[Breitbart] School districts throughout the United States are ditching electric school buses, manufactured by a Canadian company that has fallen into bankruptcy, for diesel school buses, citing the difficulty in getting electric buses repaired.
The return to diesel school buses comes as Quebec-based Lion Electric, which the Biden administration awarded $159 million “to manufacture 435 school buses between 2022 and 2024,” has fallen into bankruptcy, according to the Washington Free Beacon. As a result, the company has “warned school districts that its dire financial straits prevent it from servicing” the electric school buses.
Several superintendents explained to the outlet that while they would try to keep the “electric fleet” of school buses operating “for as long as possible,” they would eventually have to “return to diesel” due to diesel school buses being more affordable.
“We are going to keep our electric fleet on the roads for as long as possible,” Mike Leskowich, who serves as the superintendent of the Homer Community School District in Michigan, told the outlet. Leskowich’s school district “received $2.8 million in federal funding to procure seven Lion buses in 2022.”
“Eventually, however, we will return to diesel, as the cost of the vehicle is far less than electric,” Leskowich added.
Charlie Butler, who serves as the superintendent of a Louisiana school district, told the outlet that while the “14 Lion buses his district received are still new,” he is having difficulty finding “companies that can repair them.”
[FoxNews] The Rhode Island assistant attorney general whose arrest went viral earlier this week after she seemingly tried to use her position to evade arrest, telling officers they'd "regret" putting her behind bars, will be placed on unpaid leave....
Special Assistant Attorney General Devon Flanagan, who was arrested for trespassing, was placed on paid leave after the incident while the Rhode Island Attorney General's office reviewed the matter. Starting Monday, Flanagan will go on unpaid leave, the office told Fox News Digital. In a subsequent radio interview after Flanagan's arrest, Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha called it "inexcusable behavior" that will likely result in "strong, strong sanction[s]." However, he did note that this isn't the first time he's dealt with a case like this involving his staff....
"I've got 110 lawyers. She embarrassed all of them. I haven't had many issues like this while I've been attorney general. I've had a few, and I let one guy go for driving drunk — had to bring him back. Well, I didn't have to but did bring him back after I fired him about a year later because, again, I needed somebody to go into a courtroom and try ugly, hard murder cases," Neronha told WPRO Radio.
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My bet is that she might be using her time off for some drinking.
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"I'm an AG" girl will not get canned. They need her to keep the diversity/equity/delusion numbers up. She will be quietly reinstated after the media storm dies down.
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Hey if you cant trust the RI justice department, who can you trust?
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One system of justice for Democrats, one for everyone else.
That's how Dems approach things.
Also, i love that her leave is unpaid. That's how we will win this. The only leverage that we have over the amoral sociopaths who comprise 99% of the Democratic party is either financial ruin or violence. I prefer to be peaceful so impoverish them if the step out of line, and make it pubic to scare the others.
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[PJMedia] If foreign corporations want to buy burned-out properties, can those sales be stopped? Should they be stopped?
When the feared firestorm hit Pacific Palisades, Malibu, and Altadena in Southern California last January, the Los Angeles mayor was MIA, the "public safety" guy in charge—the vice mayor—was on home confinement for making an anti-Israel bomb threat on city hall, fire fighters were not pre-deployed, there was no water in the reservoir, and fire hydrants went dry in the Palisades.
Soon came vows by L.A. Mayor Karen Bass and elected officials in Malibu, Altadena, and the Palisades to streamline the rebuilding and permitting, which turned out to be a joke. Now, amid bad leadership, virtue signaling masquerading as help, incinerated FireAid money, and promises in name only, comes the fire sale.
In early August came word from an exclusive story in Realtor.com that foreign investors were buying up prime lots in the burned-out area of an iconic Malibu beach.
Now, a foreign investor has been secretly scooping up many of the burned lots on the oceanfront side of the PCH—with the vision of rebuilding the mansions that dotted the coastline in the iconic beach town.
'Once this beach is built back and it's all brand-new construction, I think it's going to be a very desirable spot for a lot of wealthy people to try to buy a beach house,' Weston Littlefield with the Weston James Group tells Realtor.com®.
The luxury real estate agent and his colleague Alex Howe have been working with the investor who has, so far, purchased nine lots worth more than $65 million—but the process isn't random.
The strip of homes nestled between the Pacific Coast Highway and the Pacific Ocean is the storied La Costa Beach.
Nine of the most desirable lots have been sold by people who can't wait or can't afford to rebuild.
Our RedState colleague, Jen Van Laar, reports that the buyers are a couple of Kiwis—New Zealanders. These businessmen are based in the once-free Hong Kong, China to be close to their toy manufacturing empire in Guangzhou and Shenzhen. They also own a business park in Issaquah, Washington.
Nick and Mat Mowbray run Zuru, a company well known for making mini toys and replicas.
The Mowbray brothers also run another Chinese-based company, Zuru Tech, that makes modular pre-fab homes made of a concrete which they plan to use in their new Malibu real estate venture.
Yahoo News reported that one of the brokers says "the investor wants to rebuild the mansions and expects the investment will turn a considerable profit with 'time and patience.'" The current estimate to get permits approved in Malibu is anywhere from one to two years.
Related: Why LA Knows That Karen Bass Can’t Get it Done
How many Malibu fire victims have the time and money to wait that long? Probably a few, but not all.
Here's another question. Are California's so-called "values" honored by allowing foreign investors to reshape the premier and most iconic real estate of the West Coast of the United States? Should stopping foreign ownership even be considered in a relatively free market?
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order to protect people in Altadena, parts of Malibu, and the Palisades from lowball real estate offers while deploring "greedy speculators taking advantage of their pain." Is that what buying a $10+ million property before the fire and settling for $6 million for a beach lot is—speculating?
In Altadena, Dwell Magazine reports that at least half of the properties for sale following the devastating January fires have been purchased by corporations; however, "individuals can purchase property through LLCs to limit legal exposure." The publication reports, however, that's higher than the national trend and furthermore, "42 percent of those sales are now held by just six companies, each of which has acquired four or more homes."
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Dwell reports, "Black Lion Properties, LLC—recently confirmed to be operated by Edwin Castro, the record-breaking Powerball winner... The company has quietly acquired at least a dozen fire-damaged or distressed properties in Altadena, spending nearly $9 million in the process."
Interesting side note. Castro, the top buyer in Altadena, is a local Powerball Lottery winner who's putting his winnings in real estate rather than hookers, blow, and trinkets. In 2022, Castro won "$2.04 billion," but by the time Uncle Sugar got his cut, the lump sum payment ended up being "$997 million." He bought his parents a new home in Altadena, and he bought one in Malibu, which was ironically, torched in the firestorm.
Another company, "Sheng Feng Global Inc., formed in 2022, is associated with several shell-like entities related to real estate" has purchased six home sites in the Altadena area. The company is connected to multiple real estate entities and "hints at possible international ownership, but the full picture remains murky." It sure does. A logistics company in China could be connected, but, as Dwell reports, things are "murky."
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How about restricting property ownership to US Citizens and US HQ businesses?
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And you thought the locals were actually going to get their lives back?
It's going to be turned into a connected people's enclave. Probably end up being gated off.
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A logistics company in China could be connected, but, as Dwell reports, things are "murky."
Murky enough for some hefty cash payments to go under the table to LA and California politicians? I think that'd be a good bet.
It's a tough call for the people who are selling. They were living on some of the most desirable property in the world and then came the fire and then came Mayor Karen Bass, the communist bitch who made the fire possible and made it impossible for people to rebuild in a timely manner. No doubt the buyers have cash aplenty and can wait for permits or simply bribe the appropriate officials. I hope the sellers at least held out for a shit load of money. Gotta wonder if the so-called New Zealanders are just a front for the CCP.
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If LA had been reasonably prompt in issuing permits to rebuild the Chinese couldn't afford much of that land... makes one wonder if that's what is behind the snail-slow permitting.
While carrying out one's plans, be flexible enough to take advantage of any opportunity that presents itself, however small, and avail oneself of any profit, however slight.
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[ConservativeTreehouse] The first issue is the FBI’s illegal surveillance of presidential candidates including candidate Donald Trump. The second issue is the Clinton campaign inspired Russia-Collusion story, that led to Crossfire Hurricane, colloquially known as “Russiagate.” All investigative emphasis, including John Durham, has been on the latter which takes you into a DC silo construct where all tentacles lead to dead ends and inaction.
Russiagate was a Clinton-inspired political smear campaign that was given the patina of credibility by the FBI opening the investigation called “Crossfire Hurricane.” If you focus on that storyline, you end up with zero accountability and endless talk that goes nowhere. Read the rest at the link
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I understand the reality they I, as an American, am being surveilled by my own government. I would feel better about it if they had a better record at preventing school shooters. That said, the government folks that are running influence ops in the homeland all need to be in jail along with the coup folks and the folks stealing money.
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