(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) The majority of the 75 most populous U.S. cities can’t pay their bills and have a combined debt of $266.5 billion, according to new Financial State of the Cities report by Truth in Accounting.
The Chicago-based nonprofit’s seventh annual report evaluated fiscal 2021 data and found...
(Bruce Abramson, RealClear Wire) ESG, an acronym for Environmental, Social and Governance, is everywhere. If you work for, advise, invest in, regulate, study, or otherwise care about one or more corporations, you’ve likely encountered the term. Consultancies, banks, investment funds, managers, governments, and international organizations trip over themselves touting their...
(Glenn Minnis, The Center Square) Household debt across the country is sharply on the rise, with U.S. households now collectively on the hook for about $17 trillion in total. The average family holds about $142,680 in debt, according to a new WalletHub report.
All told, the personal finance website concludes that...
(Casey Harper, The Center Square) Republicans erupted in outrage after the Biden administration admitted over the weekend that the Wuhan lab was the most likely source of COVID-19, the same lab taxpayers have funded for years.
The Wall Street Journal first reported that a classified briefing from the U.S. Energy Department...
(Headline USA) U.S. government bans on Chinese-owned video sharing app TikTok reveal Washington’s own insecurities and are an abuse of state power, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson claimed Tuesday.
The U.S. government “has been overstretching the concept of national security and abusing state power to suppress other countries’ companies," Mao...
(Headline USA) Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is fighting for reelection Tuesday after a tumultuous, scandal-wrought four years in office and a bruising campaign threaten to make her the city's first one-term mayor in decades.
Lightfoot in 2019 became the first black woman and first openly gay mayor of the third-largest U.S....
(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) Professional race-hustlers peddling so-called criminal justice reform want to curb canine cops, in the latest leftist attempt to neuter law enforcement.
Claiming that slavery and racism spawned the use of police dogs, California Democrats this month introduced legislation that would ban their use in arrests, apprehensions and...
(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) In the wake of allegations that stroke victim Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., recently hospitalized for depression, had been declared clinically brain-dead, the Senator’s spokesman fueled speculation about his boss’s condition with a cryptically upbeat Twitter thread that failed to address the shocking claim.
“We don’t have a...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Former President Donald Trump weighed in on the Nord Stream pipeline explosion controversy in a recent interview, saying that the attack may have been perpetrated by the U.S. government.
Trump spoke on the issue last week in an interview with radio broadcaster Glenn Beck, who asked him...
(Adrienne Ferguson, Headline USA) LaToya Cantrell's second term as mayor of New Orleans is in jeopardy, according to recall organizers working to have her removed from office after claims that she has turned the city into a crime-infested "Gotham".
"Right now our mayor doesn’t love New Orleans so the citizens...
(Abdul--Rahman Oladimeji Bello, Headline USA) Conservative critics took potshots at the deep-state following another false alarm about "domestic violent extremism" failed to materialize on Saturday.
Law enforcement in major cities like New York and Chicago mobilized following unspecified rumors of a national "Day of Hate" for which anti-Semitic groups were...
(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) George Soros's puppet, Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon, suspended prosecutor Shea Sanna for "misgendering" and "deadnaming" a convicted child molester and suspected murderer who suddenly started to "identify" as a woman after he was arrested.
Gascon's office refused to prosecute a man named James Tubbs,...