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The Democratic caucus that created and passed the initiative does not have any public plans to seek more money, citing the Republican-controlled state Senate.
Lambert agrees that any attempt to expand the initiative likely would be shot down.
Heading into the 2016 legislative session, Democrats are drafting legislation to smooth out immigrants’ application process and create protections against fraud.
However, further complicating the situation is a provision from the 2013 legislation that could reduce the number of offices offering the licenses from the current three to one as early as spring 2017.
The enabling legislation called for the reduction once demand falls below 5,000 per year or the total appointments served reaches 66,000.
The DMV estimated it will have served 66,000 between April and November 2017.
The licenses are valid for only three years, meaning that the initial batch of applicants who were granted licenses will be up for renewal about the same time the office numbers are reduced. Lawmakers and advocates say this could spell disaster and further elongate the wait for immigrants.
Sen. Jesse Ulibarri, a Democrat from Adams County who was the initiative’s creator, says work is being done to address this looming setback. “For the folks who chose to play politics with it for their own gain, that’s unfortunate,” he said of his Republican counterparts.
Ulibarri added that the bill was aimed at making Colorado roads safer by increasing the number of licensed, insured drivers. He said that is a goal everyone should be able to support.
But JBC member Sen. Kevin Grantham, R-Cañon City, says he has not seen any studies that have shown whether the new licenses have improved public safety or not. He added that the initiative was passed over the opposition of the GOP when Democrats controlled the legislature.
“They want us to come in and have the Republicans bail them out of situations they created for themselves,” Grantham said.
September 23, 2013 Football, Jason Lieser, Kentucky, Will Muschamp.
Florida should have its secondary back intact for Saturday’s game at Kentucky (7 p.m., ESPNU), but the Gators have several other injury concerns this week.
CBs Loucheiz Purifoy and Marcus Roberson are moving well and should be able to practice by mid-week. Roberson (knee) missed last week’s win over Tennessee, and Purifoy came out late with a thigh injury.
Starting RG Jon Halapio came into the Tennessee game with a torn pectoral muscle and added a an eye injury. He sustained a gash that required three stitches.
The Gators will not have RB Valdez Showers (ankle) against Kentucky. He missed the game against Volunteers and likely needs another week off.
NEW YORK (CBS.MW) - U.S. Treasurys slipped back into the red Tuesday afternoon in a session that saw the bond sector switch directions in tandem with mood changes in the stock arena.
The latest move south for Treasury prices came after a weak turnout for a 5-year note auction, in which the bid-to-cover ratio - a measure of demand - was at its lowest point in 15 years.
"If bond investors truly believed that the equity market would continue to be subject to volatility related to concerns over corporate governance, they'd be buying Treasurys with greater enthusiasm," said Tony Crescenzi, bond market analyst with Miller Tabak & Co. "With the cover ratio on today's auction at its lowest level in at least 15 years, bond investors showed very little enthusiasm."
The government sold $16 billion in a reopening of a previously sold 5-year note. The new debt was awarded a high yield of 4.254 percent or the highest since the yield earned on the 5-year note sold in August.
Treasury will sell $13 billion in 10-year notes on Wednesday.
Dealers typically bid down prices on existing debt to dress up the yields on the new debt for retail customers.
At the 3 p.m. U.S. close, a 2-year note slipped 1/32 at 100 even to yield 2.99 percent or a gain of 2 basis points from the previous session. An old 5-year note fell 1/32 at 96 29/32 to yield an unchanged 4.22 percent.
A benchmark 10-year note fell 3/32 at 100 21/32 to yield TNX, +1.17% 4.91 percent or up 1 basis point. A 30-year bond was down 9/32 at 100 4/32 to yield TYX, +1.18% 5.37 percent, or up 2 basis points.
Bonds often benefit from flight-to-quality buying away from stock weakness, as was the case earlier in Tuesday's session.
The stock market exhibited a split personality Tuesday, with the latest move downward for the major indices sparked by weakness in financial shares and key tech components. Read more in Market Snapshot.
The latest economic statistics revealed a mixed performance, in line with many economists predictions that it will take the economy at least a few months to find its legs having spent much of the past year in a recession.
The Commerce Department reported that factory orders rose 1.2 percent in December, in line with economists' consensus forecast. The gain reclaims a portion of the 4.3 percent decline in orders in November.
Corporations increased the pace of layoff announcements in January by 32 percent to 212,704 from December's 161,584, according to a survey by outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas released Tuesday. January's total was the third highest in the survey's 9-year history and is 50 percent higher than the January 2000 total.
Meanwhile, the non-manufacturing sector is barely growing, according to a survey released by the Institute for Supply Management, formerly known as the National Association of Purchasing Management. The ISM non-manufacturing index fell to 49.6 percent in January from the revised 50.1 percent in December.
Readings under 50 suggest shrinkage in the sector. But since the non-manufacturing index doesn't have the track record that the ISM manufacturing index has, most market participants haven't paid much serious attention to it.
Get the full story on Tuesday's economic releases.
Meanwhile, in the currency sector, the dollar gained 0.7 percent to 133.21 yen while the euro shed 0.1 percent to 86.84 cents.
Rating agency Standard & Poor's downgraded seven major Japanese banks by various degrees, including Dai-Ichi Kangyo, Fuji and Industrial Bank of Japan, Yasuda Trust & Banking and Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi.
S&P said the downgrades reflected deterioration in financial conditions due to high and growing level of impaired assets, insufficient core earnings to meet credit costs, and widening shortfalls in capital to offset losses. See full story.
Blanche E. Ault, 81, 3319 Price Ave., Orlando, died Tuesday. Born in Jefferson County, Tenn., she moved to Orlando from Knoxville, Tenn., in 1947. She was a homemaker and a member of Conway United Methodist Church. She was a member of the Founders Garden Club of Conway. Survivors: daughters, Wilma Auman, Orlando, Wanda Horner, Talbott, Tenn., Juanita Gibson, Hemet, Calif., Mildred Woody, Morristown, Tenn.; sister, Sue Brewer, Jefferson City, Tenn.; brothers, Edwin Garrett, Strawberry Plains, Tenn., Fred Garrett, White Pine, Tenn., Lloyd Garrett, Jefferson City; 11 grandchildren; 21 great- grandchildren. Colonial Guardian Funeral Home, Orlando.
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Three gunshots were fired around 5 a.m. on the 900 block of South Lafayette Street.
All indications are that the shots were made in self defense, said Sheriff Alan Norman.
Michael Sizemore, who Norman said was in his late teens or early 20s, arrived at the residence of Roy and Bertha Lowman Friday night, Norman said.
Sizemore, who Norman said knew the couple, was invited into the residence but, after a short time, became argumentative and the couple asked him to leave, Norman said.
During the assault, Lowman�s wife Bertha retrieved a rifle and fired it three times, Norman said.
�It appears Sizemore was struck three times: in the shoulder, groin and stomach,� Norman said.
Sheriff deputies located Sizemore, who was transported to Cleveland Regional Medical Center. Injuries are considered serious, Norman said.
The case will be presented to the District Attorney�s Office on Monday, Norman said.
�All indications are that it appears Mrs. Lowman was attempting to save her husband from further assault,� Norman said.
Google and Facebook are throwing money at programs to bolster local news, not unlike U.S. efforts to rebuild Afghanistan. Good luck.
But there is something they could do to actually help, and at a bargain, too: Contract directly with local news media to fund reporters and continue feeding their networks. This would be a win-win investment by that coldest of assessments, the business itself.
Local news media’s problem isn’t a lack of viewers. The Union, for instance, has as many or more readers than ever. They simply are changing how they read from print to online.
It’s more nuanced at the lake. We found last year we needed to increase the print run for the weekly Sierra Sun to keep the newsstands from running out too fast. The Sun’s online traffic is growing, too.
Our online readership gains are to Facebook and Google’s business advantage. We provide their audiences material to mull and chew on, and posting our reports on social media often enough breaks those ugly cycles of rumor and gossip. Interrupting a great tall tale with facts isn’t always appreciated, by the way. But it does move the civic discussion forward.
We also foot the bill, the whole bill, for the journalism, which despite jokes and perhaps your snorts, really is a high calling. Not that all the journalists always live up to the ideal. But I see my colleagues in Grass Valley and Truckee going full bore and taking their work seriously.
Unfortunately for us, our business model in print, primarily from advertising, doesn’t translate as you might think to online. Instead Google and Facebook glean the bulk of the digital advertising dollars that otherwise would come to us to fund the journalism. Sweet deal for them, while it lasts.
Their grants, technical help and think tanky stuff won’t do much to solve the problem — for us today and soon enough for them. For all their help, they’ve taken away the ability for local news media to transform into viable digital operations.
Now, at last, this has become widely existential for local news businesses, including ours.
If this shift were akin to the horse and buggy giving way to superior transportation, namely automobiles, this would be good even if that sucked for us. But it’s not. Actual journalism has become less affordable while the big tech “platforms” profit from the audience through straightforward means, along with the personal data collection and use that critics find more sinister.
The United States has around 25 percent fewer journalists than a decade ago, and the front lines — newspaper newsrooms — have eroded by half. At the same time online sites have proliferated. Mostly, those are aggregators and advocates, some assuredly Russian. Opinion sites, I mean, not producing news but aiming to pass for the real thing.
In any case, the math doesn’t work so well for our society with fewer actual journalists and far more material mistaken as journalism. You won’t see these commentators at local fire scenes or town hall meetings or municipal chambers, nor all the other places local reporters still go.
Nearly 2,000 papers and their associated websites have closed in the past 14 years, according to the University of North Carolina’s School of Media and Journalism. The country is beginning to blister with news deserts and consequences the electrified grapevines can’t solve. Research shows, for example, taxes and municipal costs rise where local government goes uncovered.
Our region is far from immune. The Sacramento Bee, for all its brave buzz about transitioning to digital, is hollowing out. Same with the Reno Gazette-Journal. The Auburn Journal didn’t shift from five print editions a week to two a little over a year ago because everything was going just great. Same with our sister paper at Nevada’s state capital, Carson City, which last summer went from six editions a week to two.
The business model is shattering as revenue that would support local news instead flows to … Google and Facebook, who wish only to be tech platforms and not publishers.
With the money should come responsibility, though. This era of ticks bleeding the dog dry is on course to end badly for society, not just news organizations.
Jokes aside, the local papers don’t do fake. We labor through the discipline of journalism to learn the truth, or at least as close as the available evidence and human discernment will lead. We don’t have interests other than getting the story right, promptly and fair. It’s a high bar, but my colleagues do an amazing job despite all the obstacles thrown at them.
Of course, this is just how I see it, and working at newspapers across the country for the past three decades certainly shapes my view.
I love the work, the people and mission even knowing we practice this most human of disciplines imperfectly. Sometimes I feel the way about journalism that Winston Churchill observed about democracy being the worst form of governance except for all the others.
Our chances of seeing something other than democracy go way up if the business of funding journalism can’t be fixed. Pointing to Afghanistan might be going a bit far, but perhaps isn’t so outlandish as it might sound.
Don Rogers is the publisher of The Union, Lake Wildwood Independent and Sierra Sun. He can be reached at drogers@theunion.com or 530-477-4299.
The contest between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton for a decisive New York victory is heating up, and the tone of the Democratic race is keeping pace. In response to Clinton’s comments on Morning Joe Wednesday that Sanders is a "relatively new Democrat" who hasn’t "done his homework" on key issues, Sanders unleashed his most pointed attack yet against his rival at an event in Philadelphia.
"She has been saying lately that she thinks that I am, quote unquote, not qualified to be president," he said of Clinton, according to Politico. "Well let me just say, in response to Secretary Clinton: I don’t think you are qualified if you get $15 million from Wall Street through your super PAC."
I don’t think you are qualified if you have voted for the disastrous war in Iraq. I don’t think you are qualified if you’ve supported virtually every disastrous trade agreement, which has cost us millions of decent-paying jobs. I don’t think you are qualified if you supported the Panama free trade agreement — something I very strongly opposed and which, as all of you know, has allowed corporations and wealthy people all over the world to avoid paying their taxes to their countries.
Hillary Clinton did not say Bernie Sanders was 'not qualified.' But he has now - absurdly - said it about her. This is a new low.
But after Clinton’s initial comments, the Sanders team sent out a fundraising email saying her campaign was "getting impatient" and deploying a "new strategy" called "disqualify him, defeat him," and "unify the party later." "We knew they were getting nervous, but candidly, we didn’t think they would go this negative so quickly," the email reads. "We have to be ready for what comes next."
What comes next is New York — the state’s April 19 primary already seems to be stripping all pretense of civility from the Democratic ranks.
Analysts at CCS Insight share some of the highlights we expect to see at this year’s CES Show in Las Vegas, starting tomorrow (January 8th, 2019). Included are artificial intelligence, 5G and flexible screens….
One trend that will certainly be a common theme with many exhibitors will be the use of artificial intelligence. This was evident at the 2018 show and we believe it will reach new levels of hype at this year’s event, with almost all companies jumping on the artificial intelligence bandwagon.
The challenge will be to determine exactly what companies are offering, beyond making sure they tick the necessary boxes on the technology buzzword bingo card. Artificial intelligence has definitely made significant strides over the past couple of years, but how this will manifest itself to deliver meaningful benefits in the consumer electronics domain is something our team will be watching closely.
Another area that we’ll hear a lot of talk about is 5G. All the US carriers are jostling to establish themselves as leaders in 5G deployment, so we expect to hear updates from all on their progress to date. The Las Vegas skyline is likely to be host to numerous 5G massive MIMO antennas as rival carriers deliver live demonstrations of this new technology and early 5G prototype devices.
We believe the main focus will continue to be on fixed wireless and Mi-Fi devices for mobile broadband, but it wouldn’t be a surprise to see smartphone makers also teasing forthcoming 5G smartphones ahead of Mobile World Congress at the end of February in Barcelona. Moreover, 5G will be a prominent horizontal theme with multiple segments of the tech industry from cars to wearables talking about perceived benefits and uses.
The role of 5G in carriers’ growing focus on content and video delivery could also become clearer at CES. The event offers a forum for AT&T to update on plans to launch a video streaming service later in the year, and for T-Mobile to possibly expand on its TV strategy after its acquisition of start-up Layer3 in 2017.
Eager to draw attention to their own efforts in 5G, automotive companies are likely to make numerous announcements in this area. We believe some of the recent incidents that have happened in autonomous vehicle testing will temper the hype around fully autonomous driving.
That said, commitment by car-makers such as Ford and Volvo to focus on level 5 autonomy will be a clear message. At the same time, 5G connectivity could emerge as the biggest automotive story at the show, being positioned as a key next phase in the evolution of cars and a complementary technology to radar, lidar and cameras. Given its namesake, CES tends to have a consumer bias but it’s worth noting that autonomy will happen first in tightly controlled commercial environments.
Voice assistants and their associated technology will be hugely prominent as well. The trend toward more platform-agnostic devices supporting multiple voice assistants is set to play out, leaving consumers to choose which one they’d like to use. We also expect Google to continue its spending spree on the show, with Google Assistant branding likely to feature across the entire city as it did last year.
Rival Amazon should benefit from the biggest portfolio of Alexa-enabled devices ever announced, thanks to widespread support by practically every consumer electronics company in almost every conceivable device. We also predict that many other voice-based solutions will emerge at the event, not least by Chinese players such as Alibaba and Baidu. Finally, we expect a growing variety of products to see the integration of far-field microphones. This is a big step as the industry moves beyond the smart speaker as a point solution to pre-integration in a myriad of products from TVs to light switches.
The number of smart home devices and solutions on display will be overwhelming. We believe that CES 2019 could be remembered as a “peak smart home” moment ahead of a substantial market shake-out as the number of companies with near-identical products becomes unsustainable.
Amazon and Google will be primary enablers in this area, but we also bet on Samsung dedicating a significant part of its stand to its SmartThings connected home offering. Other big players such as Arlo, Belkin, Philips, Somfy, Vivint and Legrand will also continue to expand their portfolio of smart home devices in an effort to create their own smart home ecosystems. At the same time, we expect to see makers of domestic appliances including Whirlpool, Panasonic, Samsung, Electrolux, LG and others to step up their efforts in offering smarter products.
Another sure-fire trend at the show will be flexible and folding display technology. Products are likely to include roll-up TVs, folding tablets and smartphones, wearables with flexible displays, and more. These will probably be some of the most popular products to hit the headlines, but there still remains an underlying question about whether they’re anything more than a solution looking to solve a problem that doesn’t really exist yet. We’ll be keeping a close eye on the uses articulated by companies showcasing such devices.
Although virtual and augmented reality are likely to be a low-key affair at the show, we do anticipate some new developments. The standalone virtual reality category will be in the limelight, as it’s where all major virtual reality players have made big investments in 2018. Other highlights will include wireless solutions for dedicated virtual reality headsets and enterprise use of the technology.
CCS Insight have a number of analysts on the ground at this year’s event, with the firm releasing daily updates on their thoughts surrounding each day’s activities – this can be found here.
Debt is growing in Canada with the average Canadian owing 4.5 per cent in the first quarter of this year. Excluding mortgages the average debt per consumer is at $25,597 compared to last year's $24,497.
The results of a TransUnion study found that debt is still a way of life for many Canadians. Throughout the nation debt per consumer increased over the past year with those in Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador having the greatest increase rising 7.8 percent this year.
25.12 million consumers make up an active credit consumer population. Credit card debt has declined slightly over the year with the average consumer's debt at $3,539 compared to last year's $3,688. While the debt on credit cards has declined the delinquency rate for payments has increased to 0.38 in the first quarter of 2011 with the highest credit card delinquencies in Prince Edward Island.
The highest increase in debt comes from Lines of Credit which accounts for over 41 percent of outstanding debt in Canada. Ontarians and residents of Alberta are the largest users of Lines of Credit accounting for over 57 percent of usage.
Repayments on Lines of Credit has increased with only 0.21 of the debt being classified as delinquent.
Former FBI Director James Comey told Congress during his opening statement, ''it confused me when I saw on television the president saying that he actually fired me because of the Russia investigation.'' Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION) STORY: Former FBI chief James Comey said on Thursday that he found the shifting explanations for why President Donald Trump had fired him both confusing and concerning. "When I was appointed FBI director in 2013, I understood that I served at the pleasure of the president," Comey told the Senate Intelligence Committee. "On May the ninth, when I learned that I was fired, for that reason, I immediately came home as a private citizen," he said. "But then the explanations, the shifting explanations confused me and increasingly concerned me."
Photos of a prototype from Apple in 1983 have some asking, could this have been the original iPhone?
Could this have been the original Apple iPhone, 1983?
Check out these photos. No, you’re not seeing the latest version of the iPhone! In fact, the photos show an Apple prototype from 1983 that never made it into the marketplace.
Like the iPhone and the iPad, the device came with a touch screen and a stylus. The man who designed this prototype, Hartmut Esslinger, also designed Apple’s first “portable” computer.

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