In April the state House of Representatives built the FY22 Final House Budget, and the Massachusetts Senate did the same in May. This week the two Chambers appointed a six-Member Conference Committee, tasked with drafting a final compromise budget.
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A minor travel industry scandal to the extent such things exist erupted last week when the Canadian government extended its pandemic‐related moratorium on foreign port arrivals, thus imperiling U.S. cruises to not only coastal Canada (which is delightful) but also Alaska. This prompted immediate outrage from Alaska’s congressional delegation, given the numerous jobs at stake in tourism‐reliant places along the Alaskan coast. Tellingly unmentioned by the congresscritters, however, was
why cruises run by American companies, primarily serving Americans, and both starting
and ending at American ports even need to stop in Canada in the first place. The reason: Laws regulating “cabotage” a fun word meaning “the right to operate sea, air, or other transport services within a particular territory” dramatically restrict the transport of goods and people between domestic ports. This causes all sorts of problems, which Alaska’s senators and
U.s. Attorney for the District of Maryland Robert her announced the charges a federal indictment has been unsealed charging Catherine Pugh with conspiracy to commit wire fraud 7 counts of wire fraud conspiracy to defraud the United States and 2 counts of tax evasion the grand jury indictment claims Pyu defrauded local businesses and nonprofits with about $800000.00 in sales of her healthy holly books to enrich herself promote her political career and fund her campaign Prosecutors allege she evaded taxes shorting the federal government of about $100000.00 Baltimore may oral candidate and former deputy attorney general theory of a garage is says nobody should relish and this we knew this was coming it s another embarrassing day for Baltimore the tween you know terrors of crime and corruption what defined city and this is just another unfortunate reminder of that use initial court appearance that arraignment are set for 1 pm 3 men are charged in a major tobacco bust that spans multiple c
Find a way forward to protect American elections up next on point election security and national security to go through the resignation of the u.s. Director of National Intelligence 1st the news. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I m Lakshmi saying President Trump is nominating a fierce loyalist Texas Republican John Radcliffe to take over the job as director of National Intelligence d.n.i. Chief Dan Coats is resigning after a turbulent 2 years it often had him clashing with Trump over Russia s interference in the 2016 presidential election N.P.R. s Greg Myre reports on coats legacy it is this this sort of funny position we re overseeing 16 other intelligence agencies but I think one thing he did do was was shift the emphasis or was part of this community wide effort you know for almost 2 decades the focus has been on terror groups al Qaeda and Isis and coaches really stressed the traditional big state rivalry called them the Big 4 Russia China Iran North Korea and said the u.s. Sho