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Laura Avenue Soon To Be Extended In Gasoline Alley

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By Sheldon Spackman

Work will begin this spring on extending Laura Avenue in Gasoline Alley. This, after Red Deer County Council awarded the major project to Border Paving Ltd on Tuesday.

The tender process took place late last year, with 17 bids coming in and Border Paving’s coming in the lowest atĀ $5,551,056.70 not including GST. County officials say the tender amount came in below the original estimate of $6,688,114.38 (including 10% contingency) provided by the County’s consultant and the budget allocation for the project. Based on the competitive nature of this tender, County staff are confident the price is industry standard for this type of work.

That work will affectĀ Laura Avenue & Lantern Street, Laura Avenue & Liberty Avenue, Laura Avenue & Township Road 375 and a Leva Avenue Road Widening and Servicing. There is no indication yet however on when that project will be finished. County officials say Laura Avenue will eventually line up with the new QE2 flyover south of Red Deer and hopefuly improve traffic flow to and within Gasoline Alley.

 

Also of note at Red Deer County Council on January 17th, a decision to support Stars Air Ambulance. Stars officials gave Council a presentation requesting support of $2 per capita annual committment to help with the cost of their missions and operations. Council gave unanimous support to the request which amounts toĀ roughly $36,700.

Since 2011, Stars has flown an average of 74 missions per year in the Red Deer County area.

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CBS settles with Trump over doctored 60 Minutes Harris interview

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CBS will pay Donald Trump more than $30 million to settle a lawsuit over a 2024 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris. The deal also includes a new rule requiring unedited transcripts of future candidate interviews.

Key Details:

  • Trump will receive $16 million immediately to cover legal costs, with remaining funds earmarked for pro-conservative messaging and future causes, including his presidential library.
  • CBS agreed to release full, unedited transcripts of all future presidential candidate interviews—a policy insiders are calling the ā€œTrump Rule.ā€
  • Trump’s lawsuit accused CBS of deceptively editing a 60 Minutes interview with Harris in 2024 to protect her ahead of the election; the FCC later obtained the full transcript after a complaint was filed.

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CBS and Paramount Global have agreed to pay President Donald Trump more than $30 million to settle a lawsuit over a 2024 60 MinutesĀ interviewĀ with then–Vice President Kamala Harris, Fox News DigitalĀ reportedĀ Tuesday. Trump accused the network of election interference, saying CBS selectively edited Harris to shield her from backlash in the final stretch of the campaign.

The settlement includes a $16 million upfront payment to cover legal expenses and other discretionary uses, including funding for Trump’s future presidential library. Additional funds—expected to push the total package well above $30 million—will support conservative-aligned messaging such as advertisements and public service announcements.

As part of the deal, CBS also agreed to a new editorial policy mandating the public release of full, unedited transcripts of any future interviews with presidential candidates. The internal nickname for the new rule is reportedly the ā€œTrump Rule.ā€

Trump initially sought $20 billion in damages, citing a Face the Nation preview that aired Harris’s rambling response to a question about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. That portion of the interview was widely mocked. A more polished answer was aired separately during a primetime 60 Minutes special, prompting allegations that CBS intentionally split Harris’s answer to minimize political fallout.

The FCC later ordered CBS to release the full transcript and raw footage after a complaint was filed. The materials confirmed that both versions came from the same response—cut in half across different broadcasts.

CBS denied wrongdoing but the fallout rocked the network. 60 Minutes executive producer Bill Owens resigned in April after losing control over editorial decisions. CBS News President Wendy McMahon also stepped down in May, saying the company’s direction no longer aligned with her own.

Several CBS veterans strongly opposed any settlement. ā€œThe unanimous view at 60 Minutes is that there should be no settlement, and no money paid, because the lawsuit is complete bulls***,ā€ one producer told Fox News Digital. Correspondent Scott Pelley had warned that settling would be ā€œvery damagingā€ to the network’s reputation.

The final agreement includes no admission of guilt and no direct personal payment to Trump—but it locks in a substantial cash payout and forces a new standard for transparency in how networks handle presidential interviews.

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Watch As Tucker Carlson And Glenn Greenwald Get A Good Laugh Over CNN Pretending Biden’s Decline Is Breaking News

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By Hailey Gomez

During a podcast Friday, Daily Caller News Foundation co-founder Tucker Carlson and independent journalist Glenn Greenwald couldn’t stop laughing over CNN’s sudden realization of former President Joe Biden’s mental decline.

CNN’s Jake Tapper along with Axios’ Alex Thompson released their book, ā€œOriginal Sin,ā€ on May 20, whichĀ detailsĀ Biden’s cognitive slide over the last four years — a concern Republicans hadĀ raisedĀ even before the 2020 election. While appearing on ā€œThe Tucker Carlson Show,ā€ Carlson joked that Greenwald had been ā€œscoopedā€ by CNN on Biden’s mental fitness.

ā€œSo you are, I think, the dean of alternative media. You’ve been doing this longer than anybody that I know personally. So it must be a little weird to get scooped by CNN on Joe Biden’s dementia, like you had no idea,ā€ Carlson said. ā€œNone of us knew.ā€

ā€œNone of us knew,ā€ Greenwald teased. ā€ There was that debate, and we were all shocked, but we were told he had a cold. So I was like, ā€˜OK, he’s on some cold medication. Who hasn’t been there before? It makes you a little dragged, a little groggy, a little just like dragged.’ But no, now Jake Tapper has uncovered the truth. It turns out Joe Biden was in cognitive decline.ā€

Sources told Tapper and Thompson that Biden’s mental fitness had declined rapidly during his time as president, with his mental state becomingĀ so severeĀ at one point that aides discussed putting him in a wheelchair.

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Tapper has faced pushback from both Democrats and Republicans over the timing of his book and the revelations it includes. The CNN host has long defended the former president.

Carlson went on to joke with Greenwald about how he believed Tapper gathered the material for the book.

ā€œJust a hardcore shoe leather investigative reporting,ā€ Greenwald joked. ā€œHe’s working his sources, calling all the people in Washington, digging up FOIA documents.ā€

ā€œIt’s one of those things where you kind of can’t believe what you’re witnessing because Jake Tapper is pretending to have uncovered a scandal that he himself led the way in the media, or one of the leaders in the media, in covering up,ā€ Greenwald added. ā€œTo the point where if somebody would go on his show and say ā€˜Joe Biden is obviously in cognitive decline.’ He would say ā€˜How dare you bully kids who stutter?’ā€

Greenwald went on to reference how Tapper hadĀ accusedĀ President Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, of ā€œmockingā€ the former president over his stutter during a 2020 interview.

Despite Lara Trump pointing to what she believed were signs of Biden’s problems, Tapper dismissed her remarks at the time, saying she had ā€œno standing to diagnose somebody’s cognitive decline.ā€

In addition to Lara Trump, Tapper also dismissed former Democratic presidential candidate Dean Phillips during a 2024Ā interviewĀ after Phillips expressed his ā€œconcernsā€ about Biden running for a second term.

ā€œObviously, he wanted Biden to win desperately and would not tolerate anyone going on the show and saying that Biden was in cognitive decline,ā€ Greenwald said. ā€œNow he’s making millions of dollars off a book.ā€

Following the media coverage of Tapper’s and Thompson’s book, BidenĀ appearedĀ to tell reporters on Friday he could ā€œbeat the hell out ofā€ the two journalists.

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