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AAA: Memorial Day forecast points to sizzlin' summer travel season
The unofficial start to summer will be a busy one this year as AAA predicts 39.2 million people nationwide will travel 50 miles or more from home this Memorial Day weekend. This is an increase of 8.3%...
Jody Heemstra May 25, 2022
Rural Mainstreet Economy expands in July; Non-farm investors purchased 17.1% of farmland sold in the region
After declining below growth neutral in March 2023, the overall Rural Mainstreet Index for July 2023 expanded above the threshold for a fourth straight month, according to the July monthly survey of b...
Jody Heemstra Jul 21, 2023 Pictures of Money / CC
Adnan Syed goes before Maryland Supreme Court facing 'specter of reincarceration,' his lawyers say
OCTOBER 5, 2023: ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Adnan Syed is now free after being imprisoned for the murder of his ex-girlfriend more than two decades ago. But his attorneys will be arguing for his freedom on...
Jody Heemstra Oct 05, 2023 Casey Fiesler / CC
Justice Department, FTC issue statements supporting Right to Repair
MARCH 18, 2024: The Justice Department's Antitrust Division and Federal Trade Commission submitted comments to the U.S. Copyright Office advocating for regulations that would facilitate the right to r...
Jody Heemstra Mar 18, 2024 Nenad Stojkovic / CC
North Dakota judge to decide whether to temporarily block part of abortion law that limits doctors
DECEMBER 22, 2023: BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - A North Dakota judge said Wednesday (Dec. 20, 2023) he will decide soon whether to temporarily block a part of the state's revised abortion laws so doctors can...
Jody Heemstra Dec 22, 2023
Many agriculture groups applaud Senate passage of USMCA; R-CALF USA disappointed with the deal
WASHINGTON, DC- U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue issued the following statement after the Senate passed the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) by a bipartisan vote of 89 - 10. "We've ...
Jody Heemstra Jan 17, 2020
Disrupting and Degrading - One Year of U.S. Sanctions on Russia and Its Enablers
he United States, along with an international coalition of over 30 allies and partners, has imposed sweeping sanctions, export controls, and other economic measures since the start of Russia's unprovo...
Jody Heemstra Feb 25, 2023
Is the center of the USA's population still in Missouri? US Census Bureau will release data next week
Next week (Nov. 16, 2021) the U.S. Census Bureau will announce where the U.S. center of population was in 2020, a way to summarize population shifts every decade. The colonial town of Chestertown, Mar...
Jody Heemstra Nov 12, 2021
'That '70s Show' actor Danny Masterson gets 30 years to life in prison for rapes of 2 women
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023, UPDATE: LOS ANGELES (AP) - A judge sentenced "That '70s Show" star Danny Masterson to 30 years to life in prison Thursday (Sept. 7, 2023) for the rapes of two women two de...
Jody Heemstra Sep 07, 2023 Oscar Rohena / CC
Rural Mainstreet Economy Slows in August
August 2023 Survey Results at a Glance: After four straight months of above growth neutral readings, the Rural Mainstreet Index (RMI) slumped to growth neutral, 50.0, in August. Farmland cash rents ar...
Jody Heemstra Aug 18, 2023