North Carolina cuts investment assumptions of public pension system bondbuyer.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from bondbuyer.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Back in 1996, when West Virginia was a thoroughly Democratic state, two state senators competed for the party’s nomination for governor Joe Manchin and Charlotte Pritt. When Pritt won the primary by a 7-point margin, her victory pointed to a potentially new direction for the small, coal-dominated state: She was a different kind of West Virginia Democrat, a coal miner’s daughter, yes, but also an unabashed environmentalist and labor supporter. She ran on universal health care, collective bargaining rights for state employees, and shifting tax burdens from individuals to corporations; her victory could have presaged a leftward tilt for the state. But she didn’t win. And part of the reason came down to the fact that her former primary opponent, Manchin, who hailed from a family of coal-town mayors, stumped for Pritt’s opponent, Republican Cecil Underwood. He persuaded hundreds of fellow moderate Democrats to join him in crossing party lines, because he was worried about Pritt’
Environmental Groups Fight Back Against Alberta s Anti-Energy Inquiry desmogblog.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from desmogblog.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
February 15, 2021 - 4:20pm
The board of the far-right social media app Parler has fired its CEO and put the platform in the hands of interim CEO Mark Meckler and right-wing British political operative Matthew Richardson, along with board chair and majority owner Rebekah Mercer.
Meckler, whom Mercer recruited for Parler, is a well known right-wing activist who co-founded the Tea Party Patriots and is president and CEO of the Convention of States Foundation and its partner Convention of States Action, organizations pushing for a constitutional convention to radically rewrite America s founding document.
Many participants in the deadly Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6 were Parler users. A Gizmodo report used GPS data from hundreds of archived Parler videos to prove that numerous users stormed the nation s legislative branch. Many of those videos, which were archived by a hacker, were featured in a montage that House impeachment managers used in Trump s impeachment trial.
Opposition to a proposed bill affording businesses COVID-19 liability shields is coalescing into a formidable coalition while supporters backing the measure are also marshaling a mighty assembly to ensure its passage.