The big idea When colleges with big-time sports programs began to offer living expense stipends to their student-athletes back in 2015, the schools also increased their estimated living expenses for all students, I found in…
Lee Wright was hard at work, constructing a nail salon near the city’s abandoned hospital, when Jody Johnson stopped by to introduce himself on a recent afternoon. Johnson, who works for the University of Illinois…
Despite high hopes and desperate pleas from Texas Democrats, the U.S. Senate failed to move federal voting rights legislation before leaving for summer recess. And it was a Texas Republican — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz…
10 million. That’s roughly how many words or utterances that former WHEC-TV Rochester, New York weatherman, Jeremy Kappell, estimates he spoke on air during his decades-long career. But it was just one of 10 million, one slip of the tongue, that was responsible for the death of Kappell’s career and reputation in January of 2019.
Gov. Phil Murphy signed a bill that allows fixed-odds wagering on horse racing in New Jersey. A-4909/S-3090 defines “fixed odds wagering” as a form of horse racing where account holders may lock in the odds…
A new survey conducted by YouGov indicates that the overwhelming majority of likely voters don’t want the government controlling prices of prescription drugs, fearing doing so will only increase costs and make it more difficult…
Even as America emerges from the devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic, health care remains a hot-button issue on Capitol Hill and across the country. Although lawmakers widely agree that patients deserve better access to care…
Lying on an exam table at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Houston, Brittany tried listening to the ultrasound monitor for any sounds resembling a fetal heartbeat. Instead, she could hear only her own — thumping…
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the Federal Reserve Bank and Congress have taken unprecedented steps to stabilize the economy after entire industries and sectors ground to a halt last year amidst the public health crisis. The…
Restaurants are still short-staffed as food service industry workers make up the biggest category of employees receiving unemployment benefits in New Mexico. Department of Workforce Solutions acting secretary Ricky Serna told a legislative committee recently…