Support for public transportation
When people ask why I support the DATA Millage, I think back to the times it helped my family and me. In 1997, after surgery, I needed physical therapy and had no one nearby to drive me. DATA got me to every appointment and made my recovery possible. Later, as a working mother, I used it to get my children to scheduled activities, and I appreciated knowing they would be picked up and dropped off safely. Years later, when my mother came to live with me after being diagnosed with bone cancer and later needed a wheelchair, DATA helped her get to medical appointments and community activities ...
Workers not uniting behind DSA
What did the country ever do to white college graduates to make them feel so disaffected from its economic and political system? The wave of socialist victories in Democratic primaries is being driven by well-educated white voters who are more extreme than the rest of the Democratic ...
House votes for Department of War renaming as part of defense bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House on Wednesday passed a defense policy bill that incorporates President Donald Trump’s request for a historic $1.15 trillion in spending for national security and that would designate the Department of Defense as the Department of War. It also would provide for a ...
Senate panel advances Clayton for US intelligence director
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Intelligence Committee has advanced the nomination of Jay Clayton, President Donald Trump’s pick to head the nation’s intelligence agencies, along party lines. The 9-8 vote came after some Democrats had praised Clayton and indicated they might vote for him. ...
Almanac for July 22, 2026
Today is Wednesday, July 22, the 203rd day of 2026. There are 162 days left in the year. Today in History: In 1933, aviator Wiley Post landed at Floyd Bennett Field in New York City, completing the first solo flight around the world in 7 days, 18 hours and 49 minutes. Also on this date: In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln presented to his Cabinet a preliminary draft of the Emancipation Proclamation. In 1934, bank robber John Dillinger was shot to death by federal agents outside Chicago’s Biograph Theater, where he had just seen the Clark Gable movie “Manhattan Melodrama.” In ...