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The Board of Supervisors had allocated $300,000 to the county Department of Parks and Recreation in October, but on Tuesday, it reassigned and approved additional money and project oversight to the Los Angeles Conservation Corps.
County officials this year said construction on the dog park is expected to be completed March 2012.
The Republican Party now has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to define its brand by passing legislation through both houses of Congress. Even if President Obama vetoes the bills — as he will — they will answer the nagging question among the voters: What does the Republican Party stand for?
Conventional political consultants will be content to luxuriate in the negative image Obama has created for himself and for his party. But the wiser leaders of the GOP will realize that it is only by articulating a programmatic alternative that Republicans can really seal the deal with the majority of Americans.
Nobody pays attention to political platforms or candidate speeches. White papers from campaigns are best for lining wastebaskets. The media won’t cover one-house bills passed by Republicans knowing that the Senate will never assent.
But if the Republicans pass serious legislation through both houses of Congress, the media has to take it seriously. And if these bills are in sync with the concerns of most Americans, it will only be to the advantage of the GOP if Obama vetoes them.
Republicans in the House have amassed a considerable body of good proposals that passed the House but Harry Reid Harry Mason ReidSanders courts GOP voters with 'Medicare for All' plan Glamorization of the filibuster must end Schumer won't rule out killing filibuster MORE has refused to bring up in the Senate. More are ...
The GOP should declare its own “100 days” and pass a comprehensive set of proposals to capture the attention and admiration of the American people.
Reinforcing the ban in the Affordable Care Act against forcing the cancellation of grandfathered policies. The Congress should specify that no changes in policies or premiums can evade the application of this ban.
Most of this ambitious agenda will meet with the approval of both the moderate and the Tea Party wings of the Party. With a minimum of posturing and squabbling, the Republican leadership of Congress should move to enact it and to seize the initiative away from the Obama administration.
Obama’s vetoes will come to stereotype his administration and the Democrats as the real Party of No — an appellation too often appended to the GOP in the past. And they will tie the hands of the Democratic nominee in 2016. If it is Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonIt is wrong to say 'no collusion' 10 factors...
Morris, who served as adviser to former Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) and former President Clinton, is the author of 17 books, including his latest, Power Grab: Obama’s Dangerous Plan for a One Party Nation and Here Come the Black Helicopters. To get all of his and Eileen McGann’s columns for free by email, go to dickmorri...
FBN’s Deirdre Bolton discusses the Federal Communications Commission’s decision to overturn net neutrality -- an Obama-era law that prohibits broadband providers from blocking or charging for certain websites -- along partisan lines.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission voted along party lines on Thursday to repeal landmark 2015 rules aimed at ensuring a free and open internet, setting up a court fight over a move that could recast the digital landscape.
The approval of FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s proposal marked a victory for internet service providers like AT&T Inc, Comcast Corp and Verizon Communications Inc and hands them power over what content consumers can access.
Democrats, Hollywood and companies like Google parent Alphabet Inc and Facebook Inc had urged Pai, a Republican appointed by U.S. President Donald Trump, to keep the Obama-era rules barring service providers from blocking, slowing access to or charging more for certain content.
The meeting, held amid protests online and in front of the FCC headquarters in Washington, was evacuated before the vote for about 10 minutes due to an unspecified security threat, and resumed after law enforcement with sniffer dogs checked the room.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, a Democrat, said in a statement he will lead a multi-state lawsuit to challenge the reversal.
Does Disney-Fox deal signal confidence for the AT&T-Time Warner deal?
Shares of Alphabet, Apple Inc and Microsoft Corp moved lower after the vote.
Pai has argued that the 2015 rules were heavy handed and stifled competition and innovation among service providers.
“The internet wasn’t broken in 2015. We weren’t living in a digital dystopia,” he said on Thursday.
The FCC voted 3-2 to repeal the rules.
Consumers are unlikely to see immediate changes, but smaller startups worry the lack of restrictions could drive up costs or lead to their content being blocked.
Internet service providers say they will not block or throttle legal content but may engage in paid prioritization. They argue that the largely unregulated internet functioned well in the two decades before the 2015 order.
Still, Democrats have pointed to polls showing a repeal is deeply unpopular and say they will prevail in protecting the rules, either in the courts or in U.S. Congress.
Immediately after the vote, Senator Edward Markey, a Democrat, said he and 15 other senators planned to introduce a resolution to undo the FCC action and restore the net neutrality rules.
FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel, a Democrat, said in a written dissent released on Thursday that the decision grants internet providers “extraordinary new power” from the FCC.
“They have the technical ability and business incentive to discriminate and manipulate your internet traffic. And now this agency gives them the legal green light to go ahead,” she said.
Several state attorneys general said before the vote they would work to oppose the ruling, citing issues with the public comment period. Other critics have said they will consider challenging what they see as weaker enforcement.
The 2015 rules were intended to give consumers equal access to web content and prevent broadband providers from favoring their own content. Those practices are now allowed as long as they are disclosed.
The broadband industry cheered the move. USTelecom, a lobbying group representing internet providers and broadband companies said after the vote they had “renewed confidence” to make network investments, particularly in rural communities.
On the other side, the trade group Internet Association, whose members include content providers Alphabet, Facebook and Pandora Media Inc, said “the fight isn’t over” and that it was weighing legal options in a lawsuit against the FCC order.
A University of Maryland poll had found more than 80 percent of respondents opposed a repeal. The survey of 1,077 registered voters was conducted online by the Program for Public Consultation from Dec. 6-8.
Jesse Ferguson, a Democratic strategist, said polls have found young people are favoring Democrats in the latest elections and that the net neutrality issue could be used to gather support in the 2018 midterm elections.
”Net neutrality is the latest data point for voters that the administration is more interested in doing what big companies want them to do, then what people think is in their interest. That’s a narrative that is politically toxic for Republicans,” he said.
China’s president Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un have agreed to bolster “strategic and tactical co-operation” amid signs that China may be gearing up to ease sanctions on its ideological ally.
Mr Xi and his wife Peng Liyuan hosted a lunch for Mr Kim and his wife Ri Sol-ju in a “happy family atmosphere” in Beijing shortly before Mr Kim departed the Chinese capital after his third visit in three months.
Shortly before lunch the two leaders had a one-on-one discussion, North Korea’s state news agency KCNA reported.
“At the tête-a-tête talk, the top leaders of the DPRK and China exchanged serious views on the present situation and urgent international issues and discussed issues to further strengthen the strategic and tactical co-operation between the two parties and the two countries under a new situation,” KCNA said.
DPRK refers to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the country’s official title.
The KCNA report was remarkably open, saying the leaders and their wives “got more familiar with each other on several significant meetings, exchanged their genuine feelings” and had “amicable conversation”.
The reporting in both countries has stressed their common communist heritage. The two countries fought together during the Korean War (1950-1953) and are both held in an iron grip by communist parties, with no opposition tolerated.
Mr Xi was “glad that the important consensus reached by China and the DPRK is being implemented gradually, refreshing the bilateral, friendly, co-operative relations with vitality”, the China Daily quoted the president as saying.
Mr Kim also visited the Beijing subway control centre, one of a number of scientific and infrastructure sites on his itinerary. This can be read as a sign that China is keen to resume its role as an investor in the North Korean economy once international sanctions, imposed over the North’s nuclear weapons programme, ar...
Soon after he succeeded in meeting his goal of developing nuclear weaponry, Mr Kim said he was turning his attention to building up the country’s economy.
The US, Japan and the South all insist sanctions will only be lifted once denuclearisation takes place, but US president Donald Trump hinted after he met Mr Kim in Singapore last week that China was already relaxing some curbs on trade between the two countries.
There are already signs of loosening sanctions in the tourism sector.
The North’s flag carrier Air Koryo is inaugurating a Pyongyang-Xi’an route, which means it will fly to five Chinese cities including Beijing, Shenyang, Shanghai and Chengdu.
This is significant, as Xi’an is the capital of the central Shaanxi province and Mr Xi’s father is buried there.
The quick pace of warming ties also carries a message for the US, as Washington continues to apply pressure on China over trade. Beijing knows that for sanctions to work, Washington needs China’s help as it is the conduit for most trade into and out of the North.
There are reports that US secretary of state Mike Pompeo may visit North Korea this weekend or next week to see what are the next steps after the Singapore summit.
In a sign of the growing regional momentum behind the peace effort, South Korea’s president Moon Jae-in arrived in Moscow on Thursday for a three-day state visit which includes a bilateral summit on Friday with Vladimir Putin that will include the denuclearisation issue.
It’s the first state visit by a South Korean leader to Russia since 1999. He will address the Duma lower house, the first South Korean president to do so, then on Saturday he will head to the southeastern city of Rostov-on-Don to watch South Korea play Mexico in the World Cup.
The crowd of oil and gas workers that attended a Board of Weld County Commissioners meeting Monday was so large people had to stand in the hallway to listen.
Each time a commissioner spoke out against Colorado Proposition 112, a ballot measure that would increase the distance between wells and homes, schools and bodies of water, each member of the crowd erupted in cheers. Most of them live and work in Weld County, which produces 89 percent of Colorado’s crude oil and a thir...
In Colorado, current setback requirements are 500 feet from homes and 1,000 feet from schools.
The measure would increase the distance between wells and areas with homes and schools to 2,500 feet. Proponents of the measure worry about health effects, noise, lights and safety concerns surrounding wells that operate close to neighborhoods.
During Monday’s meeting, industry representatives argued the proposition would destroy Colorado’s economy and have negative ripple effects for schools, fire departments and everyday products.
Commissioner Barbara Kirkmeyer thanked the workers for attending.
SCHUYLERVILLE, New York — Bernie Sanders’ path to victory in the New York primary runs through places like the dairy farm Ed King’s family owns here, just outside of Saratoga Springs.
On paper, Saratoga County looks like solid Sanders country.
Two years ago, it was one of the best areas in the state for Zephyr Teachout, an ideological ally of Sanders who ran an expectations-beating primary campaign against Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Clinton ally. Demographically, the region mirrors Sanders strongholds like New Hampshire and Wisconsin.
But King, whose family has been farming in the area for 110 years, got to know Hillary Clinton when she was New York’s senator. He’s siding with her.
Today King’s sons run the farm, which has grown from a modest milk producer to an enterprise with 1,600 head of cattle and a burgeoning door-to-door food delivery business. The brothers just invested in a gleaming new bottling plant in an old cow barn, which will soon allow them to sell milk in nostalgic glass bottles ...
King attributes the success at least in part to Clinton, who he said was way ahead of the curve in promoting farm-to-table food.
She won a Senate seat from a state she had never lived in 2000 by doing the tedious work of visiting all 57 counties and meeting with people like King, whom she once called “New York’s biggest dairy farmer” – a reference, he jokes, to his size, not that of his farm.
The Hudson Valley is at the heart of Sanders’ New York playbook, but it will be a tug of war between demographics on one side and and longstanding personal ties to Clinton on the other.
Teachout won a huge swath of the New York, including every county on the state’s eastern border north of Westchester County, all the way up to the Canadian line. She also took a corridor jutting due West of Albany, past Ithaca.
Teachout bloodied Cuomo’s nose and pushed him to the left on some key issues, like fracking, but ultimately lost by nearly 30 points.
The problem for Sanders is similar to the one Teachout encountered: There aren’t enough voters in the “Teachout Corridor” alone to win statewide.
One Clinton campaign aide said the former secretary of state could lose Upstate by as many as 30 percentage points and still carry the state, thanks to her strength in the five boroughs.
New York City overshadows the state for a reason: Its media market contains roughly 70 percent of likely Democratic primary voters, and that’s where Clinton has focused the vast majority of her time and energy this year.
If you add in the Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Albany media markets, you reach close to 90 percent of likely Democratic primary voters.
Clinton made a single trip to each city this year, and never ventured outside those areas. They look like favorable terrain for her, with higher portions of non-white voters than the rural Sanders strongholds.
Cuomo won three of the four counties that contain the largest cities above the Tapen Zee Bridge, with Buffalo’s Erie County giving the governor one of his biggest wins in the entire state.
Sanders has spent more than Clinton campaigning Upstate, and visited smaller towns, like Binghamton and Poughkeepsie, and he heads into Election Day with some advantages Teachout did not have.
Teachout was widely unknown in the state, with 85 percent of Democrats saying they had no opinion of her in a mid-August Quinnipiac survey, just a month before the September election. The national spotlight has made Sanders almost universally known.
And while Cuomo was still in office, there are some signs Clinton’s connections to the state have begun to fray in the eight years since she left the Senate, especially with younger voters.
Vinnie Whipple, an 18-year-old from Ballston Spa who was spending her Sunday as a human statue outside a bookstore on Saratoga Spring’s main drag, said everyone her parents’ age is a Republican and everyone her age likes Sanders.
Richard French, who had been marching up and down the street with a Sanders sign could hardly hike more than half a block before being stopped by someone wanting to take his picture or chant with him for a moment. “I’m walking this street and I’m telling you, there’s an undertow for Bernie,” he said.
French estimated he had 40 interactions with people by the early afternoon and said 80 percent were for pro-Sanders, while the remainder were split between Clinton and Trump.
Teachout beat Cuomo in Saratoga County 67 percent to 30 percent, but Ed King and others will make sure Clinton is not blown out.
Eileen Snyder, a retired chef who lives in Saratoga Springs and winters in Tennessee, likes Sanders but is voting for Clinton.
It can slip insidiously into the tiny systems of helpless children even before birth. It travels into their small unprotected bodies in infinitesimal amounts from seemingly innocuous sources--paint, dust, soil and even water. It lurks in their blood, addling the mind, poisoning their bodies with sometimes deadly result...
About 3 million to 4 million American children under the age of 6 suffer from the toxic substance. It is a problem requiring a national solution; three-quarters of the affected children are poor.
Recognizing lead as the the "No. 1 environmental poison for children," the Bush Administration has proposed a long-overdue program to reduce lead exposure. It calls for $1 billion to be spent over the next five years, but only $50 million in fiscal 1992. While advocates praise the program, they worry that funding is so...
"Lead poisoning is entirely preventable, yet it is the most common and societally devastating environmental disease of young children," said Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Louis W. Sullivan. Constant exposure can affect virtually every bodily system and is particularly harmful to the central nervous system. Ch...
The Administration's program takes a comprehensive approach compared to the previous ad hoc solutions of the past. Although lead-based paints were banned nearly 15 years ago, more than half of U.S. households have walls which at one time or another were covered with lead-based paint.
The problem is particularly acute in decaying housing where hungry children often eat plaster chips. Lead particles also creep into homes with dust and into soil that children play in. Water can be tainted from corroding lead pipes in old homes.
The Administration calls for expanding prevention programs to identify and treat the estimated 250,000 children with extremely dangerous lead levels; eliminating existing lead-based paint in housing and decreasing other sources of lead exposure, including the amount in drinking water and identifying major geographic "h...
Removing the silent threat of lead exposure should be a high priority. There is no cost too great to protect children from so unnecessary a risk.
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That's it for Facebook integration. Next up, enhancements to the phone app.
Does this make a "Facebook phone" less likely? Not that it was really likely before.
New control for when a call comes up: Reply with a message, and "remind me later."
A bunch of "reply with message" options to let you do a quick reply. Included in the remind me later options are: "one hour, when I leave, when I get home, when I get to work."
Adding "reply with message" is great for iPhone, b/c my outgoing voicemail message literally says "I probably can't pick up right now, so just e-mail me instead."
Another new feature: Do not Disturb. Lets you tell your phone not to bother you with interruptions. Those texts and alerts still come in, Forstall notes.
If a person calls you twice within three minutes, the second call goes through.

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