Moody’s Corp., the world’s second largest ratings firm, has agreed to pay 21 states and the District of Columbia $426.3 million as part of an $864 million settlement with state and federal authorities over its ratings of mortgage securities...
According to a 2015 report by the National Cooperative Highway Research Program, cities and counties in at least 27 states have converted 550 miles of paved roads to dirt roads, either by actively tearing up the pavement and combining it with gravel and...
In 2004 California voters approved Proposition 71 , authorizing the sale of $3 billion in general obligation bonds to support human embryonic and other types of stem cell research. “Research that we do now holds the promise of cures for tomorrow...
Thousands of Ballots Tossed in KS Thousands of provisional ballots cast in KANSAS in November were thrown out by election officials because no registration could be found for the voters who cast them. But some local election officials are concerned...
In 2015 a grass-roots group gathered enough signatures for a public vote on raising Kansas City’s minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2020. But Judge Justine Del Muro of the 16th Circuit Court in Jackson County blocked the proposal from going on the...