Month: May 2023

dor do political parties agree because they agree on their goals or their fears? Phil Tinline argues in his book The death of consensus that it is shared nightmares, not aspirations, that create unanimity in politics. This might explain why a new consensus seemed to be forming earlier this year, epitomized in The Economist by the character of Mrs. Heevesan acronym for the Conservative Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, and his Labor shadow, Rachel Reeves. Both politicians were temperamentally ill-suited to their parties’ radical political experimentation under populist leadership. Neither would accept the characterization on which they strongly agreed. But faced with…

From the left. Top Row: Michelle Perez, Denisha Campbell, Tessa Santner. Middle Row: Miguel Gonzalez, Rachel Neale, Arria Hauldin. Bottom Row: Caitlin Mims, Rachel Blankenship, Mia Hernandez. Nine current and former Florida State University students have earned scholarships through the prestigious US Fulbright Student Program. Winners include undergraduate and graduate students and represent a range of majors and research areas. Five will do teaching grants while the remaining four will do research. They will do this work in: Taiwan, Bulgaria, Scotland, Brazil, Spain and its Canary Islands, Uruguay, Uzbekistan and one student will split his time between Greece and Turkey….

KOPPEL, Pa. – A Beaver County man who was charged days ago for driving his pickup truck through several properties in Koppel has been charged with allegedly vandalizing the police department. PREVIOUS COVERAGE >>> Man charged with allegedly driving pickup truck through several properties in Koppel Daniel Hays, who we first told you earlier this week was facing charges for driving a truck through a porch and shed in Koppel, is back in custody for allegedly throwing a lawn ornament down a window at the police department. @WPXI Just picked it up @PAStatePolice pic.twitter.com/TA9WJEUoKR — Rich Pierce (@RichPierceWPXI) May 26,…

Retailers, including Walmart Inc., which take a stand on almost any social or political issue, risk criticism from activists and should plan ahead for such an event, marketing experts say. Walmart rival Target Corp. drew a heated response recently after setting up Pride Month items and displays in the front of its stores, as it has done every June for at least the past 10 years. But this year, shoppers at some stores across the country attacked the displays and threatened store employees with physical violence. On social media, some called for a boycott of the Minneapolis retailer. In an…

New York lawmakers and taxpayer advocates are calling for legislation that would create a “benefit matching” system aimed at connecting households in the state with help paying their utility bills. The proposal, supported by state Sen. Kevin Parker and Assemblywoman Michaelle Solages, is aimed at automatically enrolling eligible households in utility energy assistance programs. AARP New York and the Public Utility Law Project point to data showing that 1.1 million households in the state are not receiving benefits to help pay their utility bills despite being eligible. In total, 1.2 million households are in arrears on their utility bills, totaling…

BOERNE, Texas – A man who broke his back after falling from an upper bunk inside a Kendall County Jail cell in late 2021 has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit in U.S. District Court United for the Western District of Texas. The lawsuit filed Thursday claims inmate Gabriel Miranda faced unconstitutional conditions of confinement. Miranda broke her back in three places in December 2021 after landing with her feet covered in socks and then on her back while trying to climb down from a top bunk inside the prison. He had turned himself in to officials a day earlier…

(Bloomberg) — Leaders and companies in Europe’s biggest markets are increasingly resisting the ambitious pace of the continent’s green push as they grapple with the massive costs associated with economic transformation. Read more from Bloomberg The European Union’s push to make the continent climate neutral has coincided with emergency rules to mitigate the effects of an energy crisis and increased competition from the US and China. This has put huge pressure on governments and businesses, prompting French President Emmanuel Macron and other leaders to call for a slower pace. Countries such as France and Germany have begun to dismantle parts…

Sign up for the View from Westminster email to get expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Boris Johnson’s former deputy chief of staff has reignited the latest Partygate allegations about the former prime minister, saying the scandal risks being the “final nail in the coffin” of his political career. Cleo Watson, who says she was like a “nanny” to the former prime minister during the Covid lockdown, also gave him just five out of 10 for morality in her first TV interview to launch her new book Whips, a light-hearted bonkbuster set in…