RIP Golly the Ghillie.

Now it's the 42nd anniversary of the great game.

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Keeping Pace: The Delaware Gap Another state racing commission issues a baffling ruling without an adequate public explanation. And another opportunity for some uniformity among racing jurisdictions is evaded. What’s the point of h...

The latest from @PaulickReport: What's the use of a racing commission if it won't enforce racing rules?

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Keeping Pace: The Will And The Ways To Replace FanDuel FanDuel’s abdication of its obligation to the Thoroughbred industry is terrible but unsurprising news. It’s also an opportunity and an incentive for the sport to band together to create a new way for ...

Would a non-profit model make sense for a channel dedicated to Thoroughbred racing in the U.S.? The latest Keeping Pace column from @paulickreport.bsky.social

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Hey @lawfaremedia.org Am waiting for a good essay on two on the life and death of Robert Mueller. Have I missed it? I'd like to include it in Opening Statement once posted.

Keeping Pace: Churchill Downs Owes HISA – And The Horse Racing Industry Churchill Downs, Inc. is fighting HISA over the collection of fees racing regulators need to help enforce the federal racing integrity and safety law. But the lengthy, expensive litigation is really a...

The fight between HISA and Churchill isn't merely over fees.

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Here's what I wrote in 2013 about my beloved CBS Radio News.

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Heartbreaking. Especially for the hardworking CBS Radio News staff affected. Best in the business for generations and they deserved better than this.

Keeping Pace: Ballot Measure For A Meadowlands Casino Is No Sure Thing Before we can all start counting our money at a casino in northern New Jersey, state legislators need to get the measure before voters this November. They’ve made a start on that but appear to have st...

Wake up, New Jersey, before it's too late. The latest from Paulick Report. paulickreport.com/features/kee...

Kristi Noem More.

Horses that heal: Equine therapy rising in popularity Bridget Williams gathered a group of children together in her barn to show them how to safely give a horse a treat.

Horses helping humans.

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Departing CBS News producer claims political bias as Paramount poised to buy Warner Bros Mary Walsh, leaving after 46 years, says staffers told to ‘aim our reporting at a particular part of the political spectrum’

Mary Walsh was the cream of the crop for decades @cbsnews.com and I know she speaks for many still laboring there under the new regime.

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Keeping Pace: Meadowlands Will Try To Keep Hambletonian In New Jersey The harness track in East Rutherford has hosted America’s classic race since 1981. The race and the track need each other, especially with the prospect of a ballot initiative this fall that could help...

A Paulick Report Exclusive: Good news for New Jersey racing.

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In Iowa, Prosecutors Want to Bring Back Court Fees as Bargaining Chips - Bolts Iowa's high court recently ended the practice of making defendants pay fees for charges that get dismissed. Prosecutors are backing legislation to undo the court’s ruling so they can keep using fees a...

3️⃣ Iowa prosecutors have gotten used to a pretty shocking practice: pressuring defendants to plead guilty or else risk suffering major financial harm.

The Supreme Court struck down but now prosecutors and some lawmakers want to bring it back, @laurengill.bsky.social reports:

Tens of Thousands of Mothers Were Flagged to Police Over Flawed Drug Tests at Childbirth The Marshall Project found more than 70,000 cases referred to law enforcement over allegations of substance use during pregnancy — and that’s a significant undercount.

We found over 70,000 cases referred to law enforcement over allegations of substance use during pregnancy — and that’s a significant undercount.

In many cases, the referrals began with false positive results from flawed drug tests — sometimes triggered by the women’s prescribed medications.

Or perhaps someone else can buy this paper from Bezos—since he seems to view it as an albatross—and donate it to a foundation established to run it as a nonprofit. Bezos gets a capital loss, the buyer/donor is a hero, the rest of us get a world class newspaper. The Knight Institute is ready to help.

The Trump administration has repeatedly misled courts and ignored their orders in immigration cases, a new analysis by David Bier shows. This pattern weakens the rule of law and erodes trust in the legal system.

https://ow.ly/NKBf50Y6CZQ

This is just a guess, but maybe the rise in dramatic prose from district court judges is partly due to a growing belief among those judges that it's pointless to try to persuade SCOTUS and they must therefore focus on other potential audiences.

A screenshot of the opening of the daily Opening Statement newsletter, with the following first paragraph visible: "The Trump administration may not unilaterally end temporary protected status for about 350,000 Haitian people living legally in the U.S., a federal judge ruled on Monday. The judge accused Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem of “racial animus” toward non-white immigrants. TPS status for the group was expected to expire and communities with a large number of Haitian immigrants, like Springfield, Ohio, feared sweeping immigration enforcement operations. The Trump administration immediately criticized the ruling and vowed to appeal it. TMP’s Daphne Duret has the story. The Marshall Project Related: Read the opinion. U.S. District Court, District of Columbia"

In today’s edition of Opening Statement, our daily newsletter, we look at a ruling on refugee status that affects hundreds of thousands of Haitians in the U.S. We’ve got lots of Minnesota links and plenty of Justice Department news. mailchi.mp/themarshallp...

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Keeping Pace: Feedback From Last Week's Mike Repole Column The billionaire owner and breeder and master showman proposes a four-hour marathon debate between him and the stewards of The Jockey Club over the future of Thoroughbred racing. The time and money wou...

The one thing we can all agree upon is that Mike Repole is a polarizing figure in Thoroughbred racing. Here's the latest Keeping Pace column from @paulickreport.bsky.social

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Here's more on Biery from 15 years ago. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

This is not Judge Biery's first turn in the spotlight. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

This is extraordinary work.

I Spent 12 Hours in the Parking Lot Where Donald Trump’s Darkest Work Is Unfolding. They’re Hoping You Don’t Notice. How a quintessentially American setting became an epicenter of cruelty.

This is very well done.

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How ICE and Border Patrol Keep Injuring and Killing People After shooting people, federal agents repeatedly failed to provide first aid, and officials spun narratives disproven by video.

The fatal shooting of Pretti was not the first time that federal immigration officers have killed civilians under the Trump administration, and it wasn’t the first time that officials spread misleading accounts about the shooting victim.

Keeping Pace: Let's Talk (Again) About A Racing Commissioner Billionaire Thoroughbred owner Mike Repole is auditioning for the job of czar of Thoroughbred racing. He promises to be a strongman in an authoritarian age. Even if some of his ideas are sound, such a...

Does Thoroughbred racing need a commissioner? Maybe. Does it need an autocratic one? Not so much.

The latest Keeping Pace column from @paulickreport.bsky.social

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The 5-year-old arrested by ICE In Minnesota is detained at Dilley. We reported on conditions there in the below article.

Parents said the food was contaminated with mold and worms & that children were so under so much stress that they were hitting their own faces & wetting themselves.

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