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Friday, September 29, 2017

The answer: Because Obama was President

Chris Matthews tonight on his MSNBC program wondered aloud why we got 10,000 troops so quickly to Haiti after the 2010 earthquake but the US can't respond as quickly to the disaster in Puerto Rico, which is part of our country.

The answer is Barack Obama was President in 2010, and this is the reality today.mp’s time at his golf club hurt the response to Maria
Lost weekend: How Trump’s time at his golf club hurt the response to Maria


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"A little fill here and there may seem to be nothing to become excited about. But one fill, though comparatively inconsequential, may lead to another, and another, and before long a great body may be eaten away until it may no longer exist. Our navigable waters are a precious natural heritage, once gone, they disappear forever," wrote the Wisconsin Supreme Court in its 1960 opinion resolving Hixon v. PSC and buttressing The Public Trust Doctrine, Article IX of the Wisconsin State Constitution.

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James Rowen is an independent writer based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He worked as the senior Mayoral staffer in Madison and Milwaukee and for newspapers in both cities. This blog began on 2/2/ 2007.

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