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Habitat for Humanity will break ground for new home in Elkhart By: Benjamin Pilarski ELKHART, Ind. -- Habitat for Humanity of Elkhart County will be breaking ground on a new home on Wednesday at 4 p.m. The groundbreaking will be on Belmont Avenue in Elkhart for the Harris family, with community partners Winnebago Industries and Dometic. The owner of the home, Courtney Harris applied to Habitat’s homeownership program in the fall of 2020 and got accepted in December. Harris recently graduated from college and has a 6-year-old daughter. Harris ...
Editor's Note This is the second article in a two-part series on the dramatic and lasting impact of unregulated coal mining that once took place in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Restoration efforts began 40 years ago and have a long way to go. But funding to restore abandoned mine land is largely tied to fees paid by existing coal mining operations. In an odd twist, we need coal in order to clean up coal. As the nation moves away from coal-generated energy, what will fund the work that lies ahead? Part 1, Orange water, dirty air, looked at how we got here. Part 2 explores restoration st...
we have areas of differences. we continue to see positive results from that policy. we supply our troops through russia. cooperation in afghanistan is essential. we work with russia on the iran issue. they joined us in a u.n. security council resolution which is the foundation of sanctions we went on to put in place on the iranian government. russia has been with us in talks in sending a clear message to iran that they need to live up to obligations. they are hosting the next round of talks in moscow. nuclear issues, locking down weapons depend in large part on cooperation, and, agai...
all of previous american history. i don't have time to go over the history of the filibuster, much of it is in the book that i mentioned and makes a great holiday gift, but let me say that in the past, filibusters were used rarely for an issue of great national moment by a minority feeling intensely about them and willing to stop everything and throw themselves into making their point. now it is used routinely as a weapon of obstruction. cloture motions were roughly two a month in the 1970s, three a month in the 1980s. now there are two or more a week. i have to say to be sure that t...