Category: Economy

Pres­i­den­tial can­di­date Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. was deter­mined by the Secret Ser­vice to be the sub­ject of threats from “known sub­jects” while not receiv­ing agency pro­tec­tion, doc­u­ments show. In Sep­tem­ber, Kennedy renewed his call for Secret Ser­vice pro­tec­tion after an armed man imper­son­at­ing a U.S. Mar­shal was arrest­ed at a Los Ange­les cam­paign event for […]

Utah House Speak­er Brad Wil­son raised more than $1 mil­lion dur­ing the third fundrais­ing quar­ter, show­ing signs of momen­tum less than a week after the Repub­li­can announced his cam­paign last week. Wil­son raised more than $1 mil­lion over the last three months, giv­ing the GOP can­di­date near­ly $3 mil­lion in cash on hand head­ing into […]

Ten­sions between House Speak­er Kevin McCarthy (R‑CA) and Rep. Matt Gaetz (R‑FL) have nev­er been high­er, set­ting the two up for a show­down this week fol­low­ing the speak­er’s deal with House Democ­rats to avoid a gov­ern­ment shut­down. After pass­ing a con­tin­u­ing res­o­lu­tion fol­low­ing weeks of infight­ing, McCarthy is now fac­ing anoth­er bat­tle from his own […]

As we mark anoth­er Illi­nois Law­suit Abuse Aware­ness Week, I am remind­ed of our state’s crit­i­cal work ahead to com­bat the ram­pant law­suit abuse that plagues our legal sys­tem. Illi­nois con­tin­ues to grap­ple with issues that under­mine our busi­ness envi­ron­ment and threat­en the liveli­hoods of hard­work­ing cit­i­zens and the health of our increas­ing­ly frag­ile econ­o­my. […]

(The Cen­ter Square) — Rhode Island’s largest util­i­ty will seek anoth­er pro­pos­al for off­shore wind pow­er two months after reject­ing a sim­i­lar clean ener­gy project over cost con­cerns. Gov. Dan McK­ee announced on Thurs­day that Rhode Island Ener­gy will be issu­ing a new request for pro­pos­als to devel­op 1,200 megawatts of new off­shore wind to […]

(The Cen­ter Square) — Penn­syl­va­nia state police appli­ca­tions spiked over the last month after the gov­er­nor axed the agency’s col­lege cred­it require­ment. Near­ly half of the 1,200 can­di­dates were not eli­gi­ble before the Aug. 28 announce­ment. Over­all, inter­est has surged – in the pre­vi­ous half-year hir­ing peri­od, the agency had received 1,745 appli­ca­tions. “We’re pleased […]