Scrolling through my Twitter feed last night, I was struck by a tweet by Juliet Eilperin, a senior national affairs correspondent for The Washington Post. She tweeted that, for the first time ever, Washington Post Fact Checker and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Glenn Kessler published an article stating that a politician deliberately lied. WaPo Fact…
On the evening of Aug. 15 in Institute, West Virginia — just across the Kanawha River from where President Trump delivered a high profile speech at a rally in Charleston on Tuesday—a man in his twenties named Andre Leonard was shot and killed near West Virginia State University. Authorities have since charged 30-year-old Juan Chic…
The crucial question swirling around President Donald Trump’s nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy on the U.S. Supreme Court is just how far right the court will shift. Could Kavanaugh’s appointment gut and even overturn Roe v. Wade? Will the Affordable Care Act’s protections for people with pre-existing conditions be in jeopardy?…
n November 2017, men residing in an Allen County, Indiana, jail filed a class-action lawsuit against their local sheriff. The lawsuit alleged that the sheriff had denied the men and others their fundamental right to vote during the 2016 general election while they were being held in jail awaiting trial.1 According to court filings, jail…
At Hayes Manufacturing southeast of Traverse City, vice president Penny Challender watches nervously as customer orders pile up. A year ago, the firm had 563 unfilled orders as of Aug. 8. “Today,” Challender said in early August, “I have 976. We are late on some orders, orders we should not be late on.” The problem:…
It was not an easy decision in 2010 to shift School Aid Fund money away from K-12 schools to fund community colleges. I know. I was there. And I voted for it, albeit reluctantly. The School Aid Fund was first established in 1955 and in its 54-year history, it had never been used for anything…
The Trump administration on Thursday moved to knock down efforts by some blue states to get around a new limit on state and local tax deductions. The administration says the new rules will prevent people from ducking the $10,000 cap by construing tax payments as charitable contributions, which are not subject to the cap. The…
Top Senate Republicans sent dueling signals on Thursday about whether it would be safe for President Donald Trump to fire the attorney general he can’t stand. GOP leaders moved quickly to quell a rebellion against Jeff Sessions after Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa signaled publicly that they’d…
A restart of trade talks between the United States and China ended on Thursday with little sign of progress as Washington moved ahead with additional tariffs and President Trump met with legislators to discuss a new law aimed at curbing Chinese investment. The bilateral talks, while low level, were the first formal discussions between the…
Last week, a woman in her mid-40s who lives in a tidy suburban enclave just outside of Columbus, Ohio, summed up her continued support for President Donald Trump despite his morals, values and behavior not matching hers nor matching her expectations she had for any president of the United States. “For decades I have been…