Month: August 2022

News from 100 years ago The following news items were taken from the Mail Tribune archives 100 years ago August 15, 1922 SUBJECT OF THE WATER SITUATION AT THE FORUM TOMORROW AT MIDDAY Communities, like individuals, often settle into a condition of self-satisfaction. This is often due to the prosperous situation of individual citizens who find very little time to devote to the problems of the community. Medford today lacks the support of its citizens on civic issues and the authorities are reluctant to proceed with much-needed improvements. The development of the water system is most necessary, and if this…

The city plans to create a new museum and GPS guided tours Jacksonville is planning a new museum in the old City Hall, along with GPS-guided walking tours of the history-rich city. [MT file photo] Jacksonville is investigating what it might take to turn the 1881 old city hall at Main and Oregon streets into a museum building. The City Council last week approved the action, which followed an investigation and report by Councilman Ken Gregg on what it would take to restore the museum’s features to the historic gold rush town. Gregg considers the old City Hall to be…

Gunmen have abducted the Assistant Secretary of the Spiritan University, Nneochi, Fr Chinedu Nwadike. Nwadike, a Catholic priest, was abducted on Friday along the Enugu-Okigwe road. The priest was kidnapped together with a seminarian, Emmanuel Nwafor. Our correspondent gathered on Sunday that his kidnappers had established contact with his relations and demanded a ransom of 50mn. A family source said: “Rev. Fr. Dr. Chinedu Nwadike of Umuezeanoruo Eziama, Nkwerre LGA, Imo State, and a young seminarian, Emmanuel Nwafor, were kidnapped on Friday on their way to Enugu State , Umunnochi axis, along the Enugu-Okigwe road. “Both are members of the…

Then on Sunday, several senior Republicans pioneered a new defense of the former president, questioning whether the Mar-a-Lago material was really highly sensitive, citing a president’s powers to declassify classified information. Turner’s game continued to raise questions about whether the Justice Department overreached in the extraordinary move to obtain a search warrant to enter a former president’s property. But it was also just the latest attempt by the GOP to defend Trump, still an enormously powerful force in the party, as ignoring key issues including why a former president should keep highly sensitive documents. The GOP’s new approach followed increasingly…

Sen. Mitt Romney says there were times in his life when he “walked away” from his faith and the values ​​his devout Latter-day Saint parents instilled in him, even for political expediency. In a pre-recorded interview with the Washington, D.C.-based temple that aired Sunday on Fox News Sunday, the Utah Republican said he wasn’t always “100 percent accurate or 100 percent honest.” “When I have done things for political advantage, and now I look back on those things with great regret, and that is why I say at this stage of my life, I no longer do it. I will…

High altitudes are characterized by a marked lack of oxygen. The world is upside down. Not just as a product of the events caused by climate change or the absurd and irresponsible way of destroying what has been put in our charge. Simply because of the loss of sanity of the overwhelming majority of rulers, politicians and businessmen whose only aim in life is to amass power, wealth and maneuverability so that other nations will be a haven for their corrupt acts. When we point to the puppets of our failed countries, we must not forget who is pulling the…

WASHINGTON — He first said he was “working and cooperating with” government agents who he said had improperly entered his home. Then, when the government revealed that the FBI, during its search, had recovered nearly a dozen sets of documents that were marked classified, it suggested that agents had planted evidence. Ultimately, his aides claimed he had a “standing order” to declassify documents leaving the Oval Office for his residence, and that some of the material was protected by attorney-client and executive privilege. These are the ever-changing explanations former President Donald J. Trump and his aides have given about what…