WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker Nancy Pelosi is not about to blink. The Democratic leader has been here before, negotiating a deal with the White House to save the U.S. economy, and lessons from the Great Recession are now punctuating the coronavirus talks. With Republicans again balking at big government bailouts, Democratic leaders believe they have the leverage, […]
Washington, D.C. (AP), August 11 – President Donald Trump joined a U.S. senator and a number of coaches Monday in the push to save the college football season from a pandemic-forced shutdown. There was speculation that two of the five most powerful conferences — the Big Ten and the Pac-12 — might call off their […]
New Orleans (AP), August 10 – As they struggle to salvage some semblance of a campus experience this fall, U.S. colleges are requiring promises from students to help contain the coronavirus — no keg parties, no long road trips and no outside guests on campus. No kidding. Administrators warn that failure to wear masks, practice […]
Kelli Ann Cox, Publisher, The Golden Hammer On Saturday, August 8, 2020, Texas Governor Greg Abbott extended the Chinese Coronavirus disaster, by proclamation. He may have wanted us to believe that the disaster consists of a virus threat. Instead, the real disaster is government’s overreach during the political panic, which has destroyed Texas families, mangled Texas […]
BREAKING NEWS! The Golden Hammer Staff Reports Austin and Conroe, August 7 – In response to a request for an opinion from State Senator Brandon Creighton, Republican of Conroe, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued an opinion today clarifying that local government officials may not supersede Texas statutes during times of declared disaster. It’s a […]
Image: Thousands of bikers rode through the streets for the opening day of the 80th annual Sturgis Motorcycle rally Friday, Aug. 7, 2020, in Sturgis, S.D. (AP Photo/Stephen Groves) The Golden Hammer Staff Reports Conroe, Washington, D.C., Sturgis, S.D., August 7 – The total number of active cases of Chinese Coronavirus in Montgomery County is […]
AUSTIN – Governor Greg Abbott today announced that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has established four temporary COVID-19 surge testing sites in Harris County. Two testing sites in Houston and Pasadena began operations yesterday, and two testing sites in Houston and Kingwood will begin operations on Monday, August 10th. Each location […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington talks on vital COVID-19 rescue money are teetering on the brink of collapse after a marathon meeting in the Capitol Thursday night generated a wave of recriminations but little progress on the top issues confronting negotiators. “There’s a handful of very big issues that we are still very far apart” on, […]
AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton today filed a lawsuit in the 164th District Court of Harris County against Clinica Hispana in La Porte, Texas, which has both misrepresented the character of its COVID-19 testing and failed to secure patients’ sensitive personal information. Clinica Hispana claims its tests can diagnose an active infection, but the […]
Image: Just as Conroe ISD callously is raising taxes – enormously – on local taxpayers and setting them on fire economically in the midst of the COVID-19 economic depression, Thich Quang Duc set himself on fire and burned himself to death on June 11, 1963, in the middle of a busy intersection in downtown Saigon. […]