“In reaffirming our heritage as a free nation, we must remember that America has always been a frontier nation. Now we must embrace the next frontier, America’s manifest destiny in the stars. I am asking Congress to fully fund the Artemis program to ensure that the next man and the first woman on the Moon will be American astronauts — using this as a launching pad to ensure that America is the first nation to plant its flag on Mars.”
President Donald Trump, State of the Union
A Note To Readers
President Trump made a heartfelt call for the full funding of Project Artemis in his State of the Union address on Tuesday. An article on that, and more, can be found below, under the section titled, “Onward to the Moon and Mars.”
The Feature this week is Part II of the series on “Rebuilding the U.S. Economy,” with this week’s installment on restoring the Glass-Steagall banking law as the first step in doing so.
In the rest of this week’s report:
January has been very dry in California, with little precipitation, a snowpack that is well below the average for this time of the year, and a general drying out of the state.
Under “The California Water Wars, Again,” we have the governor’s policy announcement– full of platitudes, but nothing of thinking big, as usual. Then an update on the Groundwater Sustainability Plan from the DWR. And finally, a report on legislation to fix some of the damaged water infrastructure from the subsidence problem.
Continuing the war between PG&E and governor Newsom, PG&E has submitted a new plan to exit bankruptcy, while a legislator has introduced a bill for the state to take over the company.
Our “Real Economy” report this week features several articles. First is the statistics showing that the ongoing U.S. industry slowdown continues. That is followed by a report on Boeing and the shut down of many of its suppliers. One more report follows: “Why Life Expectancy in the United States Is Lower Than Cuba or Slovenia.”
Two articles can be found in the section mentioned above, “Onward to the Moon and Mars.”
We conclude with the Feature: “Rebuilding the U.S. Economy.”
