An elections administrator in Hood County, Texas, submitted her resignation on Friday following pressure from residents and officials loyal to Donald Trump to force her out of office. Michele Carew had overseen many elections over MORE
North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson has doubled down on comments where he called members of the LGBT community “filth” despite calls for him to resign. “There’s no reason anybody anywhere in America should be MORE
Good morning, News Viewers and Happy Tuesday; we got through another Monday and that’s a good thing. I actually remembered to get today’s free chat thread scheduled and ready to post. I love naps but MORE
Owner of the Las Vegas Raiders, Mark Allen, just ‘cancelled’ Jon Gruden’s position as head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders after the New York Times uncovered seven years worth of emails in which Gruden MORE
WHEREAS, COVID-19 vaccines are strongly encouraged for those eligible to receive one, but must always be voluntary for Texans; and WHEREAS, I issued Executive Orders GA-35, GA-38, and GA-39 to prohibitgovernmental entities and certain others MORE
With so many crazy things happening, sometimes things fall through the cracks. Here are some headlines that you may find interesting and worth discussing. Please feel free to post ‘headlines’ you would like to share MORE
GUNZ Hillsborough County Fire Rescue says the man told crews he was reloading “small arms ammunition” inside his home when the explosion happened. He added that there were about six pounds of smokeless powder in MORE
The GOP establishment as much as endorsed Donald Trump’s candidacy in 2024 on Saturday in Iowa, as senior Senator Chuck Grassley warmly welcomed the former guy’s endorsement for his own bid for re-election in 2022. MORE
Happy Monday News Viewers; welcome to Free Range, our Monday Free Chat with an environmental bent. This week is “Animals in the News” which happens to be a regular feature in The Atlantic (but I MORE
Earth scientists at the turn of the century, Gavin Schmidt among them, were enthralled by a 56-million-year-old segment of geologic history known as the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM). What most intrigued them was its resemblance to our MORE
According to Dayton Police, Clifford Owensby and his car were pulled over because the windows were tinted too darkly. Police in Ohio forcibly pulled a paraplegic man out of his vehicle and threw him to MORE
It’s Sunday and the weekend has come to an end. Below are a few articles and events we might have missed but are worthy of discussion. And in case you missed the Sunday shows, we MORE
T.S. Eliot wrote that the world ends “not with a bang but a whimper,” but I fear our great nation is careening toward a third manner of demise: descent into lip-blubbering, self-destructive idiocy. How did MORE
You know which ones they are: Nineteen states have enacted 33 laws that make it harder for people to vote, according to the Brennan Center for Justice. Fifteen states made it harder to apply for MORE
Former GOP congressman, chairman of the Texas Republican Party, and now Tejas gubernatorial candidate Col. Allen West announced on his Twitter account Saturday that he has COVID-19. The unvaccinated West allegedly caught the highly contagious virus from his MORE
Another school board meeting about mask mandates went off the rails on Wednesday; this time, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. Ten year-old Kaylan Park decided she wasn’t going to let anti-maskers get away with their bullying, junk science, and MORE
The Senate Minority Leader wrote President Biden a letter stating that Senate Majority Leader Schumer’s speech chastising Republicans had “poisoned the well,” and that Democrats would have to raise the debt ceiling on their own MORE
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals late Friday allowed Texas’ near-total abortion ban to again be enforced after freezing a federal judge’s temporary block of the law. The state appealed the order just two days after MORE
Normally, News Views does not feature a Live Blog on Fridays but, since we have lots going on in the ‘news world,’ welcome to the Friday Edition. Please feel free to post ‘headlines’ you would like to share MORE
A Colorado kidney transplant candidate has refused to get vaccinated for Covid-19 and has therefore been moved to the inactive wait list for the procedure. Leilani Lutali, 56, a late-stage kidney disease patient from Colorado MORE
Four people were hurt in the shooting including two teachers and two students. One 15-year-old boy was critically injured, another student was grazed by a bullet, and a teacher was shot. Arlington police said officers MORE
Late Thursday the Senate passed a bill to raise the debt ceiling until December on a 50-48 vote. No Republicans voted for the measure, but several — including Mitch McConnell — did join Democrats to MORE
Happy Friday News Viewers, and unbelievably it’s the 40th week of the year, meaning we can see 2022 in the near distance. As I looked at political cartoons for last year at this time, I MORE
NASA chose the landing site of its life-hunting Perseverance Mars rover wisely. Perseverance touched down in February on the floor of the 28-mile-wide (45 kilometers) Jezero Crater, which was picked primarily because previous observations by Mars orbiters MORE
With so many crazy things happening, sometimes things fall through the cracks. Here are some headlines that you may find interesting and worth discussing. Please feel free to post ‘headlines’ you would like to share MORE