Mar. 21—The Butler County Board of Commissioners wants residents with complaints regarding property values to file with the county Board of Revisions. However, Butler County Auditor Nancy Nix said anyone filing a complaint must have documented evidence their valuations are too high. The Board of Revision is managed by the county auditor’s office, and it […]
The Pritzker Architecture Prize has been awarded to Japan’s Riken Yamamoto, who earns the field’s highest honor for what organizers called a long career focused on “multiplying opportunities for people to meet spontaneously, through precise, rational design strategies.” Yamamoto, 78, has spent a five-decade career designing both private and public buildings — from residences to […]
A bill sitting on Gov. Ron DeSantis’s desk could block access to social media for minors in Florida — and significantly influence how other states set policy related to children and technology. HB 1, which would both prevent kids under 16 from creating accounts on social media sites and require those companies to cancel the […]
Germany’s Catholic bishops on Thursday urged the faithful to oppose rising far-right nationalism, calling such politics opposed to the fundamental beliefs of Christianity. “Völkisch nationalism is incompatible with the Christian image of God and man,” reads a joint declaration presented by Bishop Georg Bätzing as head of the German Bishops’ Conference (DBK) in Augsburg on […]
Andriy Yermak, Ukraine’s Presidential Office head, said that he considers press freedom “one of the most important parts of any democratic society” and “one of the values we are fighting for” when asked about his personal reaction to an investigation accusing the country’s security service of surveilling independent journalists. The Ukrainian media community has complained […]
In 27 years of owning houses in Washington County, Jesse Wilcox has never seen a tax notice like the one he got this year. His taxes will rise by more than $1,000, but even more shocking to Wilcox was the county’s valuation of his Baytown Township house: It rose from $636,000 last year to $801,000, […]
Russia does not count the people it sends to their deaths in Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Jan. 17, following meetings and discussions at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Ukraine always lacks people at the front because the country is fighting against Russia, which “does not count people” and “conscripts corpses.” Read also: […]
You will definitely need to bundle up to go outside on Tuesday with below-zero wind chills in the forecast. According to a hazardous weather outlook issued by the National Weather Service in Wilmington, some light snow will fall for a few hours early Tuesday morning. Snow accumulations are expected to be less than an inch. […]
Jan. 13—Amber Basares started thinking about becoming a lady — not just a woman or a female, but a lady — when she watched her young niece try to step into a pair of her high heels around Christmas one year. “To see her step into my shoes, a light went off,” Basares said. “It […]
ATLANTA — Outside the Lululemon shop at Ponce City Market in Atlanta on Thursday, Donna Martin, a Black woman seeking yoga gear, learned that the company’s founder, Chip Wilson, had publicly bashed the notion of the brand embracing diversity. “I don’t get it,” Martin, a project manager at a telecommunications company, said. “But I do […]
CJ Pearson isn’t the only Black conservative with a large social media following, but he may well be the only one who includes his age in his bio. He’s 21 — young to be a commentator on PragerU and Fox News, but then Pearson was just 12 when his commentary first went viral in 2014. […]
The ACLU will represent the National Rifle Association in its suit against New York Department of Financial Services’ former superintendent, Maria Vullo. It was an unusual enough pairing that the ACLU had to explain it. “We don’t support the NRA’s mission or its viewpoints,” the ACLU in a statement posted on X, formerly Twitter. “But we both know that government […]