Mayor Adams’ budget plan restores NYPD funding, but won’t reverse $58M cut to NYC libraries Mayor Eric Adams’ latest budget proposal includes restored funding for the NYPD, but doesn’t reverse a multi-million dollar cut to the city’s public library systems, sources familiar with the matter ... 04/24/2024 - 6:47 am | View Link
President’s budget is blind to the New Cold War Recently, the U.S. commander responsible for our forces in the Pacific told the Armed Services Committee that, under this plan, his command will be shortchanged a whopping $11 billion. The president’s ... 04/22/2024 - 10:31 am | View Link
Stitt may veto budget if his proposed tax cut is left out We’ve gone from $6.6 billion in appropriated dollars to last year about $12.9 billion. ... If you’ve really got that money to spend, let’s give Oklahomans a quarter of a point," he said. 04/19/2024 - 4:24 pm | View Link
UW’s $340 million finance upgrade is still struggling, despite progress the state’s budget office, said its Workday upgrade of the state’s accounting and reporting system, initially expected to launch in 2022 at a cost of $144 million, would be postponed to July ... 03/24/2024 - 11:54 pm | View Link
A year and a half after Mother Jones exposed how Oklahoma courts were imprisoning mothers for longer than their abusers, state lawmakers passed a bill that could allow some of those mothers’ sentences to be shortened. But this week, Gov. Kevin Stitt vetoed the legislation.
In an award-winning investigation in 2022, I told the story of Kerry King, a mom in Tulsa who got 30 years in prison under the state’s “failure to protect” law because she couldn’t stop her abusive boyfriend from beating her 4-year-old daughter.
CNN's Dana Bash reacts to Joshua Steinglass' cross-examination of David Pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer, about whether he suppressed stories to help a presidential candidate during the 2016 elections.
The first criminal trial of a former US president is underway, with Donald Trump facing 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to hush-money payments allegedly made in 2016 to cover up an affair he had with adult film star Stormy Daniels. Here’s the latest—the key updates and absurd moments—from the historic trial.
Public birthday wishes are a tricky art.
Trump’s political operatives are putting together a plan that would give him input into the Federal Reserve, including making him an “acting” central bank board member, according to the Wall Street Journal. Via CNBC:
The plans, which the Journal report described as highly secretive, are part of a 10-page document that suggests Trump — if elected — would be consulted on interest rate decisions.
Jamie Raskin hilariously suggested that the RNC headquarters could host the Supreme Court after wingnut justices appeared open to recognizing some form of presidential immunity yesterday. Via HuffPost:
Host Joy Reid, who noted that Trump’s federal election interference case could be remanded back to the D. C. Circuit Court of Appeals and thus further delay the trial past Election Day, called the Supreme Court majority “so clearly politicians” before looping in Raskin.
“Well, they’re politicians who are not even subject to popular election unlike me.