But in response to a court order that it swiftly process those pages in response to a Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, lawsuit filed by The New York Times, the Office of Management and Budget delivered a terse letter saying it would not turn over any of the 40 pages of emails — not even with redactions.
“All 20 documents are being withheld in full,” wrote Dionne Hardy, the office’s Freedom of Information Act officer.
www.nytimes.com/2020/01/03/us/politics/trump-ukraine-military-aid.html
Creator Gary Larson has long resisted the internet but has finally conceded, explaining in a letter posted on the site.
I hope all the reasons I’ve given here help explain why I’m so late to this party. But I’m finally here. And I could use a drink.
https://www.thefarside.com/about/48/a-letter-from-gary-larson
The new owner plans to replace the 32-year-old Greendale Mall in Worcester with a mix of retail, apartments, and office space.
(www.wbjournal.com/article/greendale-mall-to-be-demolished-turned-into-apartments-medical-offices)
“Nearly two-thirds of Americans say they often come across one-sided information and about 6 in 10 say they regularly see conflicting reports about the same set of facts from different sources.”
Fresh off ICANN’s blunder letting Public Interest Registry set whatever price it wants for .org domain names,Internet Society (ISOC) has sold the .org registry Public Interest Registry (PIR) to private equity company Ethos Capital.
(domainnamewire.com/2019/11/13/breaking-private-equity-company-acquires-org-registry/)
“A judge ordered President Trump to pay $2 million to a group of charities on Thursday, ruling that the president had broken the law by directing the proceeds from an event advertised as benefiting veterans to his presidential campaign instead.”
(https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/11/trump-ordered-to-pay-usd2-million-over-fishy-fundraiser.html)
This claim was easy to fact-check: There are zero black governors for the 50 states. But there are two governors who’ve apologized for wearing blackface.
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Out of 50 sitting governors, 47 are white, and the remaining three are Hispanic, Asian American and Native American.
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Only two African Americans have been elected governor, with the most recent being Democrat Deval Patrick, who was voted into office in Massachusetts in 2006. Democrat Douglas Wilder had previously been elected as Virginia’s governor, a post he held from 1990 to 1994.
Before Wilder’s election, the only black governor had been P. B. S. Pinchback, who stepped in as Louisiana’s governor for 34 days in 1872 while the incumbent faced impeachment.
“U.S. lobster exports to China have fallen off a cliff this year as new retaliatory tariffs shift the seafood business farther north.”
“Trump has personally and repeatedly urged the head of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to award a border wall contract to a North Dakota construction firm whose top executive is a GOP donor and frequent guest on Fox News”
“Trump has aggressively pushed Dickinson, N.D.-based Fisher Industries to Department of Homeland Security leaders and Lt. Gen. Todd Semonite, the commanding general of the Army Corps”
“The push for a specific company has alarmed military commanders and DHS officials.”
“Fisher … sued the U.S. government last month after the Army Corps did not accept its bid to install barriers along the southern border, a contract potentially worth billions of dollars.”
“[Trump] always brings them up”
““The system [Fisher] is proposing does not meet the operational requirements of U.S. Customs and Border Protection,” an official said.”
“… Fisher’s work on a barrier project in San Diego came in late and over budget.”
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