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How power is shifting in the US: Exodus from Democrat states like NY and California to Republican states such as Texas and Florida could alter the number of seats in the House of Representatives The U.S. Census Bureau released figures Tuesday showing how populations in states like New York have fallen in the last year Analysis of the statistics by  The Brookings Institution suggests Democrat strongholds like New York and California could lose congressional seats The official 2020 Census resul...

State population loss accelerating FacebookTwitterEmail Illinois is shrinking. Again. Or perhaps, still. For the seventh year in a row, the state’s population has decreased, according to estimates released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau. While this has been a trend for the Land of Lincoln, the estimated loss from July 2019 to July 2020 was the second largest in the nation — behind only New York. The 79,487-person plummet in Illinois was the worst population decline for the state since Wo...

Three primary factors, regardless of anything else, should make relocation of the Colorado Springs-based Space Command an unthinkable prospect: 1. Billions of dollars have been invested in assets used by Space Command in and around Peterson Air Force Base. Abandoning them for a political favor would cost taxpayers a substantial and needless expense at a time when the national debt is rising beyond our economy’s ability to service it. If President-elect Joe Biden cuts military spending after t...

December 15, 2020 In Northern Virginia, like much of the nation, Black-owned businesses are being negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. One report found 41% of Black-owned businesses have been forced to close due to COVID-19 compared to just 17% of white-owned businesses. All of this while Black-owned businesses face long-term, racial disparities that severely restrict business ownership, growth, and access to investment capital. Subscribe As part of our Build Back – Dream Forward: CO...

Updated: Link Copied Pete Buttigieg is headed to DOTs top spot, where despite his thin transportation résumé, the smooth-talking former heartland mayor could help President-elect Joe Biden sell Congress on a massive job-creating investment in infrastructure that would also attempt to blunt the effects of climate change. Buttigieg will arrive at the Department of Transportations Navy Yard headquarters with little experience dealing with the various appendages of official Washington, but hell ...

December 8, 2020 COVID-19, a deadly pandemic that has disproportionately struck Black and Brown communities. We are centuries into the equally pernicious plague of police violence toward unarmed Black Americans. Both realities are grounded in structural white supremacy. Both have made plain the pervasive inequity baked into the American Experiment. As our moderator, Andre Perry, says in his book, “Know Your Price,” “The deliberate devaluation of Blacks and their communities has had very r...

Smooth-talking Buttigieg to be Biden’s infrastructure salesman in chief POLITICO 12/16/2020 By Tanya Snyder and Sam Mintz © Kevin Lamarque/Pool via AP Former South Bend, Ind. Mayor Pete Buttigieg, President-elect Joe Bidens nominee to be Transportation secretary, reacts to his nomination as Biden looks on during a news conference at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Del., Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. Pete Buttigieg is headed to DOTs top spot, where despite his thin transporta...