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Sep. 27– California has dug a deep hole with the public pension plans that provide taxpayer-backed retirements for government employees. Calsavers went into effect in July to help private workers save for their Golden Years. Fortunately, the Trump administration has weighed in this month on behalf of a Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association legal challenge to…

Sep. 27– AUSTIN– As Texas saw a rise in its poverty rate, income inequality and the number of people living without health insurance from 2017-2018, Fort Worth and Tarrant County saw slight increases at a local level, according to new U.S. Census Bureau data. The new estimates released Thursday by the Census Bureau show that the percent of people whose income was…

Sep. 27– Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of columns about seniors and their finances with information from local experts in the field and experiences of people dealing with financial hardships in their later years. “With a senior placement counselor who is doing his or her job properly, running out of money should be a rare occurrence,” says Michael…

Sep. 27– The new CEO of CareSource has brought new talent and a casual flair to the corporate culture of the Dayton- based insurance company. Erhardt Preitauer has been on the job since May 2018 as the second chief executive to lead CareSource, which grew over the last 30 years from a Dayton experiment in Medicaid management to a 2- million member insurer with a…

Global warming-induced drought in Guatemala has caused widespread famine and led many to flee in search of food for their families. In response, the Trump Administration has cut aid to Guatemala and other Central American countries, denied asylum to the starving and tried to build a wall to cage them in. OTHER VIEW: Austin’s climate change plan rooted in…

Will Hurd on Thursday said there are “a lot of disturbing allegations” in the whistleblower report against President Donald Trump and addressed the possibility of running for president in 2024.. He was in Austin on Thursday for an interview at The Texas Tribune Festival with the news organization’s CEO Evan Smith. “There are a lot of elements in there that I think…

Sep. 27– Share prices of several large health insurers are being pummeled by political turmoil in Washington following the announcement that the U.S. House of Representatives has begun an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump, analysts say. Shares of several insurers have dropped following the announcement Tuesday by Speaker Nancy Pelosi,…

Sep. 27– Since retiring from her law practice, Robin Gabbert feels like she’s had a full-time job trying to rebuild after the devastating 2017 North Bay wildfires. Gabbert and her husband, Con Jager, are like thousands of other fire survivors who will not finish building new homes by the second anniversary of the fires in early October. Gabbert and Jager have been…

Sep. 27– UAW Local 1853 members missed their first full check since the start of the strike against General Motors on Friday, but their health-insurance benefits were restored Thursday morning. UAW members will be receiving $250 a week from the union, with some getting their first check Sunday and others Monday. GM cut them off in a negotiating ploy against the…

Sep. 27– In the last 18 months, there has been more than $140 million invested in Logansport and Cass County businesses, either starting them up or improving them. “That’s only the ones I know of,” said Bill Cuppy, Executive Director of the Cass Logansport Economic Development Organization. In these investments, Logansport has seen a variety of development over those…

Sep. 27– A 14- year-old boy accused of crashing and rolling a stolen Jeep carrying four other youth near the Santa Fe Rodeo Grounds was arrested after the incident Wednesday evening. Some of the kids had run from the Jeep after the crash but were detained nearby and interviewed by officers, police said. The boy suspected of being the driver was found sitting on a curb…

Christopher Floyd Boder, 31, and James Michael Peterson, 38, were arrested Tuesday in connection with the Sunday shooting death of Timothy Jon Nelson. Number of homeless households in Duluth jumps. Warrant issued for man who started Duluth synagogue fire.