(The Center Square) – It is Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s lofty goal to have one million electric vehicles on Illinois roads in less than six years, and now a public service campaign is critical of his political party’s EV agenda. The American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) has launched an ad campaign called “Driver’s Seat” […]
(The Center Square) – Seattle and Tacoma took the top two spots in the Tax Foundation’s latest publication on the highest combined state and local sales tax rates among major U.S. cities. Earlier this week, the Washington, D.C.-based think tank released its “Sales Tax Rates in Major Cities, Midyear 2024” report, which calculates “average combined […]
(The Center Square) — On the shores of Pennsylvania’s sliver of Lake Erie, something has happened that hasn’t been seen for decades: common terns nesting on the beach, raising their young chicks to fledglings. Game Commission officials are excited. Back in the 1930s, Presque Isle State Park had 100 breeding pairs of terns at Gull […]
(The Center Square) – A new study says the Chicago metropolitan area has one of the biggest inflation problems in the United States. WalletHub found that Chicago trails only New York, Minneapolis and Detroit on the inflation list. WalletHub writer/analyst Chip Lupo says several factors may be affecting those markets. “Supply chain disruptions, energy prices […]
HONOLULU (AP) — Hurricane Hone passed just south of Hawaii on Sunday, dumping enough rain for the National Weather Service to call off its red flag warnings that strong winds could lead to wildfires on the drier sides of islands in the archipelago. Hone (pronounced hoe-NEH) had top winds of 85 mph (140 kph) Sunday […]
Vice President Kamala Harris‘s campaign is coming off a feel-good week at the Democratic National Convention, and the campaign’s fundraising figures have added to that feeling. The Harris campaign, in a memo Sunday, said it had raised $540 million since Harris launched her campaign just over a month ago, when President Joe Biden dropped his […]
A rare but deadly disease spread by mosquitoes has one town in Massachusetts closing its parks and fields each evening. Four other towns are urging people to avoid going outdoors at night. They’re concerned about eastern equine encephalitis. State health officials announced last week a man in his 80s had caught the disease, the first […]
Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) argued the United States’s root causes for illegal immigration stem from Vice President Kamala Harris refusing to fulfill her role as “border czar.” The vice presidential candidate was asked on NBC’s Meet the Press about former President Donald Trump’s plan to address immigration, prompting Vance to say that the foundational issue […]
BIXBY, Oklahoma (AP) — Oklahoma’s Bixby school district has lots to show off for a fast-growing Tulsa suburb: a state-of-the-art new high school set to open by 2025, a new ninth-grade gymnasium and plans for a $12 million upgrade to a football complex that already rivals that of many small colleges. But, what the district […]
New York Democratic Rep. Pat Ryan said he feels much stronger about his own race since Vice President Kamala Harris took over the helm of the Democratic Party. “Coming out of the DNC and for the last now month-plus, we have just seen such energy, such enthusiasm, such true joy and optimism at a time when, even […]
