Whitefish!

Have you heard the story of this 2-person utility company from Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s hometown which managed to get a $300M contract from Puerto Rico to repair the territory’s electrical grid? That seems a little bit crony-ish, does it not? Well, the contract has surfaced: Boom. Leaked copy of the Puerto Rico / Whitefish …

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Trumpian excess

Every day in every way imaginable this man embarrasses the United States, its citizens, and even himself (if he had the capacity to realize it). His performance in Puerto Rico today was appalling. “Every death is a horror, but if you look at a real catastrophe like Katrina, and you look at the tremendous — …

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Harp, harp, harp

I know it. I know I’ve said enough about the US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico and their suffering from Irma’s effects. But man alive, our news media stinks sometimes. On the Evening News from both CBS and NBC their reporters in the Florida Keys repeated the same phrase: “Here, where Irma made its first …

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