Governor Abbott deploys hurricane response resources to Florida Updated: Aug. 30, 2023 at 1:25 AM GMT+8| By First Alert 7 News Staff Texas A&M Task Force 1 will head to Florida ahead of Hurricane Idalia. State TxDOT launches “Drive Sober. No Regrets.” Campaign to crack down on ...
The labor of love that goes into growing Christmas trees Updated: Dec. 12, 2024 at 10:43 AM GMT+8| By Alexa Minton Every year, Nieman’s Christmas Tree Farm sells around 1,000 Frasier firs, with folks traveling from as far as Florida and Alabama to get a tree. News ‘Most haunted...
Pay increase could cost Wood County in state vote
Florida to Hold Special Session to Address Immigration Reform Gov. DeSantis has called for a special session on January 27 to enact sweeping immigration reform. He wishes to assist President-elect Trump’s mass deportation effort in any way he can. This has drawn concern from lawmakers who clai...
2 Private Lunar Landers Head Toward the Moon in a Roundabout Journey SpaceX has launched a pair of lunar landers for U.S. and Japanese companies looking to jumpstart business up there Associated PressJan. 15, 2025 Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Potential 2028 Candidate, Wants to Find Commo...
Allstate steadily increased auto rates throughout 2023 as part of a “comprehensive plan to increase profitability,” per a statement from the company. Additionally, Allstate stopped writing new home and condominium insurance policies in California in 2022. California homeowners with active Allstate ho...
Not that any of this should be a surprise. Just a couple of days ago, I wrote about how Florida is getting great results while spending less. Medicaid: Taxpayers finance an enormously expensive Medicaid program ($800 billion and counting), yet research shows that all that money does not ...
Male, Gen X, Florida Consumers indicated they plan to increase their purchases of essential items. The average consumer said they expected to spend more on fresh produce, meat and dairy, and center-store categories (which include the items one might expect to find in the center of a g...
Florida residents voted in November 2020 to increase the state’s minimum wage incrementally beginning at $10 per hour on Sept. 30, 2021, until it reaches $15 per hour in September 2026. It's at $13 as of Jan. 1, 2025.12 Residents of Nebraska passed legislation to raise the minimum wag...
have enacted a local minimum wage to account for higher costs of living.2Some state legislatures have policies to raise their minimum wages by set amounts at predetermined dates. Florida residents voted in November 2020 to increase the state’s minimum wage incrementally until it reaches $15 per...