Red Wing Daily: March 28, 2024
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State
Lectern-gate is closer to resolution: The Arkansas Legislative Audit report on the high-priced $19,000+ purchase was delivered to Governor Sanders office this week; her response is due Friday. Auditors say state lawmakers will see all the report “sometime in April.”
You were right again: A March 21 FTC report says “large food and beverage retailers posted income gains during the height of the pandemic and continue to do so, calling into question the notion that higher grocery prices are simply part of complex supply chain issues.” The FTC says “some large firms ‘accelerated and distorted’ the effects of the supply chain log jam, by pressuring suppliers to give them favor over competitors.” The report names Arkansas-based Walmart and Tyson Foods, along with Kroger, Amazon, Kraft Heinz, Procter and Gamble, C & S Grocery Wholesalers, McLane Company, and Associated Wholesale Grocers…
Don’t California My Arkansas! More people moved to Arkansas from Texas and California in 2023 than any other states, DMV data shows.
You knew every piece of good legislation is subject to the Left’s unceasing lawfare. Now it’s the LEARNS Act again, as Central High’s AP African
American Studies teacher joined others to try to overturn Section 16, claiming it violates free speech rights in the U.S. Constitution. Represented by the Laux Law Group, a Little Rock civil rights law firm, plaintiffs object to the LEARNS Act bans on “indoctrination” and “critical race theory.”
National
In the “no good deed goes unpunished” category, apparently NBC didn’t ask sister MSNBC about bringing in former RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel, who debuted as a network political commentator Sunday, March 24, on NBC. MSNBC employees raised such a stink about the new hire that the CEO apologized to the company, saying MSNBC has no plans to have McDaniel on their channel. What’s the problem? Chuck Todd and other high-ranking employees and commentators cite the Republican Party’s “gaslighting” tactics as the basis for their ire. Now, just a few days later, McDaniel has been “let go” by NBC and is threatening a lawsuit to reclaim the $600,000 salary from her contract. (“her single, not-quite-20-minute interview Sunday could cost the Peacock more than $30,000 per minute, or $500 per second..”)
“Car Dependency” is a Problem: Cities are dropping parking requirements for builders, saying that will “curb carbon emissions and fight climate change” and discourage “car dependency” while removing a '“barrier to building more homes and taming housing costs.”
International
The World Health Organization imposes its will on us all— unless the U.S. stops it! The approval meetings begin on May 27. You’ve heard about the new pandemic treaty that takes a 2/3 majority for approval that will transform the WHO from a technical advisory organization
into a supra-national public health authority exercising quasi-legislative and executive powers over states; change the nature of the relationship between citizens, business enterprises, and governments domestically, and also between governments and other governments and the WHO internationally; and shift the locus of medical practice from the doctor-patient consultation in the clinic to public health bureaucrats in capital cities and WHO headquarters in Geneva and its six regional offices.
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