California Democrats have for years controlled every state constitutional office and held supermajorities in the Legislature. They also control the state’s major cities, so there’s been little to stop ...

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Sales tax in the city of Aspen will reach above 10% next year as a result of the passage of three sales tax measures last week. Ballot measures 2A, 6A and 7A all approved sales tax increases for ...

This week, tech content creators began to suspect that AI was making it harder to share some of the most highly sought-after tech tutorials on YouTube, but now YouTube is denying that odd removals ...

The U.S. Senate on Thursday voted to cancel a Biden-era land-use plan that had boosted environmental protections for the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, a region that has drawn new interest from ...

In 2023, playwright India Nicole Burton brought audiences “Panther Women: An Army for the Liberation,” which looked at a woman’s journey to self-discovery through narratives of activist members Angela ...

Don’t take a licking from spicy food. A team of researchers in China claims to have created an artificial “tongue” that can quickly detect spice levels in their food — and they used a well-known ...

On October 24, the UK government announced long-awaited reforms to the Windrush Compensation Scheme that address some—but not all—long-standing concerns related to older claimants who had lost their ...

SANTA CRUZ — As Election Day in the city of Santa Cruz draws near, proponents of the two competing affordable housing tax measures, Measures B and C, discussed their campaigns, clarified ...

Despite lingering concerns about affordability and a desire for better long-term planning, the vast majority of San Jose city leaders support the upcoming sales tax measure proposed to counter the ...

Donations to the campaign total over $274,000, with major contributions from businesses, nonprofits and industry groups. If approved, the sales tax would increase Redding's rate to 8.25% and is ...

Measuring the truly important things in business is harder than it looks. While collecting numerical data points like profit, expenses and sales is relatively straightforward, the critical information ...