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National News:

Trump invited to testify before NY grand jury, lawyer says

NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has been invited to testify before a New York grand jury that has been investigating hush money payments made on his behalf during his 2016 presidential campaign, according to one of his lawyers.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-stormy-indictment-jury-new-york-564e1947c822a32c3111f5e1c4146138

This is way worse than most of us can imagine...and we don't even know what the redacted version is yet. Amazing... and the majority of Fox viewers know nothing of this.

Slander and Lies

More about the Dominion Voting Systems defamation case against Fox today, Wednesday. I know I’ve been writing about this case a lot, but it’s important. Tonight on his MSNBC show, Lawrence O’Donnell suggested that the evidence being released in the Dominion case is so damaging to Fox and some of its hosts that it’s the reason for the Kevin McCarthy/Tucker Carlson saga, the released January 6 footage, and Carlson’s effort to craft an alternative January 6 narrative. O’Donnell’s theory was that Carlson, who knew the schedule in the Dominion case and when he could expect to see his texts about Trump, including “I hate him passionately,” emerge, lined up the footage as a distraction. That seems like a very probable theory.

https://open.substack.com/pub/joycevance/p/slander-and-lies?r=2cuzj&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

State News:

Thirteen years after the passage of the Affordable Care Act, North Carolina is poised to become the 40th state to expand Medicaid under the law, thanks to the persistence of Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and a growing recognition by Republican legislative leaders that their rural base has the most to gain. A breakthrough agreement will expand health-care coverage to an estimated 600,000 residents who make too much to qualify for the traditional Medicaid program, which predated the ACA expansion, but too little to qualify for subsidized private plans on the Obamacare marketplaces.

North Carolina offers a blueprint for breaking the logjam in the 10 remaining holdouts of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Mississippi, South Carolina, TENNESSEE, Texas, Wisconsin and Wyoming. Rural hospitals in each of these places have struggled because so many of their patients lack health insurance, which means they don’t get reimbursed unless the state picks up the tab. But GOP lawmakers in these states have held out in a dogged, partisan protest of the ACA, for which their constituents pay.

Local News:

- THE CHOSEN (Season 1), will be shown at the Etowah GEM

theater Friday, March 10th at 6 p.m., Saturday, March 11th at 10

a.m. and Sunday, March 12th at 2 p.m. Admission is FREE.

- If you or someone you know is battling addiction, struggling

with anger, or other life issues, Planted In Christ Outreach Fellowship, 317 Maple Street, in Athens, invites you to attend Outreach

Deliverance Classes every Thursday at 7:00 p.m.

- If you have suffered the loss of a loved one, Mars Hill Presbyterian Church of Athens now offers a Griefshare program each Sunday at 2:00 p.m. For more information call 423-829-5052.

- Celebrate Recovery meets at the following churches: The Englewood Church of God every Sunday at 6 p.m. and Woodward Avenue Church of God every Tuesday at 6 p.m

The Arts:

Bill Freeman is Southern Progressive Newsletter

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