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California Republicans urge spending cuts as state faces $68 billion deficit December 21, 2023 07:46 AM (The Center Square) – In response so the state’s looming $68 billion deficit, California Senate Republicans urged governor Gavin Newsom to make immediate changes to the ongoing year’s budget beyond the already-initiated budget freeze , claiming “Failing to act

Louisiana sports gaming tax collections were down in November December 21, 2023 07:44 AM (The Center Square) — Sports wagers continued to rise in Louisiana in November, though a low win percentage and promotional deductions cut tax collections from the month prior. The state’s 10 mobile sports books , including Bet365 came online Nov. 21

Blogger Aidan Timothy Kearney, who is known as “Turtleboy,” faces 16 new charges Wednesday in connection to the John O’Keefe murder case, CBS News reported. The Norfolk County Grand Jury has indicted Kearney on 16 additional criminal counts, including eight counts of witness intimidation, three counts of conspiracy to intimidate witnesses, and five counts of

New York’s wireless taxes among highest in nation December 21, 2023 07:35 AM (The Center Square) — New Yorkers are paying some of the country’s highest wireless taxes, fees and surcharges, according to a new report from a tax watchdog. The report by the Tax Foundation found that New York had the nation’s 4th highest

New York losing more taxpayers to outmigration December 21, 2023 07:33 AM (The Center Square) — New York saw its population shrink again last year, with hundreds of thousands of residents fleeing to Florida, Texas and other low-tax states. New York’s population decreased by 101,984 residents — the largest decline of any state — during

When you drop money in the bank, it looks like it’s just sitting there, ready for you to withdraw. In reality, your institution makes money on your money by lending it elsewhere, including to the fossil fuel companies driving climate change, as well as emissions-heavy industries like manufacturing. So just by leaving money in a

The early 1970s were the real heyday of beef in the US. It was the era of stroganoff, stews, and casseroles, steak lunches and 60-cent hamburgers. It was also the beginning of a long decline for the all-American meat. In 1975, Americans on average ate close to 90 pounds of beef each year. That has

The fall of FTX created a “huge vacuum” in the cryptocurrency market, says Can Sun, cofounder of Backpack, a new crypto exchange under development in the United Arab Emirates. Sun knows that better than most: He was previously the general counsel at FTX, whose high-profile collapse has led to industry-wide turmoil this year. Backpack is

The US Department of Justice has got mail: A coalition of more than a dozen tech advocacy groups wrote to the agency today calling on it to launch an investigation into allegedly anticompetitive behavior by Apple. The letter says that Apple’s recent blocking of Beeper, which reverse engineered iMessage to allow compatibility with Android phones

The world’s biggest computing companies and a raft of well-funded startups all agree: The future of computing is manipulating data with quantum mechanics. Over the past decade, governments, private companies, and venture capitalists have collectively invested billions of dollars into quantum computing, which aims to solve problems using a new type of logic enabled by