How to navigate the Equifax data breach settlement offer
Consumers affected by the 2017 Equifax data breach (that’s most U.S. adults who have credit) can get their names on the list to get free credit monitoring and/or monetary compensation. You can see if you’re included by visiting the Equifax Data Breach Settlement website (http://bit.ly/equifax-breach-settlement-site). But the compensation you apply for may not be what [...]
Resumed federal executions raise death penalty's 2020 stakes
WASHINGTON — The question to Michael Dukakis, the Democratic presidential candidate in 1988, was brutally personal. “If Kitty Dukakis were raped and murdered, would you favor an irrevocable death penalty for the killer?” Bernard Shaw, a CNN anchor, asked, referring to the Massachusetts governor’s wife. Dukakis said he wouldn’t favor it because “I don’t see [...]
2020 tests if Dems can win enough black voters without Obama
DETROIT — When Barack Obama was on the ballot in 2008 and 2012, there was no question that Terrance Holmes would vote for the first black president. But as he helped fix cars recently at a repair shop on Detroit’s west side, he recalled his ambivalence about the 2016 campaign. “I just didn’t feel no [...]
Could coastal mansions become eligible for disaster aid?
OLD SAYBROOK, Conn. — On an exclusive Connecticut peninsula, where signs warn outsiders to stay off private roads, eight multimillion-dollar homes with sprawling yards along the Long Island Sound are poised to become eligible for taxpayer-funded disaster aid. That’s despite the fact that the Fenwick neighborhood of Old Saybrook is in a potentially perilous position, [...]
Are Facebook users better off after its $5 billion fine?
If you’re one of Facebook’s more than 2 billion users, are you any better off now than you were before the Federal Trade Commission imposed new privacy restrictions and a $5 billion fine on the company last week? Facebook’s settlement with the FTC after the agency’s yearlong investigation provides a detailed account of the company’s [...]
With Daniel Jones waiting, when do Giants sit Eli Manning?
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Since taking Daniel Jones with the sixth pick overall in the draft, the biggest question facing Pat Shurmur and the New York Giants is when does the kid replace Eli Manning at quarterback? A two-time Super Bowl MVP, the 38-year-old Manning is expected to start in the opening weekend of the [...]
Bill expands record expungement opportunities
A bipartisan bill penned by a pair of northeast Ohio lawmakers has the potential to improve the lives of thousands of Ohioans who have felony convictions. This is just one more way in which lawmakers can transform an outdated criminal justice system, Sen. Sean O’Brien, D-Cortland, told members of the Judiciary Committee in the Ohio [...]
By the numbers: Migration to the U.S.-Mexico border
An unprecedented number of families have been coming to the southern border over the past year, straining government resources and resulting in dangerously overcrowded detention facilities. From October through the end of June, the Border Patrol apprehended more than 688,000 people, more than half of them families and unaccompanied children. Although people from all over [...]
Columbus State set to open culinary arts building
Columbus State Community College will open its Hospitality Management and Culinary Arts building for the 2019 fall semester. The $33 million Mitchell Hall project was funded by $10 million in private philanthropy, including building name sponsor Cameron Mitchell Restaurants, $10 million in state capital funding and private financing secured by Columbus State, according to a [...]