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Saturday, September 19, 2026

Data shows small businesses lost hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue during Operation Metro Surge. A Hennepin County program launched to help them ended up shutting down. Nearly half of the applications for taxpayer-funded recovery money were fake. "We caught the fraud before we spent any money," Hennepin County Commissioner Jeffrey Lunde said. Lunde says it was an unfortunate win. In March 2026, Hennepin County Commissioners approved $2 million to help small businesses cover rent or mortgage payments as Operation Metro Surge kept customers away. read more


Tuesday, September 15, 2026

BURLINGAME: The California Teachers Association, today, filed a lawsuit against the withholding of nearly $6 billion in constitutionally guaranteed Prop. 98 funding from California public schools in the 2025-2026 and 2024-25 school years. These funds were guaranteed to public schools through Prop. 98, enshrined in the California constitution for nearly 40 years. read more


Monday, September 14, 2026

A federal appellate court has upheld a decision allowing Hamtramck to ban Pride flags on city-owned property. The ruling, issued Aug. 21 by the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, affirmed the Sept. 2025 dismissal by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan of a challenge to Hamtramck's 2023 ban on flying Pride and other group flags on city-owned flagpoles. The court held that even assuming the poles had previously been a forum for private speech, the city is permitted to change the purpose of that forum and restrict the poles to specified flags, making the display government speech. read more


Sunday, September 13, 2026

A judge sentenced a former forensic analyst for the Colorado Bureau of Investigation to 10 years in prison on Tuesday after authorities said her manipulation of DNA data raised questions about the validity of hundreds of criminal cases. read more


A sculpture inspired by a desire to bring a contemporary "everywoman" to Trafalgar Square has been unveiled on London's Fourth Plinth. Lady In Blue by New York artist Tschabalala Self, which pays homage to a young, metropolitan woman, is the 16th artwork to feature on the plinth since 1998. The bronze and blue figure replaces Mil Veces un Instante (A Thousand Times in an Instant) by Teresa Margolles. read more


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People born into wealth also stay there, generally.
#13 | POSTED BY ALEXANDRITE

This is mostly false. 3 generations and they are back to middle class. You only know of the exceptions. You have no idea what motivates people do you?


Subliberal is a coconut-headed halfwit soapboxing from the peanut gallery.
#17 | POSTED BY PUMPKINHEAD

If you had any self awareness you'd understand everyone here fits that description, including yourself.

The system is for anyone to get rich if they apply themselves.

If there is once common trait it would be perseverance, but its not a guarantee.
The difference between GDP's is the aggregate discipline of its population.
In this way "applying oneself" can be seen as the system to get out of the quicksand of poverty.
If you lived in a poor country, leave. Thats what the smart African and Muslims are doing ... leaving poverty and poor governance.

People born into poverty generally stay there, at no fault of their own.

Smart industrious people in poverty will get out of poverty. What keeps people in poverty is bad governance; lack of trust, high crime, and no rule of law, who would invest? If your "shop" is going to constantly get burglarized, why would you invest your time? Thats why I find it funny "lumpers" support more crime. You may say you don't but you vote against the victim consistently. Just the idea of "raising" the felony dollar figure caused all sorts of crime and distortions, CA Lumpers voted for more crime, to help the criminals. You wanna help poor people, fight crime, destroy criminality.

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