Towns need to balance pride in past with future I listened to a webinar about the challenges of planning, land use and economic development in rural areas. Communities frequently struggle to grow and still maintain their character. Balancing ... 05/19/2024 - 3:00 am | View Link
Scheffler starts his day in jail, then finds peace and a chance to win in the midst of all the chaos Perspective was even harder to come by than birdies through all the raindrops, bourbon and cigar smoke that streamed across golf’s biggest stage during one of the sport’s most bizarre ... 05/17/2024 - 9:52 am | View Link
NRA kicks off annual meeting as board considers successor to longtime leader Wayne LaPierre The NRA kicked off its annual meeting Friday in downtown Dallas, gathering for the first time in decades without Wayne LaPierre at the helm. 05/17/2024 - 8:15 am | View Link
Sols 4186-4188: On the Verge of a New Discovery On the Verge of a New Discovery NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity acquired this image using its Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI), located on the turret at the end of the rover’s robotic arm, on May 14, 2024, ... 05/17/2024 - 1:17 am | View Link
Woods off to sluggish start at PGA Championship Tiger Woods fired a 1-over par 72 during the opening round of the PGA Championship. The 15-time major champion faltered late. He was 1-under heading into his final two holes before a pair of ... 05/16/2024 - 10:34 am | View Link
Never mind that there's every reason to doubt that any of their story is true, Fox's John Roberts and Shannon Bream did their best to help the Alito's turn the story about their unacceptable behavior into another conservative victimhood fairy tale that's all about the neighbor.
Here's Roberts and Bream on this Friday's America Reports playing stenographers for the Alitos:
ROBERTS: Let's bring in Shannon Bream, anchor of Fox News Sunday and chief legal correspondent.
The day after Marge Greene's outrageous behavior, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took to X to break down how Greene’s outburst overshadowed—and aided—what Ocasio-Cortez describes as a “microcosm of what authoritarians do on a larger scale.” Via the New Republic:
“AFTER the Republican Chair and GOP members broke official House protocol to allow MTG’s horrific opening silo of rhetoric, they THEN made another change to dispense with the legislative process,” Ocasio-Cortez said on X (formerly Twitter).
On this day in 1978, British rockers Dire Straits released their debut single, “Sultans of Swing.”
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Attention dinosaur nerds! Study reveals when the first warm-blooded dinosaurs roamed Earth.
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Workers at a Mercedes Benz plant in Alabama voted against joining the United Auto Workers union Friday, potentially stalling hopes of a rapidly growing organizing wave for autoworkers in the southern United States. Via CNN:
The result was a close outcome. Out of the valid votes counted, 56% of workers voted “no,” while 44% voted “yes” for unionization, according to Mercedes-Benz.
Wisconsin Republicans are so very confused about where they stand on ballot drop boxes, they don't even know their own position anymore. For decades, Republicans were all for drop boxes and wanted them in every county. Then when Trump lost in 2020 and blamed, in part, voter fraud because of drop boxes, the Republicans were dead set against them.