Month: August 2022

News from 100 years ago The following news items were taken from the Mail Tribune archives 100 years ago August 7, 1922 THE ASHLAND HOTEL OFFER IS UP AGAIN Ashland, August 7. — HG Enders, Dr. Swedenburg, Fred Homes, Tom Simpson, Bert Greer, Frank Jordan and Chas. Pierce is a committee appointed by the chamber of commerce to negotiate with the Huckenbury system about building a hotel and sanatorium here on a foundation managed by that union. Enders is the chairman of the committee. In response to a request, the promoters are expected to send a representative here soon to…

Director of Nutrition Jamie Maviglia distributes flowers in preparation for the resumption of face-to-face lunches at the Central Point Senior Resource Center. [Jamie Lusch / Mail Tribune] Range of activities that come to the center In-person lunches for seniors begin again Monday at the renovated Point Senior Resource Center. The starter is chicken and herbs with gravy, baked potatoes, peas and carrots, rye bran rolls and chocolate cake, for a suggested donation of $2.75. No one will be turned away for inability to pay. Seniors 60 and older and their spouses are eligible for the lunches, which will be served…

Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi would not confirm which oversight entities, but stressed that the USSS is fully cooperating as multiple inquiries are ongoing. The agency became the focus of a House Select Committee investigation on Jan. 6 after former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified in June during a public hearing. Hutchinson claimed then-President Donald Trump tried to force the Secret Service to bring him to the Capitol as Congress worked to certify the results of the 2020 election. Multiple sources told CNN it’s an unusual step to provide Secret Service agents’ personal cell phone numbers to investigators….

Florida’s new restrictions on discussions of race, diversity and LGBTQ issues in classrooms have some teachers and school districts worried that partisan politics is seeping into schools. Critics of these new policies say they are contributing to a massive increase in teacher vacancies. Megan Grant taught English at Wakulla High School until the end of 2021. She says she left after being placed on leave while the district investigated her for allegedly teaching critical race theory. According to Grant, a white student said one of his assignments made him feel uncomfortable. “Basically them [the school district] I was trying to…

Veteran federal political reporter David Barnett, who headed the Australian Associated Press’s first official Canberra bureau more than 50 years ago, has died aged 90. Barnett became the national news channel’s first bureau chief in 1971 supervising two reporters at what is now Old Parliament House. It was just in time to report on one of the most seismic shifts in Australian politics: the 1972 election of Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam. Barnett died at Calvary Hospital in Canberra on Saturday after a short stay. His journalism career began in 1949 as a copy boy at the Sydney Sun, before…

WASHINGTON – A divided Senate took a crucial step on Saturday in approving Democrats’ plan to tackle climate change, lower health care costs and raise taxes on big corporations, with a test vote that opened the way to enact a major part of President Biden’s domestic policy. agenda for the next few days. The measure advanced on a party-line vote of 51 to 50, with all Republicans opposed and Vice President Kamala Harris breaking the tie. The action suggested that Democrats, after more than a year of infighting and painstaking negotiations, had finally united behind legislation that would provide hundreds…

Comment on this story comment Indiana’s new blanket abortion ban produced immediate political and economic fallout Saturday as some of the state’s top employers opposed the restrictions, while Democratic leaders floated ways to amend or repeal the law and abortion rights activists made plans to organize alternative sites for women seeking. procedures Indiana’s law, which the Republican-controlled state legislature passed Friday night and Gov. Eric Holcomb (R) signed moments later, was the first statewide ban passed since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down lar Roe v. Wade in June and was celebrated as a major victory for abortion foes. On…