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Maryland, Virginia battling over housing new FBI headquarters
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Battle over FBI headquarters relocation
Maryland and Virginia are vying to be the brand new house of the FBI headquarters, and we may discover out who wins as quickly as subsequent month.
WASHINGTON (FOX 5 DC) – Maryland and Virginia are vying to be the brand new house of the FBI headquarters, and we may discover out who wins as quickly as subsequent month.
The J. Edgar Hoover Constructing is at the moment house to the FBI. As soon as declared the world’s ugliest constructing, it opened in 1975. Now, the two.8 million sq. foot construction is in determined want of repairs.
After practically twenty years of debate about transferring the FBI to a brand new headquarters, President Biden now says this constructing can not help the long-term mission of the FBI.
He says there’s a essential want for a brand new HQ – however the place?
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The Obama administration recognized three places for the transfer: Greenbelt, Maryland, Landover, Maryland and Springfield, Virginia.
Former President Trump canceled the method to maneuver to different suburbs, combating to rebuild on Pennsylvania Avenue. However the Biden administration has put the transfer again on monitor.
Maryland Senator Ben Cardin advised FOX 5 that any goal evaluate of the three websites would conclude that Prince George’s County has the higher hand. His workplace supplied the next quote:
“Each Maryland websites supply the chance to satisfy or exceed the entire FBI’s safety and performance necessities, and supply shut proximity to Washington – in addition to world-class analysis and academic establishments, cybersecurity and protection amenities, and different property helpful to the FBI’s ongoing missions. It’s a competitors although, and I can’t inform what is going to occur. However with the entire two websites’ benefits, Maryland is offering two very compelling choices for the FBI.”
Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen says Maryland has the required expert workforce, top-tier colleges and simple accessibility.
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In the meantime, Virginia’s Mark Warner tells FOX 5 he is working with the administration to ship a headquarters that greatest helps the FBI’s mission, and he strongly believes within the deserves of the Northern Virginia website. His workplace supplied the next quote:
“There may be settlement throughout the board that the FBI’s present headquarters facility – the J. Edgar Hoover Constructing – has considerably deteriorated in latest many years, severely impeding the FBI’s skill to satisfy its essential legislation enforcement and nationwide safety missions. I’m glad that the Biden Administration acknowledges that want and is working to pick out a website for a brand new FBI HQ. I’m going to proceed to work with the Administration to ship an FBI headquarters that greatest helps the mission of the women and men of the FBI, and strongly consider within the deserves of the Northern Virginia website.”
For D.C., dropping the headquarters may nonetheless be a win.
“Maryland and Virginia can go at it, however DC wins both method,” says D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes-Norton. “If the FBI headquarters stays right here after all that might imply federal jobs for a lot of DC residents. But when it leaves, it can depart room for brand spanking new development.”
FBI Director Chris Wray has advocated to remain in D.C. Senator Cardin just lately instructed Wray is an obstacle to the transfer.
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The FBI advised FOX 5 on Wednesday that they’re dedicated to transferring ahead with a brand new FBI HQ suburban campus at one of many three websites in addition to a downtown facility to permit for continued accessibility to the general public and shut proximity to the DOJ. The FBI’s Nationwide Press Workplace launched this assertion to FOX 5:
“GSA and the FBI are dedicated to persevering with to maneuver ahead to perform the important thing milestones outlined within the FY 2022 Appropriations Omnibus and the FY 2023 President’s Funds on the FBI Headquarters challenge, which incorporates a big new suburban FBI HQ campus in addition to a downtown facility to permit for continued FBI accessibility to the general public and shut proximity to the Division of Justice and different key downtown companions.
Following the enactment of the Omnibus, pursuant to path from Congress, GSA reviewed all three of the beforehand recognized suburban websites (Greenbelt, MD; Landover, MD; and Springfield, VA), and concluded that each one are viable for a brand new suburban FBI Headquarters. Since that point, GSA and the FBI have been creating a course of for choosing a kind of three websites – with a aim of creating that course of as truthful and clear as potential. GSA and the FBI are working diligently on finalizing the standards and analysis course of for website choice presently.”
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Michigan State football opens as sizable underdog vs Maryland
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Who’s ready for Big Ten play to begin? In all honesty, I am not. I really wish Michigan State football had more tune-up games after seeing them struggle against Florida Atlantic and only win 16-10. But unfortunately, that is not how the schedule unfolds for Michigan State this season.
The Spartans will hit the road for an early Big Ten game as they face Maryland on Saturday at 3:30 pm. Going into the season I thought Michigan State and the Terps were on a pretty level playing field, but after seeing both teams play week one that doesn’t appear to be the case.
And Vegas agrees.
Michigan State opens as a 7.5-point underdog next week at Maryland. My guess is that grows to 8, 8.5.
— Graham Couch (@Graham_Couch) September 1, 2024
As you all know, Michigan State only beat Florida Atlantic by six and did not look very impressive, especially on the offensive side of the ball. So it’s no surprise that MSU will be the underdog next week. But 7.5 points feels like a lot, and according to the Lansing State Journal’s Graham Couch, it likely will only go up from there.
So does Vegas have it right or are they underrating Michigan State?
Looking at Maryland’s week one game against UConn it appears Vegas has this line right. The Terps were up 23-0 at halftime and never looked back and went on to win in dominant fashion 50-7. UConn and FAU are very similar in terms of what level they’re at in college football, so that drastic of a difference in the final score is very scary.
So Vegas probably could’ve gotten away with Maryland being even bigger favorites in this one.
But maybe Vegas saw what I did and thinks a lot of Michigan State’s mistakes on Friday are easy to fix. Maybe they think Aidan Chiles will be much better next week. The Spartan’s defense was also fairly dominant so there isn’t much of a chance Maryland scores 50 points next week either.
I tend to not bet on Michigan State games, but even if I did this would be a line that I would avoid because who knows how much Jonathan Smith’s squad will improve by next week, and who knows how much Maryland might struggle against a Power Four opponent.
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University of Maryland reverses decision to allow anti-Israel protest on October 7
The University of Maryland on Sunday reversed its decision to allow an anti-Israel protest on the first anniversary of the October 7 Massacre, following backlash from local Jewish groups.
UMD Students for Justice in Palestine and UMD Jewish Voice for Peace had been set to hold their October 7 vigil for Gazans killed in the Israel-Hamas War at the campus’s Mckeldin Mall, but the University System of Maryland (USM) said in a statement that on the day of the Hamas-led pogrom it would limit campus events requiring permits or approval to those supporting “a university-sponsored Day of Dialogue.”
“From the beginning of the war, we have come together as a University System to urge that we use this moment to encourage conversation, compassion, and civility; to engage with one another across our differences and draw on our shared humanity and our shared values to bridge what divides us,” said USM. “These dialogues aren’t new. Many of our universities have been hosting this kind of programming for several months. Reserving Oct. 7 gives us a chance to continue these urgent conversations and to mark this solemn anniversary in a way that gives students—all students—the time and space to share and to be heard.”
USM said that its intent was not to infringe of the free expression and speech of students, but to be sensitive to the needs of students as October 7 was a “day of enormous suffering and grief for many in our campus communities.”
UMD Jewish Student Union, Maryland Hillel, Terps for Israel, and Israeli American Council Mishelanu at Maryland welcomed the USM decision and thanked UMD leadership in a joint social media statement on Sunday.
“October 7, the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, is a day of mourning for the Jewish and Israeli community,” said the UMD JSU. “We are relieved that SJP will no longer to be able to appropriate the suffering of our family and friends to fit their false and dangerous narrative.”
The Jewish groups said that it was distraught that the decision to only hold university-sponsored event had to be made at all, and wished to used the campus space to “grieve together as a community” to promote unity at the university. The unideal situation was necessary, according to the Jewish groups, to ensure the physical and psychological safety of students on the day of mourning.
UMD JVP and SJP attacked the decision to cancel the event, claiming that the vigil for Palestinians killed since the October 7 Massacre was attacked without familiarity of the content. The anti-Israel groups said that the discourse was “the continuation inherently racist, Islamophobic, and dehumanizing rhetoric surrounding Palestinians.” JVP and SJP said that the actions against their event were an attempt to paint “Muslim, Arab, and anti-Zionist Jewish students as barbaric.”
The anti-Israel groups asserted that their vigil for Palestinians who died in the war was no threat to the campus’s Jewish community, but conflation of Zionism and Judaism did threaten UMD and the Jewish community.
“To claim that Palestinians cannot hold a day of remembrance in mourning one year of genocide, or lay claim to that date is an insult to every life lost in the Zionist entity’s genocidal campaign,” UMD SJP and JVP said on Instagram on Sunday. “The disproportionate scale of suffering experienced by the Palestinians over the past year necessitates their remembrance and our solidarity on this day. The suffering of all innocents killed must not be monopolized and necessitates a fair and just representation.”
SJP and JVP demanded the right to organize and exercise their right to free speech, accusing Zionists of attempting to stifle Palestinian voices.
The organizations indicated on their Sunday Instagram post that they still planned to hold their all-day event at Mckeldin Mall, and on Monday a link to register still active and listing the campus building as the rally location.
UMD Jewish groups said that they would be holding their own event to memorialize the victims of the October 7 pogrom at the Maryland Hillel.
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Sunshine for your Labor Day in Maryland
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