Lee Travels To Memphis To Look At Situation With Closed Mississippi River Freeway Bridge; Calls For Federal Infrastructure Aid Tuesday, May 18, 2021
Governor Bill Lee was traveling to Memphis to assess progress on the Hernando de Soto bridge repair, meet with Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson and address the need for immediate federal action on infrastructure.
“We are making swift progress on repairs to the Hernando de Soto bridge to ensure safety and a return to uninterrupted commerce,” said Governor Lee. “While Congress ponders the definition of infrastructure, we call upon the federal government to prioritize the safety of actual roads and bridges.”
Executed death row con s tragic last words may prove right as DNA tests suggest innocence
In April 2017 Ledell Lee was put to death by lethal injection after he was convicted of murdering a woman in Jacksonville. New evidence suggests that he may be innocent of that crime.
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Lendell Lee was executed in 2017 and new evidence suggests he may be innocent (Image: Internet Uknown)
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The Republican Attorney General of Arizona invited Vice-President Kamala Harris to visit the Arizona border and observe firsthand the crisis at the state’s border. That invitation was issued last month. Since then, Kamala, the designated border czar, has not taken him up on the offer. Now the attorney general, Mark Brnovich, says it’s time to fire Kamala as border czar.
Brnovich rightly points out that Kamala finds time in her busy schedule to travel to other states, just not those on the Mexican border. She does travel to her home state of California but doesn’t bother to go to that state’s border either. Brnovich says it is insulting to Americans in border states to be ignored, especially during this crisis which is a historic level. The Biden administration is being tested and it is failing miserably.
Which States Are Ending $300 Weekly COVID Unemployment Benefits?
On 5/14/21 at 1:02 PM EDT
At least 17 U.S. states have decided to end the federal government s $300 weekly unemployment benefits, with some states cutting them off as early as June.
The supplemental benefits began with the passage of the first coronavirus relief bill, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act, in March 2020. The benefits were originally $600, but after expiring on July 31 they dropped to $300 in subsequent relief packages.
Seventeen states have announced an end to the federal benefits. They are Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah and Wyoming.