Category: Manhattan Free Press

[real3dflipbook id=’5′] Highlights of Trump’s $4.7 trillion budget request WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s $4.7 trillion budget request proposes steep cuts to domestic spending, a funding boost for the Pentagon and $8.6 billion for his signature border wall with Mexico. Leading Democrats immediately rejected the plan, signaling another bruising fight just weeks after a Read More

[real3dflipbook id=”4″]   FEC Complaint Filed Against Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez By NLPC – National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) filed a formal Complaint today with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) against Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), her chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti, and several other individuals and groups who orchestrated an extensive operation to hide hundreds Read More

[real3dflipbook id=”3″] Trump, Kim open talks with one-on-one meeting HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un dove into the details of nuclear negotiations Thursday against a backdrop of swirling questions about what Kim was willing to give up and what Trump may demand in the face of rising Read More

[real3dflipbook id=”2″] Trump is ‘absolute right’ to declare emergency WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump declared Tuesday that he would prevail over a multistate lawsuit challenging his emergency declaration to pay for a U.S.-Mexico border wall.

[real3dflipbook id=”1″] Socialist Democrats Introduce Green New Deal, Defies Logic, Common Sense WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats launched a sweeping plan Thursday to transform the U.S. economy to combat climate change and create thousands of jobs in renewable energy, signaling its likely elevation as a central campaign issue in 2020 despite President Donald Trump’s failure to Read More

5 Takeaways from Trump’s State of the Union speech   WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump delivered his second State of the Union speech Tuesday night, calling on Democrats and Republicans to work together and making only brief reference to the rancor that has dominated his presidency. Five key takeaways from his remarks:

‘Air Pelosi’ – What you don’t know about the lucrative travel our leaders enjoy on your dime Judicial Watch – When denied House Speaker Nancy Pelosi use of a military aircraft for a CODEL (congressional delegation trip) to Afghanistan recently, he called the public’s attention to wasteful taxpayer-funded congressional travel. In his letter to Pelosi Read More

Will Blue Township be called East Manhattan or North St George? (Editor’s Note: Blue Township is Pottawatomie County just East of Manhattan. Builders and buyers have been going East for about the last10-years. Some say it is because of the City of Manhattan high taxes and building Codes. Whatever the reason the area has grown Read More

“30”   By Jon Brake – In 1962, after getting out of the Army, I started in newspapers. Loved it, always have. At that time everything was still hot type, meaning news-papers were put out using Linotypes. At the end of each story the Linotype operator would put a line that just said “30”. That Read More

In White House Speech President Calls Mexican Boarder A “Crisis” WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump made a somber televised plea for border wall funding Tuesday night, seeking an edge in his shutdown battle with congressional Democrats as he declared there is “a humanitarian crisis, a crisis of the heart and a crisis of the Read More