• Ronna McDaniel was able to squeeze more than $100K from the RNC before she was forced out

    Even as former Republican National Committee (RNC) chair Ronna McDaniel fights to receive a full payout from the six-figure NBC contract she signed before she was let go, she still enjoys a comfortable severance package from her time at the RNC. McDaniel was paid $118,769.99 two days before Donald Trump's takeover of the RNC, where he placed his daughter-in-law Lara Trump in the position of co-chair. The sum was the largest single payout to McDaniel ever reported by the Committee, The Daily...

  • Letter from London: Letters from Everywhere

    Despite writing this letter each week, I still wonder why so few of us write real ones anymore. I was thinking of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, who corresponded frequently but met only once: ‘The present racial crisis in this country carries within it powerful destructive ingredients that may soon erupt into an uncontrollable explosion,’ More

  • Female Secret Service agent with troubling history allegedly becomes violent with colleagues: 'Never should have been hired'

    An erratic and apparently violent outburst from a female Secret Service agent earlier this week has sparked questions regarding agency hiring practices and recent initiatives to increase the number of female agents.Michelle Herczeg seemed to have a bad day on Monday. The Secret Service agent arrived at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland around 9 a.m. as part of a security detail for Vice President Kamala Harris, who was scheduled to depart the base later that morning.Before Harris ever arrived,...

  • Planet Fitness hires progressive new CEO who has pushed DEI-based hiring despite backlash over gym banning member who reported trans woman shaving in female locker room

    Colleen Keating will take over as Planet Fitness CEO on June 10. Franchise still experiencing backlash over its trans inclusive locker policy. Shares plunged three percent following Keating's announcement

  • Letters: This is America

    I read the letter to The Madera Tribune (April 3) by Chuck Wieland and the reply (April 10) by John Wright. I appreciated the comments by Wieland about Trump, the Republican party and the colorful language.“Let’s not be silently complicit in transforming America into a Bizarro World. Or Amerika.” Wright wrote that regarding Wieland’s comments, he was “stunned, disgusted and disappointed.” I feel that I have to inform Wright that not everyone in Madera County is a MAGA Trumper. That anyone who...

  • Letter: No one is above the law

    “[Donald Trump] thinks he’s being persecuted, but he’s simply being held to account for his alleged actions, as every other citizen of this country would be.”

  • A love letter to Yankee Stadium

    Imagine this: It’s a gorgeous 70-degree spring day, and you make the spontaneous decision to celebrate the pleasant weather with a good old-fashioned baseball game with your friends. You buy some cheap, last-minute tickets, take a quick subway trip to Yankee Stadium and have the most perfect day, ending with a hot dog bigger than This story A love letter to Yankee Stadium appeared first on Washington Square News.

  • Sunday Thoughts: Never Anonymous

    As Christians, we tend to emphasize the heroic men and women of the Bible and from church history — and rightly so since they’re the names and histories that we know. But how often have you thought about the incidental people in the Bible?

  • Letter: More of the same as Trump goes to trial

    So now it’s begun — round one of a probably endless stream of Donald Trump show-and-tells. Except, probably a lot of showing and little telling.

  • Letter to an incoming CS student

    Sonnet Xu writes a letter with heartfelt advice addressed to incoming CS students.

  • Baxter hires patrol officer

    And a host of other business from the Baxter City Council.

  • Letters: Single-payer plan

    East Bay Times Letters to the Editor for April 25, 2024