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Colleen Wordock retweeted
📍Dodge City, Kansas
In September, this majority-Hispanic farming community was shaken by a federal ICE operation.
There were protests, businesses temporarily closed, people stopped going to work, children were absent from school.
Now, there is bipartisan acknowledgment that a central aspect of President Trump's policy agenda maybe went overboard...and is now motivating people to turn out and vote in the state's surprisingly close U.S. Senate race between Senator Roger Marshall and Adam Hamilton.
"I know that that was an insane turning point," a Democratic community organizer told us.
“It’s not even reasonable to think we’re gonna round them all up and send them out of this country because some of them don’t even have another country that they know," a prominent Republican farmer and business owner said.
When did Kansas last elect a Democrat to the Senate?
1932.
Colleen Wordock retweeted
Special Report:
A board tasked with releasing documents from decades-old Civil Rights cold cases will shut down in weeks unless Congress acts.
I traveled to NC where documents have shed light on the mysterious deaths of two Black WWII veterans.
WATCH: bit.ly/4zfjx3T
Colleen Wordock retweeted
The shuttered San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station along the southern California coast still houses 3.6 million pounds of spent nuclear fuel - a concern for the surrounding community for decades.
@RepMikeLevin tells me he feels confident that the federal government is making real progress towards a long-term solution to store nuclear waste in a more stable environment, and eventually move the radioactive materials out of SONGS. The Department of Energy agrees.
A closer look: spectrumlocalnews.com/us/snp…
Election forecasters move central Kentucky race to 'toss-up'
@ErinKYSpectrum reports on KY politics spectrumnews1.com/ky/louisvi…
Colleen Wordock retweeted
8 days out from Election Day 🗳️
Here's where President Trump and Vice President @JDVance are campaigning this week ⬇️
Trump:
‣ Oct. 26: Corinth, Mississippi
‣ Oct. 27: Corpus Christi + Lubbock, Texas
‣ Oct. 28: Chillicothe, Ohio
‣ Oct. 30: Daytona, Florida
‣ Nov. 1: Dubuque, Iowa
Vance:
‣ Oct. 26: Belgrade, Montana + Topeka, Kansas
‣ Oct. 27: Howell, Michigan
‣ Oct. 29: Weatherford, Texas
Colleen Wordock retweeted
From NYC to LA, Spectrum News mailed 213 letters to local addresses. 89 took longer than two business days to be delivered, a 41.7% failure rate. Several took a week or more ... The timeliness of mail delivery has implications for the upcoming election
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Sen. Tillis chats w/@ReubenJones1 about his controversial book, regrets and future of GOP
He regrets voting for a number of the president’s cabinet picks including HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
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Colleen Wordock retweeted
Asked by my colleague @ekoslof if payments to Camp Lejeune toxic water victims will be dependent on midterm results, Trump says if Republicans lose it makes it hard -- "maybe they won't get their money."
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Fact-Check:
Who controls Congress doesn't impact payments for Camp Lejeune toxic water victims.
Congress already passed legislation in 2022 letting victims seek compensation from the federal govt.
The claims are with the federal Navy and DOJ, not Congress.
My report from yesterday: spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/cha…
Snail Mail - Spectrum News tested the U.S. Postal Service’s ability to meet its own standards for delivering local mail.
More than 40% of the hundreds of letters sent to local addresses in the investigation were delivered late.
spectrumlocalnews.com/us/snp…
Colleen Wordock retweeted
SPECIAL REPORT:
I spent a week on the road traveling through battleground North Carolina.
I spoke with dozens of voters and candidates for their thoughts on Trump and whether Democrats could make gains in the state.
WATCH my mini-documentary: youtube.com/watch?v=dkgDCJ1S… #ncpol
WATCH: @ReubenJones1 on the campaign trail in NC.
Rep. Don Davis in tough re-election fight after redistricting spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/cha…
Colleen Wordock retweeted
Watch: Thom Tillis is out with a new book today, weeks before he leaves the Senate.
He rips into the Trump Administration, expresses regret and at times criticizes the president in the profanity-laded book.
More: spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/cha… #ncpol
WATCH:
Hardwood Hardship: Kentucky's lumber industry looks for relief
“There’s a lot of sleepless nights in this business, but we love doing it”
spectrumnews1.com/ky/louisvi…
Colleen Wordock retweeted
“We had in excess of 11 or 12 sawmills independently owned ... we are the last sawmill in this county that does what we’re doing left, and to me, it breaks my heart.”
In Kentucky, 78 wood industry facilities, mostly sawmills, have closed from 2022-26.
spectrumnews1.com/ky/louisvi…
Colleen Wordock retweeted
SCOOP: The Bureau of Prisons will announce today the launch of its First Step Act Office tasked with overseeing implementation of the First Step Act statute across the federal prison system.
It comes nearly 8 years after the legislation was signed into law. spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/ca…
Colleen Wordock retweeted
As the Senate gets closer to passing its version of the Farm Bill, pork producers are pleading with lawmakers to include a "fix" to Prop 12 — a landmark California law that required pork sold in the state be raised within a specific minimum space requirement.
The years-long battle for producers against the measure seemed to be one step closer to resolution after the House included the Save Our Bacon Act in its version of the Farm Bill. The legislation states that while California can enforce the rules of Proposition 12 within state borders, no state can enact or enforce, directly or indirectly, a standard on the production of livestock.
But the Senate version does not include such a provision, leading some producers and even Republican lawmakers to express frustration. More: specne.ws/pfBCQp
Colleen Wordock retweeted
“Oh, it’s really getting me now.”
@Rep_Whitesides is getting in on the Hot Ones trend and has launched his own show, dubbed “Capitol Heat” on YouTube to talk with fellow lawmakers about what makes them tick — all while eating incredibly hot wings.
Do I have the strength to make it through? Story drops tomorrow - stay tuned!
Colleen Wordock retweeted
"The president should probably take a look at the top 10 states for danger and look at who's governing it."
Sen. Thom Tillis reacts to Trump's speech in NC last night when he called NC "one of the most violent and one of the worst in the whole nation."
Latest FBI crime estimates shows North Carolina ranks #21 on list of states with highest rates of violent crime.
1. Alaska
2. New Mexico
3. Arkansas
4. Louisiana
5. Tennessee
6. Kansas
7. California
8. Colorado
9. Montana
10. Missouri
....21. North Carolina
The FBI also says violent crime nationally saw its biggest decline from 24'-'25 in its history of tracking.
Video shot by @ABonnerNews #ncpol
Colleen Wordock retweeted
Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell returns to the Senate for the first time since mid-June.
@SpectrumNewsDC @SpectrumNews1KY