President tells Democrats he will not cooperate with inquiry absent due process

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/impeachment-inquiry-white-house-not-comply-pelosi

Partly in response to the handling of Rep Schiff’s abuse of process in the interview of envoy Kurt Volker, the White House council sent a letter to Congressional Democrats informing them there will be no further cooperation with their inquires absent a vote by the House on a formal impeachment inquiry under House  rules providing due process. Continue reading “President tells Democrats he will not cooperate with inquiry absent due process” →

NYT and WSJ running stories from the same NW PA city on the same day? WTH?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/erie-hit-rock-bottom-the-former-factory-hub-thinks-it-has-a-way-out-11570440601?mod=hp_listb_pos2

I can’t read the WSJ story (pay wall). I did read the NYT piece. I just thought it strange that 2 of the most widely read national publications went to Erie, PA at a similar time. One for a story on Obama-Trump voters, one a story about trying to save the city.

Full disclosure: I grew up in Erie and left in 1984. I didn’t know any one at the old GE plant and every other industry was going or gone. The only option was the military as my academic career had, shall we say, partied out.

I was there Labor Day weekend for a Memorial Service for my mother, who had moved to Suffolk to be closer to family. I drove around town in dismay at how bad it had gotten. Even some of the nicer middle class neighborhoods appeared to be struggling. What was once a hotbed of production has become so downtrodden, I’m not sure anyone, Democrat or Republican can save it.