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Yahoo
10 hours ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
Eaton County feeling the impact of failed public safety millage
EATON COUNTY, Mich. (WLNS) – Officials in Eaton County say they're feeling the impacts of the failed public safety millage that appeared last November, and again at the beginning of May. The millage failed in May with almost 57% of voters rejecting the proposal. Sheriff Tom Reich tells 6 News this has caused a lack of road patrol, more staff resignations—and only one officer working for animal control. Eaton County, Delta Township reach tentative deal on police services That single officer is mostly responsible for maintaining the building, caring for animals, and completing paperwork. With the shelter at full capacity and Animal Control without officers to send out, Sheriff Reich says the community will need to rely on local police departments for their needs. The sheriff also says he's sad to see so many great deputies moving to other departments due to a lack of stability and support. Eaton County officials discuss major budget cuts While officials understand that community members may not want a tax increase, they say they'll pay the price in other ways. 'Public safety is what they're gonna give up,' said Sheriff Reich. 'Sure, Michigan State Police is going to be out there taking calls. However, you've got to keep in mind there's only so many troopers out there at Post 11, and they have three different counties to worry about.' Plans for another attempt at the Public Safety Millage are up in the air at the moment, but Sheriff Reich says there's a possibility of trying again in 2026. 'Taxes, no one likes taxes. I don't like taxes either. I think public safety would be worth it,' said Sheriff Reich. 'This is the first time Eaton County has ever had this kind of a problem of having no road patrol, and it's a first for me.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Winnipeg Free Press
31-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Winnipeg Free Press
Art, morals and power
In this darkly absorbing and deeply intelligent novel, German writer Daniel Kehlmann charts the choices made by the real-life Austrian-born film director G. W. Pabst, a master of the silent and early sound eras. Known as 'Red Pabst' for his empathetic exploration of social issues, he leaves Europe after Hitler's rise to power, joining a community of cinematic exiles in Hollywood. Then, in a seemingly inexplicable turnaround, he returns to Austria — annexed by the Nazis and now called Ostmark — and ends up creating films under the patronage of the Reich propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. Clearly, Pabst has struck some kind of Faustian bargain, but Kehlmann's writing is so subtle it's difficult to mark the exact moment at which the filmmaker falls into complicity. Testing the boundaries between art, power and moral responsibility, The Director evokes creative life under totalitarian rule with exacting precision and scathing effect. Heike Steinweg photo Daniel Kehlmann's latest novel traces the movements of director G.W. Pabst, who fled Austria after Hitler's rise to power but voluntarily returned while the Nazis were still in power. Dividing his time between Berlin and New York, Kehlmann has generated buzz in the English-speaking world with such works as Measuring the World and the International Booker-nominated Tyll (translated, as is The Director, by Ross Benjamin). Kehlmann's approach to period stories is idiosyncratic and urgent, cutting the realistic horrors of history with sharp, ironical humour. This is not a comprehensive or conventional biographical novel. Kehlmann uses the outline of Pabst's life but fills it in with passages that are imagined and inventive, sometimes terrifying and sometimes out-and-out surreal. Working in long, loosely connected chapters, many of which function as standalone vignettes, Kehlmann takes us first to 1933, with Pabst somewhat adrift at a Los Angeles party. He's awkward and overheated and his English is poor. Kehlmann also has a running joke about how Pabst is constantly being confused with fellow Weimar filmmakers F. W. Murnau and Fritz Lang. 'No good coffee anywhere, but the fruit juices are astonishing!' says a cheerful compatriot, but Pabst seems unable to adapt to this sunny paradise — and to his demotion to the cinematic B-list. Not longer after, the novel relocates to France, where Pabst and his wife, Trude, are spending a drunken evening with German refugees in a Paris bar. Desperate for documents and safe passage out of Europe, these actors, writers and critics are shocked when Pabst reveals he is voluntarily returning. (The chapter ends with a sombre listing of these historical characters' fates — who escapes to America, who dies by suicide when a transit visa expires, who is murdered by the Nazis.) Pabst's reasons for going back to Austria remain deliberately opaque. He explains that he must visit his aging mother, but Kehlmann slyly suggests this might just be the first of the director's many rationalizations and self-delusions. Pabst's actual biography has hazy areas, and Kehlmann demonstrates how this haze can be a byproduct of fascism, as people cover over guilt with blurred memories and disputed histories. The Director introduces us to various real-life figures, from Greta Garbo (aloof, imperious) to a comic British writer who is clearly P.G. Wodehouse (humorous, hapless) to Goebbels (whose meeting with Pabst showcases Kehlmann's brilliantly sinister use of doppelgangers and double meanings). Filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl is portrayed as an appalling moral monster who is also inadvertently, grotesquely hilarious. Kehlmann also has an Orwellian eye for the kind of totalitarian infiltration that goes beyond controlling citizens' actions to policing their words and even thoughts. Trude attends a book club with the wives of high-ranking Nazis, a supposedly pleasant social occasion where a wayward opinion can have dire consequences. No wonder Trude enters into an 'internal exile' of perpetual drunkenness. The Director In another scene, prisoner-of-war Wodehouse — making a compulsory appearance at a film premiere — learns to his bemusement that the Hitler regime has outlawed criticism. Practitioners of this supposedly 'Jewish and Bolshevik' discipline are now replaced with 'describers.' (They aren't even allowed to say whether a film is good because that would imply that it could be bad.) The demand for 'genuine Aryan cinema' hangs over Pabst's film The Molander Case, based on a book by bestselling Nazi hack Alfred Karrasch. The film was in the late stages of production in Prague when the Soviet army reached the city and remains unfinished and unknown, allowing Kehlmann to turn it into an enigmatic question. Is it as cinematically brilliant as Pabst's (highly unreliable) narrative insists? And even if it is, could it possibly be worth Pabst's deal with the devil? Art remains when the mess of politics is over, Pabst says to Trude in one scene, but she seems to have a clearer sense of the cost. Kehlmann's own responses to Pabst's moral situation — the director's small, incremental compromises and then his sudden, terrible capitulation — are incisive and unsparing, full of absurdities and killing ironies. And they are never didactic, this novel of ideas remaining immediate, entertaining and a really good read. Alison Gillmor writes on film for the Free Press. Alison GillmorWriter Studying at the University of Winnipeg and later Toronto's York University, Alison Gillmor planned to become an art historian. She ended up catching the journalism bug when she started as visual arts reviewer at the Winnipeg Free Press in 1992. 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Business Insider
30-05-2025
- Business
- Business Insider
Millennium has hired two heavy-hitter PMs for its credit-trading business
Wall Street's largest hedge fund just got a bit larger, adding two more marquee traders to its credit business. Millennium, which manages $73 billion in assets and has more than 330 investment teams around the world, has hired Jonathan Grau, a partner at Laurion Capital, according to people familiar with the matter. Grau joined Laurion in 2016 and focused on corporate credit strategies, according to a company bio recently scrubbed from the firm's website. Millennium has also hired Christopher Reich, a rising star credit index trader from Brevan Howard, the people said. Reich trades indices linked to credit-default swaps and commercial mortgage-backed securities, according to his LinkedIn profile, and worked at One William Street Capital and JPMorgan before joining Brevan. Representatives for Millennium and Brevan declined to comment, and Laurion did not respond to requests for comment. Credit has been the most in-demand strategy among hedge-fund allocators in recent years, though appetite dampened heading into 2025, according to a Goldman Sachs survey. The hires of Grau and Reich come on the heels of another major credit hire. Bloomberg reported in March that Millennium poached LMR Partners' US head of credit, Thomas Malafronte. Malafronte is a former Goldman Sachs partner who burnished his reputation in the mid-2010s trading junk bonds. Millennium, run by billionaire Izzy Englander, was down 1.4% through April after an unusually rocky start to the year that saw the firm lose money in back-to-back months in February and March. It gained 15% in 2024.
Miami Herald
30-05-2025
- Politics
- Miami Herald
Eisenhower's secret message announcing WWII victory in Europe up for auction
By Ben Barry President Dwight D. Eisenhower's top secret message announcing victory in Europe is set to fetch $30k at auction - alongside with other WWII artifacts. The sale - run by RR Auction - will take place on June 11, 2025. The top secret document signed by President Eisenhower, announcing allied victory in Europe, is expected to fetch $30k plus. Another document, written by President Eisenhower on June 13, 1944, stated he was looking forward to the "destruction of the Nazi military machine". The surrender negotiation document, signed by Reich President Karl Donitz and presented to allies by Col, Gen. Alfred Jodi, is expected to fetch more than $100k. Speaking about the historic documents, Bobby Livingston, Executive VP at RR Auction, said: "The Dönitz authorization represents one of history's most dramatic ideological reversals. "With Hitler dead, the Nazi 'fight to the last man' mentality-where every German was expected to die rather than surrender-was completely abandoned. "These generals suddenly faced an entirely different mission: save as many German lives as possible by negotiating time for millions to flee from the Eastern Front to Western lines. "While Eisenhower firmly rejected their request and demanded immediate surrender, the delay in announcing the capitulation created the crucial window that saved 1.5 million people. "This document captures that extraordinary transformation-from a regime demanding mass death to leaders desperately trying to preserve life." The post Eisenhower's secret message announcing WWII victory in Europe up for auction appeared first on Talker. Copyright Talker News. All Rights Reserved.
Yahoo
28-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Robert Reich Lays Out 7 Brutal Ways Trump Cuts Hurt Everyday Americans
Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich took aim at President Donald Trump's unofficial Department of Government Efficiency — nicknamed DOGE — in a scathing new video and warned how the cost-cutting initiative that was initially led by Elon Musk, the world's richest person, is now wreaking havoc on ordinary Americans. In a video titled '7 Ways DOGE Is Ruining Your Life' released Tuesday on his YouTube channel, Reich accused the Trump-era initiative of bringing 'chainsaw-induced chaos' to vital government services, but for negligible savings. Reich, who served in Bill Clinton's Cabinet, highlighted a series of devastating consequences ― from putting food safety at risk via spending freezes at the Food and Drug Administration to cuts at the Federal Emergency Management Agency which are only making 'natural disasters more deadly.' Watch the full analysis here: Investor Who Predicted 2008 Crash Sounds Alarm On 1 Particular Trump Policy CNN Data Chief's Hilarious Hand Gesture About Signature Trump Policy Says It All Harvard's Laurence Tribe Delivers Unflinching Message To Foreign Students In Trump Crosshairs
