by Steve Birr Lawmakers in a Pennsylvania county are gearing up for a vote to squash electronic cigarettes and treat the devices like traditional tobacco. The Allegheny County Council will vote as early as Tuesday on new regulations governing vaping. It would ban the devices in any school, workplace, sports stadium, government building, bus, cab or…
By Amber Randall A teenager busted for driving while intoxicated escaped police in a stolen cop cruiser New Year’s Day. New York City police arrested Dekota Locklear, 18, after he stopped at a drunk driving checkpoint with a 13-year-old passenger in the car, reports the New York Daily News. Locklear had a 0.09 alcohol blood…
By Eric Lieberman Van Jones, a political pundit and outspoken critic of President-elect Donald Trump, said Sunday that the Clinton family’s influence is finished while commenting on the state of the Democratic party. “You have to understand, I think that the Clinton days are over,” Jones told CNN host Jake Tapper. “This idea that we’re going to be this…
By Michael Bastasch A New York Times article on the limits of federal power in rolling back the green energy “transition” makes the prediction that sea level rise and heat waves will continue to get worse under President-elect Donald Trump. NYT reporter Justin Gillis wrote “as Washington goes into reverse gear on climate policy, seas…
by Phillip Stucky President-elect Donald Trump told incoming Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer that he liked him much better than he liked Republican leadership in Congress, according to a Sunday report from the New York Post. The exchange occurred during a private phone call between the two leaders, but staffers with Schumer’s office failed to…
by Micah J. Fleck According to a new report mere hours ago, the Obama administration has identified malware it calls “Grizzly Steppe” as being present in a Vermont utility. The report states: A code associated with the Russian hacking operation dubbed Grizzly Steppe by the Obama administration has been detected within the system of a…
by Micah J. Fleck Yes, you read that right. Across 19 different states, mandatory minimum wage hikes are to be forced upon business owners, which may threaten the employment security of current workers. According to one report: It will be a happy New Year indeed for millions of the lowest-paid U.S. workers. Nineteen states, including…
by Micah J. Fleck Republican strategist Kellyanne Conway’s husband George, who is himself a corporate lawyer based out of New York, is being considered for the position of solicitor general under Donald Trump. According to New York Daily News: George Conway, a longtime corporate New York lawyer and the husband of Kellyanne Conway, is on…
by Micah J. Fleck In July of this past year, a Texas cop paralyzed a man by shooting him in the spine. According to the officer at the time, the victim was posing a “threat” despite the curious location at which he was shot. Now, in the wake of newly revealed dashcam footage from the…
by Micah J. Fleck Well, this isn’t good news for China. Reports now saying that the Yuan is “on track for its biggest annual loss since 1994, which would make it the worst performing major Asian currency this year.” Yikes. The report continued: “The central bank was more inclined to release depreciation pressure on the…