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Don Jr. will headline an event for Greg Pence, the vice president's brother who's running for U.S. House in Indiana. Wayne Berman and Tommy Hicks are hosting the April 23 event in New York City. |
Don Jr. just confirmed for an event benefiting Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.) that top GOP fundraiser Steve Louro is hosting in early August on Long Island. |
Why it matters: Trump's budget proposal called for deep spending cuts, except for a big increase in defense. Instead, as this visual shows, the omnibus spending bill he signed boosts spending in all major categories, including defense — leading to the $1.3 trillion budget Trump complained about. |
Ahead of the 2018 midterms, Democrats — often criticized for not having a unified message — are now being advised to tie taxes and health care together when campaigning. |
State of play ... A senior Democratic aide told Axios: "Anything middle class voters are seeing extra in their paychecks from the GOP tax scam will be offset by higher health care premiums and costs, so we will encourage Members to highlight that early and often." |
Hear new details from Alexi tomorrow at 5:55 a.m., during the Axios "1 Big Thing" on MSNBC's "First Look," leading in to "Morning Joe." |
"Spoke to a senior Senate aide who said they're probably mostly done except for confirmations of noms and judges. Every time Trump fires someone and then appoints a controversial replacement, it's a big deal in the Senate —likely full 30 hours of floor time. Judges are also a big deal, especially if Kennedy retires." |
"There will probably be a C.R. in September, maybe an omni December-ish. Also likely is finishing the banking bill and doing an opioids bill. Then they'll have to deal with some smaller, more routine items like an FAA extension, National Defense Authorization (NDAA), tax extenders, flood insurance, and VA Choice." |
"My sources are saying the farm bill is unlikely to happen — there are already problems. They're mixed on whether a water resources bill seems realistic." |
"The bottom line: No one's thinking anything major will get done (unless you count opioids) besides judges and nominations — which, to Republicans, judges are huge. Beyond that, it's more like cleaning house." |
Go deeper: Axios' Erica Pandey has the best of this week's shows. |
Tomorrow, Speaker Ryan will tout the tax cut during a visit to Southwest Airlines' HQ in Dallas. Ryan will answer Qs at an employee town hall, livestreaming here at 3:25 p.m. ET. |
Corry Bliss, executive director of American Action Network and the Congressional Leadership Fund, tells candidates: “It is incumbent on every member of the Republican Party to continue selling the tax plan. Everything else is a waste of time and money." |
On Tuesday, Ryan will join a town hall with Catholic Charities Fort Worth clients, mentors and supporters (10:45 a.m. CT; open to press) to discuss strategies for helping Americans escape poverty. |
Congress on break until week of April 9. |
Tuesday: President Trump holds a Baltic summit with the leaders of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. |
"When clicked, it leads to a page that informs visitors in a brief statement that Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan 'became acting Secretary of State on April 1, 2018.'" |
"The link to Tillerson's biography as the 69th secretary of state briefly returned a 'We're sorry, that page can't be found' message. After being notified of the message, the State Department restored the link." |
"Bowling on the South Lawn — a special addition by the First Lady. " |
See historic pics from past egg rolls. |
Cairo: A group of Saudi students caught in a cheating scandal at a Montana college were offered flights home by their kingdom's diplomats to avoid the possibility of deportation or arrest, according to a cache of Saudi Embassy memos recently published by WikiLeaks and a senior official at the school involved. The stude... |
The cheating was discovered and the staffer was fired following an investigation made public in early 2012, but the memos reveal for the first time that the students were almost all Saudis and that their government booked them flights home following a meeting between college administrators and Saudi diplomats in Washin... |
A Saudi memo describing the meeting, dated Feb 3, 2012 and labeled "Secret / Urgent," says it was Montana Tech Chancellor Donald Blackketter who floated the idea of flying the students out of the United States. |
The memo goes on to say that an unidentified diplomat at the embassy subsequently "issued travel tickets to those students to return to the kingdom so they don't face jail or deportation by the American authorities." |
Reached by phone at his home in Butte, Montana, the college's Vice-Chancellor of Academic Affairs Douglas Abbott told The Associated Press the Saudi Embassy's account of the meeting sounded accurate. |
"I think that we might've recommended that," he said of the flights. Montana law doesn't bar the alteration of school records even in return for gifts but Abbott said that, at the time, campus authorities believed the students could be arrested or even expelled from the country. |
"We didn't know whether this would happen, whether ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) would show up on the Montana Tech campus," he said. Blackketter did not return messages seeking comment. |
The revelations caused a scandal at Montana Tech, a small four-year college located in the mining city of Butte, in the heart of the Rocky Mountains. Originally chartered as the Montana State School of Mines, the school is known for its metallurgy, mining, and engineering specialties. |
Scores of Saudi students, many of them sponsored by their embassy's cultural section or the Saudi Arabian Oil Co attend the college every year to study for degrees in fields like petroleum engineering. |
DETROIT — Still no sweeps in franchise history. |
Back at the hotel, print edition stories filed. And lots of leftover material that probably deserves an audience sooner rather than later. |
*****Ryane Clowe played down that bit of nastiness at the end of Game 4 that earned four minutes in roughing penalties for both himself and Detroit forward Justin Abdelkader. |
“Just a little scrum there,” he said. |
*****Yes, the Sharks fell behind early, just like they did a year ago. But there was a big difference between this 4-3 loss and that 7-1 embarrassment. |
You always hear that sometimes it’s easier to shake off a trouncing then a narrow loss, so I figured this would be a good time to test that theory and asked Todd McLellan for his sense of the comparison — would that 7-1 loss be easier to come back from than this one, for example. |
*****There were diverging views on whether the Sharks should be satisfied with getting a split in the two games at Joe Louis Arena. |
*****The Red Wings first goal came when Boyle attempted a one-timer, only to have the puck go virtually nowhere off his stick. The Red Wings took advantage of that and the play headed down the ice in the opposite direction, with Todd Bertuzzi showing more finesse than many might give him credit for by spinning away fro... |
*****McLellan said the Red Wings did a better job of getting to loose pucks than the Sharks. So was that because Detroit was a step faster than it had been, or because the Sharks slowed down a bit? |
*****A pure travel day for me tomorrow. Mark Emmons will be at Sharks Ice to pick up the story. |
Google has just bet on a less-hierarchical future for the credit industry. The search giant bought a $125 million stake from investors in peer-to-peer credit site Lending Club , together with Foundation Capital. The site cuts out banks by matching lenders with borrowers, offering a better spread between interest and sa... |
Rather than issue more equity, Lending Club invited current investors to sell their shares. The sale valued the company at $1.55 billion, Lending Club said. Google took more than half of the new stake. |
Lending Club says it wasn't looking for new funding. "We want to have Google as a shareholder," said Lending Club's founder and CEO Renaud Laplanche. "We didn't need additional capital." |
Lending Club generated $34 million revenues in 2012 and is forecasting sales of $90 million for 2013. Laplance said the company became cash-flow positive in the third quarter of 2012 and has since been profitable. |
France-born Laplance founded Lending Club in 2007 after he became irked by the massive disparity between the 18% interest rate on his credit card bill, and the 1% savings rate at his bank. The company has since mediated on more than $1.7 billion in loans and is now among the world's biggest peer-to-peer lenders. |
One of the company's original investors, Rebecca Lynn of Morgenthaler Ventures, said Lending Club was one of several credit market places she was looking at before investing in March 2009. Lynn, who had a background in financial services, said she liked the company's strict underwriting policies and focus on prime and ... |
"They're creating a financial market place very similar to the way eBay created a goods marketplace," she said. |
So how might Google fit into Lending Club's future? "There is a lot of alignment between Google and Lending Club," said Laplanche. "We're not ready to announce specific products yet or services but we have several concepts we've discussed over the last few weeks that we're looking forward to explore in the next few mon... |
Among the possibilities: products from Lending Club that benefit from Google's expertise in writing algorithms for large user bases. Google's own large user base "could benefit from our product," said Laplanche , adding that products like Google Wallet could, for example, be enhanced with a credit solution. |
Laplanche added that Lending Club and Google both believed in making market places (like advertising and banking) more transparent. "We're hoping it's going to work both ways, like any good partnership." |
DaVinci Sign Systems was founded in 2004 by John JJ Shaw and partner Mark Foster. For more information go to http://www.davincisign.com. |
Information Technology Experts, Inc. has been chosen by the town of Milliken to design and build a communications-data system for the town’s new police station and meeting house. |
ITX will manage the project team that will provide 13 different requirements including IP telephony, mobile devices, building access control, cabling, AV and fiber-optic connections. |
ITX has 130 employees and posts a 31 percent annual average growth rate. ITX serves 200 commercial and government clients from headquarters in Fort Collins and client locations nationwide. |
The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment has created new approach to its unemployment call center with a “two-tiered system” that establishes one dedicated phone line for new claims and another for callers with questions and problems. This should help reduce long hold times or busy signals, according to a prepar... |
» To file an initial claim call (303) 318-9123, or toll free at (866) 422-0401. |
» For resolutions to questions and problems, call (303) 318-9000, or toll free at (888) 388-5515. |
Each day, thousands call in with issues surrounding an existing claim or questions about their eligibility for benefits. There are concerns about federal emergency unemployment compensation claims and issues related to the status of current claims, according to the release. |
The Johnstown-Milliken Chamber of Commerce Barbecue Day Committee has selected Olivia Eldred as this year’s Honored Citizen and Slafter Mowing as Business of the Year. |
Eldred has been active in the Chamber for more than six years representing Grace Community Church. She served as president in 2005 and 2006 and has been on the Chamber Board of Directors for six years. Olivia received the prestigious “Beth Whitmore Award” at the Chamber’s annual banquet in 2007. Olivia has been a Chamb... |
Soon after Ben Slafter got Slafter Mowing off and running, he joined the Johnstown-Milliken Chamber. Slafter Mowing has been a faithful Chamber member for many years and has “donated” his services to the Chamber, as well as other free services to those in need. |
For those interested in a career in the medical field, Poudre Valley Health System will host a medical careers information session Wednesday. |
The session is from 2 -5 p.m. at the Medical Center of the Rockies, 2500 Rocky Mountain Ave., Loveland. Presentations will focus on various careers such as nursing, radiology, environmental services, clerical and laboratory positions. Representatives from local and technical colleges will be on hand. Professionals also... |
The event is free and open to the public. To make a reservation, call (970) 495-7836. |
TUCSON, Ariz. - Some big changes could be coming to a favorite Tucson spot. "A” Mountain, or Sentinel Peak, could see lower speed limits, speed humps to slow down cars, and maybe even park rangers. It's part of a long-standing safety drive that a death gave an extra urgency. |
In October, a hit and run driver hit and killed 73-year-old Richard Ellwanger as he rode his bike on "A" Mountain. |
Tucson Police say 20 year old Yanibra Morena was drinking and driving the wrong direction on the narrow mountain road. |
Richard Ellwanger's death put more power behind a longstanding push to make the "A" Mountain Park safer for cyclists, pedestrians and drivers. |
"A" Mountain neighbors, and city officials came together Tuesday at Councilmember Regina Romero's office for the latest in a series of safety meetings. |
"Tucson culture has been to go up there and hang out and drink and so we want to make sure that people are not speeding, says Romero. “They're following speed limits. They're doing safe activities in our parks." |
The city's already lowered the speed limit in the park from 25 to 15. |
You can see a detailed draft of the safety proposals at this link. |
Slowing down traffic is not as simple as just adding more speed bumps. The wrong kind of bump can make a cyclist lose control or put a pedestrian in danger if a driver swerves to avoid it. |
The city is also considering park rangers for "A" Mountain and other city parks. The proposal calls for Tucson Police Community Service Officers to be a police presence. They can't make arrests but they can call regular officers quickly. |
Michael Chihak lives near "A" Mountain. He and his neighbors have been working for months to make the area safer. |
“I think we started out with a lot of enthusiasm, at least in the neighborhood and for users in the mountain and thought we could just walk in here and get things done.” He says. |
“Well, we came in here with ideas. They developed their own ideas. We've gone from the idea stage ten months ago now to the detail stage where we're really starting to see some things falling into place and getting done and that's a really good thing for us." |
The raids came shortly after the Israeli army said that three rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel, causing no casualties. |
Two Palestinians, including a one-year old child, were injured in Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip early Friday. |
A 30-year old Palestinian youth and a one-year old child sustained shrapnel wounds in the strikes, Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qodrah told Anadolu Agency. |
The Israeli army said that warplanes hit five targets in the north and center of the Gaza Strip in response to rocket attacks from the strip into southern Israel. |
The army said that four of the targets were in the north of the Gaza Strip and one was in the center. |
Palestinian sources said the Israeli strikes targeted outposts of Hamas' military wing and launching pits in the strip, according to Yediot Aharonot newspaper. |
A massive residential block of 114 apartments, spread over six floors with underlying shops and garages, has been proposed for a spot adjacent to Fatima church at Pietà, replacing two villas and a farmhouse. |
The project application was submitted to the Planning Authority last May. It is currently undergoing the internal screening process and receiving representations from entities and people. |
The applicant, Stephen Falzon, is proposing to demolish Villa Gauci and The Orange Grove as well as a dilapidated farmhouse in Triq Santa Monika and Triq id-Duluri in Pietà to construct an office, three retail outlets, 114 one-two- and three-bedroomed apartments including penthouses, a botanic garden, a communal pool a... |
The only representation received so far by the Planning Authority was from the Environment and Resources Authority which asked for more information from the applicant and architect in order to assess the project from an environmental point of view and to determine whether the proposal requires any further studies. |
It asked for the total gross floor area of the proposed development according to EIA Regulations as well as the projected increase in traffic flows in annual average daily traffic, taking into consideration all the development interventions on site. Just a stone’s throw away, in March 2017 the Planning Authority gave i... |
First opened in 1907, Blackley Bakery was equipped with the most advanced machinery available at the time. It included a two-storey home, Kington House, and housing for employees. A yard between the buildings includes a number of storerooms, workshops and stables used to deliver goods across the island. |
The proposal, approved by the PA with eight votes in favour and two against, will restore the Grade 2 scheduled bakery to be used as offices, adding an additional recessed floor. |
The interiors of the scheduled Kington House and workers’ dwellings will be demolished and converted into apartments, although the facades will be retained and restored, and the Kington House entrance hallway reconstructed. Two additional floors, one of which will be recessed, will be added on the two buildings to acco... |
The Superintendence for Cultural Heritage and other heritage bodies had raised no objections to the development. |
Janette Jackson Kemper, 92, died at her home at The Courtyards Senior Living in Oak Ridge, after several years of declining health. |
She was born in Atlanta, Ga., the oldest child of the late Wallace M. Jackson, Sr. and Catharine Gross Jackson. She was predeceased by her husband of 53 years, Robert M. (Bob) Kemper, Jr. |
Janette is survived by her three daughters and their families: Kathy Kemper (husband Tom Reynolds, daughter Martha Reynolds) of Wake Forest, N.C., Barbara Kemper (daughter Anna-Jeannine Herman) of Akron Ohio, Lin Kemper Webb (husband Warren Webb) of Oliver Springs, and Lin’s son Jeremy Wallace of Oak Ridge. She is also... |
She graduated from Girls High School in Atlanta before her family moved to Oak Ridge during World War II. She worked in the reproduction department at K-25 designing forms and reports. She met her husband taking the bus between Oak Ridge and the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, where they were both engineering stu... |
With her husband, Janette was an active member, and officer, of various square and round dance organizations over many years. She served on committees organizing over 30 national square dance conventions and 15 Tennessee state conventions, as well as chairing one Tennessee state convention. On Jan. 1, 1983, they danced... |
Janette was an active genealogist for many years, long before personal computers and the internet. She taught workshops on genealogy research; wrote a handbook for beginning genealogists; and assisted many others with their own genealogy research. She was an active member of the Clinch Bend Chapter of the Daughters of ... |
There will be a service for Janette at the Chapel on the Hill on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019, at 10:30 a.m. This is where she and Bob were married, and where they celebrated their 50th anniversary. |
The family would like to express their tremendous appreciation to the staff at The Courtyards Senior Living for their care of Janette the past three years. |
In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to Planned Parenthood, the Germanna Foundation (https://germanna.org/about/ which preserves the heritage of the earliest organized settlements of Germans in colonial Virginia, including the Kempers), DAR Clinch Bend Chapter (c/o Teri Oaks, Treasurer, PO Box 839, Norris ... |
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