California to end mandatory pay for workers with COVID
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California will stop making companies pay employees who can’t work because they caught the coronavirus while on the job. For the past two years, California workplace regulators have tried to slow the spread of the coronavirus by requiring infected workers to stay home while also guaranteeing them they would still be […]
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Round Rock City Council approves economic development agreement with Switch | #citycouncil
The Round Rock City Council voted 7-0 on Thursday, Dec. 15, to approve a Chapter 380 economic program agreement with Switch, Inc., a Las Vegas, Nev.-based data center provider currently building a new facility in Round Rock next to Dell Technologies’ headquarters. Switch announced in June 2021 that it would build the data center campus […]
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ABC7 Exclusive: Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot one-on-one interview about key issues in run for 2nd term
CHICAGO (WLS) — Mayor Lori Lightfoot came out swinging Thursday against the candidate who may pose the greatest threat to her reelection bid. Recent polls suggest Chuy Garcia may be the current front-runner in the race. ABC7 Political Reporter talked with Mayor Lightfoot in an exclusive one-on-one interview about the race and the key issues […]
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Rep. Mark Green, the West Point officer who plotted to overthrow the government – Tennessee Lookout | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
The walls of the Old Cadet Chapel at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point are adorned with plaques honoring America’s Revolutionary War generals, with George Washington’s featured most prominently. One plaque hangs apart from the rest and differs by only having the words, “Major General. Born 1740.” The nameless plaque denotes the wartime service […]
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Sam Bankman-Fried donated over $40 million in the 2022 election cycle. Where did it go? | #elections | #alabama
Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and former CEO of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, made about $40 million in political donations in the 2022 election cycle, according to a CBS News review of Federal Elections Commission (FEC) campaign finance data. Bankman-Fried was charged with a variety of financial crimes on Tuesday, including campaign finance violations and a “scheme […]
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California approves $2.9 billion investment to double car chargers in state
Sen. Marco Rubio criticizes California’s plan to ban sales of gas-powered cars. The California Energy Commission on Wednesday approved a $2.9 billion investment plan to accelerate the state’s 2025 electric vehicle (EV) charging and hydrogen refueling goals. The investment will result in 90,000 new EV chargers across the state, more than double the 80,000 chargers […]
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Lawmakers quick to unload FTX founder’s contributions | #alaska | #politics
WASHINGTON – A writer’s workshop in Alaska. Food banks in California. A charity that fights diabetes. Lawmakers who accepted piles of cash from onetime wunderkind Samuel Bankman-Fried now can’t move fast enough to offload their contributions from the disgraced crypto mogul to anywhere else but their own campaign coffers. Before his arrest in the Bahamas […]
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Central Arkansas Water board takes no action on 10-year package of rate hikes
Members of the board of commissioners took no action on the 10-year rate plan at their meeting Thursday afternoon after they were told of revisions to the draft. They are expected to take up the revised version for possible adoption at a meeting in January. 10:32 a.m.: Central Arkansas Water to delay board vote on […]
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East Coast ports like New York are winning trade war over California
A container crane stands idle at the Port of Los Angeles amid a cargo slowdown on November 16, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. The country’s busiest container port complex, the ports of Los Angeles and neighboring Long Beach, saw imports of shipping containers drop 26 percent in October compared with the same month in 2021. […]
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Painesville City Council considers changes to rental registration fees for 2023 – News-Herald | #citycouncil
Painesville City Council will consider legislation on Dec. 19 to change the deadline and process for owners to register rental properties, pushing the date back one month while requiring owners to register for each property they own. The proposed changes were brought to council for first reading on Dec. 5. According to Code Enforcement Supervisor […]
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