Category: Economy

(The Cen­ter Square) – Prob­lems per­sist at the Illi­nois Depart­ment of Finan­cial and Pro­fes­sion­al Reg­u­la­tion where the time­ly issuance of pro­fes­sion­al licens­es con­tin­ues to be an issue. The agency had until March 7 to enter into a con­tract with a tech­nol­o­gy ven­dor to build a new com­put­er soft­ware sys­tem in an effort to speed up […]

(The Cen­ter Square) – Cal­i­for­nia Gov. Gavin New­som promised “no new tax­es” in his 2024–2025 bud­get as he announced the state’s short­fall is $7 bil­lion worse than was expect­ed in Jan­u­ary, and pro­posed $15.2 bil­lion in bud­get cuts against an up to $80 bil­lion deficit. Newsom’s cuts include reduc­ing water stor­age and reduc­ing the state’s […]

Deep-blue Mary­land has been a strong­hold for Democ­rats in gen­er­al elec­tions for decades. But with a pop­u­lar for­mer Repub­li­can gov­er­nor run­ning for an open Sen­ate seat and eight House races, the Old Line State could spring a few sur­pris­es this Novem­ber. In this series, Old Line, New Bat­tles: Mary­land feels the pri­ma­ry pinch, the Wash­ing­ton Exam­in­er will look at […]

Rep. Jacob LaTurner’s (R‑KS) deci­sion not to run for reelec­tion in the wake of House tur­moil shocked state Democ­rats and Repub­li­cans alike. It result­ed in an emp­ty House race that remained uncon­test­ed for weeks as both par­ties grap­pled to recruit can­di­dates in a dis­trict that has been safe for Repub­li­cans. “[LaTurner’s deci­sion] came as a […]

[embed­ded con­tent] Con­sumers are falling prey to scams that have pro­lif­er­at­ed under large­ly unreg­u­lat­ed loan pro­grams designed to help home­own­ers make ener­­gy-effi­­cient upgrades to their prop­er­ties. Con­sumer groups allege the pro­gram is often used to sign con­sumers on to high-risk, high-inter­est-rate loans, often with lit­tle knowl­edge of the terms of repay­ment or the pos­si­bil­i­ties of […]

Sen. Rick Scott (R‑FL) claimed Sun­day that all who are involved in for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s tri­als are “part of the Demo­c­rat machine,” cit­ing Trump’s tri­als as elec­tion inter­fer­ence. Trump is fac­ing a mul­ti­tude of tri­als while run­ning for pres­i­dent again, which could end up being a rematch between him and Pres­i­dent Joe Biden. Scott […]

Sen. Rick Scott (R‑FL) has accused Pres­i­dent Joe Biden of appeas­ing the “pro-Hamas” side of the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty, adding that his han­dling of the war in Gaza con­tributes to his fail­ing track record. Scott’s claim against Biden comes after the pres­i­dent indi­cat­ed the Unit­ed States would no longer pro­vide Israel with bombs and artillery shells […]

Nine years ago this week, ABC News was roiled by a jour­nal­is­tic scan­dal: Their top polit­i­cal anchor had refused to dis­close his big dol­lar con­tri­bu­tions to the Clin­ton Foun­da­tion at the same time he used ABC’s air­waves in an attempt to dis­cred­it an anti-Clin­­ton author, an obvi­ous favor to the just-launched Hillary Clin­ton 2016 pres­i­den­tial […]

The Wis­con­sin Supreme Court will recon­sid­er a piv­otal 2022 rul­ing that dra­mat­i­cal­ly pared back the use of bal­lot drop box­es, a case that comes in the cru­cial swing state dur­ing an elec­tion year. The state’s high court is set to start oral argu­ments in the case Mon­day. The court now has a 4–3 lib­er­al major­i­ty, […]