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Blake Neff Almost every public school in Detroit is closed Wednesday because so many teachers have called in sick that the schools can’t function. These so-called “sickouts” have consumed the Detroit Public Schools (DPS) over the past two weeks, forcing repeated closures, but Wednesday’s closures appear to be the worst yet, taking out roughly 90 percent of…
Juliegrace Brufke White loan borrowers are collecting settlement proceeds distributed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) intended for black, Hispanic and Asian people, according to the House Committee of Financial Services’ Wednesday report. The CFPB is responsible for distributing $80 million in settlement proceeds to “more than 235,000 minority consumers” for alleged racial discrimination by auto-lender Ally Financial Inc. and Ally…
Blake Neff If Wednesday night is any indication, Washington D.C. is utterly doomed when Friday’s winter storm hits the city. D.C. received a light dusting of snow Wednesday — far lighter than the foot or more expected in two days — but even that caused a total traffic meltdown, with cars taking hours to…
Casey Harper Arizona’s house majority leader introduced a bill to provide tax breaks for concealed carriers. Republican House Majority Leader Steve Montenegro is pushing for House Bill 2494, legislation that would reimburse residents up to $80, the cost of getting a concealed carry permit. “Law enforcement have told us time and again that the first line…
Academy members, including African-American president Cheryl Boone Isaacs, are reportedly highly offended at the charges of racism being hurled at them from stars such as Jada Pinkett Smith. It’s hard to imagine a racist Academy would have recently awarded Jamie Foxx, Forest Whittaker, Denzel Washington, and Halle Berry, among others. But this year, thanks to the displeasure of…
Blake Neff Almost every public school in Detroit is closed Wednesday because so many teachers have called in sick that the schools can’t function. These so-called “sickouts” have consumed the Detroit Public Schools (DPS) over the past two weeks, forcing repeated closures, but Wednesday’s closures appear to be the worst yet, taking out roughly 90 percent of…
Where reality TV meets the law, there’s Judge Judy, dispensing justice with her trademark sass. A new poll, however, shows 10% of college graduates thinks she sits on the Supreme Court. KSL.com reports: That’s right — 10 percent of college graduates seem to identify the famous lawyer and TV personality — Judith Sheindlin — as…
Andrew Follett A massive winter snowstorm could leave 75 million Americans across the Eastern Seaboard covered by record levels of snowfall Friday afternoon, according to weather experts. “By Sunday morning, nearly one-quarter of the U.S. population (about 75 million people) could get 6 inches or more of snow,” Dr. Roy Spencer, a climatologist at the University…
Casey Harper A West Virginia mayor is taking fire from all sides after he decided to tear down a homeless encampment at the peak of freezing temperatures. City employees showed up at the homeless area Tuesday afternoon and began tearing down tents and throwing away boxes of the residents’ possessions. The temperatures that day were a low of…
By Juliegrace Brufke An economist is warning the world economy is facing conditions that could lead to a financial crash worse than 2007 and 2008. In an interview with the The Telegraph published Tuesday just ahead of the World Economic Forum, William White said the “macroeconomic ammunition to fight downturns is essentially all used up” and many of…