California Democrats now have their own version of a ballot measure that would change elements of Proposition 47, setting up a November duel with a district attorney-backed theft and drug initiative legislative leaders call “draconian.” Lawmakers on Wednesday still need to approve the bill containing the Democrats’ proposition, which would ask voters to alter Proposition […]
May 11—Hosting U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 6 Administrator Earthea Nance of Dallas at a roundtable discussion Friday in Midland, Congressman August Pfluger said afterward that Nance’s plan to declare the Permian Basin an ozone non-attainment area would be a serious impediment to the region’s energy industry. “I had urged Dr. Nance to visit the […]
Elon Musk’s X Defies Brazilian Court Order, Calls For Supreme Court Judge To Resign After Issuing ‘Most Draconian Demands’ Elon Musk has never shied away from speaking his mind. The self-described free speech absolutist’s latest feud is with a Brazilian supreme court judge, whom Musk accused of issuing “the most draconian demands of any country […]
For years, Miami Beach officials had tried to get the word out: Spring breakers, go somewhere else. The city’s former mayor, Dan Gelber, couldn’t have been more explicit in March 2023. “We do not want spring break,” he said. But the spring breakers came in droves anyway. Last year, there were repeated stampedes from jumpy […]
Judge Arthur Engoron, who is overseeing Donald Trump’s New York civil fraud case, has questioned whether a key witness, former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg, committed perjury during his testimony at the former president’s trial, The New York Times reported. Engoron sent an email to Trump’s lawyers on Monday asking them to provide more information about […]