#political-issues

#political-issues

The Federal Reserve's long-planned renovation of its Washington, D.C. headquarters has turned into a $2.5 billion political flashpoint. Initially estimated at $1.9 billion in 2021, the cost of overhauling the Fed's historic Marriner S. Eccles Building and its adjacent Federal Reserve East Building has jumped by over 30%.

Guarding Oakland's public facilities is among the most lucrative contracts in the city, with a potential lifetime value of $45 million.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer plans to urge French President Emmanuel Macron to implement stricter measures against refugee and migrant crossings of the English Channel.

Twelve months after Labour's landslide election win, Keir Starmer's government faces political dishevelment and ineptitude, with the welfare reform bill now a meaningless shell.

According to Feinberg, 2023, in Social, Psychological, and Personality Science: "Incivility is both attention-grabbing and morally distasteful, and in line with work showing the primacy of morality, the negative influence moral disapproval has on interest, outweighs any positive influence gained by being attention-grabbing."

The recent lawsuit settlement concerning rent inflation in DC, amounting to $1 million, could provide temporary relief for tenants affected by skyrocketing housing costs.

"Well, habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country, and to suspend their right to advancement..."

Over half of the junior ministers appointed still lack legal responsibilities, highlighting delays in delegation and concerns about the government's urgency in defining roles.

There's simply no limit of problems in telecom and media that competent FCC regulators could be taking aim at.

The climate's changed, the building environment has changed, [and] goodness knows how we're going for resources.

Art in these periods retains its worth by that nourishing, a connection not just to joy but to rage and despair and every ugly thing we might otherwise keep down.