Mattis Aide’s Tell-All Book Cleared for Release After Months-Long Delay by the Pentagon
Zach Gibson/Getty A former aide to Defense Secretary James Mattis is moving forward with the release of a book his publisher has hyped as a “sometimes shocking account” of the Pentagon under President Donald Trump, less than two weeks after he sued the Pentagon over claims that officials delayed its release to help Mattis. Guy…
North Carolina Republicans Used an Insane Dirty Trick to Cut Corporate Taxes
North Carolina Republican House Speaker Tim Moore. Travis Long/The News & Observer via AP Just nine Democratic members of North Carolina’s House of Representatives were present early Wednesday morning when Republicans called a surprise vote to override Gov. Roy Cooper’s (D) veto of the state budget. With a little more than half of the 120…
LA Signs Deal For Cheap Solar Power
Los Angeles has finalized a deal to buy solar power at a record low price: Under the 25-year deal with developer 8minute Solar Energy, the city would buy electricity from a sprawling complex of solar panels and lithium-ion batteries in the Mojave Desert of eastern Kern County, about two hours north of Los Angeles. The…
NYT: White House Directly Pressured NOAA
The New York Times surprises no one today by reporting that the White House was directly involved in ordering NOAA to agree with President Trump: Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, told Wilbur Ross, the commerce secretary, to have the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration publicly disavow the forecasters’ position that Alabama…
House Democrats Are Examining Whether the Middleman in Trump’s Secret Moscow Deal Withheld Information
Felix Sater arrives for his closed-door testimony before the House Intelligence Committee on July 9, 2019. Stefani Reynolds/CNP via Zuma When the Democrats took over the House of Representatives, there seemed to be the promise of vigorous investigations and high-profile hearings related to a long array of Donald Trump controversies, including the Trump-Russia scandal and…
Trump Tried to Bully NOAA. Its Chief Scientist Just Released a Remarkable Letter to Fight Back.
Evan Vucci/AP NOAA Acting Chief Scientist Craig McLean sent a letter over the weekend to the agency’s staff to address the controversy that ensued after President Donald Trump falsely claimed that Hurricane Dorian was headed for Alabama. On Tuesday, NOAA publicly released that letter, following a wild week when the normally understated agency was in…