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Aug. 31– VALDOSTA– All Hilton, Marriott and Holiday Inns around Valdosta and Lowndes County are being booked by people fleeing Hurricane Dorian. Angela Pipkin, general manager for the Hampton Inn& Suites, said it has some rooms available, but people are calling around the clock setting up reservations. Paige Dukes, Lowndes County clerk and public information…

Nine years after the families pressed Congress into passing a landmark aviation safety law in reaction to the 2009 plane crash in Clarence, the Federal Aviation Administration has sent its proposal for creating a pilot records database on to the Trump administration for a final review. Brian Higgins, a Buffalo Democrat, said Saturday that the FAA notified him…

Aug. 31– WILMINGTON– Southeastern North Carolina got a sense of deja vu Saturday as the region found itself inside the dreaded cone of uncertainty for Hurricane Dorian. By 5 p.m. Saturday, the winds had increased to 150 mph and the National Hurricane Center’s latest update put the eye of the storm just south of the Carolina coast around 8 a.m. Thursday morning.

Aug. 31– Maybe 10 years ago, Caitlin Merna LoVullo arrived in the morning darkness to begin stocking tables at the Lexington Cooperative Market in Buffalo. There was a knock on the door, and she found herself face-to-face with a fruit farmer named Dan Tower, who needed to unload his apples in a hurry. Caitlin, 33, told the story a few days ago, from a table in a 159-…

The premise of Victor David Hanson’s Aug. 1 Commentary piece was that Democrats should replicate their strategy of 2004 by trying to win Republican voters with a “safe” party nominee like Joe Biden. In fact, Medicare-for-all is so popular that 85% of Democrats support it and even 52% of Republicans support the policy, according to an Aug. 23 Reuters survey.

Aug. 31– Hurricane Dorian continued to gain muscle on its slow crawl across the Atlantic as it bore down on the Northwestern Bahamas early Saturday afternoon. The National Hurricane Center warned in its latest update that the unpredictable storm is expected to bring “a prolonged period of life-threatening storm surge and devastating hurricane force winds” to…

I live in the Ocean State, so I like to couch my political prognostications in terms a mariner can understand. As long as our economic ship remains seaworthy, President Trump will prevail and get re-elected. After all, who among us would want to sink a ship laden with rewards?

Heidi Heitkamp thinks there is one, if Democrats get the right breaks and offer a substantive vision. “I think there’s truly an opportunity for the next generation of Democrats to, No. 1, drive a state narrative about what is the policy of the Democratic party here in the state,” she said. She’s a former tax commissioner and attorney general from an era when Democrats…

The menace known as Hurricane Dorian drifted ever so slightly to the east and to the collective relief of South Florida, but the forecast weary in Palm Beach County refused to stand down- at least, not yet. From Boca Raton to Jupiter, residents kept busy Saturday shuttering up their homes if not out on the roads, desperate to find plywood and generators as Dorian eyed…

—Health care was the focus of Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders’ second day of campaigning in pivotal early-voting South Carolina, where lack of Medicaid expansion has left thousands unable to obtain health coverage. The Vermont senator focused on “Medicare for All,” his signature proposal replacing job-based and individual private health…

—With Hurricane Dorian menacing Florida, Natividad Jimenez sat in front of a microphone to tape a message in an Ancient Maya language that few in the world understand but that’s spoken by thousands of immigrants in the state. In her native Mam, Jimenez urged Guatemalan immigrants to get water, cash, and gas and heed any evacuation orders in areas with mobile homes…

—President Donald Trump presented a distorted picture of the auto industry, told a fanciful story about Iran duping Barack Obama and took a misinformed swipe at Puerto Rico just as its residents braced for a catastrophe that didn’t come. A look at some statements by Trump and his team during a week bookended by the Group of Seven summit and the approach of…

For some people in the workplace, the amount turns out to be $3 a day. In return, they get a $3 per day credit in their health savings or reimbursement accounts when they hit walking targets. We landed at about $3. “

Only a few years separate President Donald Trump, 73, from Vermont Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, taking high-energy jogs around rallies where she stays hours afterward to snap photos with supporters. “I’m not going to sugarcoat aging,” said well-known aging researcher S. Jay Olshansky of the University of Illinois at Chicago.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Risk Management Agency has issued the following news release:. USDA’s Risk Management Agency has made several updates to the Whole-Farm Revenue Protection policy for the 2020 policy year that expand safety net options and flexibility for agricultural producers. Previously, producers who carried Noninsured Crop…

FEMA announced that federal emergency aid has been made available to the state of Florida to supplement state, tribal and local response efforts due to the emergency conditions in the area affected by Hurricane Dorian beginning on Aug. 28 and continuing. The President’s action authorizes FEMA to coordinate all disaster relief efforts which have the purpose…

President Donald J. Trump approved an emergency declaration for Florida today, making federal funding available to assist state, tribal and local governments with emergency and life-safety actions taken ahead of Hurricane Dorian. Regardless of the exact track, Dorian is expected to bring life-threatening storm surge and heavy rains over Florida and parts…

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison issued the following news:. -New rule’ bait-and-switch’ means families and children will have less access to food, healthcare, and shelter, meaning more burden for all communities. Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and 12 other attorneys general filed a lawsuit late yesterday against the U.S. Department of…

The University of Michigan issued the following news release:. The Consumer Sentiment Index posted its largest monthly decline in August 2019 since December 2012, according to the University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers. The 2012 plunge reflected widespread fears among consumers that they would be pushed off the “fiscal cliff” due to rising taxes and…