The Bay Yes! Committee is urging Dickinson County residents to vote YES on the renewal of the Bay College Iron Mountain Campus millage during the upcoming election Tuesday, Aug. 5. This is not a new tax, but a renewal of the existing millage that has supported local higher education since ...
Can you hear the canary in the economy's coal mine singing her heart out? You know that we are headed for trouble when some masses start buying groceries on the installment plan. That is the business model behind the popular "Buy Now, Pay Later" (BNPL) borrowing platforms — loans that ...
Environmental groups are now rich. In 2020 (the most recent data available), they collected $8 billion in donations — $8 billion! "The environmental industrial complex actually has more money in the PR game, the lobbying game, than the real industry," physicist Mark Mills says in my new ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Only about one-quarter of U.S. adults say that President Donald Trump's policies have helped them since he took office, according to a new poll that finds underwhelming marks for him on key issues, including the economy, immigration, government spending and health care. In ...
Big Bird deserves to lose this time. In the past, whenever Republicans have tried to cut federal funding for public broadcasting, the 8-foot-2-inch-tall yellow bird has been trotted out as an exemplar of all that is good and necessary about public broadcasting, and the federal dollars have ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's request to cancel about $9 billion in foreign aid and public broadcasting spending is nearing passage in the Senate, an action that would have a tiny impact on the nation's rising debt but could have major ramifications for future spending fights in ...