Category: Breaking News

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President Obama to travel to New Jersey tomorrow, inspect damage with Chris Christie

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

Pres­i­dent Barack Oba­ma will trav­el to New Jer­sey tomor­row to inspect dam­age caused by Super­storm Sandy with Repub­li­can Gov­er­nor Chris Christie. The Pres­i­dent will spend his time “talk­ing with cit­i­zens who are recov­er­ing from the storm and thank­ing first respon­ders who put their lives at risk to pro­tect their com­mu­ni­ties”, White House Press Sec­re­tary Jay […]

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The morning after Sandy: Rescue, recovery efforts underway in New York, New Jersey

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

Last night, Hur­ri­cane Sandy — which is now being called Super­storm Sandy — made land­fall in New Jer­sey, near Atlantic City. The worst hours have now passed, but as news broad­casts show, Sandy’s arrival was every bit as destruc­tive as mete­o­rol­o­gists and local offi­cials had warned it could be. Schools, air­ports, the New York Stock Exchange, […]

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Hurricane Sandy barrels towards East Coast, bringing commerce and travel to a halt

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

One of the most destruc­tive storms ever to threat­en the Unit­ed States is hours away from slam­ming into the Atlantic seaboard, mete­o­rol­o­gists are warn­ing. Hur­ri­cane Sandy, which has already killed dozens of peo­ple in the Car­ribbean, is pro­ject­ed to make land­fall some­time tomor­row evening between the Chesa­peake and the mouth of the Hud­son Riv­er. The […]

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Tsunami warning issued for Pacific Northwest as East Coast prepares for “Frankenstorm”

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

It’s turn­ing out to be a busy week­end for sci­en­tists at NOAA’s Nation­al Weath­er Ser­vice (NWS) and the U.S. Geo­log­i­cal Sur­vey (USGS). The Nation­al Weath­er Ser­vice has spent the last few days track­ing Hur­ri­cane Sandy, which is now pro­ject­ed to make land­fall some­where along the mid-Atlantic, per­haps off the coast of Vir­ginia or Delaware. Hurricane […]

Posted inBreaking News, Elections

BREAKING: Wisconsin’s Paul Ryan said to be Mitt Romney’s vice presidential pick

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

Break­ing news this evening: A num­ber of media out­lets are report­ing that the 2012 Repub­li­can tick­et has now been set with pre­sump­tive pres­i­den­tial nom­i­nee Mitt Rom­ney’s selec­tion of U.S. Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Paul Ryan to be his run­ning mate. Ryan, who rep­re­sents Wis­con­sin’s 1st Dis­trict and chairs the House Com­mit­tee on Bud­get, is well-liked by move­ment and […]

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Suzan DelBene wins big in WA-01, will face John Koster in November

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

Well, that was anti­cli­mac­tic. Con­trary to what many pun­dits and polit­i­cal com­men­ta­tors had pre­dict­ed, the five-way Demo­c­ra­t­ic con­test for U.S. House in Wash­ing­ton’s 1st Con­gres­sion­al Dis­trict is turn­ing out to be not close at all. As of 9:40 PM, with no more bal­lots expect­ed to be tab­u­lat­ed until tomor­row, for­mer Microsoft vice pres­i­dent Suzan Del­Bene had […]

Posted inBreaking News, Civil Liberties, Policy Topics

Another mass shooting: Gunman reportedly kills six at Sikh temple near Milwaukee

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

Tragedy has struck again, this time near Wis­con­sin’s largest city: At least sev­en peo­ple were killed, includ­ing one shoot­er, just after 10 a.m. Sun­day at the Sikh Tem­ple in Oak Creek, police said. Four of the dead were inside the tem­ple at 7512 S. How­ell Ave. and three of the dead, includ­ing a shoot­er, were […]

Posted inBreaking News, Economic Security, Policy Topics

Waste Management reaches agreement with Teamsters; truck drivers returning to work

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

A days-long, region­wide strike against Waste Man­age­ment by its recy­cling and garbage truck dri­vers will like­ly be over as of tomor­row, thanks to suc­cess­ful nego­ti­a­tions that result­ed in a new mul­ti-year con­tract, the com­pa­ny and Team­sters Local 117 announced this evening. The strike began last week when recy­cling truck dri­vers began pick­et­ing Waste Man­age­ment after […]

Posted inBreaking News, Litigation

BREAKING: Tim Eyman’s I‑1053 has *finally* been struck down as unconstitutional!

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

Joy­ous news to report out of the King Coun­ty Cour­t­house this morn­ing: Supe­ri­or Court Judge Bruce Heller has just ruled that Tim Eyman’s I‑1053 — the third in a series of ini­tia­tives unde­mo­c­ra­t­i­cal­ly requir­ing two-thirds votes of both hous­es of the Leg­is­la­ture to raise rev­enue — is uncon­sti­tu­tion­al on mul­ti­ple grounds. The rul­ing, which Rob […]

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BP and ConocoPhillips revealed as the big money behind Tim Eyman’s I‑1185

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

The wheels and gears of Tim Eyman’s ini­tia­tive fac­to­ry are once again being lubri­cat­ed with piles of mon­ey from greedy multi­na­tion­al oil com­pa­nies, new­ly updat­ed Pub­lic Dis­clo­sure Com­mis­sion records show. Min­utes ago, Tim Eyman’s trea­sur­er uploaded cam­paign finance reports for the lat­est incar­na­tion of Eyman’s “Vot­ers Want More Choic­es” com­mit­tee for the month of April, […]

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Rick Santorum ends presidential campaign

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

A week after fail­ing to defeat Mitt Rom­ney in Wis­con­sin’s Repub­li­can pri­ma­ry — por­trayed by the tra­di­tion­al media as a make-it or break-it moment for his can­di­da­cy — Rick San­to­rum announced at a press con­fer­ence in Get­tys­burg, Penn­syl­va­nia, that he was end­ing his pres­i­den­tial cam­paign. He did not endorse Mitt Rom­ney, who now appears to […]

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Current TV fires Keith Olbermann, announces that Eliot Spitzer will join its lineup

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

Cur­rent TV, the pro­gres­sive cable net­work found­ed by Al Gore and Joel Hyatt, announced min­utes ago that it has fired Kei­th Olber­mann, its best-known per­son­al­i­ty and chief news offi­cer. As is often the case when media com­pa­nies decide to part ways with a host, Olber­man­n’s dis­missal is effec­tive imme­di­ate­ly — he won’t be giv­en a […]

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Mitt Romney winning Washington Republican precinct caucuses by comfortable margin

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

Chalk up anoth­er vic­to­ry for Mitt Rom­ney. With more than six­ty per­cent of the votes count­ed, the for­mer Mass­a­chu­setts gov­er­nor is hand­i­ly win­ning Wash­ing­ton’s Repub­li­can precinct cau­cus­es, best­ing Rick San­to­rum and his two oth­er remain­ing oth­er rivals by a com­fort­able mar­gin. Here are the cur­rent results: Wash­ing­ton Repub­li­can precinct cau­cus­es Mitt Rom­ney: 36.7% (11,294 votes) […]