Mar. 22—CHEYENNE — Wyoming legislative leaders and other lawmakers criticized Gov. Mark Gordon on Friday for his veto of a bill that would have provided property tax relief for all Wyoming homeowners. Out of nearly two dozen property tax bills considered over the 2025-26 biennium budget session, only five made it to the governor’s desk. […]
Mar. 22—CHEYENNE — Wyoming legislative leaders and other lawmakers criticized Gov. Mark Gordon on Friday for his veto of a bill that would have provided property tax relief for all Wyoming homeowners. Out of nearly two dozen property tax bills considered over the 2025-26 biennium budget session, only five made it to the governor’s desk. […]
Alabama Sen. Katie Britt on Sunday acknowledged that the graphic anecdote she employed to criticize President Joe Biden’s border policies didn’t occur during his presidency. During the Republican response to the State of the Union address on Thursday, Britt described a woman’s story of being “sex trafficked by the cartels starting at age 12” before […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Republican lawmakers in California are criticizing Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom because a new law he signed to raise the minimum wage for fast food workers includes an exception that benefits one of his wealthy campaign donors. California’s minimum wage is $16 per hour. But starting April 1, most fast-food restaurants in […]
The controversy over special counsel Robert Hur’s characterization of President Joe Biden’s memory has obscured one of the most surprising findings in his report: evidence that Biden knowingly kept classified materials at home for years and failed to turn them in. After a yearlong investigation, Hur found that the evidence of “willful retention” — the […]
Feb. 15—Mora-area residents affected by the historic Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon Fire expressed frustration this week to federal and state officials about how their claims have been handled and demanded agencies pick up the pace and deliver overdue compensation. A Federal Emergency Management Agency official told the residents gathered at the Mora town hall Tuesday evening […]
Vladimir Putin signed a law allowing the seizure of assets from critics of Russia’s Ukraine war. The law targets those convicted of spreading fake news about Russian armed forces. This comes alongside another law penalizing the spread of “fake news” against the military. Vladimir Putin is doubling down on critics of Russia’s war in Ukraine. […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are critical of diversity and inclusion programs within the federal government and elsewhere, but they see recruiting women and minority candidates, along with veterans, as key to expanding their slim majority in November. Rep. Richard Hudson, the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, recently listed for reporters a slew […]
PARIS (Reuters) -Top western officials criticized former president Donald Trump on Sunday after he suggested the U.S. might not protect NATO allies who aren’t spending enough on defence from a potential Russian invasion. “Any suggestion that allies will not defend each other undermines all of our security, including that of the US, and puts American […]
A federal appeals court decision last week solidified the public’s right to criticize police officers, even using profanities, over their conduct in public. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, which covers New York and portions of New England, said in a stinging opinion that a Buffalo police officer’s negligence could not automatically […]
The U.K.’s House of Lords issued a report on Jan. 31 condemning the “incomprehensible” failure of the government to spend frozen funds from Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich‘s sale of Chelsea football club (FC) on aid for Ukraine. Abramovich has a net worth estimated to be around $9 billion and has Russian, Israeli, and Portuguese citizenship. […]
Several of Oklahoma’s Republican leaders, it seems, have forgotten the party’s 11th Commandment. Written in the 1960s by Gaylord Parkinson, then-state chairman of the California Republican Party, the 11th Commandment was a call to Republicans who had problems with other Republicans to make sure “that (the) grievance is not to be bared publicly.” In 1966, […]