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LANSING, Mich - The 2025 state budget spends $200,000 on traffic control at the Michigan International Speedway, and a prominent policy advocate is waving a red flag.
“Those dollars are headed in the wrong direction,” John Mozena, president of the Center for Economic Accountability, told Michigan Capitol Confidential in an email. “It should be NASCAR compensating taxpayers for the costs its races are imposing on the surrounding community, not the other way around.”
When fans leave the speedway, state police provide traffic control services. Attendees pay admission fees, but Michigan taxpayers foot the bill for traffic control for up to 125,000 people leaving the track.
The events turn a quiet rural area into a giant traffic jam, Mozena said, and the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing should bear the cost for traffic control. Click here to read more.
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WEST PALM BEACH, FLA - Ryan Wesley Routh was charged on Monday with two federal gun crimes in connection with his alleged assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump one day earlier.
But Routh’s interactions with authorities — and reporters — began long before he was taken into custody on Sunday after the barrel of his rifle was spotted sticking out from a bush at Trump’s West Palm Beach golf club.
Routh, who is likely to face additional charges as federal prosecutors seek an indictment, has a long history of run-ins with police.
But after years spent developing a rap sheet — that included involvement in an armed standoff with police after a traffic stop in 2002 and other lesser offenses — Routh rebranded himself as a Ukrainian resistance fighter who was taken seriously by reporters, sitting for interviews with several major media outlets the past two years, including the New York Times, Semafor, and Newsweek. Click here to read more.
OXFORD, Mass. - A Massachusetts teen is proving hard work and some free time after school pays off big.
The Cordova family says their 16-year-old son Dylan is already cruising toward a successful future.
Dylan’s new Jeep Wrangler is everything he dreamed of.
But in order to get his new set of wheels, he put in a lot of hours behind another set of wheels.
It all began in 2020 during the pandemic. Dylan was only 12 years old.
“You’re just sitting at home playing Fortnite and I wanted to save up because I wanted a Jeep. I see everyone driving a Jeep, having fun,” Dylan described. “My dad came from Guatemala, so he started working really young, too. So, I kind of wanted to follow in his footsteps.”
“I always tell them, ‘Work hard. Work for your goals because nothing comes easy. Nothing is free, especially in these times.’ You know?” Dylan’s father, Samuel Cordova said. “Everything is so expensive. I tell them, ‘Do the best you can.’” Click here to read more.
WASHINGTON D.C. - The Educational Choice for Children Act of 2024 becomes the first nationwide school choice bill to pass out of committee in U.S. history. Now it goes to the U.S. House floor, giving hope to Illinois families denied the option by state lawmakers.
For the first time in U.S. history, a federal school choice bill has passed out of committee and advanced to the U.S. House floor – a hopeful move for 15,000 low-income Illinois students whose scholarships were taken away by state lawmakers.
The U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means passed H.R. 9462, or the Educational Choice for Children Act of 2024, aimed to “help end the skilled labor shortage and expand educational scholarships for low-income families and students.” It passed the committee by a vote of 23-16 on Sept. 11. Click here to read more.
AUSTIN, TX - Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday declared the Venezuelan gang, Tren De Aragua (TDA) as a foreign terrorist organization. Texas Department of Public Safety is aggressively targeting gang members who were released into country by Biden administration, he said.
“I will not allow them to use Texas as a base of operations to terrorize our citizens,” Abbott said at a news conference in Houston. “Texas is a law and order state and I will ensure that law enforcement has every tool they need to keep our community safe.”
Tren De Aragua is characterized as “MS13 on steroids,” Abbott said, referring to a violent El Salvadoran gang. It’s “the largest criminal organization in Venezuela … that has now expanded to a transnational criminal organization … dominating the international flow of migrants from South America through Mexico into the United States.” Click here to read more.
