As Nebraska and western Iowa clean up tornado damage, weather officials assess the storm's power The work started as soon as the region's residents emerged from their basements Friday in places like Elkhorn and Bennington and ... that have a less than 10% chance of happening in the metro is ... 04/28/2024 - 9:06 am | View Link
No lives lost in Nebraska and Iowa from Friday's tornadoes was 'extraordinary miracle' The work started as soon as the region's residents emerged from their basements Friday in places like Elkhorn and Bennington and ... that have a less than 10% chance of happening in the metro is ... 04/26/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Charlotte metro's 'Best Places for Young Professionals' as ranked by Niche.com A total of 185 places across the Charlotte area were ranked on the list. Of those, 35 scored an A+. Charlotte also dominated in North Carolina's ranking of best places for young professionals, taking ... 04/25/2024 - 11:50 pm | View Link
Best places to eat in metro Detroit: Nearly 100 restaurants chosen by Free Press critics Detroit Free Press restaurant critics have curated an annual list of the Top 10 restaurants to open each year. These restaurants are ... 04/25/2024 - 3:16 pm | View Link
Women Who Travel Podcast: Criss Crossing America to Visit Every Baseball Stadium Host Lale Arikoglu sits down with a self-confessed “baseball stadium chaser” to recount her request to visit every ballpark in the US. 04/25/2024 - 5:27 am | View Link
President Biden talked about the lows and highs of his life in an appearance designed to reintroduce him to an audience of millions. Via the NYTimes:
In a surprise interview on “The Howard Stern Show” that lasted for more than an hour, Mr. Stern, a skilled interviewer versed in the art of oversharing, repeatedly asked Mr.
Trump lickspittle Sen. Lindsey Graham blew off any concerns that The National Enquirer's David Pecker paid for catch-and-kill stories in order to help Trump's presidential campaign. I still want to know what Trump has got on Graham since he did his 180 back when Trump was running the first time.
Here's Graham's lame response when CNN's Dana Bash asked him about Pecker's testimony this week:
GRAHAM: Apparently, a lot of people do this, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tiger Woods.
Monroe County District Attorney Sandra Doorley refused to pull over for speeding and went home and called the police chief to quash the incident instead. That's a no-no.
Unfortunately for her (or fortunately for the rule of law), the entire incident was recorded on the officer's bodycam and now DA Doorley has to explain why she has such reckless disregard for the law, police officers, and common sense.
And although a Republican now (of course), Doorley has been a Democrat in the past.
Civil Rights icon Ruby Bridges is an integral part of U. S. history lessons in classrooms nationwide, given her status as the first Black child to integrate an elementary school in the South. But to the right-wing culture warriors behind efforts to ban books about American history—including systemic racism and discrimination against LGBTQ people—Bridges has become something else: a threat.
He is also pushing back against the fact that, through administrative actions and executive orders, Biden has made himself one of the most powerful presidents ever.