HARLINGEN — For the first time in 10 years, commissioners are set to call for a new water rate plan boosting utility customers’ charges by about 50% during the next five years to help fund a sewer system overhaul that’s part of WaterWorks’ $258 million five-year master plan.
WPS does, too. That would make 8 straight years of rate hikes for We Energies.
University of Iowa faculty, staff, and students will soon see an increase in parking permit and ticket rates after approval from the Iowa Board of Regents Thursday. The parking permit rates will increase by $2.30 per month for UI faculty and staff members and $1.50 per month for student permits, with the exclusion of the
It's Not Rate Hikes That Are "Sparking An Economic Boom", It's The Fiscal Stimulus By Michael Every of Rabobank The Polybius Crisis Take a step back (in time), and see that our neoliberal, debt-addled, was-lower-for-longer global system is not just in a Polycrisis but a Polybius Crisis - referring to the ancient Greek historian. Polybius Methodology: Polybius was first to argue ‘consider your source’: today, media and markets still spout and swallow propaganda. He argues we can’t...
With the University of Iowa announcing the transition of RVAP’s services to the Domestic Violence Intervention Program, or DVIP, on April 4, community members are concerned about the state of sexual assault resources in Iowa City. RVAP’s services will be moved to DVIP by Sept. 30. According to UI officials, the transition of the Rape
Governments and public financial institutions must own up to their co-responsibility for fossil fuel projects and their impacts, and be consistent with their avowed commitments to combat climate change
COLCHESTER — Connecticut State Police are on the scene of an incident on Norwich Avenue, officials say. CSP said Troopers from Troop K responded to reports of a disturbance in the area of Norwich Avenue at 6:21 p.m. Police said the investigation is "active, fluid and ongoing," but did not release any other information.
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The delegation is led by Yun Jong Ho, who has been active in the country’s increasing exchanges with Russia.
(The Center Square) — South Carolina state officials are determining how to proceed with a $1.8 billion balance discovered in a state account and Republican Gov. Henry McMaster has given leaders a July 1 deadline to chart a course forward. On Oct. 31, 2023, South Carolina Comptroller General Brian Gaines sent a letter to South Carolina Treasurer Curtis Loftis, directing Loftis to research the account's origins. It marked the start of a months-long Senate investigation that...
Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) called for Biden administration Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm to resign following a testy Senate hearing. During the April 17 edition of Fox News’s Hannity, Hawley told host Sean Hannity, that Granholm lied to Congress and cannot be trusted to regulate American energy. “She did lie to Congress, what she said Sean, is that she sold all of her shares, that she didn't own any stock in companies she regulates — not true,” Hawley told Hannity, after being asked about...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential ambition may have gained him national attention — especially given the threat that some Democrats believe he poses to President Joe Biden’s re-election — but it certainly has not endeared him to all of his family. On Thursday, 15 Kennedy family members — including six of RFK Jr.’s 10 siblings — publicly endorsed Biden during a campaign event with the president in Philadelphia. The endorsement is not surprising. Most members of the political dynasty have not...