Mark Burnett again “on a show that doesn’t have this baggage.”

Mike Pence used private email account as Indiana governor

In 2016, while he was governor of Indiana, Vice President Mike Pence sent and received classified emails through a personal email account, The newspaper obtained 29 pages of records through a public records request that show that Pence routinely discussed sensitive subjects, including homeland security matters, from his AOL account. Even more damning, the report alleged, Pence’s email account was compromised by hackers last summer.

Then-Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana speaks during a press conference March 31, 2015 in Indianapolis.

Vice President Mike Pence used a private AOL account to conduct official business in his former position as the governor of Indiana, according to public records. The Indianapolis Star , which first reported Pence’s private email use, says it obtained 29 pages of email records from current Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb’s office in response to a public records request.

Report: Pence used private email while governor

Vice President Mike Pence used a private email account to conduct sensitive public business as Indiana’s governor, and the account was hacked in a phishing scam, according to the Indianapolis Star. Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb’s office released 29 pages of emails from Pence’s AOL account, the Star reported, but declined to release an unspecified number of others because the state considers them too sensitive to release to the public.

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When Vice President Mike Pence is in Janesville Tuesday, he may face questions about an email scandal of his own. Pence reportedly used a private email account to conduct public business, including homeland security matters, while he was governor of Indiana.

Diana Furchtgott-Roth: You might not have to pay more for Trump’s spending plans

President Trump pauses as Vice President Mike Pence, left, and U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan applaud during a joint session of Congress in Washington on Feb. 28. People who watched President Trump’s address to Congress on Feb. 28 might have been forgiven for thinking Big Government was back in fashion, despite the Republican sweep of the White House and both chambers of Congress. Trump said he would make health-care insurance – and health care itself – affordable; he would make inner cities a place for opportunity; he would boost infrastructure spending; and on and on.

Pence used private mail for state work as governor, account was hacked

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence reportedly used a private email account to transact state business when he was governor of Indiana, and his AOL account was hacked once, according to a news report. Emails released to the Indianapolis Star following a public records request are said to show that Pence used his personal AOL account to communicate with his top advisers on issues ranging from security gates at the governor’s residence to the state’s response to terror attacks across the globe.

Students remove rat from their bathroom with mop and broom

Behind the girls and glamour: Real photos reveal the truth behind the glitz at Hugh Hefner’s recently sold $100m Playboy Mansion ‘What has he been smoking?’: Former Swedish Prime Minister blasts Trump after President uses ‘made up’ example of terror attack in Sweden to support his ‘Muslim’ travel ban Unfounded Father: Trump takes Thomas Jefferson quote out of context to bash the media during campaign-style rally in Florida ‘I’m here because I want to be among the people’: Trump continues his assault on ‘fake’ news and ‘corrupt’ media with campaign-style rally in front of 9,000 in Florida after rough week at the White House ‘Take it seriously’: White House chief of staff says Trump wasn’t kidding when he called the press ‘the enemy of the American people’ Chris Christie could join Trump’s White House team after all – or may run a drug task force for the president Caught on tape AGAIN: … (more)

Fastest computer in the West might run out of time

The $30 million, house-sized supercomputer named Cheyenne belongs to a federally funded research center. It began work a few weeks ago crunching numbers for several ambitious projects, from modeling air currents at wind farms to figuring out how to better predict weather months to years in advance.

High school students to launch biology research into space

Govs. Mark Dayton of Minnesota and Dennis Daugaard… Addressing position needs this recruiting class was what Nebraska did with this recruiting class, and linebacker Andrew Ward fits that bill. Ward is a three-star linebacker ac… While his feud with New York Knicks owner James Dolan continues, Charles Oakley will suit up in the newly founded 3-on-3 league founded by rapper/entertaine… — President Trump is spending his third consecutive weekend away from Washington, D.C., at his luxury resort Mar-a-Lago in Florida.

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A new supercomputer in the top coal-mining state has begun critical climate-change research with support from even some global warming doubters, but scientists worry President Trump could cut funding for such programs. The $30 million, house-sized supercomputer named Cheyenne belongs to a federally funded research center.

It turns out Jared Kushner and Sean Spicer are also registered to vote in two states

White House press secretary Sean Spicer, left, and President Donald Trump’s White House Senior Advisor Jared Kushner, right, arrive at a White House senior staff swearing in ceremony in the East Room of the White House, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017, in Washington. White House press secretary Sean Spicer, left, and President Donald Trump’s White House Senior Advisor Jared Kushner, right, arrive at a White House senior staff swearing in ceremony in the East Room of the White House, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017, in Washington.

In a fiery speech, California Gov. Jerry Brown defends climate action …

In his State of the State address Tuesday morning, California Gov. Jerry Brown delivered an impassioned defense of climate action while decrying what he described as the Trump administration’s attacks on science and basic facts. While Brown has previously made waves with comments about his state’s commitment to the issue of climate change, Tuesday’s speech may be among his most defiant yet.

In a fiery speech, California Gov. Jerry Brown defends climate action …

In his State of the State address Tuesday morning, California Gov. Jerry Brown delivered an impassioned defense of climate action while decrying what he described as the Trump administration’s attacks on science and basic facts. While Brown has previously made waves with comments about his state’s commitment to the issue of climate change, Tuesday’s speech may be among his most defiant yet.

Why the Left Fears Ultrasound Technologyby Alexandra DeSanctisOn…

With impressive creativity, the piece attempts both to dismiss the clear evidence that is presented by ultrasound images and to imply that inanimate medical tools are motivated by a subversive pro-life agenda. Though the Democratic party and its vast pro-abortion wing cling fiercely to , The Atlantic ‘s bizarre offering reveals the truth: that being pro-abortion requires the resolute denial of science in order to facilitate a rejection of the unborn child’s humanity.

CEG’s Kennedy says Capital Region ready for biotech push

Richard Honen of Phillips Lyle, right, accepts the JeffreyA. Lawrence Lifetime Contributor award from Andrew Kennedy, president and CEO of Center for Economic Growth during CEG’s annual awards luncheon at the Desmond Hotel on Thursday, June 23, 2016 in Colonie, N.Y. Kennedy says the Capital Region’s biotech sector has promise.

2016 to break heat record

Two days before the presidential inauguration, scientists are expected to announce that 2016 was the hottest year on Earth since record-keeping began in 1880 ​- news that will test national, state and economic leadership on climate change. Even as Washington, D.C., and California bundle up against winter chill, records ​will ​show that extreme heat blanketed large areas of every continent this year, pushing up average temperatures for the third year in a row.

3 Questions for Rick Perry, Trump’s Pick to Lead the Um…

Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry meets with president-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower December 12, 2016 in New York. Rick Perry is President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Energy, a government agency that seemingly annoyed Perry so much that, in 2011, he boasted that he would abolish it, if elected president.

2016 to break heat record; temps challenging climate change skeptics

Two days before the presidential inauguration, scientists are expected to announce that 2016 was the hottest year on Earth since record-keeping began in 1880 ​- news that will test national, state and economic leadership on climate change. Even as Washington, D.C., and California bundle up against winter chill, records ​will ​show that extreme heat blanketed large areas of every continent this year, pushing up average temperatures for the third year in a row.

Russian hacking hits home in Vermont

Russian hackers penetrated a computer at the Burlington Electric Department that is not connected to the electrical grid, officials say. Burlington Electric found out about the malware when the U.S. Department of Homeland Security notified the utility about a hacking campaign called Grizzly Steppe.

States look closer at cybersecurity

Several states around the country on Saturday asked cybersecurity experts to re-examine state and utility networks after a Vermont utility’s laptop was found to contain malware that U.S. officials say is linked to Russian hackers. The Burlington Electric Department, one of Vermont’s two largest electric utilities, confirmed Friday that it had found on one of its laptops the malware code used in Grizzly Steppe, the name the U.S. government has given to malicious cyberactivity by Russian civilian and military intelligence services.

New subway line, awaited since the 1920s, is set to roll

In this April 12, 2007 file photo, a Metropolitan Transit Authority employee climbs the stairs to the street from the partly finished track of the 2nd Avenue subway prior to the ground breaking ceremony in New York. Construction first started 45 years ago, but New Yorkers’ long wait to take a subway under Manhattan’s far Upper East Side ends at noon Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017, when a stretch of the new Second Avenue line is set to open to the public.

US states, leery of Russia malware, re-examine cybersecurity

Several states around the country on Saturday asked cybersecurity experts to re-examine state and utility networks after a Vermont utility’s laptop was found to contain malware U.S. officials say is linked to Russian hackers. The Burlington Electric Department, one of Vermont’s two largest electric utilities, confirmed Friday it had found on one of its laptops the malware code used in Grizzly Steppe, the name the U.S. government has given to malicious cyber activity by Russian civilian and military intelligence services.

Climate change: Hottest year triggers call for action

Two days before the presidential inauguration, scientists are expected to announce that 2016 was the hottest year on earth since record-keeping began in 1880 ​- news that will test national, state and economic leadership on climate change. Even as Washington D.C. and California bundle up against winter chill, records ​will ​show that extreme heat blanketed large areas of every continent this year, pushing up average temperatures for the third year in a row.