Last year, the Bureau of Land Management increased its oil and gas lease sales by 86 percent. The Bureau, which is under the control of the Interior Department, will likely follow this upward trajectory in the years to come, as recent moves by the administration could expedite the leasing process. According to a memo published at the end of … [Read more...]
Maryland Joins Blue States’ Suit Against Tax Plan
Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh is the latest official to join the coalition of high-tax, blue-state governors in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, who are challenging the Republican tax law’s $10,000 cap on state and local tax (SALT) deduction as unconstitutional. Legal analysts—both red and blue--say that arguments claiming the $1.5 … [Read more...]
What Happens When The Government Shuts Down?
https://youtu.be/WGTlhBFyEx4?rel=0 From The New York Times YouTube Channel: The federal government has shut down. But what does that mean and how does it happen? Read the full story here: https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2018/01/19/us/19reuters-usa-congress-shutdown-impact-factbox.html … [Read more...]
Let’s Just Say He’s Not Know For Leniency
Bizarro! | by Dan Piraro … [Read more...]
Anti-Protest Bills Set the Stage for the Tragedy in Charlottesville
Ever since James Alex Fields Jr. drove his car through a sea of anti-fascist protesters in Charlottesville and after he injured 19 people and killed activist Heather Heyer, the US has not been quite the same. In the immediate aftermath, pundits sought explanations – they sought some way of understanding this atrocious act of violence, motivated in … [Read more...]
US Attorney Wages War on Future Massachusetts Pot Sales
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren is scrambling to rescue her state’s recreational pot industry — set to launch in July — from the clutches of Attorney General Jeff Sessions' US Attorney for Massachusetts, Andrew E. Lelling. Lelling threw the future of Massachusetts’ cannabis legalization into doubt last week when he said he “cannot provide … [Read more...]
Kentucky Governor Threatens End of Health Coverage for 400,000
Kentucky’s Governor Matt Bevin Threatens to End Expanded Medicaid if Courts Block Trump’s Work Requirement Mandate Kentucky is the first state to test a work requirement for its Medicaid recipients following a November, 2017 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid directive, and Republican Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin isn’t about to see his prize … [Read more...]
New Tax Law Amounts to Major Obstacle for US Cities
Just before Christmas, President Trump signed into law the highly controversial tax bill touted by Republicans as a win for the middle class and criticized by Democrats as an overzealous gift to large corporations and the very wealthy. Of the various provisions, perhaps the most contentious is one limiting the state and local tax (SALT) deduction … [Read more...]
Zinke Stops Florida Off-Shore Drilling: a Gift to Support Rick Scott’s Senate Bid?
In what critics say is a Trump Administration stunt to boost Florida’s two-term Governor Rick Scott’s chances for a Senate win next year, Trump’s Interior Department Secretary Ryan Zinke scratched Florida from the off-shore drilling list that coastal states have fallen victim to, potentially facing oil spills and intrusion of oil rig infrastructure … [Read more...]
NLRB Limits the Scope of the Joint Employer Doctrine
In mid-December, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) reversed an Obama-era ruling that permitted workers to file complaints against large corporations (like fast-food conglomerates) that reap profits from franchises but don’t oversee day-to-day operations. According to the NLRB of yesteryear, such corporations would count as “joint-employers” … [Read more...]
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