María Soledad

Journalist | Periodista

[María Soledad @Maria_Soledad7]

@FOMBPR The @FOMBPR exec director said the board has to wait for the end of the year to determine whether this year's budget could be certified as balanced. However, now the gov't and the board are in agreement about the guidelines of what constitutes a balance budget.

[María Soledad @Maria_Soledad7]

"It is unlikely that PREPA's restructuring will be resolved this year," @FOMBPR exec. dir said during the board's public meeting.

At a previous T3 hearing, Judge Swain seemed exasperated at the lack of "genuine engagement in mediated negotiations" in the PREPA debt negotiations

[María Soledad @Maria_Soledad7]

Office of Management & Budget exec. director celebrated that for the first time since Promesa was enacted, the @FOMBPR let the gov't of Puerto Rico hold the reigns of the process to prepare the island's 2027 budget.

[María Soledad @Maria_Soledad7]

“I am in love with comics and the medium,” @notjohnlestudio said. “But the business has some primitive perspectives of how to run a business.”

Here’s my story on visual artist John Lê and the NFT art marketplace Exchange art

[M.A. Columbia Journ @ColumbiaJournMA]

For @FortuneCrypto, @ColumbiaJournMA alum @Maria_Soledad7 (MA Politics '23) writes about @notjohnlestudio, an artist who has made $2.2 million at the first woman-run NFT marketplace. https://t.co/VBl51rdHOL

[Jason Hancock @J_Hancock]

An entire small-town police department in Kansas raided a newspaper's offices and its reporters' homes because the paper got a tip about a well-connected person's DUI
https://t.co/nsfmsVBwfX

[Angélica Serrano-Román @angelicaserran0]

I’m just curious as to who or what company did this background check.

[ryan @RyanFMandelbaum]

i am begging freelancers and remote workers to consider working at the library instead of a cafe

[José María Del Pino @josemdelpino]

🔴| Folha a esta hora: Las tres sedes de los poderes del Estado han sido invadidas.

[María Soledad @Maria_Soledad7]

Things have not improved.

[Dave Wasserman @Redistrict]

Hard to overstate the psychological/optical blow of *losing* support on the third ballot when you desperately need things to be heading the opposite direction.

[María Soledad @Maria_Soledad7]

“Our job is not to coronate the biggest fundraiser or the rubber stamp to the status quo”- Rep. Lauren Boebert three attempts ago to chose a Speaker of the House.

[Angélica Serrano-Román @angelicaserran0]

BREAKING: Puerto Rico’s Oversight Board appointed Robert F. Mujica Jr. as Executive Director. Mujica, who serves as New York State Government Budget Director, joins the Board on January 1, 2023.

[María Soledad @Maria_Soledad7]

After celebrating the GOP victory in the House, Trump announced his 2024 presidencial candidacy.

By contrast, conservative pundits and GOP members have been analyzing the reasons for underwhelming midterm results. Many are mentioning Trump as one of the reasons.

[María Soledad @Maria_Soledad7]

“While the city did not release district-by-district data, the demographic gaps in testing may indicate disparities between districts, although other factors, such as poverty rates, can also impact scores.”

[Columbia Daily Spectator @ColumbiaSpec]

New York City officials finally released standardized reading and math scores from the 2021-22 school year, with math scores plummeting and reading scores rising slightly. The scores, however, vary among different racial demographics, exacerbating long-s… https://t.co/NBuGJXAaCz

[David Begnaud @DavidBegnaud]

THREAD: I spoke with Naji Khoury, CEO of Liberty Communications of Puerto Rico. He said if the power outages on the island stretch into next week cellular towers will start to go down as diesel becomes harder to find/distribute to fill the generators running powering the towers.

[Daniel Colón Ramos @dacolon]

Puerto Rico has received ~1.2 trillion gallons of rainfall during #Fiona. To put it in perspective, Lake Champlain in NY/VT is 6 trillion gallons of water. If the rainfall in PR during the past days were in a lake, it would be one of the largest lakes in North America.

[Angélica Serrano-Román @angelicaserran0]

“I am alive.” #FionaPR

[Periódico La Esquina @laesquinapr]

⚠️ AHORA | Maunabo totalmente incomunicado. No hay vía de acceso para entrar al municipio.

#HuracánFiona

[María Soledad @Maria_Soledad7]

Este es el problema de burlarse de las preocupaciones sobre tormentas o huracanes menores “porque no son María”

El sistema, en realidad, no se ha recuperado. Fenómenos atmosféricos van a dejar más daño de lo que dejaban antes

[Juan R. Costa @NotiJuan]

Gobernador confirma: APAGÓN GENERAL por #Fiona

"LUMAy AEE informan que por el efecto del huracán, el sistema eléctrico se encuentra en este momento fuera de servicio. Se han activado los protocolos según los planes establecidos para atender esta situación”.

[Emily Hoeven @emily_hoeven]

BREAKING: California's electric grid operator is warning consumers "to be prepared for possible outages" this evening, w/ electricity demand expected to reach an all-time high.

It expects to declare Stage 3 emergency at 5:30pm, one step from rotating power outages.