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For more crisp and insightful business and economic news, subscribe to The Daily Upside newsletter. It's completely free and we guarantee you'll learn something new every day. A group of companies run by a predatory New York lender and convicted drug trafficker released from jail last year -- and who allegedly threatened cash-advance customers with violence -- are using an obscure Connecticut...

The San Jose City Council voted by wide margins on January 25 to adopt two gun control measures not found anywhere else in the United States. The first would require gun owners in the city to purchase liability insurance covering losses or damages related to “negligent or accidental use of the firearm,” including death and injury. The second would further require gun owners to pay a “gun harm...

Iowa — If you walked by the headstone in the Avon Cemetery on Des Moines' southeast side, you wouldn't even know it was there. The cemetery's sexton walked through the snow to show KCCI Investigates where it was located, a headstone marking 85 people buried beneath it. The urns of the ashes for those 85 people were buried in Sept. 2019. "A life that touches others goes on forever... Here lie ...

(PHOENIX, AZ – Feb. 10, 2022) Arizona will soon begin reaping rewards from the bipartisan infrastructure law, with today’s announcement from the Biden Administration kicking off a $5 billion construction project to build out the national network of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations. The new law passed by Congress last year will direct $76 million over five years to Arizona to expand the...

The package includes several items already in front of lawmakers. DENVER — Gov. Jared Polis on Thursday unveiled a $113 million public safety package designed to take Colorado from the middle of the pack to one of the top states in the nation for public safety. Ahead of the package's rollout at a Thursday state Capitol news conference, Polis in a Wednesday interview told Colorado Politics h...

The US Capitol is seen in Washington, DC on February 10, 2022. Washington (CNN)"Long overdue." "It will help us fix a broken system." "You're going to have a chance to be heard differently." That's how lawmakers from both parties are describing the workplace harassment legislation that passed the Senate on Thursday after years of deliberations. It now heads to President Joe Biden's desk for h...

ISLETON, Calif — Due to not filling a council seat following the passing of one of its members, a Sacramento County Grand Jury investigation has found that the Isleton City Council violated state law. Isleton City Council Member Barbara Dockery passed away on Apr. 23, 2021. A report about the situation states, "government Code section 36512(b) requires that a vacancy on a city council be fill...

AUSTIN, Texas — Abortions in Texas fell by 60% in the first month under the most restrictive abortion law in the U.S. in decades, according to new figures that for the first time reveal a full accounting of the immediate impact. The nearly 2,200 abortions reported by Texas providers in September came after a new law took effect that bans the procedure once cardiac activity is detected, usuall...

Last year, when state government was under total Democratic control, lawmakers passed legislation that legalized adult possession of up to an ounce of marijuana and created a path for retail sales to begin in 2024. RICHMOND — As the Virginia General Assembly reaches the halfway point of this year’s session, one of the year’s most complicated issues — possible changes to the state’s new law le...

North Dakota Highway Patrol Superintendent Colonel Brandon Solberg signed the 30x30 Initiative on Thursday, Feb. 10, at the Capitol building, which aims to increase women representation in law enforcement. Seven of the agency's 159 troopers are women. BISMARCK — Only 4% of North Dakota Highway Patrol troopers are women, and on Thursday, Feb. 10, the agency signed a pledge to aiming to inc...