Inflation rose to 3.5% for the year ending in March, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday in an update to the consumer price index. The rise in headline inflation is more than expected and an unwelcome development for the Federal Reserve, which has been aiming to move toward cutting interest rates in the coming months. It’s also bad news for […]
(The Center Square) — Pennsylvania’s travelers and train enthusiasts celebrated last fall when Amtrak announced twice-a-day service from Pittsburgh to New York via Harrisburg.Expanding service, though, will require a hefty investment to upgrade infrastructure and millions more in operating costs every year. The service expansion, announced in September after Amtrak and Norfolk Southern worked out an […]
(The Center Square) – Illinois taxpayers will be paying significantly more so state employees can have “Cadillac” health insurance coverage. The Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability met Tuesday in Springfield to review the fiscal year 2025 state employees’ group insurance program. According to the 2025 budget plan, the State Employee Group Health and Life Insurance program […]
(The Center Square) – Seattle Public Schools continues getting rid of its gifted and talented program in favor of what administrators say is a more inclusive, equitable and culturally sensitive program. The district began phasing out its Highly Capable Cohorts program for advanced students in the 2021-22 school year and replacing it with a new program […]
(The Center Square) – Ohio’s former chairman of the Public Utilities Commissioner, facing charges in the state’s biggest corruption case, has been found dead. The body of Sam Randazzo was discovered late Tuesday morning in a building he owned in Columbus. He was 74. The Franklin County Coronor’s Office said an autopsy is planned and […]
(The Center Square) – The conflict over how to address getting rid of Illinois’ 1% grocery tax continues with Republicans saying their plan should be considered. In 2022, as a way to address high inflation, the legislature zeroed out the 1% grocery tax for 12 months. This year, Gov. J.B. Pritzker wants to get rid […]
(The Center Square) – In the stack of more than 80 bills the Missouri House of Representatives voted to send to the Senate is an effort to phase out the corporate income tax and end tax credits. If the Senate passes House Bill 2274 as it currently is written, the corporate tax rate would decrease from 4% to […]
Israel warned on Wednesday that it would retaliate against Iran if the Islamic Republic were to strike Israel, the Associated Press reported. The comments came from the country’s Foreign Minister Israel Katz as tensions between the two countries continue to escalate. “If Iran attacks from its territory, Israel will respond and attack in Iran,” Israel […]
The 2024 general election race between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will be decided between six or seven battleground states. Both campaigns are fighting to turn out voters in Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, and Wisconsin. Biden won all of those battleground states except for North Carolina during the 2020 election against […]
Senate Democrats have rebuffed the Left’s attempts to give Justice Sonia Sotomayor the Ruth Bader Ginsburg treatment. Members of the Judiciary Committee, tasked with approving her eventual replacement, have broadly dismissed a pressure campaign to send her into retirement and appoint a younger justice. But it is Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), progressives’ arch nemesis in […]
