[ad_1] Marty Nohe, who owns a family-run appliance store and distribution center in Woodbridge, Virginia, said his employees have asked him “why business was so quiet.” He said, “I told them, ‘Haven’t you been watching the news?'” He says he watched customer traffic dwindle at least twice in 2023...
[ad_1] WASHINGTON — Many Americans watched video footage of the crowd attacking the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, but few have a firsthand account of what happened inside. Three years ago, Times reporter Sarah D. Wire wrote about her experience, typing it out on a cellphone from the House safe room....
[ad_1] Recapping the weekend in Pac-12 basketball … Theme of the week: Intoxication The Pac-12 is drunk, folks. It’s completely, incoherently, deliriously drunk. Arizona State, which lost to San Diego, TCU and Northwestern in the middle of December, is tied for first place at 4-0 in league play....
[ad_1] On January 1st, in a move that should anger every taxpayer, California became the first state in the nation to expand taxpayer-funded universal healthcare coverage to all illegal immigrants. It is estimated this will add 700,000 new people to Medi-Cal and cost more than $4 billion a year....
[ad_1] Workers at fast-food restaurants and in minimum-wage jobs can expect a pay bump soon, courtesy of higher wage floors adopted by California lawmakers and more than two dozen cities across the state. In California, the minimum wage is currently $15.50 per hour, but it rises to $16 per hour...
