(The Center Square) – There is agreement from all sides about the need for reforms for how police are hired in Illinois, but what reforms there need to be is still unclear. Gov. J.B. Pritzker continued taking questions Thursday about the aftermath of the police-involved shooting death of Sonya Massey last month in Springfield by […]
(The Center Square) – Business owners and taxpayers are paying a big price for retail theft. According to CWBChicago, shoplifting reports have soared 45% this year, making 2024 the worst year for retail theft in the city since at least 2003. Illinois Retail Merchants Association President and CEO Rob Karr told The Center Square that the […]
(The Center Square) – Retainment of the independent contractor model in the American workforce is being sought by a congressional committee and could lead to subpoena of a Biden administration leader, a North Carolina congresswoman says. Writing to interim Department of Labor Secretary Julie Su, U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx said her failure to provide responses […]
(The Center Square) – Arizona Democrats will usher through some long-sought changes to ESA vouchers, teacher pay, school meals and all-day kindergarten if they can wrest the gavels away from Republicans in November. Only two seats away from having a Democratic majority in Arizona’s legislative chambers for the first time in six decades, the Democratic […]
Vice President Kamala Harris’s decision to tap a high-powered lawyer representing Google in an antitrust lawsuit to help prepare for presidential debates has raised concerns from operatives on both sides of the aisle. The Harris team added Karen Dunn as a debate preparation specialist in late July, shortly after President Joe Biden withdrew from the […]
Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz, on at least five occasions as governor of Minnesota, hosted a Muslim cleric who celebrated Hamas‘s Oct. 7 attack last year on Israel and promoted a film popular among Neo-Nazis that glorifies Adolf Hitler, the Washington Examiner found. The imam, Asad Zaman of the Muslim American Society of Minnesota, […]
Lloyd Bentsen was the Democrats’ vice presidential candidate par excellence in 1988. Bentsen, a representative from Texas for six years through early 1955, left Congress to go into business and made his fortune in land development and banking. Bentsen won a Senate seat in the state by defeating Houston-area Republican Rep. George Bush — no […]
President Joe Biden’s White House recently delivered to Congress its “Mid-Session Review” of the federal budget. The bottom line in this late July document was bad: The deficit for 2024 is projected to be $1.87 trillion and the nation likely will be $37 trillion in debt by the end of the year. This news arrived […]
Despite broader concerns about the economy, consumers are starting to see mortgage rates move lower, a trend experts expect to continue this year as the Federal Reserve begins to loosen monetary policy. The housing market has been upended by the Fed driving interest rates up to their highest level since the dot-com bubble at the […]
It remains to be seen whether former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris end up debating, but their debate about the debates continues. Trump has now indicated he would like to have three debates with Harris, all in September. Harris has so far only committed to the ABC News debate on Sept. 10. […]
