Up next on #FridayNightZillow, a gorgeous, historic 8BR, 4BAs mansion with a large yard in central Bangor, Maine — share a city with Stephen King and Susan Collins! — for $599K zillow.com/homedetails/48…
Historic Missouri mansion on *7 acres* is a looker and is just... $350K? WHAT?
I just love this mansion; love the layout, the kitchen, the floors, the enormous pool, the views, the arches, the bathrooms, the master bedroom that's bigger than some houses.
This compound's better, but pricier. 850K gets you 15K square feet in assorted buildings, a mess of bedrooms and kitchens and a barn and an 8-car garage and whatnot, on 23 acres of ranch.
Warning, this next #FridayNightZillow listing is the kind that might make you cry.
Montana. Lakefront. Huge glass doors open up the house to the deck. The only thing I don't like about it is they mounted a TV above a fireplace. For shame!
If you are a young reporter wanting to understand Washington, you could do worse than reading the budget from start to finish. On almost any page you can find a multi-decade saga if you look hard enough.
The wrong way to read it is just as a bunch of numbers. Why is there breast cancer research in DOD of all places? There’s a fun story behind that. Why do government rocket launches cost so much more than private launches? Another story. Every line item started somewhere.
My favorite are the charts in the back. They are key to putting in perspective other stories. You should know, for example, that the Gov’t will spend ~$62T on autopilot over the next decade. A $6T increase would be a little less than 10%. And so on.
Early December: Hostages released in massive year-end budget deal just in time for Christmas recess
Also May-November: Complaints about all of the hostage-taking from whomever wants the hostage released.
Last year, the biggest hostage was COVID relief. For much of the year, McConnell held it hostage to his demand for a legal liability waiver Dems oppose; Dems held hostage over that and desire for a bigger package.
“Castrate, kill, remove voting rights,” the soon-to-be Georgia sheriff's deputy wrote in a text found by the FBI. “The only problem is you can’t expect to get them all that way.”
"I’m going to charge them with whatever felonies I can to take away their ability to vote," read one text. One text described beating up a Black person as "stress relief." (!)
The deputy and ex-Marine was found with an arsenal of weapons, pled guilty to a weapons charge and will be sentenced in August, AJC reports.