(The Center Square) — Weeks later, after more details have been released regarding the $2 billion entertainment district deal between Monumental Sports and Entertainment and state and local governments in Virginia, economists maintain it’s a bad deal for taxpayers — though some components make it slightly less so. Initially, a handful of figures were released to the […]
Carleen Johnson | The Center Square (The Center Square) – The Washington legislative session is underway. Lawmakers will spend the next two months focusing on – among other issues – mental health, homelessness, the fentanyl crisis, the environment, transportation and policing. In a Crosscut/Elway poll out last week, Washington voters listed their top priorities as the economy, public safety, […]
(The Center Square) – An Illinois state lawmaker is calling on the Biden administration to close the U.S. southern border after his trip to Texas. Illinois has seen nearly 30,000 migrants arrive since August 2022, which has left many communities in need of help and several others refusing to take part in sheltering those arrivals. […]
(The Center Square) — A majority of New York voters support increasing taxes on the state’s top earners, according to a new independent poll, which comes as Democratic lawmakers prepare to make another push for a wealth tax. The Siena poll, commissioned by the Invest in Our New York campaign, found that 74% of voters believe […]
(The Center Square) — New Jersey lawmakers are considering a proposal that would make the state the latest to require children signing up for social media websites and apps to get their parents’ consent. The proposal would require parental consent before users 18 and younger could sign up for sites like Facebook, TikTok and Instagram. It would […]
(The Center Square) – Kansas City’s professional football and baseball teams say they would stay in Jackson County if voters approve an extension of a sales tax for a new stadium and improvements. After weeks of debate and meetings, the Jackson County legislature voted 8-1 to put a 40-year sales tax extension on the April […]
The first Supplemental Security Income payment of 2024, worth up to $943 for individual filers, will go out to recipients in a little over three weeks. The payment will be released in 23 days, on Thursday, Feb. 1, and marks the first payment of the new year. No payment was issued in January. Recipients were […]
Hunter Biden will face a slew of charges this week that could land him in jail and again distract from the public face his father is crafting on the campaign trail. While President Joe Biden has been careful not to comment on the litany of charges facing former President Donald Trump, he likes to make […]
EXCLUSIVE — The State Department is facing heightened scrutiny from the House GOP for providing congressional investigators with “incomplete” grant records, including on the agency bankrolling organizations that silence conservative voices online. Republicans on the House Small Business Committee are re-upping a request to the State Department-housed Global Engagement Center for information on awards the […]
Less than a week out from the Iowa caucuses, former President Donald Trump’s rivals for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination are starting to find their voices in criticizing him. Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) told supportive Iowa talk show host Steve Deace that Trump has lost a step or two compared to when he won the […]
