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Late in the summer of 2003, a team of television producers stepped off the elevator on the 26th floor of Trump Tower eager to survey the set of their next reality show. After years filming “Survivor” in jungles around the world, training cameras on exotic spiders and deadly snakes to evoke danger, they came looking for a different set of sensory clues, the tiny details that would convey wealth and power.

Right away, they knew they had a problem.

The first thing they noticed was the stench, a musty carpet odor that followed them like an invisible cloud. Then they spotted scores of chips in the finish of the wooden desks and credenzas. The décor felt long out of date, making the space seem like a time capsule from when Donald J. Trump opened the building early in his first rise to fame.

The place did not exactly buzz with energy either. Fewer than 50 people worked at Trump Organization headquarters in midtown Manhattan. At the office’s spiritual center, Mr. Trump’s own desk bore no evidence of work, no computer screens or piles of contracts and blueprints, just a blanket of news articles focused on one subject: himself.

“When you go into the office and you’re hearing ‘billionaire,’ even ‘recovering billionaire,’ you don’t expect to see chipped furniture, you don’t expect to smell carpet that needs to be refreshed in the worst, worst way,” recalled Bill Pruitt, one of the producers of the new NBC show.

That program, “The Apprentice,” would at its essence be a game show, with a job in this office as the ultimate prize. But that prize, in a literal sense, stank. Making viewers believe the central conceit — that Ivy League grads would eagerly connive and humiliate themselves for a chance to learn at the side of this icon of success — would test the bounds of reality television magic.

“The whole thing was absurd to all of us,” remembered another producer, Alan Blum.

Get Out The Vote ALL 50 States

Use these links to find your state Election Board.

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Alabama https://myinfo.alabamavotes.gov/

Alaska https://voterregistration.alaska.gov/

Arizona https://voter.azsos.gov/VoterView/Home.do

**Arkansas **No State registration page. Commissioners by County. http://www.arkansas.gov/sbec/election-commissioner

California https://voterstatus.sos.ca.gov/

Colorado https://www.coloradosos.gov/pubs/elections/main.html?menuheaders=5

Connecticut https://voterregistration.ct.gov/OLVR/welcome.do

D.C. https://www.dcboe.org/Voters/Register-To-Vote/Register-to-Vote/

Delaware https://ivote.de.gov/voterlogin.aspx

Florida https://registration.elections.myflorida.com/CheckVoterStatus

Georgia https://registertovote.sos.ga.gov/GAOLVR/welcome.do#no-back-button

Hawaii https://olvr.hawaii.gov/

Idaho https://idahovotes.gov/

Illinois https://ova.elections.il.gov/RegistrationLookup.aspx

Indiana https://www.rockthevote.org/voting-information/indiana/

Iowa https://sos.iowa.gov/elections/voterreg/regtovote/search.aspx

Kansas https://myvoteinfo.voteks.org/VoterView

Kentucky https://vrsws.sos.ky.gov/VIC/

Louisiana https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/VoterRegistration

Maine https://www.maine.gov/sos/cec/elec/voter-info/index.html

Maryland https://voterservices.elections.maryland.gov/VoterSearch

Massachusetts https://www.sec.state.ma.us/VoterRegistrationSearch/MyVoterRegStatus.aspx

Michigan https://www.michigan.gov/sos/elections

Minnesota https://mnvotes.sos.state.mn.us/VoterStatus.aspx

Mississippi https://www.msegov.com/sos/voter_registration/amiregistered/Search

Missouri https://s1.sos.mo.gov/elections/VoterLookup/

Montana https://app.mt.gov/voterinfo/

Nebraska https://www.votercheck.necvr.ne.gov/VoterView/

Nevada https://www.nvsos.gov/votersearch/

New Hampshire https://sos.nh.gov/elections/information/notices/voter-registration-motor-vehicle-law-jointly-issued-faqs/

New Jersey http://www.njelections.org/

New Mexico https://voterportal.servis.sos.state.nm.us/wheretovote.aspx?&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1

New York https://voterlookup.elections.ny.gov/

North Carolina https://vt.ncsbe.gov/RegLkup/

North Dakota https://vip.sos.nd.gov/PortalListDetails.aspx?ptlhPKID=51&ptlPKID=7

Ohio https://voterlookup.ohiosos.gov/voterlookup.aspx

Oklahoma https://oklahoma.gov/elections/ovp.html

Oregon https://sos.oregon.gov/voting-elections/Pages/default.aspx

Pennsylvania https://www.pavoterservices.pa.gov/pages/voterregistrationstatus.aspx

Rhode Island https://vote.sos.ri.gov/

South Carolina https://info.scvotes.sc.gov/eng/voterinquiry/VoterInformationRequest.aspx?PageMode=VoterInfo

South Dakota https://vip.sdsos.gov/vipLogin.aspx

Tennessee https://tnmap.tn.gov/voterlookup/

Texas https://teamrv-mvp.sos.texas.gov/MVP/mvp.do

Utah https://vote.utah.gov

Vermont https://sos.vermont.gov/elections/voters/registration/

Virginia https://vote.elections.virginia.gov/VoterInformation

Washington https://weiapplets.sos.wa.gov/MyVote/#/login

West Virginia https://services.sos.wv.gov/Elections/Voter/AmIRegisteredToVote

Wisconsin https://myvote.wi.gov/en-us/FindMyPollingPlace

Wyoming http://soswy.state.wy.us/Elections/RegisteringToVote.aspx

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Sandy Springs-based UPS is laying off more of its employees, after earlier this year announcing it was cutting 12,000 jobs in its management ranks.

UPS made $7 Billion dollars net profit last year. It was a decline from the 11.5 Billion net profit they made in 2022.

State and local election officials from across the country on Wednesday warned that problems with the nation’s mail delivery system threaten to disenfranchise voters in the upcoming presidential election, telling the head of the U.S. Postal Service that it hasn’t fixed persistent deficiencies.

In an alarming letter, the officials said that over the past year, including the just-concluded primary season, mailed ballots that were postmarked on time were received by local election offices days after the deadline to be counted. They also noted that properly addressed election mail was being returned to them as undeliverable, a problem that could automatically send voters to inactive status through no fault of their own, potentially creating chaos when those voters show up to cast a ballot.

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That does include parking enforcement. Which is done through that half of Townhall. Oh yeah, that’s the other part. They get literally half the real estate of town hall which is delightfully unsubtle.

But yeah, remember specifically that freaking the cops taking on all of these duties, or having these duties thrust upon them outside of their control whatever version of this that you buy into,. Having a whole bunch of unrelated social functions being addressed under the regions of the police forces is the criticism, it’s not some separate part. Why, does parking enforcement or local security or non union road crews get organized and paid from the police department instead of the local government?