Melania Trump, right, looks on as her husband President-elect Donald Trump talks to reporters during a New Year’s Eve party at Mar-a-Lago, Saturday, Dec. 31, 2016, in Palm Beach, Fla. Melania Trump, right, looks on as her husband President-elect Donald Trump talks to reporters during a New Year’s Eve party at Mar-a-Lago, Saturday, Dec. 31, 2016, in Palm Beach, Fla.
Day: January 1, 2017
Northey reviews Iowa top 2016 agriculture issues
“Iowa farmers saw record production for both corn and soybeans again in 2016, however low prices are making profitability a real challenge on both the crop and livestock side. Despite the economic challenges, farmers are by nature optimistic and we continue to see investments in the future and new and innovative technologies that will allow them to be even more productive while also reducing environmental impact,” Northey said.
‘Fake news’ cries follow discovery of Russian malware at Vermont utility
“The response to news that a Vermont electric utility found malware associated with Russian hacking on a utility laptop has been fairly predictable: forceful denunciations from local and federal officials and support for President Obama’s sanctions against the Vladimir Putin regime. But reactions also have included the now-familiar cry of ‘fake news’ from many incredulous readers in Donald Trump’s post-truth America, perhaps inspired by the president-elect’s refusal to see the claims of Russian hacking as anything other than Democratic Party politics.”
Not so predictable
A year ago, I wrote a prediction column for 2016 full of myself and greatly detailed scenarios. I was so proud of my concocted narratives that I encouraged readers to clip or save the column to their desktops for later reference.
Tax break for vets
I admit to having a favorite among Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s proposals for tax cuts: Eliminate taxes on military retirement pay. I anticipate nothing but positive, prosperous results from doing just that.
Musical chairs
There they go again, this state’s congressmen, ’round and ’round they go, and where they’ll stop nobody knows. For it’s time again for members of the U.S. House of Representatives to choose new offices or stay where they are.
California legislature may split state bar into two separate entities
In April 2016, the judiciary committee of the California Assembly, one of the two bodies that make up the state’s legislature, called a hearing on what’s normally a routine bill to authorize the State Bar of California to collect dues for the coming year. But this hearing wasn’t so routine.
Cherokee Nation’s gay-marriage law
The Cherokee Nation, one of the largest registered Native American tribes in the U.S., has officially decided to recognize same-sex marriage. The tribe, as a separate sovereign, isn’t bound by the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark 2015 gay-marriage decision Obergefell v.
Scam artists
The “fake news” phenomenon was on vivid display in social media during the bitter 2016 presidential campaign. A typical example of the nonsense was a story, shared a million times on Facebook, stating falsely that Pope Francis had endorsed the Republican candidate Donald Trump.
New Hampshire dairy farmers struggling to survive
Dairy farms in the state had been declining slowly, from 130 in 2010 to 121 in 2015. But this year saw 19 more farms drop out of the dairy business, although they may remain in agriculture.
Q&A with Neuberger’s Brett Reiner on small-cap funds
They’ve been one of the big winners in the post-election stock market rally, largely due to the belief that they are poised to benefit more than other companies from President-elect Donald Trump’s proposed policies. We spoke with Brett Reiner, a managing director and associate portfolio manager at the Neuberger Berman Genesis fund, about this recent run-up.
Trump Releases Message on New Year’s Eve, And The Internet Goes INSANE
Trump has trolling down to a science and it’s absolutely beautiful to watch. I swear, he could Tweet out “The sky is blue today” and the entire internet would shut down while Snopes did everything in their power to convince millions of basement-dwellers that the sky is not, in fact, blue.
PROOF: Obama’s REGULATIONS Overtake Congress By The THOUSANDSa And He’s Not Done Yet
When Barack Obama said he had a pen and a phone , he of course meant he didn’t need permission to get any of his Marxist policies to become law. He would do it himself.
A woman reacts as Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump greets the crowd.
The election of Donald Trump as U.S. president and Britain’s decision to leave the European Union have raised questions over the future of tariff-free trade and companies’ freedom to move production to lower-cost countries. “We want our country back” was the rallying cry of those backing Brexit, a sound bite that had echoes in Trump’s “Make America great again.”
Handler Locked In RJ Cargo Bay
As a 16-year-old student pilot I was on a short night flight from Hershey to Capital City airport in Harrisburg, PA. I was… A couple of years ago, flying into ZRH , just the day after the landing fees increased once more, we heard the… They’ve moldered on my office shelf, unused, for more than a decade.
FILE – In this Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016, file photo,
Trump really doesn’t trust computers President-elect leans toward old technology despite Twitter use. Check out this story on portclintonnewsherald.com: http://usat.ly/2iU5N8e FILE – In this Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016, file photo, President Barack Obama meets with President-elect Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington.
How to Get People to Vote
I have proposed a reform of the Electoral College that would return power back to state legislatures, would end the myth of “popular vote” for president, and would end voter fraud in presidential elections in every state chose this reform: place the selection of presidential electors back where it was in the first decades of the republic and have those electors chosen directly by state legislatures. As folks commenting on my article noted, we ought also to repeal the 17th Amendment and have state legislatures again reclaim the power to pick United States senators.
How Do You Stop Good People from Hurting Themselves?
How do you stop good people from careening over a cliff? How do you protect decent Jewish philanthropic women from aligning with groups who would be quite happy to hurt them in many ways? A Women’s March is scheduled for Saturday, January 21, 2017. The National Council of Jewish Women , which I joined over 30 years ago as a life member, is joining forces with groups that have neither Jewish nor American interests at hand.