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NEW YORK (AP) — After 46 years, Steve Replin has decided to give up his office space. Replin, who has a law practice and acts as an alternative lender in Denver, is adapting to the changing preferences of clients, who would rather conduct business online, or in a less professional setting like a coffee shop. [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve's preferred inflation gauge cooled further last month even as the economy kept growing. Last week's government report showed that prices rose 0.2 percent from November to December, a pace consistent with pre-pandemic levels and barely above the Fed's 2 percent annual target. Measured from a year earlier, prices increased [...]
DETROIT (AP) — More than 4,700 auto dealerships across the United States last week in a letter urged President Joe Biden to halt the Environmental Protection Agency's efforts to enforce stricter vehicle-pollution standards. The missive comes just weeks before the agency's expected ruling on its tailpipe-emissions proposal, which addresses both climate change and pollutants that [...]
Unions commanded headlines last year, but that didn’t translate into higher membership rates, according to government data released earlier this week. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics said 10 percent of hourly and salaried workers were members of unions in 2023, or around 14.4 million people. That is an all-time low, down from 10.1 percent [...]
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Alabama execution scheduled for today that would be the first to use nitrogen gas is the result of a long history of problems with lethal injections since Texas first used the method in 1982, including difficulties finding usable veins and obtaining the necessary drugs. States with the death penalty are [...]
ST LOUIS (AP) — Many of the nation's rivers and streams remain stubbornly polluted with nutrients that contaminate drinking water and fuel a gigantic dead zone for aquatic life in the Gulf of Mexico, according to a recently released Environmental Protection Agency assessment. It's a problem that's concentrated in agricultural regions that drain into the [...]
Amid rising mortgage rates and prices, home sales in central Ohio fell 13.5 percent last year, according to new figures from Columbus Realtors. The number of homes sold in the region dropped from 31,885 in 2022 to 27,592 last year. The prices of the home sold, meanwhile, continued to increase. The average price of a [...]
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — On the first business day of the new year, Missouri Treasurer Vivek Malek began accepting applications for about $120 million of state-subsidized, low-interest loans to small businesses, farmers and affordable housing developers. Within six hours, Malek had so many requests for the money that he had to cut off applications. [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Americans stepped up their spending at retailers in December, closing out the holiday shopping season and the year, signaling that people keep spending freely. Retail sales rose 0.6 percent in December from November's 0.3 percent increase, the Commerce Department reported earlier this week. Because spending by consumers accounts for nearly 70 [...]
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Clean-energy developers had planned a 75-turbine wind farm in Michigan’s Montcalm County before local voters shot down the idea in 2022 and recalled seven local officials who had supported it. About 150 miles to the southeast, Clara Ostrander in Monroe County found herself at the center of a similar conflict as [...]