The world’s hottest shopping city is becoming a Ghost Town If you want to see the future of storefront retailing, walk nine blocks along Broadway from 57th to 48th Street and count the stores. The total number comes to precisely one — a tiny shop to buy drones. That’s right: On a nine-block stretch of […]

I Didn’t Want to Move the First Time, and I Sure Don’t Want to Move a Second Time Earlene Lyons was thrilled to get a public housing apartment in Cairo about four years ago. Lyons liked her unit at Elmwood, with the exception of the roaches and three spontaneous kitchen fires blamed on faulty electrical […]

HUD Long Neglected These Residents. Now As They Move Out, Some Feel HUD Let Them Down Again CAIRO, Ill. — For years, residents of public housing complexes here were stuck living in aging and neglected buildings with inoperable heat, leaky ceilings, broken windows, mold, mice, roaches, and frequently clogged toilets and sinks. And for years, […]

Federal tax cuts trigger stealth tax hikes in states Republicans may have handed many Americans a big cut in federal taxes, but their plan is triggering a wave of state income tax increases across the country. In many states, the tax hikes are coming without legislators ever needing to take a vote — thanks to […]

Under Trump, that protective voice has gone silent for American consumers. In the 135 days since the Trump administration took control of the nation’s consumer watchdog agency, it has not recorded a single enforcement action against banks, credit card companies, debt collectors or any finance companies whatsoever. That’s likely no fluke: Mick Mulvaney, appointed acting […]

Black Motorists, a Never-Ending Fear of Being Stopped The Constant Fear of Driving While Black Across the country, law-abiding black and Hispanic drivers are left frightened and humiliated after being stopped by police, who too often see them as criminals. Listen as individuals across the country share their stories. Black motorists are pulled over by […]

Stop Yelling at Sinclair’s Anchors The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing you to scream at his employees. He makes those lesser of his soul to perform and showcase evil to the public. That devil is now the face of Sinclair Broadcast Group, whom recently forced news anchors at its 173 local TV […]

Teacher protests put Republicans in red states on the spot A teacher walkout in Oklahoma entered its third day Wednesday in a red state rebellion stretching from West Virginia to Arizona that is putting Republican lawmakers on the spot politically. In Oklahoma, most Republicans last week broke with the party orthodoxy and endorsed hundreds of […]

Arizona teachers, among the nation’s lowest paid, threaten to strike Arizona teachers and education advocates marched Wednesday at the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix to protest low teacher pay and school funding cuts!! Arizona teachers, among the lowest paid in the country, are threatening to strike if state lawmakers do not raise their salaries and restore […]

Oklahoma and Kentucky teachers plan to walk out in what could be huge rallies Oklahoma and Kentucky teachers are walking off the job Monday and holding rallies at their state capitols to pressure lawmakers. Inspired by the West Virginia strike in which teachers demanded and got a pay raise from state leaders, a wave of […]