• Joint Ways, Means and Finance Committee Discovers Additional US$51M Revenue, Pushing FY2024 Draft Budget to US$743.8M

    CAPITOL HILL, Monrovia – The Joint Committee on Ways, Means, and Finance of the 55th Legislature has uncovered an additional $51.451,000 in revenue for the fiscal year 2024, bringing the total draft budget to $743.859,000. This discovery was made during the scrutiny of the budget as per Liberia’s Public Financial Law. By Gerald C. Koinyeneh []

  • Fungus among us

    Cat Campbell/For The Madera TribuneA bowl of homemade mushroom barley soup is a meal in itself.Sometimes it can be cringe-worthy to realize that one of my favorite foods (mushrooms) is actually a fungus. But then again, one of my favorite cheeses is Gorgonzola, and it gets its flavor and appearance from mold. And I mustn’t fail to include yeast, which helps us bake breads, as all three are types of fungi. So, I guess I am not really very picky.This time of year, I like to walk around my...

  • There Is Nothing Exceptional About US "Exceptionalism"

    There Is Nothing Exceptional About US "Exceptionalism" By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities On Friday, after the jobs report, we heard a lot of chatter about “Goldilocks.” While we wrote NFP – Great for Markets, we caveated that with – for now. Normally we would agree that there is a “transition” period from “everything is great,” to “everything is bad.” While I’m not saying that everything is bad, I do wonder if we can have more of a “gap” than a transition, largely due to the...

  • What our moms taught us about gardening

    🔊 In this episode, Don and John pay tribute to the moms (and dads and grandparents) who shared their hard-won gardening experience with us.

  • US follows France out of Africa

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  • US intercepts Russian aircraft

    The Pentagon said these types of flights are not considered a threat

  • The internet has turned us into zombies

    The internet spreads out like a virus. As it becomes ubiquitous, so are its influences. The same slang is shared in all fifty states through the influence of social media, the same arguments are repeated online by people in disparate corners of faraway states, and gradually, the same manner of dress is adopted almost universally. The internet is a force of widespread cultural homogenization much in the same way that the spread of the English language via the British Empire was, only the internet...

  • What does marijuana reclassification mean for US?

    The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is moving toward reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug. So what does that mean?

  • China & The US: What Matters That's Overlooked

    China & The US: What Matters That's Overlooked Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Parsing geopolitics is fun but our attention is better directed to the limits and second-order effects of legacy systems in each of the rival states. Geopolitics, like any conflict, is dramatic: rivals jostle for hegemony on a 3-D chessboard, war threatens, etc. The focus of this drama is on the leaders' calculations and the pieces being moved around the board in the complex battle...

  • Which US states are the most interested in soccer?

    While American football reigns supreme, soccer is steadily gaining traction across the United States. Interest varies regionally, with some states embracing the "beautiful game" more than others.

  • What fossils tell us about crocodiles

    A massive asteroid struck the Earth 66 million years ago, dramatically affecting marine and terrestrial environments, and causing the mass extinction of numerous animal and plant species. The sebecosuchians, a highly-adaptable group of reptiles belonging to the Crocodilian order, were one of the lineages that survived the impact. In a bid to characterise the diet of these ancient species and the environment in which they lived, a team from the LGL-TPE laboratory in Lyon (southeastern France) ...

  • US Lecce - Monza live

    Match ends, Lecce 1, Monza 1. Second Half ends, Lecce 1, Monza 1. Goal! Lecce 1, Monza 1. Matteo Pessina (Monza) converts the penalty with a left foo