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California announced that it’s phasing out paraquat, a pesticide widely used in the United States that is linked to Parkinson’s disease. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 days ago - How to Catch the ‘Eclipse of the Century’ in 2027, When Spain, Egypt and Mor...On Aug. 2, Southern Europe, North Africa and the Middle East will witness a solar blockbuster with extra-long totality. If you want to see it, book soon. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 days ago
- Come for the Cottage in ‘Heated Rivalry.’ Stay for Everything Else.The chance to see the hideaway from the hit queer hockey romance lured me to Canada’s cottage country. But it was the glistening lakes and weep-worthy sunsets that won me over. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 days ago
- Congress Should Stop Russ Vought’s Latest Power Grab
It used to be fashionable to discuss federal budget politics by sagely observing that the “federal government is basically an insurance company with an army.” While the basic budget math at the heart of that quip—that social insurance and defense make up the bulk of the federal budget by far—remain true today, it elides the other big category of spending: investment. On many issues that touch Americans’ lives, such as housing, transportation, science, education, and technology, the federal government’s main lever for implementing policy is financial assistance—primarily, grants. This makes sense: depending on the project, states, counties, cities, nonprofits, academics, researchers, or other actors might be better suited to accomplish a policy goal than federal agencies, employees, or vendors on contract. The role of executive agencies here is akin to that of an investment analyst: federal actors look for ways to spend money in furtherance of their board’s (i.e., Congress’s) goals, attempting to weigh the costs and benefits of aiding potential awardees. Some of these programs are well known (at least among wonks): the National Science Foundation’s scientific grants, the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Community Development Block Grant program, federal highway funding, and so on. Some work in quieter ways: a cursory glance at Grants.gov reveals funding opportunities to improve tribal court capacity, rural development, renal disease research, and promote novel methods of education. In each of these cases and thousands of others, Congress has chosen to implement its policy priorities by supporting the work of third parties, rather than having the government do that work itself. This makes the mechanism by which grants are awarded extremely important: bad process can mean mission failure. Earlier this year, the Office of Management and Budget proposed a fundamental change to the grantmaking process. The OMB’s new regulatory scheme introduces political review into the award process and new discretionary termination clauses into grant agreements, among other changes. The proposed regulatory change represents the latest in a string of efforts led by OMB Director Russ Vought to downsize agencies, overturn congressional spending decisions, politicize the bureaucracy, and, as he wrote in Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership, to “bend or break the bureaucracy to the presidential will.” If the proposal comes to fruition, all new grants would need to survive evaluation by “senior appointees” for alignment with administration priorities. Those awards that make it through the gauntlet would then become subject to… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 days ago - Amazon is using Twitch to train generative AI
The streaming platform's users criticised the move to allow the use of channel content for AI training. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 days ago
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California announced that it’s phasing out paraquat, a pesticide widely used in the United States that is linked to Parkinson’s disease. [TheTopNews] Read More.
2 days ago
On Aug. 2, Southern Europe, North Africa and the Middle East will witness a solar blockbuster with extra-long totality. If you want to see it, book soon. [TheTopNews] Read More.
2 days ago
The chance to see the hideaway from the hit queer hockey romance lured me to Canada’s cottage country. But it was the glistening lakes and weep-worthy sunsets that won me over. [TheTopNews] Read More.
2 days ago
It used to be fashionable to discuss federal budget politics by sagely observing that the “federal government is basically an insurance company with an army.” While the basic budget math at the heart of that quip—that social insurance and defense make up the bulk of the federal budget by far—remain true today, it elides the other big category of spending: investment. On many issues that touch Americans’ lives, such as housing, transportation, science, education, and technology, the federal government’s main lever for implementing policy is financial assistance—primarily, grants. This makes sense: depending on the project, states, counties, cities, nonprofits, academics, researchers, or other actors might be better suited to accomplish a policy goal than federal agencies, employees, or vendors on contract. The role of executive agencies here is akin to that of an investment analyst: federal actors look for ways to spend money in furtherance of their board’s (i.e., Congress’s) goals, attempting to weigh the costs and benefits of aiding potential awardees. Some of these programs are well known (at least among wonks): the National Science Foundation’s scientific grants, the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Community Development Block Grant program, federal highway funding, and so on. Some work in quieter ways: a cursory glance at Grants.gov reveals funding opportunities to improve tribal court capacity, rural development, renal disease research, and promote novel methods of education. In each of these cases and thousands of others, Congress has chosen to implement its policy priorities by supporting the work of third parties, rather than having the government do that work itself. This makes the mechanism by which grants are awarded extremely important: bad process can mean mission failure. Earlier this year, the Office of Management and Budget proposed a fundamental change to the grantmaking process. The OMB’s new regulatory scheme introduces political review into the award process and new discretionary termination clauses into grant agreements, among other changes. The proposed regulatory change represents the latest in a string of efforts led by OMB Director Russ Vought to downsize agencies, overturn congressional spending decisions, politicize the bureaucracy, and, as he wrote in Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership, to “bend or break the bureaucracy to the presidential will.” If the proposal comes to fruition, all new grants would need to survive evaluation by “senior appointees” for alignment with administration priorities. Those awards that make it through the gauntlet would then become subject to… [TheTopNews] Read More.
2 days ago
The streaming platform's users criticised the move to allow the use of channel content for AI training. [TheTopNews] Read More.
2 days ago
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