BILLINGS, Mont. — The Biden administration this week said the government will plant more than 1 billion trees across millions of acres of burned and dead woodlands in the West, as officials struggle to counter the increasing toll on the nation’s forests from wildfires, insects and weather. Destructive fires in recent years that burned too [...]
The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business has received a $279,000 Title VI Center for International Business Education and Research grant from the U.S. Department of Education. CIBER grants provide universities with resources to increase and promote the nation’s capacity for international business understanding and competitiveness, according to the Department of Education. Funding for [...]
Well before the inflation rate hit a 40-year high, a committee in the Ohio Senate considered raising the maximum dollar amount for specific items that are exempt from sales tax during the state’s annual Sales Tax Holiday. Filed as Senate Bill 221, the legislative measure boosts sales-tax exemption maximums from $75 per item of clothing [...]
For as long as anyone can remember, rent increases rarely happened at Ridgeview Homes, a family-owned mobile home park in upstate New York. That changed in 2018 when corporate owners took over the 65-year-old park located amid farmland and down the road from a fast-food joint and grocery store about 30 miles northeast of Buffalo. [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department filed a lawsuit earlier this week against some of the largest poultry producers in the country along with a proposed settlement seeking to end what it claims have been longstanding deceptive and abusive practices for workers. The suit, filed in federal court in Maryland, names Cargill, Sanderson Farms and [...]
NEW YORK — General Motors will keep its headquarters in its seven-building office tower complex in downtown Detroit, its CEO says. Mary Barra, in an interview with The Associated Press, said the automaker's main office will remain in the Renaissance Center, the centerpiece of the city's skyline just across the Detroit River from Canada. "Our [...]
SOUTHFIELD, Mich. — If the United Auto Workers union can't organize workers at new electric-vehicle battery factories that will supply Detroit's three automakers, the union's future would be in serious doubt. Ray Curry, president of the 372,000-member UAW, says union representation at the battery plants is critical, given that the major automakers are staking their [...]
CINCINNATI — The Bengals are already structuring finances so they can pay Joe Burrow enough money to stay in Cincinnati when the star quarterback becomes eligible to negotiate a new contract after this season, team owner Mike Brown said. Burrow likely will command a long-term deal paying him somewhere in the $40 million to $50 [...]
WASHINGTON — About 2 in 3 Americans say they favor term limits or a mandatory retirement age for Supreme Court justices, according to a new poll that finds a sharp increase in the percentage of Americans saying they have "hardly any" confidence in the court. The poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs [...]