30 years have passed since 37 people died in plane crash in Charlotte On July 2, 1994, news of a plane crash at Charlotte Douglas International Airport stunned the community because the day started so normally. A computer animation of USAir Flight 1016 shows it departing Columbia, South Carolina for the short trip to Charlotte. […]
More than 170 items were struck from the Missouri state budget Friday as Gov. Mike Parson cut $1 billion from the spending plan passed this year by lawmakers. In a statement explaining his cuts, Parson said he vetoed earmarked items that he believes were loaded into the budget for special projects and organizations without considering […]
Jun. 24—Voters in at least five school districts across Maine earlier this month rejected school budgets that would have resulted in sizable property tax increases. In other communities, budgets passed, but just barely. Gorham, for example, is gearing up for a recount this week after its budget passed by just four votes. Steve Bailey, executive […]
Gov. Josh Green may veto 17 bills the Legislature passed this year, including one that would deposit $300 million into the state’s “rainy day ” budget reserve fund. Green informed lawmakers Friday of his intent to veto the bills that also include the state budget bill where the governor intends to line-item veto specific appropriations. […]
On Tuesday, June 18, Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) passed Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) to become the world’s most valuable publicly traded company for the very first time. As of this writing, Nvidia stock is up more than 200% in the past year and is now worth over $3.3 trillion. Now that its stock is the world’s most […]
Democrats and Republicans in a bitterly divided Congress can agree on one thing: the US needs more nuclear to power America’s rapidly growing energy appetite — and fast. The Senate overwhelmingly approved a major bill Tuesday night to make it easier, cheaper and faster to permit and build new nuclear reactors. The ADVANCE Act, which […]
The United States House of Representatives passed a ban on the future sale of DJI drones in the U.S. on Friday, making the DJI ban more likely than not. The “Countering CCP Drones Act” is part of the United States’ 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (FY25 NDAA), a major piece of yearly legislation allotting defense […]
FILE – An Emirates plane taxis to a gate at Dubai International Airport at Dubai International Airport in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, March 22, 2017. The U.S. Transportation Department said Thursday, June 13, 2024, that it fined Middle Eastern airline Emirates $1.8 million for flights in regions off-limits to U.S. airlines while it allowed JetBlue […]
Hello! More than a dozen Donald Trump supporters collapsed at his rallies amid record high temperatures in the south-west in recent days – presumably missing Trump’s promise at the gatherings to gut Biden’s environmental policies and “drill, baby, drill”. So what would a Trump administration mean for those who hope the world can limit global […]
Recently, Reddit user Defiant_Concert_9542 asked, “What’s the most memorable high school mishap, either hilariously funny or disastrously unfortunate, that you still chuckle or cringe about to this day?” People had some truly wild stories that were too unhinged not to share. Here are the events that went down in infamy at their schools. 1.“There was […]
We cannot thank Wacker Chemical and Anderson Development enough for hosting their annual household hazardous waste collection events each May. This year, they collected more than 80,000 lbs. from Lenawee County residents. But now that the event is over, it begs the question — what do you do with any household hazardous waste items you […]
New York’s state legislature has passed a new bill that will require third-party reservation services to obtain permission from restaurants to book on their behalf. The bill, dubbed the Restaurant Reservation Anti-Piracy Act, says that third party reservation services such as Resy and OpenTable cannot “advertise, promote, or sell reservations” on its platforms for a […]