Denver Post

LOS ANGELES — The nation’s homeless population increased this year for the first time since 2010, driven by a surge in the number of people living on the streets in Los Angeles and other West Coast cities.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development released its annual Point in Time count Wednesday, a report that showed nearly 554,000 homeless people across the country during local tallies conducted in January. That figure is up nearly 1 percent from 2016.   Continue reading “America’s homeless population rises for first time in years”

Courier Journal – by Justin Sayers and Phillip M. Bailey

Jeffery Byrd squats down on a plastic crate, wearing the same white paint-splashed jeans and beige coat he’s been wearing for two weeks without a shower.

To his left is Roc Peeler, confined to a wheelchair — the rubber on its wheels worn to the rim — his way to get around after he lost his right leg to frostbite.

Their living room is a blend of dirt, brush and trash, while their walls are a web of blankets, tree limbs and chain-link fencing. Peeler, 48, sleeps in a broken tent while Byrd, 42, takes the ground — unless it is raining and the two will jam inside the small shelter.  Continue reading “As Louisville gets rid of homeless camps, some wonder: Where is the ‘compassionate city’?”

Fox News

CLEVELAND –  A Cleveland police officer acquitted of a misdemeanor charge in the 2015 fatal shooting of an unarmed teenager after a store break-in has been fired for violating the department’s use-of-force policy.

City officials say 50-year-old Alan Buford was fired Thursday for using force “greater than necessary during the incident.”   Continue reading “Cleveland police officer acquitted in fatal shooting fired”

The Intercept – by Sharon Lerner

THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION Agency has tasked a banker who was banned from the banking industry for life with oversight of the nation’s Superfund program.

In May, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation fined Oklahoma banker Albert Kelly $125,000. According to a consent order, which The Intercept obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, the FDIC had “reason to believe that [Kelly] violated a law or regulation, by entering into an agreement pertaining to a loan by the Bank without FDIC approval.”   Continue reading “Banned From The Banking Industry For Life, A Scott Pruitt Friend Finds A New Home At The EPA”

NET News – by Jack Williams

A small classroom down a hall at St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church in Lincoln is a long way from Iraq, but this is where a group of Yazidi women find themselves. They’re part of a class led by volunteer Terri Hensley, a former teacher who’s helping them learn English.

“We are learning consonants and vowels and we are starting right from scratch, so it is a very slow process,” Hensley said.   Continue reading “Yazidis From Iraq Find Welcome Refuge In Nebraska”

WKYU FM – by Rhonda Miller

South central Kentucky is expected to have 22,000 open jobs in the next five years. That’s going to intensify the current shortage of workers in the state – an issue that’s facing the entire country.

One Warren County company saw refugees arriving at the International Center in Bowling Green as the way to get ahead of the competition for quality employees.    Continue reading “Bowling Green Manufacturer Fills Jobs with Training and Translators for Immigrants”

MassPrivateI

Happy holidays everyone, the FCC, DHS and the Department of Justice just created a national Blue Alerts system.

Two weeks ago, the FCC created a national Blue Alert system that will notify everyone of a threat to law enforcement.   Continue reading “FCC creates national Blue Alert system just in time for the holidays”

The Organic Prepper

With the advent of Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, and Amazon Prime, watching a series has never been easier. No longer do you have to wait a week for the next episode – it’s right there, ready when you are. (If you’re more of a movie buff, check out this list of prepper movies.)

Preppers tend to watch programs a little differently than the rest of the world. Most of us really enjoy survival-themed TV shows because we can really get into the whole analysis of it. It’s like the prepper version of a sporting event, where we can cheer on the smart moves, analyze the situation, and yell at the screen when the characters do something that is bound to get them killed. (And often, we can pick up a few tips or think of things we hadn’t previously considered.)  Continue reading “Prepper TV: What Survival-Themed Series Should You Binge-Watch?”

American Trucker

Truckers take heed: more retail freight and new lanes may be coming to the Lone Star state within a year as Dollar General Corp. said it plans to build a new distribution center in Longview, TX, starting in 2018.

That new facility is expected to employ 400 at full capacity and serve approximately 1,000 of its retail locations in Texas and the southeast.   Continue reading “Dollar General to open second distribution center in Texas”

The Oregonian – by Molly Harbarger

The number of homeless students in Oregon increased 5.6 percent in 2016-17, according to a new count released Wednesday. The increase to 22,541 students without a permanent home of their own represents four solid years of growth in such students — and the continuation of more than a decade-long trend.

Beaverton and Portland school districts have the most homeless students in the state, according to the latest count.   Continue reading “Homeless students jump over 5 percent in Oregon, set new record high”

The Hill

The Trump administration will take its final step to repeal the Obama administration’s 2015 rule setting standards for hydraulic fracturing on federal land.

A formal notice from the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) making the repeal final was posted publicly Thursday and is due to be published in the Federal Register Friday.   Continue reading “Trump to repeal Obama fracking rule”

Bloomberg

President Donald Trump sent 26 percent fewer Mexicans back home this year through November than Barack Obama did in the same period in 2016, despite vows to crack down on illegal immigration, Mexican government data show.

About 152,000 Mexican nationals were repatriated from the U.S. between January and November, according to data from Mexico’s Interior Ministry that were first reported by Milenio newspaper. That compares with just under 205,000 in the first 11 months of 2016.   Continue reading “Trump Sends Fewer Mexicans Home Despite Deportation Talk”

Breitbart- by John Binder

The number of United States-born children who were given birthright citizenship despite at least one of their parents being an illegal alien living in the country now outnumbers one year of all American births.

A new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report reveals the booming number of U.S.-born children to illegal aliens who are given automatic citizenship, forever anchoring their families in the U.S.   Continue reading “Anchor Baby Population in U.S. Exceeds One Year of American Births”

Breitbart – by John Binder

American workers suing an India-based outsourcing firm accused of discriminating against its U.S.-born employees, while favoring Indian nationals, will get their day in court thanks to an Oakland, California federal judge.

This week, a California federal judge not only refused to throw out a case against Tata Consulting Services (TCS), one of the largest outsourcers in the U.S. of American jobs, but he also turned the case into a class-action lawsuit, according to Bloomberg.  Continue reading “Laid Off American Workers Get Their Day in Court Against Outsourcing Firm Accused of Favoring Foreigners”

Breitbart – by John Binder

There were likely 1.8 million illegal and legal immigrants who entered the United States in 2016, a new analysis from the Center for Immigration Studies reveals.

A study by researchers Steven Camarota and Karen Zeigler found that in the first six months of 2016, more than one million immigrants entered the U.S., an increase of 53 percent since 2011. In those six months, the data concludes that 1.03 million immigrants arrived in the country, more than the entire number of immigrants who entered the U.S. in 2011.  Continue reading “Study: Likely 1.8 Million Immigrants Entered the U.S. in 2016”

Reuters

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Investigators in New York City searched early on Friday for the cause of a blaze that ripped through an apartment building in the Bronx and killed 12 people including four children, in the city’s deadliest fire in at least a quarter of a century.

The fire broke out a little before 7 p.m. (0000 GMT) on the first floor of a brick building and quickly spread upstairs, city Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro told a news conference with Mayor Bill de Blasio. The cause was under investigation.   Continue reading “Fire in New York City apartment block kills 12 including four children”