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Maine Casts Its Ballot for Trump
30Dec By adminNo Comments
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Maine Casts Its Ballot for Trump

This week’s huge in-kind contribution to Donald Trump’s re-election campaign is from Maine secretary of state Shenna Bellows, who announced Thursday that she will unilaterally delete Mr. Trump’s name from the presidential primary ballot. Maine is now the second state, after Colorado, to declare him a Jan. 6 insurrectionist under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. Paging the U.S. Supreme Court, alas.Ms. Bellows’s administrative ruling largely tracks the opinion last week from the Colorado Supreme Court, except she blows through all the knotty legal questions in a breezy 34 pages. Section 3 was passed after the Civil War to stop Confederates who “engaged in insurrection” from retaking government posts. Applying it to Mr. Trump and the riot on Jan. 6, 2021, involves a series of dubious legal p...
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Civil War Gaffe Undercuts Nikki Haley’s 2024 Pitch
29Dec By adminNo Comments
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Civil War Gaffe Undercuts Nikki Haley’s 2024 Pitch

Updated Dec. 29, 2023 10:24 am ETRepublican Nikki Haley, who until this week had run a disciplined and largely error-free presidential campaign, has been forced into an uncomfortable and unexpected new chore: doing cleanup on a blunder related to the Civil War and slavery.The former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador was forced into defensive mode after she omitted slavery from an answer she gave at a New Hampshire campaign event where she was asked what prompted the Civil War. Her long-winded response avoided giving the answer to a basic question most learned in grade school, teeing up a barrage of criticism from political foes.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Maine Becomes Second State to Bar Trump From 2024 Primary Ballot
29Dec By adminNo Comments
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Maine Becomes Second State to Bar Trump From 2024 Primary Ballot

Updated Dec. 28, 2023 8:06 pm ETMaine’s top election official on Thursday barred Donald Trump from appearing on the state’s primary ballot, marking the second state to knock the Republican former president off its ballot and escalating a national legal effort to disqualify him from office.In a 34-page written decision, Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, a Democrat, said Trump isn’t qualified to hold office because of his actions surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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As Pressure on Harvard President Increases, University Board Feels the Squeeze
25Dec By adminNo Comments
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As Pressure on Harvard President Increases, University Board Feels the Squeeze

Dec. 24, 2023 10:32 pm ETIn the wake of calls for the resignation of Harvard President Claudine Gay, a growing number of faculty members are turning their focus to the other 11 members of the powerful governing board that runs the school.Some faculty are calling for members of the Harvard Corporation, the university’s board, to resign or apologize and one professor has even floated to the governor of Massachusetts a new governance structure for the school that would give lawmakers the chance to appoint a board member to represent the public interest.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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In Sedona, a Rust-Covered Home Is Disguised by the Desert Landscape
25Dec By adminNo Comments
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In Sedona, a Rust-Covered Home Is Disguised by the Desert Landscape

Ian and Anne Rowland are married software engineers who can work from almost anywhere. And that, during New England’s long gray winters, means anywhere but Cambridge, Mass. “We wanted a place that felt very different from our home, and a building that reminded us of that difference, even if we were sitting inside, working,” Ian says.That explains why they built a vacation house in Sedona, Ariz. If you’re trying to avoid gray, there is no better place than that Yavapai County town, which is set among some of the reddest rocks on earth.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Facing Housing Shortages, Cities Try Cramming More Units on Lots
24Dec By adminNo Comments
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Facing Housing Shortages, Cities Try Cramming More Units on Lots

The Austin duplex Jane Kurzawa Cravey and her then-husband moved into in 1979 was rundown, but the couple was able to use rental income from the second unit to pay off most of the mortgage and make improvements.As her property taxes climbed over the years, Cravey wanted to add a third unit as a way to pay off taxes and debts. She couldn’t make it work under the city’s regulations—until this year when Austin, Texas, changed its land development code to allow for up to three units on single-family lots. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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The Joy of the Boston Tea Party, 250 Years Later
16Dec By adminNo Comments
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The Joy of the Boston Tea Party, 250 Years Later

A wooden ship called the Dartmouth sailed into Boston Harbor 250 years ago carrying 114 chests of East India Co. tea that brewed, in a way, the American Revolution. On Dec. 16, 1773, fewer than 20 days after the Dartmouth’s arrival from London, dozens of Bostonians climbed aboard and dumped the tea into the harbor, protesting a Parliament-imposed tea tax. The event was recognized immediately as a world-changing event by perceptive observers. “The most magnificent Movement of all,” John Adams wrote in his diary the next day.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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House Condemns Campus Antisemitism Testimony of Penn, Harvard, MIT Presidents  
14Dec By adminNo Comments
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House Condemns Campus Antisemitism Testimony of Penn, Harvard, MIT Presidents  

Updated Dec. 13, 2023 9:51 pm ETThe House voted Wednesday to condemn the testimony of the three university presidents whose comments on campus antisemitism last week sparked calls for their resignation.The bipartisan resolution, which passed 303-126, with three members voting present, cited the presidents’ responses to a line of questioning from House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik of New York. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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