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| Presented By Solutions for Pollution |
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| Axios AM |
| By Mike Allen · Dec 10, 2022 |
| Happy Saturday. Smart Brevity™ count: 1,195 words ... 4½ minutes. Edited by Donica Phifer. |
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| 1 big thing: America's difference-makers |
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| Illustration: Brendan Lynch/Axios |
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| St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter led a new wave of progressive policies in cities with his push for universal basic income. Minneapolis, Richmond and others followed. - Across Ohio, workers are hitting the accelerator in a chip-making race against China.
- Fort Worth mayor Mattie Parker is a Republican who ushered in a wave of growth by trying to improve quality of life "in every ZIP Code."
Why it matters: Change starts locally. These are America's new influence frontiers. What's happening: Axios Local today announces its first annual Power Players — 200 people and groups who made a difference in 2022. 🔬 Zoom in: For local D.C. residents, Carla Hayden, the librarian of Congress, made the library cool again right here in our backyard. - Here's a name that keeps appearing: Walton. The Waltons hold power all across the country — but especially in Northwest Arkansas, where relatives of Walmart founder Sam Walton are using their clout to expand local art, music, recreation, culinary arts and more.
Take the Local: Boston ... D.C. ... Philadelphia ... Atlanta ... Charlotte ... Miami ... Nashville ... Northwest Arkansas ... Raleigh ... Richmond ... Tampa Bay ... Chicago ... Columbus ... Des Moines ... Detroit ... Twin Cities ... Austin ... Dallas ... Houston ... Phoenix ... Denver ... Salt Lake City ... Seattle ... San Francisco. |
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| 2. ⚽ Top soccer writer dies in Qatar |
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| Images: Grant Wahl's Twitter, Sports Illustrated |
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| Grant Wahl — a revered soccer journalist who was hassled by security guards in Qatar while wearing an LGBTQ+ rights shirt at the World Cup (above) — died yesterday while covering a match. - Wahl collapsed during the quarterfinal between Argentina and the Netherlands.
- Wahl's agent, Tim Scanlan, told The New York Times that the journalist went into "acute distress" in the final moments of the match.
Context: Wahl hadn't felt well throughout the tournament, Axios' Herb Scribner writes. - "He wasn't sleeping well, and I asked him if he tried melatonin," Scanlan told The Times. "He said, 'I just need to like relax for a bit.'"
Wahl said on his Substack on Monday that staff at the World Cup said he had bronchitis. - "My body finally broke down on me," he wrote. "Three weeks of little sleep, high stress and lots of work can do that to you."
Backstory: Wahl was a longtime journalist at Sports Illustrated, where in 2002 he wrote the first magazine's first cover story on LeBron James (as a high school junior!), "THE CHOSEN ONE." - He covered the World Cup through his newsletter, "Fútbol with Grant Wahl," detailing human rights abuses and protests.
After he was detained for half an hour for wearing the shirt, he wrote: - "[T]he entire episode left me wondering: What's it like for ordinary Qataris who might wear a rainbow shirt when the world isn't watching here?"
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| 3. 🚢 Breather for supply chain, inflation |
 Data: Freightos. Chart: Axios Visuals The cost of shipping goods between Asia and the U.S. West Coast has plunged, as Chinese trade nosedived due to COVID restrictions, Matt Phillips writes in Axios Markets. - Why it matters: The unknotting of supply-chain snarls is another sign inflationary pressures are moving in the right direction.
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| A message from Solutions for Pollution |
| 78% of Americans want climate action |
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| Americans overwhelmingly support action to cut pollution and protect our health, air and environment. What this means: They are looking to President Biden to build on his historic climate progress with strong protections that keep cutting carbon pollution and toxic soot and smog. Get involved. |
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| 4. 📷 1,000 words |
| Photo: Chris Burkard/National Geographic. Used by permission From 2,238,899 images filed by National Geographic photographers this year, the magazine chose 118 photos — including this one — for its third annual "Pictures of the Year" (subscription), as the December cover story. - Above: After lying dormant for 800 years, Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula, an hour's drive from Reykjavik, erupted twice in 17 months — including Aug. 3.
More photos ... Go deeper: National Geographic's new editor-in-chief, Nathan Lump, talks with Axios' Sara Fischer about "Pictures of the Year." |
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| 5. House Rs want to force first Biden veto |
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| Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios Visuals |
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| House Republicans are moving toward forcing President Biden to issue his first veto — over a measure to terminate the national emergency declaration for COVID, Axios' Andrew Solender and Victoria Knight report. - Why it matters: The emergency declaration has been the justification for the administration's student loan forgiveness plan, and allows increased flexibility for health insurance and Medicaid.
👂 What we're hearing: Once Republicans get the gavel in January, they plan a vote on a joint resolution that would rescind the emergency declaration, senior GOP aides said. - The resolution first passed the Senate in March, along party lines. When it came up again last month, it passed 61-37, with support from 12 Democrats.
- Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) told Axios the pandemic "is over. I'm going to keep voting until we get it over ... We should get back to normal lives."
🖼️ The big picture: The resolution is part of a broader tug-of-war between Congress and the executive branch over how sweeping a president's emergency executive powers should be. - Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), who has tried to rein in executive power in other ways, in addition to voting for this resolution, told Axios: "I worry when declarations persist longer than is absolutely necessary. It becomes harder to gain public legitimacy for declarations in the future."
The other side: Biden said months ago that the pandemic is over — but the White House said last month Biden would veto the resolution if it came to his desk. - A Statement of Administration Policy from the White House Office of Management and Budget said last month: "While COVID-19 is no longer the disruptive threat that it once was and we have made tremendous progress in combating the virus, the virus continues to pose a risk to the American people and our health care system."
The bottom line: Congress is unlikely to be able to override Biden's veto. |
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| 6. 🏛️ SBF on Hill next week |
| Sam Bankman-Fried will testify before the House Committee on Financial Services on Tuesday as part of the panel's investigation into FTX's collapse. - Why it matters: Bankman-Fried has given frequent interviews since the company filed for bankruptcy — but hasn't testified under oath.
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| 7. 🇭🇰 Lai sentenced in Hong Kong |
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| Jimmy Lai in 2020. Image: Anthony Wallace/AFP via Getty Images |
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| Media mogul Jimmy Lai was sentenced to over five years in a Hong Kong prison on two charges of fraud today. - Why it matters: Lai, the billionaire owner of the now-defunct pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily, is considered one of the most prominent critics of China.
The sentence of 5 years, 9 months is far longer than the 21 months given to Wong Wai-Keung, the director of Apple Daily's parent company, Next Digital, was issued for the same charge. |
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| 8. 🥪 1 for the road: Lunch lady who'll live on |
| Photo: Amanda Andrade-Rhoades for The Washington Post via Getty Images Willie Joyner — known to all as Ms. Willie — next month will mark her 49th year as a food-services worker at D.C.'s Catholic University, "where she has loved and hugged generations of students away from home for the first time," The Washington Post's Susan Svrluga writes. - This week, when the university opened a new stone dining commons, a 131-seat dining room was named for someone who isn't a donor or poobah. Behold ... the Ms. Willie Joyner Dining Room.
Joyner, 75, told The Post: "To go into the cafeteria and all those kids are just chanting my name ... It was all about love. It was all about respect." |
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| A message from Solutions for Pollution |
| Polluters have been put on notice |
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| President Biden's landmark law helps cut climate pollution by 40%. Looking ahead: We must keep cutting carbon pollution and toxic soot and smog. So watch out, polluters. Learn how President Biden is fighting for our health and a clean energy future. |
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