Day: June 4, 2023

Arkansas

What to Make of Jordan Walsh’s Losing “Handcuffs” Statement After Going Pro

photo credit: Arkansas Athletics After choosing to stay in the 2023 NBA Draft late last week, Jordan Walsh mostly said all the right things. “I am excited for this new chapter in my life and for the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead,” the former Arkansas basketball standout said on a social media video. “I […]

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California

Gavin Newsom Investigating Who Sent Migrants to California on a Private Jet

Sixteen South American migrants arrived on the doorstep of a California church Friday under some suspicious circumstances. “These individuals were transported from Texas to New Mexico before being flown by private chartered jet to Sacramento and dumped on the doorstep of a local church without any advance warning,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a statement […]

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California

Mystery private jet of migrants arrives in Sacramento

News By Isabel Keane June 4, 2023 | 8:11am Furious California officials warn they are weighing “potential criminal or civil action” after more than a dozen migrants were flown to Sacramento on a private jet and “dumped” outside Catholic Church offices. The sixteen Venezuelan and Columbian migrants told an aid group that they entered the US in Texas, were processed and given court dates in their asylum cases. The […]

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City Council

Bloomington City Council Agenda June 7, 2023 – The B Square | #citycouncil

[This is not an official Bloomington city council agenda. The official version can be found at this link: https://bloomington.in.gov/onboard/meetingFiles/download?meetingFile_id=11959] City of Bloomington Common CouncilAgenda for June 7, 2023Start Time: 6:30 p.m. Physical location: Council Chambers (#115), Showers Building, 401 N. Morton StreetOnline location: The meeting can be accessed remotely at the following link: https://bloomington.zoom.us/j/89360064111?pwd=Q1VkdnloelhCYi9MNHJNNi93RERlQT09 1. […]

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Mayor

Horizon Mayor and various Board of Trustees votes up for grabs in run off elections

EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — As early voting draws to a close on Tuesday a few run-off races will be decided when Election Day arrives. Early voting ends Tuesday, June 6 and Election Day kicks off at 7 a.m. and closes at 7 p.m., Saturday. Horizon Mayor will draw residents to the voting booths once […]

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California

California authorities say migrants flown to Sacramento have links to Florida

Both California Gov. Gavin Newsom and California Attorney General Rob Bonta put out statements on over the weekend saying they had met with a group of migrants who traveled from Texas to New Mexico before being flown to Sacramento. Bonta suggested that the DeSantis administration may be linked to the operation because he said the […]

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Arkansas

Scholarship established in memory of Isaiah Torres, Arkansas 6-year-old murdered by father

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — A scholarship fund in memory of Isaiah Torres, a six-year-old Bella Vista boy murdered in 2015 by his father, has been established at NorthWest Arkansas Community College (NWACC). Torres’ life was tragically cut short on March 30, 2015 after he suffered severe child abuse by his mother and father. Isaiah’s cause […]

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California

Dozens of South American Migrants Flown to California – NBC Los Angeles

Sixteen Venezuelan and Colombian migrants who entered the country through Texas were flown to California by chartered plane and dropped off outside a church in Sacramento, Gov. Gavin Newsom and migrant rights advocates said Saturday. The young men and women were dropped off Friday outside the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento with only a backpack’s […]

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California

How California, land of Nixon and Reagan, turned blue and changed American politics

President Clinton, greeting well-wishers at a 1996 election rally in San Diego, made a political priority of keeping California in the Democratic column. His success helped lay the groundwork for today’s solid-blue state. (Mike Nelson / AFP/Getty Images) Bill Clinton was busy filling cabinet positions and shaping his economic agenda when a memo landed from […]

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Mayor

Mayor Adams makes surprise visits to NYC migrant centers to ‘make sure everything is OK’

Metro By Craig McCarthy, Carl Campanile, Haley Brown and Ronny Reyes June 4, 2023 | 3:39pm Mayor Eric Adams on Sunday stopped by two Manhattan migrant sites — the former iconic Roosevelt Hotel and Times’ Square’s landmark Candler Tower — to meet with asylum-seekers and get quick tours. Adams ducked into the Roosevelt in Midtown […]

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