Month: May 2023

Franklin County: A wrong-way driver crashed just over the Franklin County line from Pickaway County. According to initial reports, around 1 a.m. Saturday, calls about a wrong-way driver going north in the southbound lanes came into the Pickaway County Sheriff’s Office. Officers were dispatched to intercept, but the driver crashed before law enforcement could stop the vehicle. The crash happened just north of the Pickaway County line in Franklin County, but our dispatchers sent Pickaway units anyway. The injuries are currently unknown. Previous articleManaging yield-reducing pests in Ohio Resident of Circleville for 5 years, born and raised in Maine. i…

It’s election season in New York. Not for the president, Congress, state office, or city, but for New York’s school boards, aka Community and Municipal Education Councils (CECs). How do I know it’s election season? Because of the smears and attacks going on in social media at a small group of parents who run for the uncompensated, long and largely thankless task of sitting in a CEC. If you spend too much time on social media, you might think there are clear battle lines based on competing ideologies, but the truth is that most parents in the nation’s largest school…

A group of Senate Republicans hold a press conference to pass House Republican legislation that would raise the debt limit and reduce federal spending, outside the U.S. Capitol on May 3, 2023, in Washington, DC. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images It is hard to believe that I am writing these words, but there is a real possibility that Congress will not pass an increase in the debt limit. That would mean the US could, in turn, default on its debt sometime in June. No one knows what would happen at that time, because it is unprecedented. But it would almost certainly…

A billionaire energy developer has sent tens of thousands of dollars to Virginia Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine’s campaign in recent years as he aggressively pushes a massive offshore wind project. Richmond, Va.-based Dominion Energy’s political action committee (PAC) has funneled $23,000 to Kaine for Virginia since 2011, with the latest, a $1,500 contribution, coming in February. In that same time period, Dominion Energy has given another $44,500 to Common Ground PAC, the leadership PAC affiliated with and chaired by Kaine. Since 2021, Dominion Energy executives led by CEO Robert Blue and Senior Vice President William Murray have given $19,600 to…

Isaret Jeffers, community leader and founder of Colectivo Árbol, has received more than 50 calls and texts in recent days from farm workers, parents and their volunteers. They’re all asking the same question: What will happen to them after the bill passed Tuesday by the Florida Legislature is signed into law? Jeffers, who has worked on immigration and human rights issues for more than a decade, said that for the first time, he couldn’t come up with a clear answer. The only suggestion I could offer? keep calm “There’s a lot of fear in the community,” Jeffers said. Now headed…

ASWAN, Egypt (AP) – Sudan’s warring sides began talks on Saturday aimed at cementing a shaky ceasefire after three weeks of fierce fighting that has killed hundreds and pushed the African country to the brink of collapse. ·lapse, the USA and Saudi Arabia. said The negotiations, the first between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces since fighting broke out on April 15, took place in the coastal city of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, according to a joint statement by Saudi- american The talks are part of a diplomatic initiative proposed by Saudi Arabia and the US aimed…

CNN — Prosecutors asked a federal judge on Friday to sentence Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes to 25 years in prison, the government’s first sentencing request for a person convicted of seditious conspiracy related to the U.S. Capitol riot. United States of January 6, 2021. The Justice Department’s request provides a glimpse, for the first time in more than a decade, of how prosecutors believe a seditious conspiracy conviction should be punished. “These defendants sought to silence millions of Americans who had voted for a different candidate, to ignore the variety of legal and judicial mechanisms that legally scrutinized the…

DENVER (AP) — Colorado lawmakers have introduced a bill to the governor’s desk that would allow politicians to block social media users from their private accounts, just weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court announced it would consider to what extent it is legal. The bipartisan measure passed Thursday by Colorado’s Democratic-controlled Legislature allows lawmakers to block people for any reason they want. The rule would not apply to the accounts of some politicians, such as one of Gov. Jared Polis’ Twitter accounts, @GovofCO. The idea has sparked a national debate as social media becomes an increasingly popular tool for politicians…