Month: May 2021

SALISBURY – A modified folk festival will return to downtown Salisbury later this year. Late last month, organizers with the National Folk Festival announced the event’s return to downtown Salisbury Sept. 10-12. “Over the past few weeks, we’ve had the opportunity to come together for the Salisbury Marathon, our first outdoor Third Friday and have …

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The thousands of people driving those ubiquitous Amazon-branded blue vans aren’t employed by the Seattle leviathan. They work for small, independent businesses with contracts to transport packages for Amazon. But that hasn’t stopped the company from dictating the state of their fingernails—and a whole lot more. “Personal grooming must be maintained at an acceptable level, including but not …

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SALISBURY – A public hearing on Wicomico’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2022 highlighted this week’s county council meeting. On Tuesday, the Wicomico County Council held a public hearing on Acting County Executive John Psota’s proposed operating and capital budgets for fiscal year 2022. The spending plan – submitted to the legislative branch late last …

Wicomico’s $161M Budget Features Tax Rate Decrease Read More »

Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs (D) on Wednesday raised concerns about the procedures in the Republican-led audit of 2020 election results in Arizona’s largest county, specifically pointing to workers reportedly leaving ballots and computers unattended during the recount. Hobbs in a six-page letter to former Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett (R), who is serving as a spokesman for the Maricopa …

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OCEAN CITY — Ocean City officials this week approved on first reading the proposed fiscal year 2022 budget at around $158 million, which will hold the property tax rate at the constant yield. The total budget for all funds is approximately $158 million, with the general fund making up around $91 million. The proposed fiscal …

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So NY Governor Andrew Cuomo is ready for Broadway to come back, but is Broadway ready? When the theaters shut down back in March 2020, many shows had their fate sealed, meaning they closed because they were either limited runs or not open yet or just decided to be done with their run with how …

Sudden Broadway Reopening Announcement Raises the Question … Does Andrew Cuomo Even Know How Broadway Works? Read More »

As the pandemic crushed the U.S. economy last spring, sawmills shut down lumber production to brace for a housing slump. The slump never arrived and now there isn’t enough lumber to feed the red-hot housing market. The shortage is delaying construction of badly needed new homes, complicating renovations of existing ones and causing sticker shock …

Lumber Shortage is causing New Home Prices to Surge Read More »

Brian Kilmeade on Wednesday morning attempted to dunk on a sixth-grade student who praised President Joe Biden over Donald Trump during a Fox & Friends kids-centric panel segment. The Fox morning show brought on three young students to discuss their experiences with remote learning, framed around Biden’s recent visit to a Virginia school, which also featured kids sharing candid …

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Nearly 25,000 migrant children were in the custody of the government, apart from their families, in early May. The number of unaccompanied migrant children in the federal government’s care is at an all-time high, easily eclipsing the corresponding total in 2018 when the Trump administration pursued a policy that led to the intentional separation of …

Biden Admin. holding nearly 25,000 Migrants children without parents Read More »