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FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – It’s been more than a decade since Heritage Park closed in downtown Fort Worth, a result of public safety concerns. Now, Fort Worth city leaders say major renovations are being planned. READ MORE: Dallas Area Meals On Wheels Clients Get COVID-19 Vaccine Home-Delivered “We’ve realize there’s some shortcomings around it that need to be overcome so that people enjoy this park more,” said Andy Taft, President of Downtown Fort Worth Inc. “The lighting, the pumps, the water, the fountains, the landscaping— those kinds of things that need to be upgraded are gonna be upgraded.” An upgrade at the top of the list? — Raising the floor of the water channel so visitors don’t hurt themselves stepping through the cracks. Taft says the fundraising goal is about $40 million to give the six-acre park a makeover. READ MORE: Dallas Police Chief Limiting Time Off As Jurors Deliberate Former Minneapolis Officer Derek Chauvin's Fate Heritage Park renovation plan … [Read more...] about $40M In Renovations Planned For Fort Worth’s Heritage Park

BLANTYRE - Malawi's President Lazarus Chakwera has fired his labor minister and arrested 19 officials for fraudulent use of funds meant to fight the coronavirus.  The arrests came after an audit revealed Malawi officials used millions of dollars in funds for their own expenses.  Political analysts say the firing was less punishment than a means to deter other fraud. Malawi’s Labor Minister Ken Kandodo is the highest-level official that President Lazarus Chakwera fired for misusing coronavirus funds. According to a government audit, Kandodo used less than $800 from the COVID fund for allowances during an October trip to South Africa with Chakwera. When contacted Monday, Kandodo refused to comment on the matter. “I cannot comment, I cannot comment, no, I can’t.  I am still in the state of shock,” he told VOA. In a televised national address Sunday evening, the president said the firing, and arrest of 19 other officials, was to show that no corruption would be tolerated. “Even … [Read more...] about Malawi President Fires Cabinet Minister Over COVID Funds

Media and Big Tech coordinated a harassment campaign of a paramedic in Utah who donated ten dollars to a fundraising campaign for Kyle Rittenhouse’s legal defense team, Dan Gainor, vice president of Media Research Center, explained on Monday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow, author of Breaking the News: Exposing the Establishment Media’s Hidden Deals and Secret Corruption . Gainor recalled the genesis of the targeted harassment with an article composed by the Guardian identifying the paramedic following a data breach from GiveSendGo, the fundraising platform hosting the campaign to raise funds for Rittenhouse’s legal expenses. A local ABC affiliate in Utah sent a reporter to the paramedic’s home by using identifying information contained in the breach of GiveSendGo’s private donor data. “Jason Nguyen, who is the Emmy-nominated investigative reporter at ABC4Utah went and found a paramedic who gave the scary amount of ten dollars to … [Read more...] about Exclusive — Dan Gainor: Media, Big Tech Coordinated Harassment of Utah Paramedic for Donating $10 to Kyle Rittenhouse Defense Fund

Democratic Missouri congressional candidate Cori Bush said she wanted to “defund the Pentagon” in a Tuesday tweet. “If you’re having a bad day, just think of all the social services we’re going to fund after we defund the Pentagon,” Bush wrote. If you’re having a bad day, just think of all the social services we’re going to fund after we defund the Pentagon. — Cori Bush (@CoriBush) October 20, 2020 The post, which garnered over 37,000 likes from users, was retweeted by Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar . Bush has also advocated for defunding the police , abolishing private prisons and “voting out fascism” on Nov. 3, according to a review of her Twitter posts in the last week. We’re going to defund the police and refund our social services. Don’t like this idea? Well, we don’t like dead Black & Brown bodies & broken families at the hands of those sworn to protect us. The police have failed at fixing themselves—so we’re going to do it. — … [Read more...] about Democratic House Candidate Says She Wants To ‘Defund The Pentagon’ To Fund ‘Social Services’

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Over the past year, opponents of California Gov. Gavin Newsom Gavin Newsom NPR journalist discusses home affordability in California California Democrats weigh their recall options California opens vaccine eligibility to everyone 16 and up MORE (D) harnessed growing anger against his coronavirus restrictions to force a recall election that will roil the state’s politics for the rest of 2021. But as he prepares for the greatest challenge of his political life, Newsom will now have the opportunity to spend months handing out big checks in all corners of the state thanks to President Biden Joe Biden Graham: 'I could not disagree more' with Trump support of Afghanistan troop withdrawal Obama, Shaquille O'Neal, Charles Barkley team up to urge communities of color to get coronavirus vaccine Biden to hold second meeting with bipartisan lawmakers on infrastructure MORE and congressional Democrats, who rode to the rescue … [Read more...] about Federal stimulus boosts Newsom ahead of recall