The National Historic Preservation Act is at risk of being gutted because of proposed regulatory and statutory changes.
The experts are part of a coalition of stakeholders rallying opposition to a bipartisan Senate bill that would make drastic changes to the NHPA’s Section 106 process.
That process requires federal agencies to consider impacts on archaeological and cultural sites and historical structures before approving a road, bridge, or any other major development project.
The measure makes changes to several laws, including the National Environmental Policy Act, the Clean Water Act and the Endangered Species Act, designed to speed up the permitting process while keeping important reviews in place.
In New Hampshire, where most voters are older than 50, Social Security top their list of concerns as the midterm election approaches.
Warnings are mounting over the looming insolvency of Social Security. New estimates project the program will run out of money needed to pay full retirement benefits in 2032. If nothing is done to shore up the program, retirees face a 22% cut in their Social Security checks.
Sixty-five percent of Granite State voters were over the age of 50 in 2024, according to Edison Research exit poll data, and are expected to dominate the electorate in the midterms.
Staying with the midterms, Maryland voters will decide whether the Democratic-run legislature can eliminate the state’s lone Republican congressional district, but ad campaigns about the ballot question have been virtually nonexistent.
Although neither party has run TV ads, outside groups have made modest investments in the redistricting fight known as Question 3. Fight Back MD, a Democratic-allied group, began its ad campaign Tuesday. The group told the Baltimore Banner it will spend six figures to promote a yes vote on Question 3.
Protect Maryland Votes, an anti-redistricting group that describes itself as bipartisan, has released polling on the matter, but also has been relatively quiet.
The proposal would remove state constitutional requirements for congressional districts to be contiguous, compact and equally populated.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warns America faces an era of broadening global conflict in which adversaries threaten to outpace the military in artificial intelligence and other advanced defense technologies.
In remarks at the Association of the U.S. Army’s annual convention, guy taylor and john seward report Hegseth told military officials the Pentagon must eliminate as much bureaucracy as possible so that new technologies can be purchased, tested and adopted at a rate that makes adversaries think twice about engaging in conflict.
Also at the convention, the Army’s chief technology officer says vital weapons and communications tools are based on software that must be updated quickly and is crucial in keeping those systems from becoming obsolete.
Army Chief Technology Officer Alex Miller explained how the service’s approach of moving at the speed of business, rather than the federal government’s traditionally slow pace, is fueling an overhaul to acquiring and fielding new tools for soldiers.
Miller stressed that core components of Army battlefield capabilities, such as the munitions and other hardware in modern missile systems, will be reliable for years.
And finally … Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley says former special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into President Trump gathered information on 639,000 Republican supporters and everyday voters.
The Senate Judiciary Committee chairman said one spreadsheet of Smith’s had data on people who bought “Make America Great Again” hats after the 2020 election.
The 93-year-old Grassley called the information obtained “incredibly invasive” and said there was no valid reason Smith needed it for his criminal investigations of the president.
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