truth about violent crime in our city, we will be the worst for it. if we say yeah, the police department is spending all this time and resources to rest but a case on and then the judges and the prosecutors say, you know what? we re going to let you out on electronic monitoring to wreak havoc again. and if we don t call that out every single day with these prosecutors and with the judges, many of whom don t live in our city and don t care about what s happening, then we are going to lose an opportunity to advocate for the victims and the witnesses and a resident who just want in deserve peace. we gotta say it. she was one of the four black mayors leading america s biggest cities who gathered at the african american mayors association conference. new york city mayor eric adams made a similar point. we need to be honest and forthright about the small numerical number of people who are repeated offenders we have about 2000. people in our city that are extreme result of recidivi
south carolina continue to recovery from rains wind and cataclysmic flooding. ian slammed into south carolina just shy of category 5. the current death toll of at least 45 people likely to come in the days as search and rescue cruise go through blocked floodwaters, as of this morning, 1.3 million homes and businesses still in the dark. according to the latest estimate ian may have caused as much as $47 billion in insured losses which could make it the most expensive storm in the state history. the figure comes from core logic, that s a research firm that estimates losses from natural disasters. the estimates, combined ensured losses through private insurance, which typically covers wind damage. and fema s national flood insurance program that covers water damage. their estimates as of thursday, wind damage, $20 billion to $32 billion. flood damage, $6 billion to $16 billion. so the low end of the combined estimate would be $28 billion. before we spend, let s ask ourselves, is
motivation probably money. price per barrel which was over $120 in march by late september dipped below 80. and it also seems designed to help russia which has been hurt by sanctions since its invasion of ukraine and heavily depends on its oil profits. surely, opec plus knew the move would also impact america s election which is just a month away. when joe biden took office the national gas average was $2.39 a gallon by this summer, it more than doubled, $5. even higher in california, and his popularity plummeted. and then in the wake of the supreme court overturning roe versus wade on june 24th, the democrats have been getting more hopeful signs about the midterms, maybe hoping to hold on to the senate and a slim chance to keep the house which many attributed to abortion rights and that issue. but could the real issue be something else, as nate cohen suggested in the new york times this week isn t st. the gas price, stupid? cohen pointed out ten days before the issue on ab
issue of pennsylvania democrat john fetterman s recovery from a stroke earlier this year? fetterman suffered the stroke on may 13, the friday before the tuesday may 17 primary election did not reveal it until two days after it occurred. when he did so he didn t share an underlying heart condition that required the implanting of a defibrillator, and we wish him god speed and he s worked hard to win the nomination and it s a shame that his health has become an issue. the polls suggest that fetterman s senate race over dr. mehmet oz has narrowed as the pennsylvania gubernatorial race has widened and while oz won multiple debates, fetterman agreed to only one. it will be october 25th after pennsylvanians have voted and it will last 60 minutes. fetterman was looking to run out the clock, a strategy in the 2020 election when biden stayed in delaware when trump barnstormed the nation and he counted on early balloting, but as oz continues to close the gap, fetterman may regret not ag
unpredictable, consequential events and passionate issues that caused the political football to bounce, the one big question remains. who s going to win? history would suggest that the incumbent president and his party will lose their majority in the house, especially with president biden s overall job approval number among likely voters at just 39%. when you look at strong approval and strong disapproval, signs of passion, you see the real trouble for democrats. 18% strongly approve of the job joe biden is doing. two and a half times that number, 45% strongly disapprove. yet the numbers are still too close to say it s a done deal. cnn s latest projection map of the house races has 18 labeled toss-up, which means it s still possible for democrats to control the house of representatives. the conventional wisdom is that republicans will take control. and in the senate, according to cnn, it s 49 republican, 48 democrat with three toss-up. according to real clear politics, the mo