Firefighters battle the Bridge fire last month in Wrightwood, Calif. Here’s what you’re voting on specifically: Proposition 2 is a $10-billion bond issue to repair, modernize and construct facilities at K-12 schools and community colleges. To qualify for state money, local districts would need to put up matching dollars One especially good expenditure: $600 million for “career tech” — what …
Women seem to suffer more under the coronavirus crisis than men. "That means that the Netherlands is in worse shape on four of the eleven dimensions of broad prosperity than before the coronavirus pandemic," said Hardeman when announcing the results. The prosperity dimensions of happiness, social contacts and housing deteriorated last year, but remained stable this year. "However, last spring's …
Containers of Roundup are displayed on a store shelf in San Francisco in this Feb. 24, 2019, file photo. The three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected an appeal by Monsanto Co., the manufacturer of the herbicide, ruling 2-1 that $20 million in punitive damages, “while close to the outer limits,” was constitutional. A jury in …
DALLAS — An Austin real estate developer at the center of recent allegations against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton asked for an investigation into his uncorroborated claims that other businessmen have an elaborate conspiracy to steal $200 million worth of his properties with the help of a federal judge. The developer accuses 11 people of an intricate fraud that was …
