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Michigan's road conditions deteriorated ashighways improved nationwide, according to a new report by the Reason Foundation.

Thestate ranked34th nationallyin highway performance and cost effectiveness in 2021, dropping 10 spots in the libertarian think tank's Annual Highway Report compared to the 2020 report, and landingin the bottom 10 states in several measured categories.

The report released Thursday looked at highway data from 2019 and congestion data from 2020, and gradesstate roads in 13 categories. Those include pavement condition, traffic congestion, bridge structures, traffic fatalitiesand spending per mile.

Michigan was one of only four states, includingNew Mexico, Ohio and South Carolina, to declinein the rankings by 10 spots or more in the same time period, compared with the 2020 report, which looked at 2018 and 2019.

There were1,219 bridges and more than 7,300 miles of highway in poor condition in Michigan, according to an August report released by the White House.

Since 2011,commute times have increased by 4.6% in the state andindividual drivers paid an average of$644 ayear in costs related to driving on damaged roads.

The report came days after President Joe Biden signed into lawthebipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act which will include around $7.8billion in fundingfor highway and bridge repairs over five years in Michigan.

This is in addition to the $3.5 billion of bonds that the Michigan Department of Transportation was authorized to issueover fouryearsforthe repair and rehabilitation of 122 major highways, per the self-described "Fix the Damn Roads" governor,Gretchen Whitmer's request.

The fiscal year 2019 budget wasset by the Legislature under the Snyder administration.

"Our pavement is deteriorating more quickly than we can maintain itwith current funding levels," said Diane Cross, a spokeswoman for the Michigan Department of Transport, on Sunday."The governor's $3.5 billion Rebuilding Michigan plan, now complemented by the federal IIJA, will slow the decline but everyone agrees that long term, we need more and sustainable investment."

The Governor's Office said Whitmer is working on the roads and acknowledged more work was needed to "make up for the prior decades of disinvestment" and working with the Legislature and federal government for more funding.

After decades of disinvestment in the states aging infrastructure, Michigan has made a strong shift toward focusing on the type of investments that we need to rebuild roads and bridges across the state," saidBobby Leddy, press secretary for Whitmer.

"Since taking office, Governor Whitmer has fixed more than 9,000 miles of roads and secured additional funding to fix 100 bridges in serious or critical condition without raising taxes. And the governors Rebuilding Michigan plan is creating tens of thousands of good-paying jobs to fix our states roads and bridges with the right mix and material to ensure the repairs last longer."

Michigan's best rankings in the Reason Foundation's report were in the rural fatality and overall fatality rates on highways, 7th and 14th respectively.

On the other end of the findings, thestate's worst rankingswere in urban Interstate pavement condition and congestion, with commuters spending 42.07 hours a year in rush hour traffic. Drivers in onlyfour other states in the country spend more than 40 hours in traffic, according to the report; New York, New Jersey, Delaware and Illinois.

"Despite not having a metro area that ranks in the top 10 for population, Michigan has the fifth worst traffic congestion in the country, said Baruch Feigenbaum, lead author of the reportand senior managing director of transportation policy at Reason Foundation.

Compared to nearby states, the report found that Michigans overall highway performance is worse than Wisconsin,Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania, but better than Illinois.

"Michigan is one of the few states that could benefit from spending slightly more on its highway system to improve the overall condition," continued Feigenbaum.

Michigan spends around $92,500 per mile of state-controlled road.

The country's most cost-effective highway systems, according to the report, were North Dakota, Virginia, Missouri, Kentuckyand North Carolina, while the worst combination of highway performance and cost effectiveness was found in New Jersey,RhodeIsland, Alaska, Hawaii, and New York.

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Another day, another right-wing Australian Labor Party (ALP) power broker in the dock. This time, its Adem Somyureks turn. Formerly the convener of Victorias Labor Right faction, this month he testified before the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission (IBAC).

Prior to being exposed, Somyurek served in Victorian Labor premier Daniel Andrewss cabinet as the minister for small business and local government. In June this year, Somyurek resigned from the ALP after the partys federal leader, Anthony Albanese, moved to expel him. With no principles or power left to lose, Somyurek has opted for a scorched-earth strategy. Last week, he posed as an unlikely defender of democracy by pledging his upper-house vote against Daniel Andrewss controversial pandemic laws, earning praise from the right-wing Daily Mail and Murdochs Herald Sun.

The week before, Somyurek decided to lay all of his cards on the table before the IBAC. Because he knows more than perhaps anyone about the Victorian ALPs systematically corrupt practices, his testimony is a fascinating insight into Labors party machine. Its also a window into the mindset that regards this corruption as completely normal.

Somyureks self-justifications ranged from the sublimely cynical to the ridiculous. For example, he claimed that branch stacking was affirmative action by stealth for ethnic minorities. A little bit of corruption isnt corrupt, he suggested, as long as it is kept proportionate. Collecting and completing ballots en masse, Somyurek proposed, should be understood as part of an Asian collectivist ethos, opposed to Anglo-Saxon individualistic libertarianism.

As eyebrow-raising as most of Somyureks excuses for corruption were, he was right about one thing. At one point in the hearing, IBAC commissioner Robert Redlich stated that Somyurek is living proof of the consequences of being brought up over decades in this unethical culture. Somyurek agreed, before adding, The trick is not to just think its me, and Im an aberration, and Im an outlier. Im not. He was right patronage and corruption is the Labor Rights business model.

Somyurek wasnt the only one combining the responsibilities of elected office with factional maneuvering. His staff members also spent time organizing for the Right faction, also on the public payroll. While sitting in state-funded offices, Somyureks staffers ran right-wing branch meetings. While collecting state-funded salaries, they harvested ALP ballot papers from members of stacked-out branches before filling them out in bulk to secure the preselection of right-wing factional allies.

Using public funds in this way isnt a new development for Labors dominant right-wing faction. Although New South Wales Labor probably holds the distinction of being Labors most corrupt state branch, Victorian Labor is a close second.

From 2015 to 2018, the red shirts scandal dogged the Victorias branch of the ALP. The party employed part-time electorate officers, who are publicly funded and prohibited from engaging in political activities during working hours, to don red shirts and organize electoral campaigns in marginal seats. The intention was to save Labor money and allow it to spend more than Australias strict electoral finance caps. The party paid these red shirts as part-time campaigners, while their wages were topped up by their sinecure employment as electorate officers. The result was that the red shirts effectively campaigned full time on public money.

As the Victorian ombudsman Deborah Glass found in 2018, the red shirts notionally worked for MPs who had limited contact with their employees. The politicians were uniformly (and conveniently) unaware of what their paid staff actually did day to day. Following a Herald Sun investigation and a High Court appeal, the Victorian ombudsman concluded that twenty-one Labor MPs had misused $388,000 of public money. In early November, whistleblowers leaked police files revealing that the fraud squad wanted to arrest and charge up to sixteen right-wing Labor MPs. However, senior Victoria police officers intervened to prevent these arrests and ensure that the case files remained secret.

To most observers, the red shirts scheme seemed outrageous. Meanwhile, Labor Right activists could be forgiven for wondering what all the fuss was about. For them, these kinds of practices are entirely normal.

Its not hard to understand their logic. Every member of parliament is granted funding to employ multiple full-time electoral officers, paid up to $269,631 per annum. In theory, these staff members are paid to respond to letters from constituents and to act on their complaints. In practice, very few people can name the local MP who is supposed to represent them. Fewer still would think of lodging complaints with their office.

As a result, electorate officers are free to spend their time on party activities or campaigning in elections. For upper house MPs, its even easier to use electorate officers for factional work because the upper house is elected by proportional representation, and MPs have no particular constituents. Unsurprisingly, therefore, the red shirts scandal centered on Victorias upper house.

If parliamentary staffers duties are light and largely tedious, why do these jobs exist? The answer is to maintain party machines. Faction leaders give factional activists paid jobs as parliamentary staffers both to reward service and to guarantee ongoing loyalty. In return, these staffers spend their time stacking branches and harvesting ballots, with little obligation to do real work in between. As Somyureks evidence revealed, the Labor Right depends on publicly funded, full-time organizers. Indeed, if electoral staffers change their factional alignment, they are usually sacked.

Adem Somyureks patronage network was motivated by more than just politics it was also personal. In his IBAC testimony, Somyurek admitted that he arranged to put his own son on the payroll at the electorate office of a factional ally. Allegedly, Somyurek pocketed the salary himself as payment for a debt owed by the MP to Somyurek. It was a clear-cut case of using public resources to repay a private favor.

Again, Somyurek excused this as neither curious nor unusual. He was right. If you mapped out where the children of Labor Right MPs are employed, the result would be a political dynasty more incestuous than the Habsburgs. For example, former consumer affairs minister Marlene Kairouz put her own mother and sister on the payroll. She also added the daughter and nephew of legislative council president Nazih Elasmar, as well as the husband of her colleague Kaushaliya Vaghela.

In turn, Vaghela hired MP Cesar Melhems son as an electoral officer. Meanwhile, former minister for finance Robin Scott employed Vaghelas daughter just as he had employed Vaghela before her. Its all very cozy and these practices occur at all levels of the Australian Labor Party. Right-wing federal MP Joel Fitzgibbon isnt just a coal apologist. He is also a member of the Bunyip aristocracy who inherited his seat from his father after working for six years as his dads electoral officer.

As odious as his factional activities were, Adem Somyurek is right about one thing. He isnt an aberration or an outlier. He isnt even an especially egregious crook. The Australian Labor Party is stacked to the brim with other Somyureks he was just unlucky enough to get caught.

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Howard Stern says he "might have to run" for president in order to clean up the "mess" made by Americans who oppose COVID-19 vaccinations.

"Believe me, this here is turning into a third-world country because of the f---ing morons we have living here," Stern told listeners on his SiriusXM radio show on Tuesday, during a discussion of a staff member's trip to Panama amid the coronavirus pandemic.

"It's a sad commentary on my country," Stern, 67, said.

"This is my country. I've got too many morons living here. We could be past a lot of this COVID business," added Stern, a vocal proponent of vaccinations.

"You were all about freedom, until the morons got ahold of the place," co-host Robin Quivers said.

"Now I'm not into freedom," Stern replied to laughs. "I don't feel good about what's going on in my country. I might have to run just to clean this f---ing mess up."

"I could clean it up in two seconds," the famed radio personality said of a potential White House run. "Just the way [President] Biden got us out of Afghanistan that quick I'm going to clean things up. Boom. Right away."

It's not the first time that Stern, a frequent critic of former President TrumpDonald TrumpRittenhouse says Biden defamed his character when linking him to white supremacists Overnight Health Care White House touts vaccine rate for feds Trump endorses challenger to Hogan ally in Maryland governor's race MORE's coronavirus response, has bantered that he could launch a White House bid. Earlier this month, Stern said if he were to run against Trump in 2024, he would "beat his ass." The 45th commander in chief has repeatedly floated another presidential run, but has not confirmed a 2024 bid.

Stern ran as a Libertarian in New York's gubernatorial race in 1994, before dropping out after the state's Supreme Court upheld a requirement that he would have to disclose his personal finances as a political candidate.

On Tuesday's show, Stern also railed against actors who quit or lost their jobs in protest of vaccine mandates, including former "General Hospital" star Ingo Rademacher, who was reportedly axed from the soap opera for refusing to be vaccinated.

"Is he crazy?" Stern asked. "It's insanity."

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Stern rips anti-vaxxers: 'I might have to run' just to clean up their mess - The Hill

Next years Congressional midterm elections on Nov. 8, 2022, are less than one year away. Already, 1,444 candidates have filed to run for Congress. Of those candidates, 742 are Republicans, 573 are Democrats, and 20 are Libertarians. The remaining are Green Party, independents, or other parties.

The states with the highest number of declared congressional candidates are California (141), Florida (138), and Texas (123). Delaware and Vermont are tied with the fewest declared candidates, with one each. Hawaii, Louisiana, North Dakota, and Rhode Island each have two.

On Nov. 8, 2022, 469 seats in Congress will be up for election. That total includes 34 Senate seats and all 435 House seats. The current partisan balance in the Senate is 50 Republicans, 48 Democrats, and two Independents who caucus with the Democrats. In the House, Democrats hold 221 seats, Republicans hold 213, and one seat is vacant.

As of Nov. 18, six members of the Senate and 25 members of the House have announced they are not seeking re-election.

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Is Donald Trump a continuation of the postwar conservative movement or its executioner? A year after his electoral defeat, scholars, journalists, and pundits continue to debate the former president's place in a lineage that extends back to Ronald Reagan, Barry Goldwater, and beyond.

In a recent essay for The Atlantic, David Brooks makes the case that Trump broke the conservative mold. Reporting from the National Conservatism Conference in Orlando, Brooks argues Trump "destroyed the Reagan Republican paradigm in 2016." He doesn't define the phrase, but "Reagan Republican" seems to mean the combination ofavuncular manners, optimistic rhetoric, and free-market policy with which Reagan is associated.

Brooks deplores that break but shares his interpretation of Reagan with many who celebrate it. Yet Reagan nostalgicswould do well to remember that he was a far more complicated politician than his popular reputation today might have you believe.

In recent years, nationalists, populists, and other dissidents on the right have attacked Reagan as, at best, a temporizer who failed to halt the country's lurch toward the left. Where Brooks sees optimistic patriotism, these critics see a soulless indifference to tradition and virtue that was unable to sustain conservative influence on the economy and culture.

But despite his reputation for laissez-faire, Reagan imposed tariffs on Japanese imports. Far from embracing moral neutrality, he made opposition to abortion a job requirement for national Republicans and directed his Justice Department to crack down on pornography. In foreign policy, Reagan deployed the Marines to Lebanon as part of an international peacekeeping force, then removed them after a car bomb killed 241 U.S. personnel. Whatever their specific merits, these decisions reflect a more politically and economically flexible approach than accountsof libertarian-dominated"fusionism"admit.

The coalition that brought Reagan to power was also more diverse than its caricature as the revenge of Goldwater. Composed partly of movement veterans, it also drew on the post-Nixon "New Right." Figures like Jerry Falwell and Richard Vigueriewere more religious, demotic, and media-savvy than most Goldwater-era conservatives. As a result, they were to mobilize larger cohorts of voters, including many who hadn't previously supported Republicans.

The replacement of the real Reagan with a two-dimensional caricatureisn't a recent development. For years, conservative institutions promoted a kind of hero-worship that obscured Reagan's contradictions and reduced his agenda to tax cuts and deregulation. Lacking personal memories of the period and reared on social media polemics rather than more judicious assessments,a new generation of conservatives is reacting against that caricature. As Brooks notes, the audience at the conference skewed very young and very online.

History doesn't repeat itself, and there are differences as well as similarities between Trump and his predecessors. But the "Reagan paradigm" that disillusioned ex-Republicans like Brooks lament and national conservatives reject is more of a retrospective construction than either want to admit. For admirers, the false memory of an immaculate Reagan is a way of ignoring currents of populist rage that have been necessary to carry conservative mandarins into positions of influence. At the same time, the myth of libertarian indifference allows critics to avoid thinking about why Reagan's legions lost many of the culture wars they fought.

Conservatives will finally be past Reagan when both factions can recognize the successes as well as the failures of his career.

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The false memory of an immaculate Ronald Reagan - The Week Magazine

WELLINGTON, New Zealand Bars, restaurants and gyms can reopen in Auckland from early December but customers will be required to show proof they've been fully vaccinated, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Monday.

The announcement removes the last remnants of a lockdown that began in the nation's largest city in August. It also signals a new phase in New Zealand's response to the pandemic, in which people around the country will need to be fully vaccinated in order to participate in anything from getting a haircut to watching a concert.

Ardern said New Zealand would move into a new pandemic "traffic light" system based around the use of vaccine passports from late Dec. 2.

The system will mark an end to the lockdowns which New Zealand used effectively to completely eliminate virus outbreaks during the first 18 months of the pandemic, but which failed to extinguish an August outbreak of the more contagious delta variant.

Ardern last month set an ambitious target of getting 90% of all eligible people across each of 20 health districts fully vaccinated before moving to the new system.

But although the vaccination rates will fall short of that target by early December, Ardern said it is time to make the move anyway. Currently about 83% of New Zealanders age 12 and over are fully vaccinated, but the rate in some health districts is as low as 73%.

The government has faced increasingly belligerent protests against vaccination requirements and pandemic restrictions. And opinion polls show support for Ardern and her liberal government has slipped since they won a landslide election victory just over a year ago, although they remain more popular than their conservative opponents.

The current outbreak appears to have stabilized somewhat with about 200 new infections reported each day, most of them in Auckland. About 85 New Zealanders are currently hospitalized with COVID-19, and the nation has reported just 40 virus deaths from a population of 5 million since the pandemic began.

"The hard truth is that delta is here and it is not going away," Ardern said. "And while no country to date has been able to eliminate delta completely once it's arrived, New Zealand is in a better position than most to tackle it."

The traffic light system is designed to indicate where outbreaks are putting pressure on the health system. A green designation would impose few restrictions, orange would require more mask wearing and distancing, while red would limit gathering sizes even with vaccination certificates. Ardern said Auckland would initially enter the new system under a red light, while other regions would enter under red or orange.

Opposition lawmaker David Seymour, who leads the libertarian ACT Party, said the government should have reopened sooner but had been delaying in order to get its vaccine passport system operational.

Ardern had previously announced that a border around Auckland which has stopped most people from leaving the city will be removed on Dec. 15, allowing Aucklanders to travel over the Christmas holiday period but raising fears among some health experts that it will cause the virus to spread more rapidly throughout the country.

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This month, WW reported on the objections of Oregons nine Indigenous tribes to a proposal by Dutch Bros. Coffee founder Travis Boersma to install 225 betting terminals at a horse track in Grants Pass (Dutch Colonialism, Nov. 10, 2021). Oregon has historically protected the tribes exclusive claim to casinos. Gov. Kate Brown had stood by as the proposal for terminals at the Flying Lark moved forward. After WW raised questions, Brown gently urged the Oregon Racing Commission to delay approval of the machines. Heres what our readers had to say.

Allison B, via Twitter: A billionaire capitalizing on a loophole thatll harm Oregons Indigenous tribes absolutely needs to be challenged.

Jerry Channell, via Facebook: Class, Oregon style; make a little money, build a casino.

Frank Semonious, via wweek.com: Near every Dutch Bros. is a small mom and pop coffee stand that obviously needs our business more than Dutch Bros. does. (In St. Helens, Ore., its called Javalation and it is 100% better than any other place I have ever bought coffee.) They are so rich they need to build a tax shelter. Now I have two reasons to never buy their products.

mama k, via Twitter: Why does this feel like an episode of Yellowstone? Travis is the bad guy.

Kurt Chapman, via wweek.com: That some off-track betting on horse races in other locations would harm tribal take up at Seven Feathers, the nearest casino, is laughable. Canyonville is about an hour away through some pretty windy mountain pass miles. Certainly not an Uber ride away like the Ilani is to Portlandia.

Also it now appears Boersma, once the darling of progressives for his Horatio Alger rise to success, must now become reviled because he is a billionaire due to Dutch Bros. going public.

Blunt from the Bloc, via Twitter: Every day is a dystopian nightmare for Indigenous folks. Itd be cool if it wasnt like that.

Leon Trotsky, via wweek.com: Only the libertarian WW, where there are no sex or drug crimes, would think enabling exclusive gambling rights to the Tribes is a way to solve their economic woes. Its like, lets infect them with another white mans curse.

Anne J. Applegate, via wweek.com: Surely there are other ways to create income other than continuing a tradition of profiting off of the weaknesses and mental health disorders of othersregardless of race. Continuing to build more of these gambling establishments, regardless of their affiliation to native tribes or not, is irresponsible, callous, and negligent when it comes to the well-being of our future generations and all Oregonians who are currently affected.

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Updated: 12:06 PM CST Nov 22, 2021

Arkansas Democrat Chris Jones is a nuclear engineer, a Ph.D. in urban planning, and an ordained minister. He's also running for Governor of Arkansas.Jones talked with 40/29's Yuna Lea about the campaign and his position on issues facing Arkansas. The interview was broadcast on 40/29 News On The Record, which airs Sundays at 10:30 a.m.Three other Democrats besides Jones are running for governor. They are Anthony Bland, James "Rus" Russell, and Supha Xayprasith-Mays. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is the only Republican running, and Ricky Dale Harrington is the only Libertarian running. William E. Gates is running as an independent candidate.

Arkansas Democrat Chris Jones is a nuclear engineer, a Ph.D. in urban planning, and an ordained minister. He's also running for Governor of Arkansas.

Jones talked with 40/29's Yuna Lea about the campaign and his position on issues facing Arkansas. The interview was broadcast on 40/29 News On The Record, which airs Sundays at 10:30 a.m.

Three other Democrats besides Jones are running for governor. They are Anthony Bland, James "Rus" Russell, and Supha Xayprasith-Mays. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is the only Republican running, and Ricky Dale Harrington is the only Libertarian running. William E. Gates is running as an independent candidate.

Arkansas Democratic candidate for governor Chris Jones introduced himself and explained why he is running.

Jones talked about how important education is for children and young adults, and how Arkansas can help provide opportunity.

Jones says parents and individuals, not the government, should make personal decisions for themselves.

Jones praised current Gov. Asa Hutchinson's coding initiative, but would have done things differently when it came to handling COVID-19 if he were governor.

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