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Ag groups spend millions on ads to discourage California farmworker unionizing. What to know The group has spent nearly $2 million on “public education/advertising” in 2023 and expects to spend another $1.8 million combined over the next two years, according to May 2023 filings with the ... 04/15/2024 - 11:29 am | View Link
Indiana Pork Producers Discuss Prop 12, Farm Bill With Lawmakers in DC Nearly 100 Pork Producers from across the country made their way to D.C. last week to chat with legislators about pressure points on the pork industry. Indiana Pork members met with both Indiana senat ... 04/14/2024 - 8:44 pm | View Link
What caught County Supervisor Ray Mueller’s attention his first year in office San Mateo County Supervisor Ray Mueller started his day ensuring residents battered by record rains and wind were getting the help they needed. He would end the day at an evening news conference ... 04/14/2024 - 11:34 am | View Link
Monarch delivers first 70 hp electric tractor to City of Berkeley The City of Berkeley, California becomes the first to take delivery of a a 70 hp Monarch MK-V electric tractor. 04/13/2024 - 3:08 am | View Link
The first former U. S. President to face a criminal trial and the judge overseeing those proceedings are both children of Queens. Donald Trump grew up in a faux Tudor house in Jamaica Estates, and Juan Merchan was raised a few miles down the Grand Central Parkway in Jackson Heights.
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Merchan knows more about Trump than their shared geography.
The Senate clash over the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas lasted less than three hours as Democrats moved quickly on Wednesday to dismiss the charges as unconstitutional.
The stunted Senate trial marked the end of the deeply partisan and historic effort to convict and remove Mayorkas from office over his handling of the U.
Denver Fire Department Chief Desmond Fulton said Wednesday that he was following what he believed to be the department’s standards when he claimed hundreds of hours of compensatory time off — and then effectively cashed much of it in for $42,000 in extra pay over the last three years.
The chief says he supports an investigation into how he and other members of the department’s leadership tracked and used their hours and paid time off.
One of the world's biggest naval bases to its south. A huge Marine base to its north. And the amphibious landing of foreign invaders went off without a hitch.