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Biden Admin Unveils $3 Billion for Push to Replace All Lead Pipes in 10 Years
The Biden administration announced $3 billion in funding for its initiative to get rid of every lead pipe in the U.S. over the next ten years on Thursday.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unveiled the funding, which comes from the bipartisan infrastructure package of 2021 and is part of a larger $15 billion push to replace every lead pipe in the U.S. within a decade. President Joe Biden will tout his administration’s lead pipe removal spending at a Thursday event in North Carolina, according to the White House.
NEWS FROM THE STATES
Top Biden Official Visits Arizona Passport Office, 911 Call Center but Not Southern Border in Trip to Understand Impact of Synthetic Opioids
Biden administration Secretary of State of State Antony Blinken on Friday visited Tuscon to participate in a "roundtable on synthetic drugs." Despite visiting an emergency services call center and a passport office, he did not visit the southern border.
A State Department itinerary of Blinken's schedule on Friday reveals he was slated to arrive at the Tucson Passport Center at 11:20 a.m. for a "meet and greet" with local employees.
COMMENTARY
Commentary: Typically, That General Is Removed
by Stuart Scheller Do general officers have an obligation to publicly tell the truth? I have an interesting perspective on this question. Currently, the Marine Corps teaches my story at the E-8 seminar (senior enlisted school). If you remember, I was the Marine officer who, via video, made a plea for accountability from military […]
ENTERTAINMENT & LIFESTYLE
Music Spotlight: Skip Ewing
Donald Ralph "Skip" Ewing is a musician’s musician. To say that his singing and songwriting are brilliant is an understatement. And he can play almost any stringed instrument.
He said, “I don’t remember when I couldn’t play a guitar. I took a woman's pink foam curler, took the plastic out of it, and stuck it up under my strings so I could play late into the night without the guitar making a sound.”