Senate GOP leader calls for special election to fill vacancy Senate Republican Leader Aric Nesbitt, a Republican from Porter Township, is urging Governor Gretchen Whitmer to call for a special election to fill a legislature vacancy. 12/11/2024 - 8:46 pm | View Link
Colorado town of Superior under home rule after special election In a special election Tuesday, the Colorado town of Superior voted to adopt a charter and move the town under home rule. 12/11/2024 - 12:51 pm | View Link
Missouri Senate leader wants state Supreme Court judges to run for election JEFFERSON CITY — The incoming leader of the Missouri Senate wants to ditch the state’s longstanding selection plan for members of the Supreme Court and require judges to run for election. 12/4/2024 - 6:00 pm | View Link
NC’s top elections official says Senate leader made false accusation about vote count After Senate leader Phil Berger told reporters that this year’s post-election vote counting process is “another episode of ‘count until somebody you want to win, wins,’” the leader of ... 11/21/2024 - 6:54 am | View Link
Thune elected to replace McConnell as next Senate GOP leader Sen. John Thune of South Dakota was elected the next Senate GOP leader, and will become the Senate majority leader in January. 11/13/2024 - 9:12 am | View Link
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There’s a Keurig machine in some 40 million households in the US. Single-serve coffee brewing systems—which allow consumers to make just one cup of coffee at a time by feeding a pod into a slot and pressing a button—have soared in popularity since the early 2000s.
In 2007, I visited San Quentin to see a transformational program for prisoners that was created by my friend, Jacques Verduin. The program was called Guiding Rage Into Power—known as GRIP. The men who participated had all been violent criminals, some had murdered, many had been gang members. They were “lifers.” And they had all been incarcerated for many years, some for decades.
I was a working journalist; I sat and listened.
“Senate Republicans are rallying behind the idea of a clean continuing resolution. It just can’t actually be clean — and it probably can’t address the debt limit,” NOTUS reports.
“As House Republicans rose up against Speaker Mike Johnson’s government funding plan, and Democrats suggested they weren’t open to a renegotiation, President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance complicated the matter further Wednesday by demanding that any agreement — even the clean CR that conservatives have been pushing for — would be ‘destructive’ without terminating or extending ‘the Debt Ceiling guillotine.’”
“Senate Republicans said they understood Trump’s frustration with the looming debt ceiling, but they suggested there was little power to renegotiate the deal in the next 48 hours, particularly without giving Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer additional concessions.”
If what Matt Gaetz says is true, the report the House Ethics Committee plans to release—if it says bad things about him—is vindictive and possibly defamatory.