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May 03 2023
News
Fed hikes rates and revamps forward guidance in dovish direction
The Federal Reserve on Wednesday raised its key interest rate and revamped the guidance in a dovish direction. The quarter percentage point move puts the Fed’s benchmark rate in a range of 5%-5.25%. This is just below the prior peak of rates before the Great Recession of 2008. The Fed reworked its language, scrapping prior language that “some” additional hikes “may” be needed. The pivotal
MarketWatch
Apr 17 2023
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Michigan recycling rate continues to climb, but lags behind national rate
Michigan's recycling rate hit a record high in 2022, state environmental officials announced Monday as they touted increased access to community recycling programs and a growing local market for reusable materials. Michigan's recycling rate has been on an upward trajectory since 2019. It has risen seven percentage points in recent years, from 14.25% before 2019 to more than 21% in 2022, the
Detroit News
Jul 01 2022
Analysis
It sure looks like the Fed is hiking interest rates too fast
Four months after the US Federal Reserve started to hike interest rates, there are some clear signs the economy is slackening.
Manufacturing hit its lowest level in two years in June, according to data from the Institute for Supply Management manufacturing index released Friday. At the same time, the supply-chain crunch seems to be easing, with a growing number of factory managers
Quartz
May 24 2023
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4-star quarterback Issac Wilson, No. 2 rated player in state, commits to Utes
SALT LAKE CITY — Isaac Wilson wanted to blaze his own trail. The four-star quarterback who is going into his senior season at Corner Canyon High and is rated the No. 2 overall recruit in the state of Utah for the 2024 recruiting class, according to 247Sports, announced his commitment to play at the University of Utah on Wednesday night. Wilson held offers from 19 schools around the country,
KSL
Apr 26 2023
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Duluth graduation rate rebounds
DULUTH — Four-year graduation rates at the Northland’s most populous school district rebounded to approximately pre-COVID levels. About 76.6% of the 767 students in Duluth Public Schools’ Class of 2022 graduated in four years, according to data published Tuesday by the Minnesota Department of Education. That’s about five percentage points higher than the 71.4% mark hit by the Class of 2021 and
Duluth News Tribune
May 19 2023
News
Black Hills Energy seeks increase in residential natural gas rates
CHEYENNE – Black Hills Wyoming Gas, doing business as Black Hills Energy, has filed a rate review application with the Wyoming Public Service Commission seeking an increase in base rates of $19.3 million to recover the necessary capital infrastructure and operational costs required to enable safe, reliable natural gas service for customers in Wyoming. If approved as proposed, new rates would
The Wyoming Tribune Eagle
May 12 2023
News
CNN’s brief ratings success with the Trump Town Hall
The television ratings are in and CNN’s live Town Hall Wednesday evening at 8 PM ET with President Trump, as expected, gave the third-place cable news channel a decisive win in the ratings – but only for the 75 minutes when Trump was on the screen and the 45 minutes of talking head analysis that followed. By 10 PM ET, FOX News had regained the lead. Following the town hall at 8 PM ET (
American Thinker
May 05 2023
News
A massive dump of pasta in New Jersey sets off a fury of interest, and also a fury
A massive dump of pasta in New Jersey sets off a fury of interest, and also a fury Sadly, it's not unusual for things to be dumped in New Jersey. But a recent case brought a new twist: hundreds of pounds of pasta left along a local brook and a mystery about who did it and why. Workers in Old Bridge Township found 15 wheel-barrow loads of "illegal dumped pasta along a creek in a residential
NPR Fact Check
Jan 18 2023
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Retail sales fall 1.1% in December as shoppers, facing lofty prices and interest rates, pulled back on spending
KSTP
May 07 2023
News
Biden's approval rating hits new low
For Biden, part of the issue is the president’s age and acuity. Twenty-six percent said Biden, who is 80, is too old for another term, and an additional 43 percent said both Biden and Trump, who is 76, are too old. Only 28 percent said that neither is too old for another four years in the White House. When asked if Biden “has the mental sharpness it takes to serve effectively as president,”
Politico