DAVID WEEKLEY HOMES HOSTS WORLD’S LARGEST SHOWCASE OF HOMES APRIL 1 - 30
Salt Lake City, UT (March 27, 2018): David Weekley Homes is hosting its third annual World’s Largest Showcase of Homes in cities across the country. From April 1-30, the community is invited to visit any model or showcase home in Salt Lake City to see current innovations in design and décor trends.
To celebrate the event, Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area will receive a $5 donation for each visitor who registers with a sales consultant during the month of April. In addition, each registered visitor will also be entered for a chance to win one of three prizes: a smart watch, $1,500 appliance package or $2,000 electronics package.
This donation is one of the many ways David Weekley Homes lives out its purpose, Building Dreams, Enhancing Lives, in all the communities in which it builds. The builder joins with team members, homeowners and community partners to engage with communities to make a difference through volunteer and philanthropic efforts.
For more information about the third annual David Weekley Homes World’s Largest Showcase of Homes, or to find a community in Salt Lake City, visit www.davidweekleyhomes.com.
About Ronald McDonald House Charities
Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC), an independent non-profit 501 (c) (3) corporation, creates, finds and supports programs that directly improve the health and well-being of children and their families. Through its global network of local Chapters in 62 countries and regions, its three core programs, the Ronald McDonald House®, the Ronald McDonald Family Room® and the Ronald McDonald Care Mobile®, and millions of dollars in grants to support children's programs worldwide, RMHC provides stability and vital resources to families so they can get and keep their children healthy and happy. All RMHC-operated and supported programs provide access to quality health care and give children and families the time they need together to heal faster and cope better.
About David Weekley Homes
David Weekley Homes, founded in 1976, is headquartered in Houston and operates in 22 cities across the United States. David Weekley Homes was the first builder in the United States to be awarded the Triple Crown of American Home Building, an honor which includes “America’s Best Builder,” “National Housing Quality Award” and “National Builder of the Year.” Weekley has also appeared 12 times on FORTUNE magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work For®” list. Since inception, David Weekley Homes has closed more than 80,000 homes. For more information about David Weekley Homes, visit the company’s website at www.davidweekleyhomes.com.
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With National Doctors’ Day coming up on March 30, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on 2018's Best & Worst States for Doctors.
To identify the best states for those in the business of saving lives, WalletHub compared the 50 states and the District of Columbia across 16 key metrics. The data set ranges from average annual wage of physicians to hospitals per capita to quality of public hospital system.
Best States for Doctors
Worst States for Doctors
1
South Dakota
42
Illinois
2
Nebraska
43
California
3
Idaho
44
Maryland
4
Iowa
45
Oregon
5
Minnesota
46
Massachusetts
6
Wisconsin
47
District of Columbia
7
Kansas
48
Hawaii
8
Montana
49
New York
9
North Dakota
50
Rhode Island
10
Wyoming
51
New Jersey
Best vs. Worst:
To view the full report and your state or the District’s rank, please visit:
https://wallethub.com/edu/best-and-worst-states-for-doctors/11376/
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Judicial Watch Joins Allied Educational Foundation in Asking Supreme Court to Reject Maryland’s Gerrymandering Scheme
Urges High Court to Overturn Lower Court Ruling that Used ‘Overly Broad’ Standards to Uphold the ‘Most Extreme and Effective Congressional Gerrymander in the Nation’
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today it joined with Allied Educational Foundation (AEF) in filing an amici curiae brief in the United States Supreme Court seeking to overturn Maryland’s 2011 congressional redistricting plan, which the brief calls “the most extreme and effective congressional gerrymander in the nation” (Benisek, et al. v. Lamone, et al., (No. 17-333)). The Benisek case is on appeal from the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland after the lower court ruled for the state in dismissing the plaintiffs’ claims. The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in this case on Wednesday (March 28).
Critics of the Maryland plan have charged that the new congressional map was designed specifically to minimize the voting power of particular voters. The Washington Post editorialized:
The map … mocks the idea that voting districts should be compact or easily navigable. The eight districts respect neither jurisdictional boundaries nor communities of interest. To protect incumbents and for partisan advantage, the map has been sliced, diced, shuffled and shattered, making districts resemble studies in cubism.
Judicial Watch and AEF argue that the test applied by the lower court in this case was inadequate to determine whether Maryland’s redistricting scheme constitutes an unconstitutional, partisan gerrymander that violates the First Amendment. It further argues that if the lower court ruling is allowed to stand, it “will ensure that every redistricting case will become a federal case.”
In their brief, Judicial Watch and AEF argue that courts must be able “to distinguish unconstitutional gerrymandering from ordinary political redistricting,” which will require “manageable and politically neutral standards for detecting gerrymandering.”
Traditional districting principles, such as compactness, contiguity, and respect for established political boundaries have been bedrock considerations under this Court’s redistricting jurisprudence for decades, and there is no reason to discard them in favor of untried standards that rely entirely on what legislators say (or, in future, learn not to say) and on the unpredictable fortunes of political parties. Much less is there any reason to follow currently favored social science theories that disregard decades of practical knowledge and jurisprudence concerning the process of drawing district lines.
The Judicial Watch/AEF brief further explains traditional districting principles about the standards adopted by the lower courts in both the Benisek and Gill cases and argues that the lower court ruling in this case should be overturned for ignoring them.
“The Supreme Court would be on a very dangerous course if it endorses the lead of the lower courts on gerrymandering,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “The lower courts in Maryland would tell the Supreme Court to ignore the most abusive gerrymander in the country, while the lower courts in Wisconsin would have the courts overturn district lines if not enough Democrats win. The Supreme Court should pick a reasonable judicial standard for evaluating gerrymanders to ensure that voters can pick their politicians – not the other way around.”
In August 2017, Judicial Watch and AEF filed an amici brief in the Wisconsin gerrymandering case Beverly R. Gill, et al. v. William Whitford, et al., (No. 16-1161), urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reject the arbitrary method of drawing Wisconsin’s electoral districts adopted by the lower court, which ignored traditional districting principles. Judicial Watch and AEF argued in that joint brief that the lower court ruling relied, in part, on a novel test for gerrymandering found nowhere in the Constitution known as the “the efficiency gap,” which focuses on a purely hypothetical estimate of what each party “should” win in a “fair” election and amounts, in practice, to court-ordered, proportional party representation scheme.
Judicial Watch earlier filed a lawsuit on behalf of voters across Maryland, also seeking to overturn Maryland’s 2011 gerrymandering scheme. In August 2016, the United States District Court for the District of Maryland ruled for the state in dismissing the plaintiffs’ claims. Judicial Watch filed an appeal with the Supreme Court in October 2016. On January 9, 2017, the court dismissed the appeal.
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Bishop Announces 2018 Education Conference
WASHINGTON – On Friday, March 30, 2018, Rep. Rob Bishop (R-UT) will host over 100 students from a number of Utah high schools including Box Elder, Freemont, Layton, Clearfield, Altamont, and the Utah Military Academy as they gather at Utah’s State Capitol Complex for Congressman Bishop’s 2018 Annual Education Conference.
WHAT:
Rep. Rob Bishop’s 2018 Annual High School Education Conference
WHERE:
Utah State Capitol Complex
The Conference will commence with opening remarks by Rep. Bishop and a flag ceremony performed by cadets from the Utah Military Academy in the State Office Building Auditorium at 9:00 MDT
WHEN:
Friday, March 30, 2018
9:00 AM – 3:00 PM MDT
Students will take part in presentations and breakout sessions which will cover federalism, executive branch agencies, the committee process, and more. Presenters will include:
· Congressmen Rob Bishop (UT-01) & John Curtis (UT-03)
· Bureau of Land Management Deputy Director, Programs & Policy, Brian Steed (Exercising Authority of the Director)
· Senior Policy Advisor to House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop, Adam Stewart
· Sutherland Institute Director of the Coalition for Self-Government in the West, Matt Anderson
