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Former president Donald Trump on Wednesday endorsed Representative Elise Stefanik (R., N.Y.) to replace Representative Liz Cheney (R., Wy.) as chair of the House Republican Conference as party leadership has reportedly sought to oust the Wyoming congresswoman from her leadership role in recent days. “Liz Cheney is a warmongering fool who has no business in Republican Party Leadership,” …

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BERLIN — The annual Memorial Day service in Ocean Pines will return to the Worcester County Veterans Memorial on Monday, May 31, beginning at 11 a.m. The ceremony this year will feature Salisbury Mayor Jake Day as the keynote speaker. Day recently returned from a year-long deployment in East Africa with the Maryland National Guard …

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Wednesday he is “100 percent” focused “on stopping” President Joe Biden’s administration. Speaking to reporters in his home state of Kentucky, McConnell was asked about the House GOP leadership feud that reached a boiling point this week after Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, the third-ranking Republican, again rebutted former President Donald …

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OCEAN CITY — With US Wind, one of the two companies pursuing an offshore wind energy farm off the coast of Ocean City, aiming to build bridges between stakeholders, the company has tapped a pair of familiar names and faces to handle the outreach. In 2014, US Wind acquired an 80,000-acre federal lease area off …

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Michelin says its goal of “achieving 40% sustainable materials (of renewable or recycled origin) by 2030 and 100% by 2050” is one step closer to reality. The French tire giant has successfully tested a plastic recycling technology by French biochemistry company Carbios that can be used in tire production. Carbios’ enzymatic recycling process for polyethylene terephthalate …

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SALISBURY – A modified folk festival will return to downtown Salisbury later this year. Late last month, organizers with the National Folk Festival announced the event’s return to downtown Salisbury Sept. 10-12. “Over the past few weeks, we’ve had the opportunity to come together for the Salisbury Marathon, our first outdoor Third Friday and have …

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The thousands of people driving those ubiquitous Amazon-branded blue vans aren’t employed by the Seattle leviathan. They work for small, independent businesses with contracts to transport packages for Amazon. But that hasn’t stopped the company from dictating the state of their fingernails—and a whole lot more. “Personal grooming must be maintained at an acceptable level, including but not …

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SALISBURY – A public hearing on Wicomico’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2022 highlighted this week’s county council meeting. On Tuesday, the Wicomico County Council held a public hearing on Acting County Executive John Psota’s proposed operating and capital budgets for fiscal year 2022. The spending plan – submitted to the legislative branch late last …

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Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs (D) on Wednesday raised concerns about the procedures in the Republican-led audit of 2020 election results in Arizona’s largest county, specifically pointing to workers reportedly leaving ballots and computers unattended during the recount. Hobbs in a six-page letter to former Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett (R), who is serving as a spokesman for the Maricopa …

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OCEAN CITY — Ocean City officials this week approved on first reading the proposed fiscal year 2022 budget at around $158 million, which will hold the property tax rate at the constant yield. The total budget for all funds is approximately $158 million, with the general fund making up around $91 million. The proposed fiscal …

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