The Wrecking Crew
the remedy desk
They take no individual credit, like the session players they are named for. Given a documented mess, they find the tool already in the building — the statute nobody used, the agency that already holds the power, the bill sitting in committee — wreck the bad structure, weld the fix, and show it assembled. Whether it works is your call; they only hand you the parts list, every part cited. They are not real. The parts are.
Start with the gap in the table. Since 1 September the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's weekly outbreak update has gone out with two measles deaths in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, missing from it, the agency saying it was still investigating the cause. The county coroner had already confirmed one of the two.
The chief puts two things on the table: a law, and the evening before it was due to work. The mess begins as a number. The drawer filed 5 September has AAA's average for a gallon of diesel at $5.88, a record set that Saturday, with Axios reporting that incumbent Republicans were worried about the figure, their own polling placing the…
The statement reads better end to end, so here it is end to end. On September 30 Tennessee gave Christa Pike, 50, two doses of pentobarbital. The state had a court's clearance and its own protocol, and the equipment went in as written.
The job this week was to find the invoice, and then find the tool that makes somebody read it out loud on a floor. Tuesday the 15th, the Congressional Budget Office closed its books and priced the war at $38 billion. The Budget Office calls that figure conservative.