Growing SNAP applications backlog leaves El Paso families waiting on food stamps More than 136,000 low-income people in El Paso County are eligible for food benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, according to March data. Recipients receive a set ... 05/2/2024 - 10:55 pm | View Link
Replacement benefits available for SNAP recipients impacted by storms SNAP recipients in counties impacted by the April 27 and 28 storms may request replacement benefits up to the full monthly amount received for April. 04/30/2024 - 9:48 am | View Link
SNAP Recipients Complain About April Payments: 'Stress and Frustration' Some SNAP recipients who got their May payment last weekend worry they won't be able to afford enough food to make it until June. 04/26/2024 - 9:00 pm | View Link
Amazon grocery delivery for SNAP recipients: Here’s how it works and price In an attempt to expand its market, Amazon has introduced a new grocery delivery service program for Prime members as well as SNAP beneficiaries.. 04/24/2024 - 10:28 am | View Link
SNAP Benefits Florida Payment April: Who is eligible to get their food stamps this week? Eligibility criteria for SNAP benefits. SNAP, formerly known as the Food Stamp Program, is the nation's most critical anti-hunger initiative. Administered by the Florida Department of Children and ... 04/21/2024 - 2:57 am | View Link
“Fresh from his criminal trial in New York, Donald Trump delivered a frustrated and often profane roughly 75-minute speech at a Republican National Committee donor retreat in Florida on Saturday, attacking one of the prosecutors pursuing him and comparing President Biden’s administration to the Nazis,” the New York Times reports.
Said Trump: “These people are running a Gestapo administration.”
“In his speech, he complained repeatedly about the criminal trial in Manhattan, to which he will return on Monday, insisted that Democrats use ‘welfare’ to cheat in elections and said he would need an attorney general with ‘courage’ as he mocked his former attorney general, William P.
Young America's Foundation, the American version of Hitler's Youth, and the college Republicans at the University of Wisconsin in Madison had collaborated to throw a wild shindig at the Library Mall in Madison. The invitation that they were sharing was something to behold:
They promised there would be American flags, free t-shirts, popsicles, Toby Keith and Freedom!
Well, isn't that interesting?
By Sneha Dey, The Texas Tribune
April 29, 2024
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The Colorado legislature convened Saturday for a final weekend of work in its 2024 session, which is set to end Wednesday. Major pieces of legislation are still pending, with lawmakers expected to debate gun regulations, housing, land-use policy, transportation, property tax reform and other priorities in the final days.
This story will be updated throughout the day.
Updated at 5:25 p.m.: A proposed excise tax on guns and ammunition to pay for victim services cleared a key Senate committee Saturday afternoon after Democrats turned on their own over its movement through the chamber.
The measure would create a 6.5% tax on gun and ammo dealers and raise an expected $39 million a year, according to sponsor Sen.
Since Mark Hamill's White House visit tells us how woke Star Wars has gotten, and we all know about wokester Star Trek, Starship Troopers and Helldivers are better choices.