WASHINGTON, D.C. — As Florida airports begin a big holiday travel season, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said the Department expects 50,000 flights in the skies on Wednesday nationwide. What You Need To Know Orlando International Airport is expecting 2 million travelers over the course of the Thanksgiving travel period Tampa International Airport expects 80,000 travelers per day during … Read more
By Susan Arbetter New York State PUBLISHED 7:30 PM ET Nov. 02, 2023 PUBLISHED 7:30 PM EDT Nov. 02, 2023 Source link credite
Last week, the U.S. Department of Commerce released data that showed the country’s gross domestic product grew, at a better than expected, 4.9%. Russell Weaver, an economic geographer and director of research at the Cornell ILR Buffalo Co-Lab, told Capital Tonight that “there was a ton of good news in last week’s economic report” but … Read more
MADISON, Wis. — The Milwaukee Brewers could stay in Wisconsin for the next 27 years as state lawmakers in the Assembly passed a pair of stadium funding bills 69-27 Tuesday. The latest step sends a proposal to spend more than half a billion dollars of public money to help fix the ballpark and keep the … Read more
First lady Jill Biden generated a lot of buzz in the Hudson Valley on Friday, putting the Biden administration’s economic agenda front and center with visits to a community college and early childhood education center in Dutchess County. Biden is uniquely positioned for such a visit, working as an educator herself at Northern Virginia Community … Read more
President Joe Biden announced the forgiving of an additional $9 billion in student loans this week, just days after millions of Americans began repaying the loans after a three-year pause created by the pandemic. The latest development came after the U.S. Supreme Court blocked Biden’s previous initiative to forgive student loans, calling it unconstitutional. The … Read more
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Starting Oct. 4, New York state will begin accepting applications for new cultivators, retailers, processors and microbusiness licenses that will allow cultivators to sell their own cannabis out of a farm stand or small retail venue. The Office of Cannabis Management said it expects to issue close to 1,500 new licenses. “We’re expecting … Read more
In May, the NAACP, one of the nation’s most influential Black social justice organizations, issued a travel advisory for tourists of color thinking about visiting Florida. Just last week, Canada has announced a similar travel advisory, but for members of the LGBTQ+ community traveling to the United States. While Canada’s Global Affairs department didn’t mention … Read more
States that declared themselves refuges for transgender people have essentially issued an invitation: Get your gender-affirming health care here without fearing prosecution at home. Now that bans on such care for minors are taking effect around the country — Texas could be next, depending on the outcome of a court hearing this week — patients and their families are … Read more