PARIS – Paris prosecutors are studying a report by the European Union’s fraud agency accusing French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen and other members of her nationalist party of misusing public funds while serving in the European Parliament.
In addition to municipal races, the upcoming May election will include two propositions that would amend the state constitution. Each of these is related to property tax relief and each passed both houses of the Texas Legislature with strong bipartisan support.
For the people of Ukraine, the Russian invasion is a waking nightmare and a humanitarian disaster on a terrifying scale. But the war is also fast becoming a matter of life and death for vulnerable people around the world.
Although there is no doubt that Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is a worthy and long-overdue addition to the Supreme Court, her tenure brings the court one step closer to completely losing an important perspective.
I don’t think I have exactly recovered from the last round of local elections, and here we are on the cusp of early voting for the next round. May 7 will be city and school elections along with voting for a couple of state constitutional amendments.
One of the many things that I love about my job is the fact that I never really know where it is liable to take me in a day. This week, I got to get out of my own home for a while and travel around the area.
President Joe Biden wants to bring up to 100,000 Ukrainian refugees fleeing war to the United States. This is the American way. “Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,” says the eloquent Statue of Liberty poem, “The New Colossus,” penned by Emma Lazarus.
Virtually everyone will recall how, during these days of the pandemic, federal and state authorities moved to prevent people from being evicted. Businesses shuttered, prompting waves of layoffs and abruptly leaving millions unemployed and at risk of losing their home through no fault of their own.
I’d never cried in a doctor’s office. But there I was, a few weeks back, sobbing in the exam room.
That headline sums up a situation growing steadily more ominous. The message is not current, but rather from two years ago in the influential British weekly “The Economist.” Since then, Russia’s massive infrastructure and military buildup in the Arctic has continued.