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from Coeur d'Alene Press
CD’A MAY PURCHASE 47-ACRE ATLAS MILL SITE
More than a half-mile of river frontage along the Spokane River owned by a Mega Millions lottery winner may be purchased by the city of Coeur d’Alene for recreation, river access, and development. The city announced Thursday its plans to buy for approximately $8 million the property that is the former Atlas Mill site along Seltice Way that has been vacant for a decade and is considered a brownfield site - a former industrial site reused for development.
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from The Heritage Foundation
[Information from this site may be unreliable.]
This Little-Known US Ally Could Be Pivotal on Russia, China Policy
As the U.S. grapples with many complex challenges to its interests in the vast region of Eurasia, one country should attract Washington’s particular attention. Kazakhstan, the world’s ninth-largest country by land mass, sits right in the heart of Eurasia on what is best described as a convergence of global challenges and strategic opportunities for the U.S.
Trump’s Tax Proposal is a Strong Starting Point for Reform
President Donald Trump’s tax plan announced on Wednesday shows that he is serious about his campaign promise to cut America’s taxes. For too long, the American economy has been held back by an outdated tax system. Trump’s promise to lower tax rates and update the tax code will benefit all Americans.
Bringing Accountability to ‘Zombie’ Appropriations
A key driver of wasteful spending in Washington is what some call “zombie” appropriations. This refers to spending on programs that either have never been authorized, or are operating under an expired authorization. According to the Congressional Budget Office, these programs accounted for nearly one-third of all discretionary spending in fiscal year 2016, receiving more than $310 billion.
Private Lending: The Way to Reduce Students’ College Costs and Protect America’s Taxpayers
Education experts are increasingly noting evidence of a causal relationship between federal lending and the dramatic rise in the cost of higher education. Colleges and universities appear to raise tuition rates in response to the availability of uncapped federal lending. The recent plunge in repayment rates reflects the harmful takeover of market share by the federal government as the financial contagion spreads through the system. The federal government should limit its involvement in student lending to supplemental aid, clearing the field for private lenders with sound lending policies that use innovative risk-assessment tools to gauge appropriate levels of risk. The sound policies and fiscal discipline of the private market would steer students toward wiser overall academic and financial decisions, replacing a taxpayer-funded panacea with a holistic and healthy approach to lending policy.
How Will the President’s Plan to Restructure the Federal Government Work?
Led by the OMB, President Trump has embarked on what he intends to be an unprecedented restructuring of the executive branch. The goal is a leaner, more efficient, and more accountable federal government that provides uniquely federal services not available in the private sector or through state and local governments. In structuring these reforms, the OMB seeks input from anyone and everyone with ideas to improve the federal government’s operations. The restructuring plan replaces the temporary federal hiring freeze with a smart-hiring plan under which some agencies will increase employment and resources while others will reduce them. Overall, the federal government will be smaller.
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This Little-Known US Ally Could Be Pivotal on Russia, China Policy
As the U.S. grapples with many complex challenges to its interests in the vast region of Eurasia, one country should attract Washington’s particular attention. Kazakhstan, the world’s ninth-largest country by land mass, sits right in the heart of Eurasia on what is best described as a convergence of global challenges and strategic opportunities for the U.S.
Trump’s Tax Proposal is a Strong Starting Point for Reform
President Donald Trump’s tax plan announced on Wednesday shows that he is serious about his campaign promise to cut America’s taxes. For too long, the American economy has been held back by an outdated tax system. Trump’s promise to lower tax rates and update the tax code will benefit all Americans.
Bringing Accountability to ‘Zombie’ Appropriations
A key driver of wasteful spending in Washington is what some call “zombie” appropriations. This refers to spending on programs that either have never been authorized, or are operating under an expired authorization. According to the Congressional Budget Office, these programs accounted for nearly one-third of all discretionary spending in fiscal year 2016, receiving more than $310 billion.
Private Lending: The Way to Reduce Students’ College Costs and Protect America’s Taxpayers
Education experts are increasingly noting evidence of a causal relationship between federal lending and the dramatic rise in the cost of higher education. Colleges and universities appear to raise tuition rates in response to the availability of uncapped federal lending. The recent plunge in repayment rates reflects the harmful takeover of market share by the federal government as the financial contagion spreads through the system. The federal government should limit its involvement in student lending to supplemental aid, clearing the field for private lenders with sound lending policies that use innovative risk-assessment tools to gauge appropriate levels of risk. The sound policies and fiscal discipline of the private market would steer students toward wiser overall academic and financial decisions, replacing a taxpayer-funded panacea with a holistic and healthy approach to lending policy.
How Will the President’s Plan to Restructure the Federal Government Work?
Led by the OMB, President Trump has embarked on what he intends to be an unprecedented restructuring of the executive branch. The goal is a leaner, more efficient, and more accountable federal government that provides uniquely federal services not available in the private sector or through state and local governments. In structuring these reforms, the OMB seeks input from anyone and everyone with ideas to improve the federal government’s operations. The restructuring plan replaces the temporary federal hiring freeze with a smart-hiring plan under which some agencies will increase employment and resources while others will reduce them. Overall, the federal government will be smaller.
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from HumanProgress.org
Education Website
Prosperity and Income Aren't the Same Thing
In recent years, income inequality has become a major political and economic issue in America. Income inequality, the argument goes, was caused not only by the growth of incomes among the wealthy, but also by wage stagnation among middle-class Americans. According to a 2015 report issued by the Economic Policy Institute, a pro-labour think tank based in Washington, DC, “ever since 1979, the vast majority of American workers have seen their hourly wages stagnate or decline”. It is true that, adjusted for inflation, average hourly earnings of production and nonsupervisory employees in the private sector (the closest approximation for the quintessential blue-collar worker that I could find) have barely changed between 1979 and 2015. In October 1979, average hourly earnings stood at $6.51, or $21.20 in 2015 dollars. In October 2015, average hourly earnings stood at $21.18 – slightly below the inflation-adjusted 1979 level. But wages do not provide the full picture of workers’ earnings.
Prosperity and Income Aren't the Same Thing
In recent years, income inequality has become a major political and economic issue in America. Income inequality, the argument goes, was caused not only by the growth of incomes among the wealthy, but also by wage stagnation among middle-class Americans. According to a 2015 report issued by the Economic Policy Institute, a pro-labour think tank based in Washington, DC, “ever since 1979, the vast majority of American workers have seen their hourly wages stagnate or decline”. It is true that, adjusted for inflation, average hourly earnings of production and nonsupervisory employees in the private sector (the closest approximation for the quintessential blue-collar worker that I could find) have barely changed between 1979 and 2015. In October 1979, average hourly earnings stood at $6.51, or $21.20 in 2015 dollars. In October 2015, average hourly earnings stood at $21.18 – slightly below the inflation-adjusted 1979 level. But wages do not provide the full picture of workers’ earnings.
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from The Independent (Chewelah, WA)
If North Korea launch nukes, Washington is not allowed to have evacuation plan because of a law written in 1983 during the Cold War.
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from Indian Country Today Media Network
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
Humans Populated Americas 130,000 Years Ago? Mastodon Findings Spark Controversy
The prestigious science journal has published a report on 130,000-year-old mastodon bones that blows apart Bering Strait Theory
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
Humans Populated Americas 130,000 Years Ago? Mastodon Findings Spark Controversy
The prestigious science journal has published a report on 130,000-year-old mastodon bones that blows apart Bering Strait Theory
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from Mises Institute
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
“Science,” the method by which we understand the world and apply knowledge to improve human existence, is the latest casualty of the Progressive agenda. "Science" has morphed into an ideology calling for more government spending, more "social justice," and persecution of dissenters.
This week ESPN announced they were laying off 100 on-screen personalities and writers, the latest round of staff cuts for the self-proclaimed Worldwide Leader in Sports. Some of the issues plaguing ESPN are obvious, they are first and foremost a cable channel at a time when Americans are increasingly deciding to cut the cord. A bigger issue, however, is that they simply aren’t delivering a good enough product to maintain their domination in sports media. As such, their current struggles serve as a useful reminder of how even Big Business can face market pressure when they take their customers for granted. If ESPN wants to regain its dominance, it must return to what built it in the first place: giving consumers the sports content they want.
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from Orthodox Christianity
Archbishop Mark (Arndt) interviewed by Hieromonk Ignaty (Shestakov)
Metropolitan Chrysostomos of Patras has sent an open letter to the Greek Minister of Health Andreas Xanthos, expressing his disagreement with the renaming of St. Andrew’s Hospital in Patras, reports AgionOros. “With great disbelief the residents of Patras have seen the new signboard on St. Andrew’s Hospital, which now bears the name ‘Patras General Hospital,’” he stated.
ABBOT OF DOCHARIOU: GREECE WAS EXPECTING MT. ATHOS TO PROMOTE THE GODLESS EUROPEAN UNION
Archimandrite Gregory (Zumis) has published an article dedicated to the modern state of Greece and Mt. Athos. According to the abbot, the current authorities of Greece “cannot be called real rulers (incidentally, like the previous governments of post-war Greece, which were no better).” A right and proper government should not establish the same taxes for all citizens and regions of a country.
from The Spokesman-Review
Mission accomplished, Friends of the Davenport Hotel disband
Last week a group called Friends of the Davenport disbanded. Thirty-one years have come and gone since the group was created. Years marked by cutthroat business competition, some of most divisive political battles the city of Spokane has ever experienced, and, in the end, a triumph – a victory not just for a much-loved building, but also for the spirit of a community, a city of people who each considered the Davenport Hotel to be theirs.
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from Sputnik
(Russian government-supported propaganda channel)
Appearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) on Thursday, US Pacific Commander Admiral Harry Harris Jr. refused to take an American invasion of North Korea off the table, as Pyongyang has already “provided provocation” to justify such an invasion, the District Sentinel reported.
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from The Vintage News
Technology is developing faster than ever before, and with the emergence of the newest generation of smartphones and the state-of-the-art microprocessors, everyone can have a supercomputer in their pocket.
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from The Washington Free Beacon
Yale Grad Students Go on ‘Symbolic’ Hunger Strike Where They’re Allowed to Eat
A group of Yale University graduate students announced Tuesday evening that they would be undertaking a hunger strike to pressure the administration into granting them better union benefits. The strike is taking place in front of University President Peter Salovey’s home.
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from The Washington Post
Why so many college students are lousy at writing — and how Mr. Miyagi can help
Why aren’t they learning? There are multiple causes. One is that schools admit students who can’t write and then pack them into comp courses taught by adjuncts. But the main problem, I think, is that the colleges are not really trying to teach students to write clear sentences. Not anymore. First-semester writing courses now cover rhetorical strategies, research, awareness of audience, youth civic activism — everything except the production of clear sentences.... Colleges should teach the important writing behaviors first, one at a time, in sequence. They should offer new writing courses that assume students know nothing about sentences and train new sentence behaviors from the ground up. Be repetitive and tricky — fool the kids into doing the right thing.... The student writer’s goal should be mastery of the readable style. Period.
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