Council approves design, engineering company By Eileen Persike Editor RHINELANDER – It was December 2021 when a group of impassioned young people spoke to the Rhinelander City Council, asking them for help in creating more inclusive spaces for people, especially at-risk youth. A space like a skate park. Their interest was renewed following the death of a friend who was a fellow member of the skateboard group Over It. The city responded with earmarking $75,000 for engineering and design of a...
The House voted Friday in a bipartisan manner to advance a key foreign aid package, a significant step in sending aid to Ukraine and Israel and setting up a final vote as soon as Saturday. In an extraordinary move, more Democrats (165) supported the measure than Republicans (151). The Democratic votes were necessary to overcome opposition from Speaker Mike Johnson’s right flank, who will likely only increase their calls to oust him. The fight over the bills – and the potential for right-wing...
(The Center Square) – Use of historic borrow sites for nourishment of southeastern North Carolina beaches is a step closer to happening. There was no objection in the U.S. House of Representatives for legislation securing a permanent fix for Wrightsville Beach, Carolina Beach and Kure Beach. House Resolution 524 would return protocol to what it was for over four decades, lowering taxpayers’ costs and reversing a Biden administration Army Corps of Engineers change in the...
By mid-March, the race for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination, to the extent that it ever existed, was over. Donald Trump had already won nearly every primary and caucus, and each of his intraparty rivals had ended their campaigns. It was against this backdrop that the former president — after earning the label as the GOP’s presumptive nominee — decided to continue publicly ridiculing New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, largely because he’d backed Nikki Haley’s campaign. Trump didn’t...
Bill Belichick is no longer with the New England Patriots, but the legendary coach didn’t seem to be a fan of the Pats’ first draft choice Thursday night. The legendary coach appeared as an analyst on Pat McAfee’s NFL Draft Spectacular simulcast and when the Patriots picked North Carolina quarterback Drake Maye No. 3 overall,
AI models take every toxic gendered beauty norm and bundle them up into completely unrealistic package Meet Madame Potato. She doesn’t actually exist, but, if things go my way, she’s going to be the world’s first “Miss AI”. I recently created her image on a website that generates AI faces and then entered her into a beauty pageant. Now I am sitting back in anticipation of netting the $20,000 grand prize.What fresh hell is this, you ask? Well, I regret to inform you that AI beauty pageants are a...
(The Center Square) – The ability for voters to repeal a Colorado law limiting their access to legislative information took a step forward recently. Initiative 287, approved by the state’s Ballot Title Setting Board last week, would overturn Senate Bill 24-157, signed into law by Democratic Gov. Jared Polis in March. The new law allows members of Colorado’s General Assembly to discuss legislative matters via email and text messaging without public disclosure. Previously, Colorado...
It's now more likely than ever than ByteDance will have to give up TikTok – or see the app banned in the US.
With no true No. 1 wide receiver on the roster after Diggs' exit, earlier this month, some might have anticipated a more abrasive posture from Allen as the Bills open offseason workouts.
Plans are underway for a new rail board to strengthen connectivity between Liverpool and Manchester
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Nine states are hashing out bills to protect minors online. Tech companies are fighting the laws with everything they’ve gotOn 6 April, Maryland became the first state in the US to pass a “Kids Code” bill, which aims to prevent tech companies from collecting predatory data from children and using design features that could cause them harm. Vermont’s legislature held its final hearing before a full vote on its Kids Code bill on 11 April. The measures are the latest in a salvo of proposed policies...