Police/Fire 10:36 a.m.: Police assisted the Fire Department with a call from Halyard Apartments on School House Road. 7:13 p.m.: Police took a report of harassment. A person reported being harassed by a person at ... 03/26/2024 - 10:35 am | View Link
The Great Rupture in American Jewish Life The emerging rupture between American liberalism and American Zionism constitutes the greatest transformation in American Jewish politics in half a century. It will redefine American Jewish life for ... 03/21/2024 - 10:04 pm | View Link
The March Madness you’ve never heard of Every March for over 75 years, thousands of Southeast Alaskans pack the gym at Juneau-Douglas High School for a week of games spread across four divisions. It’s a rowdy celebration of sport and ... 03/20/2024 - 2:32 pm | View Link
Michigan State's Jeremy Fears shares road to recovery from gun shot at NCAA tournament Michigan State basketball freshman Jeremy Fears spoke at the NCAA tournament, for the first time since he was shot in his hometown back in December. 03/20/2024 - 8:59 am | View Link
Baldur's Gate 3: 5 Best Battle Master Fighter Maneuvers, Ranked Battle Master Fighters in BG3 get access to new abilities that use Superiority Die, but some of these Battle Maneuvers aren't worth picking up. 03/20/2024 - 5:45 am | View Link
Mateen Cleaves Mateen Ahmad Cleaves (born September 7, 1977) is an American retired basketball player. He played parts of six seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was an All-American college player for Michigan State, where he led the Spartans to a national championship in 2000. 03/22/2024 - 3:10 am | View Link
What Happened to Mateen Cleaves and Where is He Now? Mateen Cleaves' impressive run in college saw him earn attention at the NBA level. He was selected with the 14th-overall pick in the 2000 NBA Draft. His career in the pros was far less successful, however, as he was somewhat of a journeyman throughout his six years in the league. 03/21/2024 - 11:42 pm | View Link
Mateen Cleaves: 'The truth finally came out' after rape acquittal News. FOX 2 Detroit. (FOX 2) - Flint native Mateen Cleaves cried tears of relief after learning he was acquitted on all four charges in his rape case. He was facing 15 years in prison - but today... 03/20/2024 - 3:12 am | View Link
Mateen Cleaves was a Michigan State hero; Where is he now? EAST LANSING, Mich. (BVM) – Former Michigan State point guard Mateen Cleaves made his name with the Spartans almost a quarter century ago. The Flint, Michigan native went on to play in the NBA. He has been out of basketball for over 15 years now. What is Cleaves up to these days? Spartans success 03/19/2024 - 9:29 pm | View Link
Mateen Cleaves rape trial: Acquitted on all charges FLINT – A jury acquitted former Michigan State basketball star Mateen Cleaves on Tuesday on all charges in his rape case in Genesee County Circuit Court. Cleaves is the Flint native who led ... 03/19/2024 - 8:28 am | View Link
This is one of those little things that's a big deal. Unless this decision is overturned, it will shave points off the Philadelphia vote. The 3rd Circuit appeals court upheld a requirement for Pennsylvania voters to put accurate handwritten dates on the outside envelopes of their mail-in ballots, saying it does does not violate a civil rights law.
Matt Schlapp announced the defamation lawsuit against him had been dropped, saying that the ordeal ended without him or the American Conservative Union—the right-wing organization he runs—paying his accuser a single dollar. That's not how it works, though: ACU's insurance company wrote the check. Via the Daily Beast:
But what Schlapp didn’t disclose was that the Republican operative who sued him was, in fact, paid to drop the lawsuit, according to two people with knowledge of the payout.
Paul Ryan is warning Republicans of the negative effect that Trump will have on down-ballot Republican candidates. Not quite sure I understand why, unless it's to set himself up as a party leader after Trump crashes the party. Via MSN.com:
“I think we’re going to lose more seats than we otherwise would with Trump because there are just too many suburban swing voters that just don’t like him, that therefore vote against Republicans,” Ryan said in an interview with Southern Methodist University’s student-run Daily Campus on Tuesday.
Former GOP hopeful Nikki Haley, who dropped out of the Republican primary race after Super Tuesday, would have been a more unifying presidential candidate, he suggested.
Ryan said he didn’t subscribe to the nationalist populism of Trump, which is where “the bulk” of Republicans are right now, and also called the current GOP a cult of personality tied to Trump rather than based on a set of principles.
I'll give him credit for this: The granny-starver was one of the first Republican leaders to read the writing on the wall and get out of Congress.
A telling little clip from Mediate, where TV financial pundit Jim Cramer is basically urging Trump to cash in his chips, relinquish control or at least partial control and get a big fat payday. In theory, that sounds like sound advice. One small problem with that is what he's advocating is not technically legal.
driftglass: The revelation according to Chuck.
Lawyers, Guns and Money: No labels, no logic.
Blue Virginia: Governor Glenn Youngkin vetoes numerous bills that would have made Virginia safer.
Rewire: College students don't know their schools' abortion services.
Equal Justice Initiative: Freedom Monument Sculpture Park, which explores the legacy of slavery and the lives of enslaved people.
This installment by Batocchio.
Larry Fink, the billionaire CEO of the world's largest asset management firm, wrote in his annual letter to investors on Tuesday that it is "a bit crazy" that 65 is viewed as a sensible retirement age in the United States, drawing swift backlash from Social Security defenders and policy analysts.
Dean Baker, senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, replied that the CEO of BlackRock apparently doesn't know the U.