Politics
With Amazon coming, metro D.C. families face rising rents, longer commutes
January 3, 2019Various cities had been bidding for the HQ, in the usual way: Offering millions of dollars in “concessions” to a company worth a trillion dollars.
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Workers scramble to pay bills as Trump shutdown drags on
December 27, 2018One union leader says, “If the president wants to gamble, perhaps he should go back to running casinos. Gambling with the lives of federal workers is not acceptable."
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Trump’s holiday ‘gift’ to the needy: No more Medicaid or food stamps
December 21, 2018Ebenezer Scrooge has met his match in Donald Trump.
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Trump denied money for border wall; vows government shutdown
December 20, 2018The question now is whether Trump will sign the legislation or hold the entire country hostage for his planned wall along the Mexican border.
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Federal workers union asks Congress to stop Trump’s government shutdown
December 18, 2018Trump adamantly demands Congress fund his Mexican border wall, or he'll shut the government down.
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