(The Center Square) – A new Chicago Transit Authority train station has opened years late, at a taxpayer cost that surpassed initial projections by more than $30 million. The Damen Green Line project was first announced in 2017, with a projected completion date sometime in 2020. The original taxpayer cost estimate was $50 million. Mayor […]
Georgia on his mind Former President Donald Trump is having a hard time dropping his grievances with Georgia. Four years after his baseless attempts to overturn President Joe Biden’s victory there, Trump doesn’t appear to have forgiven Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA) for his failure to “find” enough votes to put the former president back in […]
(The Center Square) – Kamala Harris’ vice presidential nominee is expected to appear Wednesday in Detroit. Several news outlets are saying Harris’ pick for a running mate is expected to come on or before Tuesday, when a tour of key battleground states begins in Pennsylvania. Both Harris, who recently received the endorsement of the United […]
(The Center Square) – Spokane Mayor Lisa Brown found herself at the center of controversy over the weekend after rumors surfaced that the city plans to open a homeless shelter in neighboring Medical Lake. The ordeal all started after Brown visited Medical Lake’s Pine Lodge on Saturday. She claims the trip was to determine whether […]
‘WE ARE ENGAGED IN INTENSE DIPLOMACY’: Another tense night passed in Israel without Iran’s threatened major attack materializing, but no one is breathing a sigh of relief. “It is a critical moment. We are engaged in intense diplomacy pretty much around the clock, with a very simple message: All parties must refrain from escalation. All […]
It would be a worst-case scenario for Vice President Kamala Harris if the economy starts to fall into a recession, a possibility that has recently received more attention. While most economists still think a recession is unlikely, a lackluster employment report for July, which saw unemployment ticking up for the fourth month in a row, […]
Georgia Republicans are doing their best to look forward rather than backward amid an intraparty spat that just won’t go away. Former President Donald Trump, GOP presidential nominee, and Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA) have had beef since late 2020, when Kemp refused to entertain Trump’s stolen election claims. The two have never really aligned since […]
A federal appeals court recently ruled voters in two different minority groups cannot coalesce to claim a Texas political map stripped their voting power, a decision that could give Republicans a boost to win congressional seats in the South. The court’s Aug. 1 decision curtails what conservative critics argue is the Democrats’ misuse of the […]
Gas prices in the country continue to drop, marking over a week straight in which the average cost for a gallon of regular gas has dropped. It would be unfair to characterize the decreases over this period as substantial, however, they were decreases nevertheless. On Monday, the average price for a gallon of regular gas […]
A project of a left-wing dark money group linked to anti-Israel protests inaccurately labeled Hansjorg Wyss, a Swiss billionaire and philanthropist, as Jewish in an attempt to frame Republicans as antisemitic. A More Perfect Union, an initiative under the San Francisco-based Tides Center, a nonprofit organization funding groups behind Hamas-sympathetic rallies following the Oct. 7 […]
