Since fiscal 1991, Citizens Against Government Waste has identified a whopping 132,434 earmarks costing $460.3 billion. That’s a lot of slop in the trough.
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City, county face financial consequences for property rights violations.
The CBO said that it expects this year’s federal deficit to hit $2 trillion, almost $400 billion higher than the original estimate it released — and Biden boasted about — earlier.
Golden State “price-gouging” law could raise gasoline prices further.
“We understand clearly that he is in prison to get exchanged,” Yevegny Smirnov, a Russian attorney, told The New York Times.
When the subject of University of Nevada, Las Vegas athletics comes up, the consistent success of the men’s basketball program — the flagship sport for the school, and one that’s actually profitable — carries the conversation. The flip side of that dialogue, however, is the struggling football program. The Rebels have posted two-win seasons in seven of the past nine years, including the past three, and they’ve had just one winning season in the past 18 years. Football subsidizes every other sport at most major universities; at UNLV it’s a money-loser.
The next time Hollywood needs to film a scene of mass chaos for the latest end-of-the-world thriller — think epic traffic jams, desperate drivers and a crush of humanity — the Las Vegas Valley has hundreds of potential locations, no casting calls necessary.