Month: June 2023

AUSTIN (CBSNewsTexas.com) – In this episode of Eye on Politics (original air date: June 1), political reporter Jack Fink covers the two major stories unfolding in the Texas Capitol: the impeachment of Attorney General Ken Paxton and the political showdown between state Republican property tax leaders. relief Each week, CBS News Texas political reporter Jack Fink breaks down some of the biggest political stories grabbing headlines in North Texas and beyond. Watch the latest episode of Eye on Politics in the video player above and catch new episodes live every Thursday and Friday at 7:00 PM on CBS News Texas….

Bill Radke discusses the week’s news with political analyst Joni Balter, Puget Sound Business Journal’s Alex Halverson and KUOW’s David Hyde. Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell recently expressed interest in reviving the idea of ​​a new streetcar line in Seattle that would connect the two existing lines. Previous plans to make this possible failed due to operational costs, production defects and leadership changes. Harrell’s latest presentation envisions the new streetcar line with a more cultural element instead of being strictly for transit. Will it happen this time? On Wednesday, U.S. Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez in Washington was one of two House…

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) — With one vote in October 1995, George Petak made Wisconsin history twice. He cast the deciding vote to provide funding for the public stadium that kept the Brewers in Milwaukee, leading him to become the first state lawmaker successfully removed from office. These days, Petak, 73, is retired and lives in Colorado. Nearly 28 years after a vote that preserved Major League Baseball in Wisconsin but also ended his political career, Petak said he has no regrets. “I was convinced then, and I’m convinced now that it was the right thing to do at the right…

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FIRST ON FOX: The Department of National Security targets conservative Americans and must be held accountable for funding a college program that has explicitly lumped the Republican Party, as well as Christian and conservative groups, into the same category as Nazis, wrote Rep. Andy Biggs, R- Ariz., in a letter to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, obtained exclusively by Fox News Digital. Biggs, along with 15 House Republican co-signatories, sent the letter to Mayorkas on Friday, asking him to stop the alleged DHS targeting of political opponents of the Biden administration. “Under your leadership, the Department of Homeland Security has repeatedly…

Unlike other parts of the world, Latin America is free of war. However, it is a region plagued by inequality, crime, corruption, drug trafficking and social unrest. Political stability and strong democratic institutions are the exception rather than the rule. South America, in particular, seems to never stop moving from one extreme to the other, moving from the political left to the right and back again, without attending to the social and economic demands responsible for moving the pendulum This instability has made it difficult for the continent to form an influential bloc, despite estimates that it collectively represents the…

Steve Garvey, a perennial baseball All-Star in the 1970s and 1980s for the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres, said Friday he was considering a run for the U.S. Senate in California as a Republican. It would give the GOP a celebrity name in the high-profile race to replace Sen. Dianne Feinstein, 89, a Democrat, who is the chamber’s oldest member and is retiring at the end of her term. He has recently struggled with health issues that have led some fellow Democrats to call for an early retirement. In heavily Democratic California, the race has sparked lukewarm interest…

BREAKING NEWS: West Stanly wins 30th straight game, takes lead in 2A state finals series Published Friday, June 2, 2023 at 7:36 p.m The West Stanly softball team played as the visiting team in Friday’s opening game of the 2A state finals series. West hit a 30-game winning streak and took the lead in the best-of-three series with a 4-2 win over Midway. The Colts (30-1) threatened in the top of the first inning when Teagan Ritchie, Lily Huneycutt and Carmen McRae were hit by a pitch to load the bases. Then shortstop Jordyn Cristopher got Aliyah Rush to ground…