The village of Lakewood‘s proposed $5.3 million budget for 2024-2025 raises the tax rate by 12-cents. Expenditures in the proposed budget are up $612,611 from the current year’s budget. Health costs saw the biggest increase of $322,471 compared with $164,776 in this year’s budget. Transportation costs also rose by over $129,000. Total revenues are estimated […]
The Honolulu Salary Commission Tuesday adopted a nearly 3.6% pay boost for the mayor, managing director, the nine-member City Council and other appointed, high-level city officials for the city’s fiscal year 2025 salary schedule, which begins July 1.
The House on Tuesday delivered to the Senate two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, officially kicking off what Democrats vow will be a swift and incomplete trial.
Total military spending by nations reached a record high of $2.443 trillion in 2023, according to a new report released Monday by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, or SIPRI.Across the globe, military expenditures increased by 6.8% in real terms over 2022, the steepest rise since 2009, according to the Swedish think tank which has tracked the military spending by countries based on open sources since the 1960s. Every region saw an increase, but Europe, Asia and Oceania, and...
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s fourth budget delivers a big-ticket housing program for millennials and Generation Z voters — a multi-billion dollar commitment to be paid for in part with a tax hike on the rich and corporate Canada.
Tesla on Saturday once again cut prices on several of its models for the U.S. market, as part of around-the-world price cuts. Given the cuts, anyone considering the Model 3 and Model Y in the U.S. may want to take a fresh look at the numbers. The base price of the Model Y rear-wheel drive has dropped $2,000 versus last week, to $44,630, while the
Additional aid for Ukraine could be made available “within days” said Pentagon Press Secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder earlier today.
Ripple CEO is claiming the crypto market could reach $5 trillion by the end of 2024. Investors are looking for better opportunities to invest and gain lucrative profits if that happens. According to some analysts, Solana (SOL), Sui (SUI), and Borroe Finance ($ROE) could be some of the best altcoins to include in investment portfolios. […]
In another sleaze headache for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Fylde MP Mark Menzies had the whip suspended and was axed as a trade envoy over the extraordinary allegations.
Wow. What a game. One that will be talked about for decades. An astonishing
It’s no secret that the proliferation of scams targeting elderly Americans has increased dramatically with the expansive spread of information technology. Older Americans are particularly vulnerable to such scams, a disturbing reality that was made clear to me shortly before my father passed away. My parents, both in their 80s, were being inundated by scam phone calls and mailings, including the infamous grandparent scam, literally on a daily basis. Because they, like many older Americans, grew...
Aberdeen interim manager Peter Leven is "proud" of his players despite