(The Center Square) – The latest count of unhoused people living in King County reveals that homelessness in the region is at an all-time high. The King County Regional Homelessness Authority conducted both an unsheltered and sheltered point-in-time, or PIT, count in January, with results showing 16,385 people experiencing homelessness in King County. KCRHA released the PIT […]
(The Center Square) – Annual Census estimates released Thursday show Illinois’ largest cities continuing to lose population. Gov. J.B. Pritzker again denied the federal data. When asked why he thinks the state’s major cities are losing population, Pritzker said the state gained population and the annual estimates calculated by the U.S. Census Bureau are wrong. “The […]
(The Center Square) — Though dozens of states make their legislative sessions viewable live and on-demand, Pennsylvania stands out. It’s one of only a few states that offer a live-streaming option but doesn’t make the recordings publicly accessible online. Though residents can watch House sessions on YouTube after the fact, the same can’t be said […]
(The Center Square) – According to new state rankings, California ranks dead last in opportunity due to its high cost of living, says the U.S. News and World Report. USNWR’s report uses cost of living, economic opportunity, and equality to create its opportunity metric. California’s nation-worst cost of living was the main driver of the opportunity ranking, […]
President Joe Biden has turned the town red from all the regulatory tape his agencies have spit out this year. According to two new reports, Biden has gone around Congress to issue a record number of costly regulations in part out of concern that he might not win reelection and wants to cement in his […]
Democrats in Minnesota and President Joe Biden’s campaign for reelection are challenging former President Donald Trump’s claim that he can flip reliably blue Minnesota. Minnesota has not voted for a Republican for president since 1972. In 2020, Biden beat Trump in Minnesota by more than 233,000 (or 7 percentage points), and in 2016, former Democratic nominee […]
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is in the spotlight after a picture of an upside-down American flag outside his house circulated online. Alito’s wife ran the upside-down flag up the pole in front of their home in the days following the Jan. 6 insurrection in response to an extended fight with neighbors over their insulting […]
The Senate could approve President Joe Biden’s 200th federal judge next week, a pace that outstrips former President Donald Trump’s appointments at this point in his term. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has moved 197 judges across the Senate floor and on Monday will confirm Biden’s 198th: Seth Robert Aframe, an appeals court nominee for […]
A range of economic developments in the coming months could tip the presidential election toward or away from President Joe Biden. Biden is at the mercy of economic factors, such as income growth, inflation, changes in interest rates, and fluctuations in gas prices, because the presidential contest appears to be quite close at the moment. […]
Like a latent virus that roars back to life or an old infection thought to be quelled, the candidate switcheroo has made a dispiriting return. The body politic came under attack most recently in Florida’s Cape Canaveral area 8th Congressional District. Voters there in 2020 would have backed former President Donald Trump over President Joe […]
