The House is poised to vote on a bipartisan $1.3 trillion omnibus as soon as Thursday, less than 24 hours after GOP leaders unveiled the massive spending package needed to avert a government shutdown
Updated: 7:18 AM EDT Jun 9, 2021 Never tire, That s the slogan Val Demings uses repeatedly in her newly launched campaign video for Senate on her website. I m running for the United States Senate because of two simple words: Never tire, Demings says.The campaign website features the new video as well as a donation page for her run and a way for her supports to sign up and help.Last month, WESH 2 News confirmed Democratic Orlando Congresswoman Val Demings aimed to unseat Marco Rubio in next year s Senate race from an official in her campaign. That was after Demings dropped an ad on social media, tracing her life from humble beginnings, to her historic rise to be the first female Orlando police chief.When Demings spoke with us at that time, she spent most of the interview targeting Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. I think Floridians deserve to know the whole story and the truth, and whether it s me or not I believe that Florida deserves, and Florida can do, better, Demings
How a Nevada Town’s Racist “Sundown” Siren Became a Quaint Dinner Bell in the White Imagination
Every day, at 6:30 p.m. sharp, a siren blares through the town of Minden. For citizens of the Washoe nation, the sound carries a painful, violent memory.
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In Minden, Nevada, a cherry-red siren, perched atop the town’s volunteer fire department, sounds every evening at 6 p.m. on the dot. If you listen to town manager J.D. Frisby tell it, the siren is a symbolic gesture of gratitude for Minden’s emergency workers. Other residents consider it a charming dinner bell, signaling the call to home. In reality, though, the siren was, and still is, a warning an active relic of an early twentieth-century ordinance that ordered Native residents to exit the county’s borders by 6:30 p.m. The current split in the town over the siren’s purpose, which has stretched on for decades, is a reminder that Confederate monuments aren’t the only ways in which infrastruc
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A nearly $200,000 sales tax allocation to the city of Grass Valley at the end of September has put its finances in a less-dicey status, said Public Works Director Tim Kiser, the acting city administrator
The city council had enacted a 60-day freeze on discretionary spending in early September due to a concern that revenues from Measure N, a half-percent temporary sales tax increase, were lagging behind. Measure N allocations reach the city several months after the sale point, based on estimates and with a portion withheld, Kiser previously explained. Once sales figures are cemented, that withheld portion is paid in chunks, referred to as a “true up,” and Grass Valley had feared its end-of-September true up would come in low.