The University of Pennsylvania will block transgender athletes from female sports teams and erase the records set by swimmer Lia Thomas as part of an agreement with the federal government, the Department of Education said. The agreement comes as part of the Trump administration's broader restrictions on transgender people, as it steps up its efforts to ban transgender athletes from competing in women's sports nationwide and serving in the military. read more
Newsom doesn't want to fund California's new tough-on-crime law. Who should? Supporters of Prop. 36 wanted at least $250 million. The governor gave them nothing. California voters overwhelmingly approved a tough-on-crime ballot measure in the November election, but it still lacks hundreds of millions of dollars in funding as state legislators and Gov. Gavin Newsom battle over how to finance the new law. read more
Or, there is no government mechanism to allow non-citizens to come in and do work that no one else is willing to do.
#16 | Posted by madbomber
#26 | POSTED BY JOHNNY_HOTSAUCE A
Hogwash.
Yes there is H-2A.
www.uscis.gov)%20for%20specific%20details.)
@#3 ... Wyoming surprises me. I've heard it's a tough, expensive state to live in. ...
The Jackson Hole area is really expensive and crowded, you could move to the valley west (Idaho) and live a better life. Still be within 30min of Tetons.
Buffalo WY isn't expensive.
Tough to live in? Yeah.
Not any tougher than anywhere else. If you can afford a home in Jackson you probably have a home in AZ/FL for the winters.
After driving across the county, I think a good retirement area would be SoColorado (Durango, PagosaSprings), or northern New Mexico (Taos etc).
Relocating to Florida in the next two months : )
Good for you MSGT, enjoy it, I liked the PanHandle, but south of it seemed a bit busy, snakes, gators and people.
I hope you buy a Florida Man TShirt!
www.amazon.com
Have a good one!
Good thing no one said "if you gut NWS indiscriminately, without caution and study, then there will be actual people, maybe lots of people, who will die."
They didn't gut forecasters .... thanks for playing.
Weather service had extra staffers
The National Weather Service office in New Braunfels, which delivers forecasts for Austin, San Antonio and the surrounding areas, had extra staff on duty during the storms, Runyen said.
Where the office would typically have two forecasters on duty during clear weather, they had up to five on staff.
"There were extra people in here that night, and that's typical in every weather service office " you staff up for an event and bring people in on overtime and hold people over," Runyen said.
apnews.com
Biden was hiring like gang busters....
In 2023 there were 450,000 VA staff.
www.federaltimes.com
In Sept 2024 ...
Some 483,000 of the 2.31 million total civilian federal employees work for the Department of Veterans Affairs as of September 2024. This is 56.4% more people than the department staffed in 2010.
usafacts.org
But it seems there won't be layoffs as people are leaving.
Veterans Affairs Department Expects To Lose 30,000 Workers By October
The agency said the exodus of employees has made a mass layoff unlikely.
www.huffpost.com
Why would your sources lie, then why didn't you catch your sources lies, Gaslighter?
I'll wait..
Are you truly unaware of it? It's been going on for decades.
#26 | Posted by BellRinger
He won't be back
He vanishes like a vampire to sunlight.