Light Rail closing 5 stops over weeks as construction gets under way The agency is launching a planned Light Rail maintenance project with construction beginning May 4 and continuing through May 24. 05/3/2024 - 4:35 am | View Link
Eastside’s light rail expansion is good for the climate and the economy Despite delays and post-pandemic challenges, columist Jon Talton says light rail offers an important public tranportation option that should be supported. 05/3/2024 - 2:00 am | View Link
South Phoenix businesses have 1 year left to claim help for light rail construction woes Valley Metro expects to open its $1.3 billion South Phoenix light rail extension next year. Time is running out for businesses to claim help. 04/25/2024 - 2:02 am | View Link
After it emerged recently that Gov. Kristi Noem recounts a graphic, disturbing story in her forthcoming book about killing her puppy with a gun, the Republican from South Dakota defended the violence as a “tough decision” she had to make. The dog, she wrote, had attacked some chickens.
“I talk about it because what I’m tired of in this country is politicians who pretend to be something that they’re not,” Noem said on CBS’s Face the Nation today.
That tough talk aside, Noem apparently is not immune to such posing: It has now also emerged that she falsely claimed in her book to have met North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.
By STEVE PEOPLES and ZEKE MILLER (Associated Press)
WILMINGTON, N. C. (AP) — This North Carolina voter is nervous.
Will Rikard, a 49-year-old father of two, was among several hundred Democrats who stood and cheered for Joe Biden as the first-term president delivered a fiery speech recently about the billions of dollars he has delivered to protect the state’s drinking water.
But afterward, the Wilmington resident acknowledged he is worried about Biden’s political standing in the looming rematch with former Republican President Donald Trump.
“There’s not enough energy,” Rikard said of Biden’s coalition.
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According to a whistleblower, Pentagon personnel were complicit in ensuring that the January 6 protests were out of control. This is court-martial stuff.