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Hualapai Tribes historic Osterman Gas Station on Route 66.

A few months ago, the National Trust for Historic Preservation placed the Osterman Gas Station in Peach Springs on its list of Americas most endangered historic places.

The concrete block building was built in the early days of the Great Depression from a Sears Roebuck catalog. It serviced vehicles on the legendary Route 66 for decades. Since then, its fallen into disrepair crippled by windstorms, microbursts and time.

Its currently owned by the Hualapai Tribe, which has a plan to revive it and is looking for funding to do so.

The list of endangered places has been around since the 1980s, but not everyone thinks every historic building should be preserved. In fact, Timothy Sandefur says while preserving the past is a worthy goal, it also represents a tradeoff, with costs and benefits that must be weighed as well.

Sandefur is the vice president of legal affairs with the Goldwater Institute, a libertarian think tank, and his views on historic preservation follow that libertarian streak. He was also, oddly enough, raised by a family of historic preservationists.

On the other hand, Beatrice Moore believes that preserving what little history we have in the metro Phoenix area is everything. Moore is the director of Grand Avenue Arts and Preservation and owner of multiple historic buildings in the Grand Avenue area.

The Show spoke with both Sandefur and Moore on their opinions on whether or not we should invest more into historic preservation.

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A debate over historic preservation and what deserves to be saved - KJZZ

I have talked to many of my friends and they feel the same way I feel. We are sick and tired of how our federal government currently operates.

It has been broken for a long time but we, the people, need to do something about it. It does not matter if you are Democrat, Republican, Independent, Libertarian or other. If you love America, you should want to help.

I do not claim to have all the answers needed but I sincerely believe that establishing term limits on all branches of government would help. We have graft and corruption at every level and I think that could be helped some by term limits.

Will it fix all our problems? No, absolutely not! Will it help? Yes, I believe it is a good start.

If you agree with me, start spreading the word to your family and friends. Write your U.S. government representatives and senators to support this idea. Call them and tell them you support this idea.

Dont give up!

Never give up! We owe it to our children and grandchildren. More information to come. May God bless America!

Susan Slaughter

Belton

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The centrist No Labels has been attacked by Democrats who fear the group will play spoiler in 2024 and end up electing Donald Trump. Yang stressed that he is an anyone-but-Trump guy, and that I would not run for president, if I thought that my running would be counterproductive, or if it would increase the chances of someone like Donald Trump becoming president again.

During the 45-minute meeting, Yang railed against the prospect that the 2024 presidential election is shaping up to be a rematch between Trump and President Joe Biden.

He called the increasingly likely scenario terribly unrepresentative and borderline ridiculous and pointing to the advanced ages of both frontrunners.

I mean, youre talking about two guys whose combined age is 160, Yang said (the two men will be a combined 159 years old on Election Day 2024). In a country of 330 million people, you would choose these two gentlemen at this stage? I mean, it makes zero sense.

While openly against Trump, Yang also was bearish on Bidens chances. He laid out a detailed scenario in which third-party candidates could hurt the presidents campaign. He expects Cornel West, who is running on a Green Party ticket to attract two to three percent of voters in 2024 a larger vote share than Jill Stein attracted in 2016. He anticipates Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will likely jump to the Libertarian Party ticket out of frustration of not getting a fair shake from the Democrats in the primary. Yang also predicted Kennedy could pull a similar number of voters as West, and pointed out that presidential elections are decided by a few hundred thousand votes across a handful of swing states.

When asked who he personally would vote for if he lived in one of those states, he refused to give a direct answer.

I mean, the fields still coming together, Yang said.

Yang, who left the Democratic Party nearly two years ago to launch his third party outfit, was in town to promote his political novel The Last Election. The Forward Party is pushing ranked-choice voting and doing away with partisan primaries.

The group, Yang said, was focusing its attention on local contests and races, hoping to affect national politics from the bottom up.

No Labels, by contrast, has put its focus on the presidential bid, attempting to gain ballot access in enough states to win the presidency with a unity ticket campaign. Among the names being discussed as part of such a ticket include current Gov. Chris Sununu (R-N.H.), former U.S. Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman, former Gov. Larry Hogan (R-Md.) and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.).

No Labels did respond to a request for comment.

Yang said Biden would benefit politically if he agreed to doing debates with his Democratic opponents, including Kennedy.

For his part, Yang said he was still planning to appear with one of those opponents, Marianne Williamson, but that the scheduling had not yet lined up.

He acknowledged that third parties rarely get national attention and said there is simply no money in down-ballot elections, which is part of the reason he had launched the Forward Party.

Theres no upside, he adds. So thats why everyone gets attracted to the presidential.

But when asked about whether a third-party presidential bid has a realistic shot, a dose of reality appeared to set in.

The question presumes that the goal of any third party is to win a presidential election, Yang explained, which is probably one of the mistakes [and] problems of the past.

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Andrew Yang says he's had 'conversations' with No Labels - POLITICO

At last months BRICS Summit in South Africa, Argentina was among six new countries invited to join the organization, which currently consists of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. At the same time, as often happens at BRICS summits, there were debates about the potential for so-called de-dollarization of the global economy, meaning the promotion of alternative currencies to the U.S. dollarpossibly including a BRICS-led currencyfor settling international trade transactions. In addition to advancing BRICS much-touted desire to replace the U.S.-led global order with a multipolar one, de-dollarization would allow Russiaand Iran, which was also invited to join the groupto more easily evade U.S. economic sanctions.

The government of Argentine President Alberto Fernandez is definitely on board with the de-dollarization agenda. Fernandez has expanded Argentinas currency swaps in yuan with China and advocated for local currency usage in trade with Brazil, in part to mitigate his governments exchange and monetary policies, which has drained Argentina of its foreign currency reserves, including dollars. de-dollarization and a shift away from the U.S.-led economic order appear to be a key part of the foreign policy agenda of both the Fernandez government and his ruling Peronist coalition.

However, days prior to the BRICS Summit, Javier Milei, a libertarian economist and proponent of dollarizing Argentinas economy, finished first in the countrys open presidential primary, making him the frontrunner for Octobers presidential election. The second-place finisher, opposition candidate Patricia Bullrich, has not advocated for full dollarization, but she hopes to remove the currency controls put in place by the Peronists to allow a greater flow of dollars into and out of the country. As the Peronist candidate, Economy Minister Sergio Massa, has little chance of winning in October, either Milei or Bullrich is likely to be Argentinas president next year. Both have also already expressed their opposition to joining BRICS.

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Argentina Shows Limits of BRICS Dream of Replacing US Dollar ... - World Politics Review

A Republican Party leader in St. Joseph, Mo., threatened to bar elected leaders from running for office as Republicans if they voted to reappoint a gay pastor as a library board member.

The Kansas City NPR affiliate KCUR reports that Buchanan County Republican Central Committee chair Steven Greiert emailed St. Josephs mayor and council regarding Brian Kirks library board seat renewal on August 4.

According to Greiert, if city council members vote to advance his reappointment, the Republican Party would not accept filing fees from them in the future if they run for other Republican positions.

Kirks renomination has been controversial since conservative Grace Calvary Chapel members started criticizing him this summer for supporting LGBTQ+ rights. Senior pastor Josh Blevins had led the charge against the gay pastor. Kirk is the pastor of First Christian Church and a volunteer on the librarys board.

As part of Greierts proposal to Mayor John Josendale, he suggested he dismiss people who affirm LGBTQ+ rights and replace them with all new people, who would equally represent both sides of the issue on transgenderism and drag-queen shows and literature in the library.

Although elected positions locally are nonpartisan, Greiert claimed the mayor and city council members ran on conservative values and with the support of Republicans, which they courted.

You and the other City Council members can always run as Democrats, Independents, Libertarians, or pedestrians or anything else without our approval, Greiert announced. But you will need our endorsement before you can run as Republicans for anything anywhere.

If you choose to renew the appointment of Pastor Kirk and the continuation of the left-leaning majority that has existed on that Board for a long time, then we will know whom to hold accountable and whom we can no longer trust to lead the city, he threatened.

The hostility toward the LGBTQ+ community among conservatives in the area is clear from the documents KCUR acquired.

Greiert sent an email on June 20 urging city council member Andy Trout not to approve Kirk to the library board.

This transgender and homosexual propaganda is pure evil, Greiert claimed. It is designed to destroy the family, to undercut traditional American values and our way of life, and ultimately institute governmental control that will undermine our city, county, state, and nation.

Trout replied affirmatively.

I absolutely agree! Good news is that John pulled the nomination! he responded.

Kirk has maintained that he is the victim of discrimination based on homophobia. He's found some solace in the support for him.

Though it's a small community, it's a rather libertarian community where we respect differences, Kirk said. We sort of have a live and let live philosophy here. And although that's been tested over the last several months, I think it still holds true that we are a community that tries to be as welcoming as we can be.

A number of community members are urging the city to extend nondiscrimination protections to all city board and commission volunteers. As far as the mayor was concerned, Kirks non-renomination to the library board was not discriminatory.

Brian had done a good job on the library board when he was there. But again, when you look at boards, Josendale told the station, a lot of people are looking to see how things can be done differently.

Kirks told KCUR earlier in the summer that he was told by Josendale that he wouldn't be reappointed to the board. Library director Mary Beth Revels was also at the meeting and corroborated the conversation and Kirk's version of events. Josendale allegedly said too many people had emailed about the renomination.

He said, its just causing conflict in the city. And for my protection and my church's protection, he was gonna go ahead and take me off the board, Kirk told the outlet. He then proceeded to talk about, people are concerned about woke ideology spreading and too many Pride flags in our downtown.

Revels said, The mayor at that point was just like, Im sorry. I respect you. I think you've done a great job. I just don't want this controversy. And I think that the best way to not hurt you, not hurt the library, not hurt the city, is to just stop right here.

In an email to KCUR, Josendale said those accounts of the conversation were not true. However, the mayor wouldn't answer questions from the outlet about what parts were not true. The mayor ended up listing Kirk for renomination, but Kirk only received two recommendations out of nine.

Kirk was not renominated for the board.

Pictured above is Josh Blevins (L) and Brian Kirk.

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Missouri Local GOP Chair Tried to Block Gay Pastors Library Board Reappointment - Yahoo News