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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — With less than a month to go until the first Republican presidential debate of the 2024 campaign, seven candidates say they have met qualifications for a spot on stage in Milwaukee.
But that also means that about half the broad GOP field is running short on time to make the cut.
To qualify for the Aug. 23 debate, candidates needed to satisfy polling and donor requirements set by the Republican National Committee: at least 1% in three high-quality national polls or a mix of national and early-state polls, between July 1 and Aug. 21, and a minimum of 40,000 donors, with 200 in 20 or more states.
A look at who’s in, who’s (maybe) out and who’s still working on making it:
WHO’S QUALIFIED
DONALD TRUMP
The current front-runner long ago satisfied the polling and donor thresholds. But he is considering boycotting and holding a competing event.
Campaign advisers have said the former president has not made a final decision about the debate. One noted that “it’s pretty clear,” based on Trump’s public and private statements, that he is unlikely to appear with the other candidates.
“If you’re leading by a lot, what’s the purpose of doing it?” Trump asked on Newsmax.
In the meantime, aides have discussed potential alternative programming if Trump opts for a rival event. One option Trump has floated is an interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who now has a program on X, the site formerly known as Twitter.
RON DESANTIS
The Florida governor has long been seen as Trump’s top rival, finishing a distant second to him in a series of polls in early-voting states, as well as national polls, and raising an impressive amount of money.
But DeSantis’ campaign has struggled in recent weeks to live up to the sky-high expectations that awaited him when he entered the race. He let go of more than one-third of his staff as federal filings showed his campaign was burning through cash at an unsustainable rate.
If Trump is absent, DeSantis may be the top target on stage at the debate.
TIM SCOTT
The South Carolina senator has been looking for a breakout moment. The first debate could be his chance.
A prolific fundraiser, Scott enters the summer with $21 million cash on hand.
In one debate-approved poll in Iowa, Scott joined Trump and DeSantis in reaching double digits. The senator has focused much of his campaign resources on the leadoff GOP voting state, which is dominated by white evangelical voters.
NIKKI HALEY
She has blitzed early-voting states with campaign events, walking crowds through her electoral successes ousting a longtime incumbent South Carolina lawmaker, then becoming the state’s first woman and first minority governor. Also serving as Trump’s U.N. ambassador for about two years, Haley frequently cites her international experience, arguing about the threat China poses to the United States.
The only woman in the GOP race, Haley has said transgender students competing in sports is “the women’s issue of our time” and has drawn praise from a leading anti-abortion group, which called her “uniquely gifted at communicating from a pro-life woman’s perspective.”
Bringing in $15.6 million since the start of her campaign, Haley’s campaign says she has “well over 40,000 unique donors” and has satisfied the debate polling requirements.
VIVEK RAMASWAMY
The biotech entrepreneur and author of “Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America’s Social Justice Scam” is an audience favorite at multicandidate events and has polled well despite not being nationally known when he entered the race.
Ramaswamy’s campaign says he met the donor threshold earlier this year. He recently rolled out “Vivek’s Kitchen Cabinet” to boost his donor numbers even more, by letting fundraisers keep 10% of what they bring in for his campaign.
CHRIS CHRISTIE
The former New Jersey governor opened his campaign by portraying himself as the only candidate ready to take on Trump. Christie called on the former president to “show up at the debates and defend his record.”
Christie will be on that stage, even if Trump isn’t, telling CNN this month that he surpassed “40,000 unique donors in just 35 days.” He also has met the polling requirements.
DOUG BURGUM
Burgum, a wealthy former software entrepreneur now in his second term as North Dakota’s governor, has been using his fortune to boost his campaign.
He announced a program this month to give away $20 gift cards — “Biden Relief Cards,” as a critique of President Joe Biden’s handling of the economy — to as many as 50,000 people in exchange for $1 donations. Critics have questioned whether the offer violated campaign finance law.
Within about a week of launching that effort, Burgum announced he had surpassed the donor threshold. Ad blitzes in the early-voting states also helped him meet the polling requirements.
WHO HASN’T QUALIFIED:
MIKE PENCE
Trump’s vice president has met the polling threshold but has yet to amass a sufficient number of donors, raising the possibility that he might not qualify for the party’s first debate.
Pence and his advisers have expressed confidence he will do so, noting that most other Republican hopefuls took a month or two of being active candidates to meet the mark. Pence entered the race on June 7, the same day as Burgum and one day after Christie.
“We’re making incredible progress toward that goal. We’re not there yet,” Pence told CNN in a recent interview. “We will make it. I will see you at that debate stage.”
ASA HUTCHINSON
According to his campaign, the former two-term Arkansas governor has met the polling requirements but is working on satisfying the donor threshold. As of Wednesday, Hutchinson marked more than 11,000 unique donors.
Hutchinson is running in the mold of an old-school Republican and has differentiated himself from many of his GOP rivals in his willingness to criticize Trump. He has posted pleas on Twitter for $1 donations to help secure his slot.
FRANCIS SUAREZ
The Miami mayor has been one of the more creative candidates in his efforts to boost his donor numbers. He offered up a chance to see Argentine soccer legend Lionel Messi’s debut as a player for Inter Miami, saying donors who gave $1 would be entered in a chance to get front-row tickets.
Still shy of the donor threshold, he took a page from Burgum’s playbook by offering a $20 “Bidenomics Relief Card” in return for $1 donations. A super political action committee supporting Suarez launched a sweepstakes for a chance at up to $15,000 in tuition, in exchange for a $1 donation to Suarez’s campaign.
Suarez’s campaign did not return a message seeking details on his number of donors or qualifying polls.
LARRY ELDER
The conservative radio host wrote in an op-ed that the RNC “has rigged the rules of the game by instituting a set of criteria that is so onerous and poorly designed that only establishment-backed and billionaire candidates are guaranteed to be on stage.”
His campaign last week declined to detail its number of donors, saying only that there had been “a strong increase the last few weeks.” He has not met the polling requirements.
PERRY JOHNSON
Johnson, a wealthy but largely unknown businessman from Michigan, said in a recent social media post that he had notched 23,000 donors and was “confident” he would make the debate stage. He added that all donors were “eligible to attend my free concert in Iowa featuring” country duo Big & Rich next month.
Johnson, who has reached 1% in one qualifying poll, has also offered to give copies of his book “Two Cents to Save America” to anyone who donated to his campaign.
WILL HURD
The former Texas congressman — the last candidate to enter the race, on June 22 — has said repeatedly that he would not pledge to support the eventual GOP nominee, a stance that would keep him off the stage even if he had the qualifying donor and polling numbers.
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Meg Kinnard can be reached at http://twitter.com/MegKinnardAP | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/whos-in-whos-out-a-look-at-which-candidates-have-qualified-for-the-1st-gop-presidential-debate/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world | 2023-07-30T13:29:34 | 0 | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/whos-in-whos-out-a-look-at-which-candidates-have-qualified-for-the-1st-gop-presidential-debate/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
Astros vs. Rays Probable Starting Pitchers Today - July 30
Isaac Paredes leads the Tampa Bay Rays (63-44) into a matchup versus the Houston Astros (59-46), after his two-homer outing in a 17-4 defeat to the Astros, beginning at 2:10 PM ET on Sunday.
The Astros will give the nod to Brandon Bielak (5-5, 3.62 ERA), who is eyeing win No. 6 on the season, and the Rays will turn to Zack Littell (0-2, 5.11 ERA).
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- Date: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Time: 2:10 PM ET
- TV: SportsNet SW
- Location: Houston, Texas
- Venue: Minute Maid Park
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- Probable Pitchers: Bielak - HOU (5-5, 3.62 ERA) vs Littell - TB (0-2, 5.11 ERA)
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Astros Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Brandon Bielak
- The Astros will send Bielak (5-5) to the mound for his 13th start this season.
- The right-hander's last appearance was on Tuesday, when he threw 4 2/3 innings against the Texas Rangers, giving up three earned runs while allowing six hits.
- The 27-year-old has an ERA of 3.62, a 1.83 strikeout-to-walk ratio and a WHIP of 1.435 in 13 games this season.
- He has started 12 games this season, earning a quality start (6 or more IP, 3 or fewer ER) in two of them.
- Bielak has started 12 games this season, and he's lasted five or more innings nine times. He averages 5.3 innings per appearance.
- He has two appearances this season with zero earned runs allowed out of his 13 chances this season.
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Rays Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Zack Littell
- The Rays are sending Littell (0-2) to the mound to make his fourth start of the season. He is 0-2 with a 5.11 ERA and 26 strikeouts over 24 2/3 innings pitched.
- The right-hander last appeared in relief on Sunday, when he threw two scoreless innings against the Baltimore Orioles while giving up one hit.
- The 27-year-old has amassed an ERA of 5.11, with 9.5 strikeouts per nine innings in 16 games this season. Opponents have a .301 batting average against him.
- In six of his appearances this season he did not surrender an earned run.
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Sheriff's office: Suspect in Laguna Heights murder investigation flees to Mexico
The Cameron County Sheriff’s Office is working with multiple agencies to apprehend a murder suspect they say fled to Mexico.
The sheriff’s office identified Jacobo Hernandez as the suspect in a fatal Laguna Heights shooting.
RELATED: Fatal shooting in Laguna Heights under investigation
The investigation started on Monday when deputies with the sheriff’s office located the lifeless body of 27-year-old Christopher James De Leon at the 200 Block of Adams Street, according to a news release.
De Leon’s body had “apparent” gunshot wounds, the release stated.
Hernandez was identified as the suspect through surveillance footage and witness statements.
“Immediately, a search was launched to find Hernandez but it was discovered that shortly after the murder he fled to Mexico to avoid apprehension,” the release stated.
The investigation is ongoing, the release stated. | https://www.krgv.com/news/sheriff-s-office-suspect-in-laguna-heights-murder-investigation-flees-to-mexico | 2023-07-30T13:30:12 | 0 | https://www.krgv.com/news/sheriff-s-office-suspect-in-laguna-heights-murder-investigation-flees-to-mexico |
At a moment of growing legal peril, Donald Trump ramped up his calls for his GOP rivals to drop out of the 2024 presidential race as he threatened to primary Republican members of Congress who fail to focus on investigating Democratic President Joe Biden and urged them to halt Ukrainian military aid until the White House cooperates with their investigations into Biden and his family.
“Every dollar spent attacking me by Republicans is a dollar given straight to the Biden campaign,” Trump said at a rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, on Saturday night. The former president and GOP front-runner said it was time for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and others he dismissed as “clowns” to clear the field, accusing them of “wasting hundreds of millions of dollars that Republicans should be using to build a massive vote-gathering operation” to take on Biden in November.
The comments came two days after federal prosecutors unveiled new criminal charges against Trump as part of the case that accuses him of illegally hoarding classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago club and refusing to turn them over to investigators. The superseding indictment unsealed Thursday alleges that Trump and two staffers sought to delete surveillance at the club in an effort to obstruct the Justice Department’s investigation.
The case is just one of Trump’s mounting legal challenges. His team is currently bracing for additional possible indictments, which could happen as soon as this coming week, related to his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election brought by prosecutors in both Washington and Georgia. Trump already faces criminal charges in New York over hush money payments made to women who accused him of sexual encounters during his 2016 presidential campaign.
Nevertheless, Trump remains the dominant early figure for the Republican nomination and has only seen his lead grow as the charges have mounted and as his rivals have struggled to respond. Their challenge was on display at a GOP gathering in Iowa Friday night, where they largely declined to go after Trump directly. The only one who did — accusing Trump of “running to stay out of prison” — was booed as he left the stage.
In the meantime, Trump has embraced his legal woes, turning them into the core message of his bid to return to the White House as he accuses Biden of using the Justice Department to maim his chief political rival. The White House has said repeatedly that the president has had no involvement in the cases.
At rallies — including Saturday’s — Trump has tried to frame the charges, which come with serious threats of jail time, as an attack not just on him, but those who support him.
“They’re not indicting me, they’re indicting you. I just happen to be standing in the way,” he told the arena crowd in Erie, adding that, “Every time the radical left Democrats, Marxists, communists and fascists indict me, I consider it actually a great badge of honor.... Because I’m being indicted for you.”
But the investigations are also sucking up enormous resources that are being diverted from the nuts and bolts of the campaign. The Washington Post first reported Saturday that Trump’s political action committee, Save America, will report Monday that it spent more than $40 million on legal fees during the first half of 2023 defending Trump and all of the current and former aides whose lawyers it is paying. The total is more than the campaign raised during the second quarter of the year.
“In order to combat these heinous actions by Joe Biden’s cronies and to protect these innocent people from financial ruin and prevent their lives from being completely destroyed, the leadership PAC contributed to their legal fees to ensure they have representation against unlawful harassment,” said Trump’s spokesman Steven Cheung.
At the rally — held in a former Democratic stronghold that Trump flipped in 2016, but Biden won narrowly in 2020 — Trump also threatened Republicans in Congress who refuse to go along with efforts to impeach Biden. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said this past week that Republican lawmakers may consider an impeachment inquiry into the president over unproven claims of financial misconduct.
Trump, who was impeached twice while in office, said Saturday that, “The biggest complaint that I get is that the Republicans find out this information and then they do nothing about it.”
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“Any Republican that doesn’t act on Democrat fraud should be immediately primaries and get out — out!” he told the crowd to loud applause. “They have to play tough and ... if they’re not willing to do it, we got a lot of good, tough Republicans around ... and they’re going to get my endorsement every singe time.”
Trump, during the 2022 midterm elections, made it his mission to punish those who had voted in favor of his second impeachment and succeeded in unseating most who had by backing primary challengers.
At the rally, Trump also called on Republican members of Congress to halt the authorization of additional military support to Ukraine, which has been mired in a war fighting Russia’s invasion, until the Biden administration cooperates with Republican investigations into Biden and his family’s business dealings — words that echoed the call that lead to his first impeachment.
“He’s dragging into a global conflict on behalf of the very same country, Ukraine, that apparently paid his family all of these millions of dollars,” Trump alleged. “In light of this information,” Congress, he said, “should refuse to authorize a single additional payment of our depleted stockpiles ... the weapons stockpiles to Ukraine until the FBI, DOJ and IRS hand over every scrap of evidence they have on the Biden crime family’s corrupt business dealings.”
House Republicans have been investigating the Biden family’s finances, particularly payments Hunter, the president’s son, received from Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company that became tangled in the first impeachment of Trump.
An unnamed confidential FBI informant claimed that Burisma company officials in 2015 and 2016 sought to pay the Bidens $5 million each in return for their help ousting a Ukrainian prosecutor who was purportedly investigating the company. But a Justice Department review in 2020, while Trump was president, was closed eight months later with insufficient evidence of wrongdoing.
Trump’s first impeachment by the House resulted in charges that he pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to dig up dirt on the Bidens while threatening to withhold military aid. Trump was later acquitted by the Senate. | https://www.capitalgazette.com/news/nation-world/ct-aud-nw--20230730-ky3mzxxfbnfizhq7wq5gsptuv4-story.html | 2023-07-30T13:30:12 | 1 | https://www.capitalgazette.com/news/nation-world/ct-aud-nw--20230730-ky3mzxxfbnfizhq7wq5gsptuv4-story.html |
Thousands of supporters of the junta that took over Niger in a coup earlier this week marched Sunday through the streets of the capital, Niamey, waving Russian flags, chanting the name of the Russian president and forcefully denouncing former colonial power France.
The protesters marched through the city to the French Embassy, where a door was lit on fire, according to someone who was at the embassy when it happened and videos seen by The AP. Black smoke could be seen rising from across the city. The Nigerien army broke up the crowd of the protesters.
Russian mercenary group Wagner is already operating in neighboring Mali, and Russian President Vladimir Putin would like to expand his country’s influence in the region. However, it is unclear yet whether the new junta leaders will move toward Moscow or stick with Niger’s Western partners.
On Sunday at an emergency meeting in Abjua, Nigeria the West African bloc said it was suspending relations with Niger and authorized the use of force if the president was not reinstated within a week.
“In the event the authorities’ demands are not met within one week, take all measures necessary to restore constitutional order in the Republic of Niger. Such measures may include the use of force. To this effect, the chiefs of defense staff of ECOWAS are to meet immediately,” Omar Alieu Touray, president of the ECOWAS commission, said after the meeting.
Days after the coup, uncertainty is mounting about Niger’s future, with some calling out the junta’s reasons for seizing control.
President Mohamed Bazoum was democratically elected two years ago in Niger’s first peaceful transfer of power since independence from France in 1960.
The mutineers said they overthrew him because he wasn’t able to secure the nation against growing jihadi violence.
But some analysts and Nigeriens say that’s just a pretext for a takeover that is more about internal power struggles than securing the nation.
“Everybody is wondering: why this coup? That’s because no one was expecting it. We couldn’t expect a coup in Niger because there’s no social, political or security situation that would justify that the military take the power,” Prof. Amad Hassane Boubacar, who teaches at the University of Niamey, told The Associated Press.
He said Bazoum wanted to replace the head of the presidential guard, Gen. Abdourahmane Tchiani, who is now in charge of the country. Tchiani, who also goes by Omar, was loyal to Bazoum’s predecessor and that sparked the problems, Boubacar said. The AP cannot independently verify his assessment.
While Niger’s security situation is dire, it’s not as bad as neighboring Burkina Faso or Mali, which have also been battling an Islamic insurgency linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group. Last year, Niger was the only one of the three to see a decline in violence, according to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project.
Niger had been seen as the last reliable partner for the West in efforts to battle the jihadists in Africa’s Sahel region, where Russia and Western countries have vied for influence. France has 1,500 soldiers in the country who conduct joint operations with the Nigeriens. The United States and other European countries have helped train the nation’s troops.
Regional bodies, including the West African economic bloc ECOWAS, have denounced the coup. Some taking part in Sunday’s rally warned them to stay away. “I would like also to say to the European Union, African Union and ECOWAS, please, please stay out of our business,” said Oumar Barou Moussa, who was at the demonstration.
“It’s time for us to take our lives, to work for ourselves. It’s time for us to talk about our freedom and liberty. We need to stay together, we need to work together, we need to have our true independence,” he said.
Conflict experts say out of all the countries in the region, Niger has the most at stake if it turns away from the West, given the millions of dollars of military assistance the international community has poured in. On Saturday, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the continued security and economic arrangements that Niger has with the U.S. hinged on the release of Bazoum — who remains under house arrest — and “the immediate restoration of the democratic order in Niger.”
On Sunday, France’s President, Emmanuel Macron said attacks on France and its interests would not be tolerated. Anyone who attacked French nationals, the army, diplomats and French authorities would see an immediate response, he said.
Macron said he’d spoken to Bazoum and his predecessor as Nigerien President, Mahamadou Issoufou, hours earlier, who both condemned the coup and appealed for calm.
The attack follows France’s move on Saturday to suspend all development and financial aid for Niger.
The African Union has issued a 15-day ultimatum to the junta in Niger to reinstall the country’s democratically elected government. ECOWAS is holding an emergency summit Sunday in Abuja, Nigeria.
The 15-nation ECOWAS bloc has unsuccessfully tried to restore democracies in nations where the military took power in recent years. Four nations are run by military regimes in West and Central Africa, where there have been nine successful or attempted coups since 2020.
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If ECOWAS imposes economic sanctions on Niger, which is what normally happens during coups, it could have a deep impact on Nigeriens, who live in the third-poorest country in the world, according to the latest U.N. data.
However, in a televised address Saturday, Col. Major Amadou Abdramane, one of the soldiers who ousted Bazoum, accused the meeting of making a “plan of aggression” against Niger and said the country would defend itself.
Niger experts say it’s too soon to know how things will play out.
“Tensions with the military are still ongoing. There could be another coup after this one, or a stronger intervention from ECOWAS, potentially military force, even if it is difficult to foresee how specifically that may happen and what form that may take,” said Tatiana Smirnova, a researcher in conflict resolution and peace missions at the Centre FrancoPaix.
“Many actors are also trying to negotiate, but the outcome is unclear,” she said.
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Associated Press reporters Angela Charlton in Paris and Chinedu Asadu in Abuja, Nigeria contributed. | https://www.capitalgazette.com/news/nation-world/ct-aud-nw-nigee-coup-french-embassy-20230730-c23y6mx4hvcuffgvjemk64srwa-story.html | 2023-07-30T13:30:19 | 0 | https://www.capitalgazette.com/news/nation-world/ct-aud-nw-nigee-coup-french-embassy-20230730-c23y6mx4hvcuffgvjemk64srwa-story.html |
Former IDEA teacher jailed after sending ‘inappropriate text’ to student
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A former IDEA Public Schools teacher in San Benito remains jailed Thursday on a charge of online solicitation of a minor after sending an “inappropriate text” to a seventh grade female student, according to a city spokesperson.
Records show Ryan Raphael Canales was booked into the Cameron County jail on Wednesday.
According to San Benito Public Relations Director David Favila, an investigation revealed Canales sent the text to a 12-year-old student through WhatsApp after normal school hours in April.
Canales was employed as a math teacher at the IDEA Public Schools campus in San Benito at the time, Favila said.
In a statement, IDEA Public School said Canales’s position with the school was terminated following an internal investigation.
“IDEA Public Schools is aware of the arrest of a former staff member,” the statement reads. “After discovering the allegations last April, the individual was placed on administrative leave and terminated in late spring after an internal investigation. IDEA has taken all appropriate actions in accordance with the law and network policy. As this is an ongoing investigation, we cannot comment further. All questions should be directed to local law enforcement.”
Jail records show Canales’ bond was set at $50,000. | https://www.krgv.com/videos/former-idea-teacher-jailed-after-sending-inappropriate-text-to-student | 2023-07-30T13:30:21 | 0 | https://www.krgv.com/videos/former-idea-teacher-jailed-after-sending-inappropriate-text-to-student |
McAllen kicks off MXLAN Festival weekend
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McAllen’s three-day celebration of Latino culture kicks off Friday evening at the McAllen Convention Center.
The theme of this year’s MXLAN Festival is "These are our roots… We are the flowers."
The festival will include live performances, activities for the family and a mezcal and tequila festival.
Yajaira Flores, McAllen’s director of convention facilities, says the festival is all about how the Mexican culture has influenced local culture.
Flores said her team traveled to different parts of Mexico for inspiration for the festival.
“You can come, you can drink, you can dance, you can have that festivity, and we'll have that calenda parade happening every night,” Flores said. “We have a firework show every night, a pyro show with these Aztec dancers that are dancing, which is going to be absolutely incredible."
Those entering the event will walk through a gratitude tunnel, where attendees will be able to write what they are grateful for on different colored ribbons that will hang from the tunnel.
MXLAN kicks off on Friday, July 28 at 6 p.m., and admission will be free that day.
Admission fees on Saturday and Sunday will be $10 for those over the age of 12. Tickets will also have to be purchased for select festival events. | https://www.krgv.com/videos/mcallen-kicks-off-mxlan-festival-weekend | 2023-07-30T13:30:22 | 1 | https://www.krgv.com/videos/mcallen-kicks-off-mxlan-festival-weekend |
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Bravo revamped ‘Real Housewives of New York City.’ So far, the gamble may be paying off
On a recent afternoon, the new cast of “The Real Housewives of New York City” gathered at a members-only club in downtown Manhattan so exclusive its management didn’t want it named in this story.
The women were there to discuss their hopes for revitalizing the embattled Bravo series between bites of tuna tartare.
Brynn Whitfield, a marketing executive, was recalling how she came to be cast in the reality show when she stopped, mid-sentence, to find out what her co-star, Erin Lichy, and a female Bravo publicist, were talking about across the table.
“Sorry, is this about a boy? If so, then I want to hear about it,” Whitfield said. “All I heard was, ‘Don’t text him back.’ ”
Lichy, an interior designer who lives in TriBeCa, explained that, in her view, the publicist needed to wait at least another 20 minutes to before responding to a text message.
“Oh, are you waiting the same amount of time?” said Whitfield, clearly familiar with this dating strategy.
“She must,” said Lichy, firmly.
“Or double?” suggested Whitfield, grinning beneath a wide-brimmed black hat and a cascade of auburn hair.
Lichy nodded in agreement: “Double.”
This uncanny ability to sniff out drama, stir the pot and pull a story line out of thin air is bound to serve the women of “RHONY” as they attempt to rebuild the reality series from scratch. After a season mired in controversies about race, the show returned to Bravo this month featuring six new “housewives” (none of whom are actual housewives).
Controversy on ‘Salt Lake City,’ ‘New York’ and ‘Dallas’ has marred the reality TV juggernaut’s attempt to rectify longstanding diversity failures.
Unlike previous iterations of the series, whose casts were overwhelmingly white, the “RHONY” reboot reflects the cosmopolitan, multicultural city in which it is set. The new cast is younger by about two decades and more diverse in every way (except, perhaps, economically; none of these women lives with roommates in a fifth-floor walk-up).
“RHONY” is attempting to do something that no other “Housewives” show has ever done — start over, midstream. The reboot, whether it fails or succeeds, will provide a valuable case study for Bravo: Can a reality franchise that’s been around nearly two decades and was forged in the era of MySpace and George W. Bush remain relevant in a transformed cultural climate?
“Real Housewives” fans can be an unforgiving bunch — just ask Lisa Rinna, the once-popular “Beverly Hills” star who was booed onstage at BravoCon in October — but the initial reception to the revamped “RHONY” has been surprisingly positive, given the controversy that preceded it. (Even former star Ramona Singer, who was ousted after 13 seasons on the show, said of the new “RHONY”: “Bravo knows what they’re doing.”)
“It’s going to bring a new audience in,” said Jenna Lyons, who is easily the best known of the new housewives. “I think it’ll be interesting to see what happens in the next couple of years as you bring younger, savvier, social viewers, who are used to things shifting more quickly. I think it’ll push the show, in any iteration, into slightly different places.” She arrived at the interview in a black tuxedo jacket with slim black tie worn over a bare clavicle, fresh from a taping of “Watch What Happens Live.”
As the former president, creative director and public face of J. Crew, Lyons is, to a certain breed of fashion-conscious New Yorkers, already a massive celebrity in her own right. As a lesbian — she was famously outed by the New York Post in 2011 — she is also the city’s first queer “Real Housewife.”
The rest of the cast is less famous — at least for now — but each seems to have the dramatic instincts and compelling personal stories necessary for reality TV.
Lichy was raised in an Israeli family in Manhattan and talks graphically about her brisk sex life. Whitfield, who is biracial and grew up in the Midwest, is a one-liner machine and mischief-maker who giddily raided Lyons’ closet in the premiere episode. Ubah Hassan, a model and hot sauce entrepreneur originally from Somalia, is the kooky one who claims to enjoy Halal porn and is obsessed with bananas. Sai De Silva is a digital content creator who grew up in modest circumstances in Brooklyn and has Puerto Rican, Cuban and Brazilian heritage. Rounding out the cast is Jessel Taank, a fashion publicist and a Brit of Indian descent, who has young twin boys and made headlines by throwing up at the show’s premiere party earlier this month. (For the record: It was a stomach bug, not booze.)
The new women of “RHONY” range in age from their mid 30s to their mid 50s; some are married with kids, others are single and don’t even have pets or houseplants. They’re also cut from a slightly different cloth than longtime New York housewives like Singer, Sonja Morgan or Luann de Lesseps — more influencers and aspiring girl bosses than striving socialites or eccentric divorcees.
“We are what New York represents right here and right now,” said De Silva, whose elegant white slip dress felt like a conscious rebuke of stereotypically flashy “Housewives” fashion. The Brooklyn native was first approached about starring in “RHONY” a few years ago but opted to sign up only when the show made a fresh start. Growing up in the city, she said, “I would go to a friend’s house for Shabbat and then I’d turn around and have borscht at my Russian friend’s house. To me, that is the absolute norm.”
Bravo’s glittery reality franchise has always encouraged competitive consumption. But cast members’ financial ‘smoke and mirrors’ can lead to trouble.
All but Hassan, who had a scheduling conflict, were at lunch, where the topics of discussion ranged widely but inevitably steered back to quintessential New York concerns: the horror of flying out of JFK, dinner plans, real estate. (The sentence “Amagansett is the new Sag Harbor” was uttered by at least one person.) These housewives aren’t exactly breaking the “RHONY” mold so much as reshaping it slightly for a kinder, more progressive era while reinjecting the show with some fun and frivolity.
“I’m excited that we’re bringing the lighthearted comedy back,” said Lichy. “We’re just nice girls and we’re not going to rip each other down.”
The first batch of episodes offers a promising mix of absurd disputes — including a tiff over dinner reservations at a supposedly passé restaurant and a meltdown over gifted lingerie — along with more substantive conversations about post-partum sex, growing up in poverty and the death of a parent.
Rebuilding the ‘Housewives’ franchise
“The Real Housewives” empire originated in Orange County, Calif., but exploded into a massive cultural phenomenon once it expanded to New York, its second location, in 2008. Debuting just ahead of the economic crisis, “RHONY” offered a glimpse into the lives of affluent middle-aged women who tended to have more money and ambition than shame.
The cast included outrageous, upper-crust characters you could find only in New York, like De Lesseps, better known as “The Countess” because of her French husband’s noble lineage, and Morgan, who was once married to J.P. Morgan’s great-grandson.
Despite their blue blood connections, the women of New York were just as messy as their sister-housewives across the country, often literally so, known for drunkenly falling into bushes and defecating on the floor. In one legendary incident, a cast member removed her prosthetic leg and slammed it on the table during a heated argument.
Like so many New Yorkers, they also knew how to hustle, especially Bethenny Frankel, who relentlessly plugged her Skinnygirl cocktail brand on the show and eventually sold it for $120 million.
“I’ve always felt especially close to ‘RHONY,’ of all of the ‘Housewives’ shows,” said Andy Cohen, executive producer of “The Real Housewives,” who is, perhaps not coincidentally, a longtime resident of Manhattan. “People who live here are really choosing to be engaged in life. It can be tough. You have to be a fighter. It’s not for the faint of heart. And these women are very direct, focused, smart, savvy and business-oriented, far more than many of the other cities that you see in the franchise.”
In contrast to the melting pot of New York, however, the show was almost entirely white — only one woman of color, Jules Wainstein, starred in the first 12 seasons.
“RHONY” finally got a Black housewife, Eboni K. Williams, in Season 13, which filmed in late 2020 and early 2021, against the backdrop of the presidential election and protests over George Floyd’s murder. Williams, a lawyer and journalist, repeatedly tried to have conversations about racial justice issues with her co-stars, who responded with visible irritation — particularly Singer, who is known for her conservative views. Once Bravo’s most reliable guilty pleasure, “RHONY” had become a cringe-fest.
Ratings for “RHONY” sank to an all-time low, leading Bravo to scuttle plans for a reunion for the first time in the show’s history. The network also conducted an internal investigation into claims that Singer had made racist comments on set. Following months of speculation about the future of the franchise, Bravo announced in March 2022 that it would recast “RHONY” for Season 14, while creating a spinoff featuring several legacy stars.
Cohen was reluctant to explain why the network chose to revamp “RHONY” completely, rather than making more targeted cast changes. “I don’t want to build that bridge,” he said. “This was something that, while a big gamble, provides us with the groundwork that we can really build on and energize this franchise [with] for many years to come.”
“RHONY” isn’t the only show in a moment of transition as Bravo attempts to evolve with the times. After a push to integrate the cast of “The Real Housewives of Dallas” turned ugly, the show was effectively canceled. Two housewives accused of racially insensitive behavior departed “Salt Lake City” (another former cast member, Jen Shah, is now in prison for wire fraud). “The Real Housewives of Dubai,” an international offshoot that launched last year, was criticized because of the United Arab Emirates’ poor track record on human rights.
“Producing a show about a group of politically incorrect women in 2023 is certainly different than it was all those years ago when we started,” Cohen said.
Finding the right new stars
When it came to finding the next generation of “RHONY” stars, Cohen said that in addition to women from diverse backgrounds, the goal was to pull together “people who are dynamic, fashionable, aspirational, willing to live their lives on camera, with a great sense of humor.”
Most of the women were eager to join the series, recognizing how attitudes about reality TV — and “The Real Housewives” in particular — have shifted over time.
Hassan, in a telephone interview, likened it to joining the Yankees. “This is a huge responsibility to be on the show, because we’re representing New York,” she said.
Tom Girardi is facing the collapse of everything he holds dear: his law firm, marriage to Erika Girardi, and reputation as a champion for the downtrodden.
The reboot has not been entirely trouble-free: cast member Lizzy Savetsky, an Orthodox Jewish influencer, left early into filming the season, citing a “torrent of antisemitic attacks” online. According to another report, Savetsky departed the production after charged conversations with a co-star. The situation was blown out of proportion because of the scrutiny the reboot is under, Cohen claimed. “We’ve had countless instances where we’ve lost a cast member in the first week of production, and no one has ever heard of it.”
And for the housewives who made it through production, it was not always an easy road.
Lyons found it difficult to be a TV housewife, despite her public profile and prior experience on another reality show, HBO Max’s “Stylish With Jenna Lyons.” In early episodes of “RHONY,” she takes heat from her co-stars for not opening up about her current relationship and staying at her own house during a cast trip to the Hamptons.
“I really believed, with my own hubris, that I could handle it. And I couldn’t. It was hard — harder than I expected. I really thought it was not gonna affect me,” Lyons said. “But it really gets in there, despite your efforts to create a shell.” (Several of the women cite a cast trip to Anguilla, coming later in the season, as a particularly challenging moment.)
Most of the women are well-versed in reality TV and have regularly watched at least one incarnation of “The Real Housewives.” But being an avid viewer, like one who can quote lines from “Scary Island” — the unofficial name for one of “RHONY’s” most famous episodes — doesn’t necessarily make the job easier, said Taank: “No matter how much you watch these shows, until and unless you’re in it, the experience can never be the same. There’s no amount of studying that would help.”
Although no housewives were close friends before filming (though some ran in overlapping social circles), they say they now share a genuine bond forged by the cameras. There is even a highly active group text — “much to Bravo’s dismay,” said De Silva.
In the end, the women of “RHONY” are trying to enjoy the ride and not take it too seriously. “It’s not the BBC, you know?” said Whitfield. “It’s Bravo.”
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A boom in apartment construction is helping to curb rents but not all renters will benefit
LOS ANGELES (AP) — When viewed through a wide lens, renters across the U.S. finally appear to be getting some relief, thanks in part to the biggest apartment construction boom in decades.
Median rent rose just 0.5% in June, year over year, after falling in May for the first time since the pandemic hit the U.S. Some economists project U.S. rents will be down modestly this year after soaring nearly 25% over the past four years.
A closer look, however, shows the trend will likely be little comfort for many U.S. renters who’ve had to put an increasing share of their income toward their monthly payment. Renters in cities such as Cincinnati and Indianapolis are still getting hit with increases of 5% or more. Much of the new construction is located in just a few metro areas, and many of the new units are luxury apartments, which rent for well north of $2,000.
Median U.S. rent has risen to $2,029 this June from $1,629 in June 2019, according to rental listings company Rent, which tracks rents in 50 of the largest U.S. metropolitan areas. Demand for apartments exploded during the pandemic as people who could work remotely sought more space or decided to relocate to another part of the country.
The steep rent increases have left tenants like Melissa Lombana, a high school teacher who lives in the South Florida city of Miramar, with progressively less income to spend on other needs.
The rent on her one-bedroom apartment jumped 13% last year to $1,700. It climbed another 6% to $1,800 this month when she renewed her lease.
“Even the $1,700 was a stretch for me,” said Lombana, 43, who supplements her teaching income with a side job doing educational testing. “In a year, I will not be able to afford living here at all.”
Lombana’s rent is now gobbling up nearly half her monthly income. That puts her in a category referred to as “cost-burdened” by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, denoting households that pay 30% or more of their income toward rent. Last year, the average rent-to-income ratio per household rose to 30%. This March, it was 29.6%.
Lombana hasn’t had any luck finding a more affordable apartment. While South Florida is one of the metropolitan areas seeing a rise in apartment construction, the units are mostly high-end and not a viable option.
That scenario is playing out across the nation. Developers are rushing to complete projects that were green-lit during the pandemic-era surge in demand for rentals or left in limbo by delays in supplies of fixtures and building materials. Nearly 1.1 million apartments are currently under construction, according to the commercial real estate tracker CoStar, a pace not seen since the 1970s.
Increasing the supply of apartments tends to moderate rent increases over time and can give tenants more options on where to live. But more than 40% of the new rentals to be completed this year will be concentrated in about 10 high job growth metropolitan areas, including Austin, Nashville, Denver, Atlanta and New York, according to Marcus & Millichap. In many areas, the boost to overall inventory will be barely noticeable.
Even within metros where there’ll be a notable increase in available apartments, such as Nashville, most of it will be in the luxury category, where rents average $2,270, nationally. Some 70% of the new rental inventory will be the luxury class, said Jay Lybik, national director of multifamily analytics at CoStar.
That will leave most tenants unlikely to see a big enough reduction in rent to make a difference, industry experts and economists say.
“I think we’re in a period of rent flattening for 12 or 18 months, but it’s certainly not a big rent decline,” said Hessam Nadji, CEO of commercial real estate firm Marcus & Millichap.
“We’re building a multi-decade record number of units,” Nadji said. “It’s going to cause some softening and some pockets of overbuilding, but it’s not going to fundamentally resolve the housing shortage or the affordability problem for renters across the U.S.”
The surge in rents has made it difficult for workers to keep up with inflation despite solid wage gains the past few years and exacerbated a long-term trend. Between 1999 and 2022, U.S. rents soared 135%, while income grew 77%, according to data from Moody’s Analytics.
Realtor.com is forecasting that rents will drop an average of 0.9% this year. But while down nationally, rents are still rising in many markets around the country, especially those where hiring remains robust.
In the New York metro area, the median rent climbed 4.7% in June from a year earlier to $2,899, according to Realtor.com. In the Midwest, rents surged 5.6% in the Cincinnati metro area to $1,188, and 6.9% to $1,350 in the Indianapolis metro area.
The current spike in apartment construction alone isn’t going to be enough to address how costly renting has become for many Americans.
“For the rest of the 2020s rents will continue to grow because millennials are such a big generation and we’re very much in the hole in terms of building housing for that generation,” said Daryl Fairweather, chief economist at Redfin. “It will take many good years of new construction to build adequate housing for millennials.”
The bigger challenge is building more work force housing, because the cost of land, labor and navigating the government approval process incentivize developers to put up luxury apartments buildings.
Expanding the supply of modestly priced rentals would help alleviate the strain from so many new apartments targeting renters with high incomes, “although additional subsidies will be needed to make housing affordable to households with the lowest incomes,” researchers at Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies wrote in a recent report.
Despite the overall pullback in U.S. rents, Joey Di Girolamo, in Pembroke Pines, Florida, worries that he’ll face more sharp rent increases in coming years.
Last year, the web designer left a two-bedroom, two-bath townhome he rented for $2,200 a month to avoid a $600 a month increase. This year, his rent went up by $200, a nearly 10% jump.
“That blew me away,” said Di Girolamo, 50. “I’m just kind of dreading what it’s going to be like next year, but especially 3 or 4 years from now.”
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A boom in apartment construction is helping to curb rents but not all renters will benefit
LOS ANGELES (AP) — When viewed through a wide lens, renters across the U.S. finally appear to be getting some relief, thanks in part to the biggest apartment construction boom in decades.
Median rent rose just 0.5% in June, year over year, after falling in May for the first time since the pandemic hit the U.S. Some economists project U.S. rents will be down modestly this year after soaring nearly 25% over the past four years.
A closer look, however, shows the trend will likely be little comfort for many U.S. renters who’ve had to put an increasing share of their income toward their monthly payment. Renters in cities such as Cincinnati and Indianapolis are still getting hit with increases of 5% or more. Much of the new construction is located in just a few metro areas, and many of the new units are luxury apartments, which rent for well north of $2,000.
Median U.S. rent has risen to $2,029 this June from $1,629 in June 2019, according to rental listings company Rent, which tracks rents in 50 of the largest U.S. metropolitan areas. Demand for apartments exploded during the pandemic as people who could work remotely sought more space or decided to relocate to another part of the country.
The steep rent increases have left tenants like Melissa Lombana, a high school teacher who lives in the South Florida city of Miramar, with progressively less income to spend on other needs.
The rent on her one-bedroom apartment jumped 13% last year to $1,700. It climbed another 6% to $1,800 this month when she renewed her lease.
“Even the $1,700 was a stretch for me,” said Lombana, 43, who supplements her teaching income with a side job doing educational testing. “In a year, I will not be able to afford living here at all.”
Lombana’s rent is now gobbling up nearly half her monthly income. That puts her in a category referred to as “cost-burdened” by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, denoting households that pay 30% or more of their income toward rent. Last year, the average rent-to-income ratio per household rose to 30%. This March, it was 29.6%.
Lombana hasn’t had any luck finding a more affordable apartment. While South Florida is one of the metropolitan areas seeing a rise in apartment construction, the units are mostly high-end and not a viable option.
That scenario is playing out across the nation. Developers are rushing to complete projects that were green-lit during the pandemic-era surge in demand for rentals or left in limbo by delays in supplies of fixtures and building materials. Nearly 1.1 million apartments are currently under construction, according to the commercial real estate tracker CoStar, a pace not seen since the 1970s.
Increasing the supply of apartments tends to moderate rent increases over time and can give tenants more options on where to live. But more than 40% of the new rentals to be completed this year will be concentrated in about 10 high job growth metropolitan areas, including Austin, Nashville, Denver, Atlanta and New York, according to Marcus & Millichap. In many areas, the boost to overall inventory will be barely noticeable.
Even within metros where there’ll be a notable increase in available apartments, such as Nashville, most of it will be in the luxury category, where rents average $2,270, nationally. Some 70% of the new rental inventory will be the luxury class, said Jay Lybik, national director of multifamily analytics at CoStar.
That will leave most tenants unlikely to see a big enough reduction in rent to make a difference, industry experts and economists say.
“I think we’re in a period of rent flattening for 12 or 18 months, but it’s certainly not a big rent decline,” said Hessam Nadji, CEO of commercial real estate firm Marcus & Millichap.
“We’re building a multi-decade record number of units,” Nadji said. “It’s going to cause some softening and some pockets of overbuilding, but it’s not going to fundamentally resolve the housing shortage or the affordability problem for renters across the U.S.”
The surge in rents has made it difficult for workers to keep up with inflation despite solid wage gains the past few years and exacerbated a long-term trend. Between 1999 and 2022, U.S. rents soared 135%, while income grew 77%, according to data from Moody’s Analytics.
Realtor.com is forecasting that rents will drop an average of 0.9% this year. But while down nationally, rents are still rising in many markets around the country, especially those where hiring remains robust.
In the New York metro area, the median rent climbed 4.7% in June from a year earlier to $2,899, according to Realtor.com. In the Midwest, rents surged 5.6% in the Cincinnati metro area to $1,188, and 6.9% to $1,350 in the Indianapolis metro area.
The current spike in apartment construction alone isn’t going to be enough to address how costly renting has become for many Americans.
“For the rest of the 2020s rents will continue to grow because millennials are such a big generation and we’re very much in the hole in terms of building housing for that generation,” said Daryl Fairweather, chief economist at Redfin. “It will take many good years of new construction to build adequate housing for millennials.”
The bigger challenge is building more work force housing, because the cost of land, labor and navigating the government approval process incentivize developers to put up luxury apartments buildings.
Expanding the supply of modestly priced rentals would help alleviate the strain from so many new apartments targeting renters with high incomes, “although additional subsidies will be needed to make housing affordable to households with the lowest incomes,” researchers at Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies wrote in a recent report.
Despite the overall pullback in U.S. rents, Joey Di Girolamo, in Pembroke Pines, Florida, worries that he’ll face more sharp rent increases in coming years.
Last year, the web designer left a two-bedroom, two-bath townhome he rented for $2,200 a month to avoid a $600 a month increase. This year, his rent went up by $200, a nearly 10% jump.
“That blew me away,” said Di Girolamo, 50. “I’m just kind of dreading what it’s going to be like next year, but especially 3 or 4 years from now.”
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Facing legal peril, Trump calls on GOP to rally around him as he threatens primary challenges
NEW YORK (AP) — At a moment of growing legal peril, Donald Trump ramped up his calls for his GOP rivals to drop out of the 2024 presidential race as he threatened to primary Republican members of Congress who fail to focus on investigating Democratic President Joe Biden and urged them to halt Ukrainian military aid until the White House cooperates with their investigations into Biden and his family.
“Every dollar spent attacking me by Republicans is a dollar given straight to the Biden campaign,” Trump said at a rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, on Saturday night. The former president and GOP front-runner said it was time for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and others he dismissed as “clowns” to clear the field, accusing them of “wasting hundreds of millions of dollars that Republicans should be using to build a massive vote-gathering operation” to take on Biden in November.
The comments came two days after federal prosecutors unveiled new criminal charges against Trump as part of the case that accuses him of illegally hoarding classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago club and refusing to turn them over to investigators. The superseding indictment unsealed Thursday alleges that Trump and two staffers sought to delete surveillance at the club in an effort to obstruct the Justice Department’s investigation.
The case is just one of Trump’s mounting legal challenges. His team is currently bracing for additional possible indictments, which could happen as soon as this coming week, related to his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election brought by prosecutors in both Washington and Georgia. Trump already faces criminal charges in New York over hush money payments made to women who accused him of sexual encounters during his 2016 presidential campaign.
Nevertheless, Trump remains the dominant early figure for the Republican nomination and has only seen his lead grow as the charges have mounted and as his rivals have struggled to respond. Their challenge was on display at a GOP gathering in Iowa Friday night, where they largely declined to go after Trump directly. The only one who did — accusing Trump of “running to stay out of prison” — was booed as he left the stage.
In the meantime, Trump has embraced his legal woes, turning them into the core message of his bid to return to the White House as he accuses Biden of using the Justice Department to maim his chief political rival. The White House has said repeatedly that the president has had no involvement in the cases.
At rallies — including Saturday’s — Trump has tried to frame the charges, which come with serious threats of jail time, as an attack not just on him, but those who support him.
“They’re not indicting me, they’re indicting you. I just happen to be standing in the way,” he told the arena crowd in Erie, adding that, “Every time the radical left Democrats, Marxists, communists and fascists indict me, I consider it actually a great badge of honor…. Because I’m being indicted for you.”
But the investigations are also sucking up enormous resources that are being diverted from the nuts and bolts of the campaign. The Washington Post first reported Saturday that Trump’s political action committee, Save America, will report Monday that it spent more than $40 million on legal fees during the first half of 2023 defending Trump and all of the current and former aides whose lawyers it is paying. The total is more than the campaign raised during the second quarter of the year.
“In order to combat these heinous actions by Joe Biden’s cronies and to protect these innocent people from financial ruin and prevent their lives from being completely destroyed, the leadership PAC contributed to their legal fees to ensure they have representation against unlawful harassment,” said Trump’s spokesman Steven Cheung.
At the rally — held in a former Democratic stronghold that Trump flipped in 2016, but Biden won narrowly in 2020 — Trump also threatened Republicans in Congress who refuse to go along with efforts to impeach Biden. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said this past week that Republican lawmakers may consider an impeachment inquiry into the president over unproven claims of financial misconduct.
Trump, who was impeached twice while in office, said Saturday that, “The biggest complaint that I get is that the Republicans find out this information and then they do nothing about it.”
“Any Republican that doesn’t act on Democrat fraud should be immediately primaries and get out — out!” he told the crowd to loud applause. “They have to play tough and … if they’re not willing to do it, we got a lot of good, tough Republicans around … and they’re going to get my endorsement every singe time.”
Trump, during the 2022 midterm elections, made it his mission to punish those who had voted in favor of his second impeachment and succeeded in unseating most who had by backing primary challengers.
At the rally, Trump also called on Republican members of Congress to halt the authorization of additional military support to Ukraine, which has been mired in a war fighting Russia’s invasion, until the Biden administration cooperates with Republican investigations into Biden and his family’s business dealings — words that echoed the call that lead to his first impeachment.
“He’s dragging into a global conflict on behalf of the very same country, Ukraine, that apparently paid his family all of these millions of dollars,” Trump alleged. “In light of this information,” Congress, he said, “should refuse to authorize a single additional payment of our depleted stockpiles … the weapons stockpiles to Ukraine until the FBI, DOJ and IRS hand over every scrap of evidence they have on the Biden crime family’s corrupt business dealings.”
House Republicans have been investigating the Biden family’s finances, particularly payments Hunter, the president’s son, received from Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company that became tangled in the first impeachment of Trump.
An unnamed confidential FBI informant claimed that Burisma company officials in 2015 and 2016 sought to pay the Bidens $5 million each in return for their help ousting a Ukrainian prosecutor who was purportedly investigating the company. But a Justice Department review in 2020, while Trump was president, was closed eight months later with insufficient evidence of wrongdoing.
Trump’s first impeachment by the House resulted in charges that he pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to dig up dirt on the Bidens while threatening to withhold military aid. Trump was later acquitted by the Senate.
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Silver alert: Annie Joyce Moore
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 7:43 AM CDT|Updated: 46 minutes ago
FOREST, Miss. (WTOK) - The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation has issued a Silver Alert for 74-year-old Annie Joyce Moore of Forest.
She is a White female, five feet four inches tall, weighing 185 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes.
She was last seen Saturday, July 29, at about 10 p.m. in the 800 block of Langs Mill Road in Forest, in a 2004 red Toyota Corolla bearing Mississippi tag SBA9648 traveling in an unknown direction.
Family members said Moore has a medical condition that may impair her judgment. If anyone has information, contact the Scott County Sheriff’s Department at 601-469-1511.
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Joe Biden, America’s oldest sitting president, needs young voters to win again. Will his age matter?
At 24, Alberto Rodriguez has grandparents younger than Joe Biden. But he’s more interested in the 80-year-old president’s accomplishments than his age.
“People as young as me, we’re all focusing on our day-to-day lives and he has done things to help us through that,” Rodriguez, a cook at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, said of Biden’s support among young voters. Rodriguez pointed specifically to federal COVID-19 relief payments and government spending increases on infrastructure and other social programs.
Voters like him were a key piece of Biden’s winning 2020 coalition, which included majorities of young people as well as college graduates, women, urban and suburban voters and Black Americans. Maintaining their support will be critical in closely contested states such as Nevada, where even small declines could prove consequential to Biden’s reelection bid.
His 2024 campaign plans to emphasize messages that could especially resonate with young people in the coming weeks as the anniversary of the sweeping Inflation Reduction Act approaches in mid-August. That legislation includes provisions that the White House will embrace to argue that Biden has done more than any other president to combat climate change.
Such efforts, however, could collide with Biden’s personal reality — like when he recalled that, while attending a St. Patrick’s Day parade at age 14, he appeared in a photo with President Harry S. Truman.
“Purely by accident — I assume it was an accident — the photographer from the newspaper got a picture of me making eye contact with Harry Truman,” Biden said to chuckles last week at the Truman Civil Rights Symposium in Washington.
In 2020, 61% of voters under age 30 — and 55% of those between 30 and 44 — supported Biden, according to AP VoteCast, a nationwide survey of the electorate.
It’s an age group with which Republicans hope to make inroads. Former President Donald Trump, who is the early front-runner in the GOP presidential primary and is only 3 1/2 years younger than Biden, said Friday, “We are hitting the young person’s market like nobody’s ever seen before.”
Kevin Munoz, a spokesman for Biden’s campaign, referred to Trump’s “Make America Great Again” movement in arguing that “young people are acutely impacted by the issues front and center in this election, driven by the extreme MAGA agenda.” He said that included inaction on climate change, gun violence and student debt.
“We will meet younger Americans where they are and turn their energy into action,” Munoz said in a statement.
That might not defuse questions about age, though, when it comes to Biden or Trump.
“There’s a frustration and exhaustion that they feel with the rematch,” Terrance Woodbury, co-founder & CEO of the Democratic polling firm HIT Strategies, said of young voters.
“That’s more of a problem than either of those two candidates individually, is that a system can just keep reproducing,” Woodbury added. “And I think a lot of people just find that untenable.”
An April poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that just 25% of Democrats under 45 said they would definitely support Biden in a general election, compared with 56% of older Democrats. A majority of Democrats across age groups said they would probably support him as the party’s nominee, however.
Biden’s campaign is relying heavily on the Democratic National Committee, which during last year’s midterms, hired campus organizers in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona and other battleground states and offered weekly youth coordinating meetings to encourage in-class contacts and “dormstorms.” The DNC sees young people as some of the most critical voters it will need to reach in 2024 and promises “significant investments” to mobilize them. Plans are underway to expand on its work last cycle, including trainings it held on how best to turn out voters.
The Republican National Committee is trying to use Biden’s age against him, posting online videos of Biden seeming frail or making verbal gaffes, such as when he declared in June “God save the queen,” nearly nine months after the death of England’s Queen Elizabeth II.
Rodriguez shrugged off online attacks, “People can make all the hit pieces and memes and TikToks all they want.”
A starker contrast might be between the president and rising Democrats such as 46-year-old California Rep. Ro Khanna and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, 41, one of Biden’s primary rivals in 2020. Neither seriously entertained running for the White House in 2024 and have backed Biden’s reelection.
“The only thing that really matters is your ability to do the job,” Buttigieg, who was 37 when he launched his 2020 presidential bid, said recently on CNN. Khanna told Fox News Channel that age will “obviously” be a 2024 factor, but suggested that Biden’s staff “overprotects” him and “the more he’s out there, the better.”
Other top young Democrats have lined up to back Biden. Florida Democratic Rep. Maxwell Frost, who was elected to Congress last year at 26, is on the Biden campaign’s advisory board, as is Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, 44. New York Rep. Alexandra Ocasio Cortez, 33, recently endorsed Biden.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, a progressive who says strong turnout among young voters helped him win a runoff election this spring, said Biden’s policies transcend his age. Johnson noted that the president’s work “around climate justice speaks not just to this generation, but generations to come.”
“The excitement that I believe that we’re going to have is going to speak to the incredible work and organizing that we are committed to doing as a party,” said Johnson, 47. “And we’re looking forward to working with the president over the course of his next four years.”
Still, Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, acknowledged that even the president’s supporters understand how demanding the White House can be.
“People worry about Joe Biden. They worry like you would worry about a beloved father or grandfather,” said Weingarten, 65. “What you normally hear from Democrats is this sense of, ‘OK, I just want him to be OK.’ And you’re hearing just the consternation of, ’This is a hard job.’”
Biden said he “took a hard look” at his age while deciding to seek a second term. But he’s also tried to suggest his age and experience are assets rather than liabilities by joking repeatedly about them. That’s a departure from 2020, when Biden called himself a “transition candidate” and pledged to be a “bridge” to younger Democrats.
Santiago Mayer, the founder of Voters of Tomorrow, which has 20-plus chapters nationwide and works to increase political engagement among young voters, argues that Biden is not defying his past promise by running for reelection, but keeping it.
“He just needs more time,” said Mayer, who graduated from California State University at Long Beach in May. “I think the second term is a very important part of that pledge. He’s building a progressive future for young people and he can’t actually pass the baton until that’s done.”
One key policy piece of Biden’s efforts to appeal to young voters, providing student debt relief, was recently struck down by the Supreme Court. The White House has launched a new effort, but it will take longer.
“Of course it’s going to dampen some of that because people are disappointed,” Weingarten said of the ruling’s effect on enthusiasm for Biden. But she said the decision could also motivate young Biden supporters anxious show their support for the president’s alternative plan.
“It is also about the fight,” Weingarten said “not just about the results.”
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AP polling director Emily Swanson in Washington contributed to this report.
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Braves vs. Brewers: Betting Trends, Odds, Records Against the Run Line, Home/Road Splits
Austin Riley and the Atlanta Braves will look to out-hit William Contreras and the Milwaukee Brewers at Truist Park on Sunday at 1:35 PM ET.
The Braves are the favorite in this one, at -210, while the underdog Brewers have +170 odds to win. The over/under is 11.5 runs for the matchup (with -110 odds to go over and -110 odds on the under).
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Braves vs. Brewers Odds & Info
- Date: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Time: 1:35 PM ET
- TV: MLB Network
- Location: Atlanta, Georgia
- Venue: Truist Park
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Braves Recent Betting Performance
- In 10 games as the favorite over the last 10 matchups, the Braves have a record of 5-5.
- When it comes to hitting the over, the Braves and their opponents are 5-5-0 in their last 10 games with a total.
- Bookmakers have not set a spread for any of the Braves' last 10 games.
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Braves Betting Records & Stats
- The Braves have been the moneyline favorite 89 total times this season. They've gone 58-31 in those games.
- Atlanta has gone 20-8 (winning 71.4% of its games) when it has played as moneyline favorites of -210 or shorter.
- The implied moneyline probablility in this matchup gives the Braves a 67.7% chance to win.
- Atlanta has combined with opponents to hit the over on the total 54 times this season for a 54-45-3 record against the over/under.
- The Braves have an 8-8-0 record against the spread this season.
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Who’s in, who’s out: A look at which candidates have qualified for the 1st GOP presidential debate
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — With less than a month to go until the first Republican presidential debate of the 2024 campaign, seven candidates say they have met qualifications for a spot on stage in Milwaukee.
But that also means that about half the broad GOP field is running short on time to make the cut.
To qualify for the Aug. 23 debate, candidates needed to satisfy polling and donor requirements set by the Republican National Committee: at least 1% in three high-quality national polls or a mix of national and early-state polls, between July 1 and Aug. 21, and a minimum of 40,000 donors, with 200 in 20 or more states.
A look at who’s in, who’s (maybe) out and who’s still working on making it:
WHO’S QUALIFIED
The current front-runner long ago satisfied the polling and donor thresholds. But he is considering boycotting and holding a competing event.
Campaign advisers have said the former president has not made a final decision about the debate. One noted that “it’s pretty clear,” based on Trump’s public and private statements, that he is unlikely to appear with the other candidates.
“If you’re leading by a lot, what’s the purpose of doing it?” Trump asked on Newsmax.
In the meantime, aides have discussed potential alternative programming if Trump opts for a rival event. One option Trump has floated is an interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who now has a program on X, the site formerly known as Twitter.
The Florida governor has long been seen as Trump’s top rival, finishing a distant second to him in a series of polls in early-voting states, as well as national polls, and raising an impressive amount of money.
But DeSantis’ campaign has struggled in recent weeks to live up to the sky-high expectations that awaited him when he entered the race. He let go of more than one-third of his staff as federal filings showed his campaign was burning through cash at an unsustainable rate.
If Trump is absent, DeSantis may be the top target on stage at the debate.
The South Carolina senator has been looking for a breakout moment. The first debate could be his chance.
A prolific fundraiser, Scott enters the summer with $21 million cash on hand.
In one debate-approved poll in Iowa, Scott joined Trump and DeSantis in reaching double digits. The senator has focused much of his campaign resources on the leadoff GOP voting state, which is dominated by white evangelical voters.
She has blitzed early-voting states with campaign events, walking crowds through her electoral successes ousting a longtime incumbent South Carolina lawmaker, then becoming the state’s first woman and first minority governor. Also serving as Trump’s U.N. ambassador for about two years, Haley frequently cites her international experience, arguing about the threat China poses to the United States.
The only woman in the GOP race, Haley has said transgender students competing in sports is “the women’s issue of our time” and has drawn praise from a leading anti-abortion group, which called her “uniquely gifted at communicating from a pro-life woman’s perspective.”
Bringing in $15.6 million since the start of her campaign, Haley’s campaign says she has “well over 40,000 unique donors” and has satisfied the debate polling requirements.
The biotech entrepreneur and author of “Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America’s Social Justice Scam” is an audience favorite at multicandidate events and has polled well despite not being nationally known when he entered the race.
Ramaswamy’s campaign says he met the donor threshold earlier this year. He recently rolled out “Vivek’s Kitchen Cabinet” to boost his donor numbers even more, by letting fundraisers keep 10% of what they bring in for his campaign.
The former New Jersey governor opened his campaign by portraying himself as the only candidate ready to take on Trump. Christie called on the former president to “show up at the debates and defend his record.”
Christie will be on that stage, even if Trump isn’t, telling CNN this month that he surpassed “40,000 unique donors in just 35 days.” He also has met the polling requirements.
Burgum, a wealthy former software entrepreneur now in his second term as North Dakota’s governor, has been using his fortune to boost his campaign.
He announced a program this month to give away $20 gift cards — “Biden Relief Cards,” as a critique of President Joe Biden’s handling of the economy — to as many as 50,000 people in exchange for $1 donations. Critics have questioned whether the offer violated campaign finance law.
Within about a week of launching that effort, Burgum announced he had surpassed the donor threshold. Ad blitzes in the early-voting states also helped him meet the polling requirements.
WHO HASN’T QUALIFIED:
Trump’s vice president has met the polling threshold but has yet to amass a sufficient number of donors, raising the possibility that he might not qualify for the party’s first debate.
Pence and his advisers have expressed confidence he will do so, noting that most other Republican hopefuls took a month or two of being active candidates to meet the mark. Pence entered the race on June 7, the same day as Burgum and one day after Christie.
“We’re making incredible progress toward that goal. We’re not there yet,” Pence told CNN in a recent interview. “We will make it. I will see you at that debate stage.”
According to his campaign, the former two-term Arkansas governor has met the polling requirements but is working on satisfying the donor threshold. As of Wednesday, Hutchinson marked more than 11,000 unique donors.
Hutchinson is running in the mold of an old-school Republican and has differentiated himself from many of his GOP rivals in his willingness to criticize Trump. He has posted pleas on Twitter for $1 donations to help secure his slot.
The Miami mayor has been one of the more creative candidates in his efforts to boost his donor numbers. He offered up a chance to see Argentine soccer legend Lionel Messi’s debut as a player for Inter Miami, saying donors who gave $1 would be entered in a chance to get front-row tickets.
Still shy of the donor threshold, he took a page from Burgum’s playbook by offering a $20 “Bidenomics Relief Card” in return for $1 donations. A super political action committee supporting Suarez launched a sweepstakes for a chance at up to $15,000 in tuition, in exchange for a $1 donation to Suarez’s campaign.
Suarez’s campaign did not return a message seeking details on his number of donors or qualifying polls.
The conservative radio host wrote in an op-ed that the RNC “has rigged the rules of the game by instituting a set of criteria that is so onerous and poorly designed that only establishment-backed and billionaire candidates are guaranteed to be on stage.”
His campaign last week declined to detail its number of donors, saying only that there had been “a strong increase the last few weeks.” He has not met the polling requirements.
Johnson, a wealthy but largely unknown businessman from Michigan, said in a recent social media post that he had notched 23,000 donors and was “confident” he would make the debate stage. He added that all donors were “eligible to attend my free concert in Iowa featuring” country duo Big & Rich next month.
Johnson, who has reached 1% in one qualifying poll, has also offered to give copies of his book “Two Cents to Save America” to anyone who donated to his campaign.
The former Texas congressman — the last candidate to enter the race, on June 22 — has said repeatedly that he would not pledge to support the eventual GOP nominee, a stance that would keep him off the stage even if he had the qualifying donor and polling numbers.
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How to Watch the Braves vs. Brewers Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for July 30
Ronald Acuna Jr. and the Atlanta Braves meet William Contreras and the Milwaukee Brewers on Sunday at 1:35 PM ET.
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Braves vs. Brewers Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info:
- Date: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Time: 1:35 PM ET
- TV Channel: MLB Network
- Location: Atlanta, Georgia
- Venue: Truist Park
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Braves Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Atlanta Braves lead the league with 195 total home runs, averaging 1.9 per game.
- Atlanta leads MLB with a .495 slugging percentage this season, hammering out 383 extra-base hits.
- The Braves rank second in MLB with a .270 batting average.
- Atlanta scores the third-most runs in baseball (575 total, 5.6 per game).
- The Braves rank second in baseball with an on-base percentage of .339.
- The Braves strike out 8.2 times per game to rank sixth in MLB.
- The 9.4 strikeouts per nine innings put together by Atlanta's pitching staff ranks fifth in the majors.
- Atlanta has a 3.87 team ERA that ranks sixth among all MLB pitching staffs.
- The Braves have the 15th-ranked WHIP in the majors (1.273).
Braves Probable Starting Pitcher
- AJ Smith-Shawver makes his first start of the season for the Braves.
- The righty is pitching in his MLB debut. He's 20 years old.
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Breakthrough in Long Island serial killings shines light on the many unsolved murders of sex workers
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The discovery of four dead women in a drainage ditch just outside Atlantic City was shocking news in 2006.
International media flocked to the seaside gambling resort. More than 100 detectives and prosecutors were assigned to investigate. Casino guests worried about safety, and the victims’ fellow sex workers began carrying hidden knives.
But as the years passed, the public’s attention and fear faded, and the case of the “Eastbound Strangler” – so named for the direction the victims’ heads were facing – remained unsolved.
The arrest earlier this month of a man charged with killing three women whose remains were found on a Long Island beach in 2010 has breathed fresh life into another long-dormant case with obvious parallels; the Gilgo Beach serial killings involve a total of 11 victims, most of whom were young, female sex workers. Yet the recent breakthrough, and the rekindling of public interest, only highlights a painful truth: Many similar cases – like the one in Atlantic City — remain open.
The FBI would not say how many killings of sex workers in the U.S. remain unsolved. Media accounts and statements from local authorities show a long trail of open cases, from nine women whose bodies were found along highways in Massachusetts, to 11 found dead in New Mexico, and eight more found amid the crawfish farms and swamps of southern Louisiana. The killings of other sex workers in Chicago, New Haven, Connecticut and Ohio, among other places, also remain mysteries.
From the days of London’s Jack The Ripper in the 1880s, serial killers, particularly those preying on sex workers, have often gotten away with it, in part because their victims were easy targets living on the margins of society.
Gary Ridgway, the so-called Green River killer convicted of 49 killings in Washington state, said at during a 2003 court hearing in which he pleaded guilty that he chose sex workers as victims because he knew they would not be missed quickly, if at all.
“I picked prostitutes because I thought I could kill as many of them as I wanted without getting caught,” he said.
Two women were out for an afternoon walk near Atlantic City in November 2006 when they found a body in a ditch. They called police, who quickly found three others nearby.
The $15-a-night motel in Egg Harbor Township behind which the four bodies were found is long gone. It was torn down in an attempt to clear a seedy area known for crime, drugs and disturbances – and the murders of Barbara Breidor, 42, Molly Jean Dilts, 20, Kim Raffo, 35, and Tracy Ann Roberts, 23.
Because it is near the ocean, like Gilgo Beach, the location has prompted much speculation by amateur detectives about a single killer, but some other online sleuths have pointed out that oceanside areas are often the remotest locations after hours on the densely packed East Coast. Gilgo Beach is about 3.5 hours drive from Atlantic City.
Gone in New Jersey are the four small wooden crosses someone erected on the site, along with the folded-up paper note bearing a Biblical quote promising justice that someone left there on one of the anniversaries of the discovery of the bodies.
For families left behind, each new day without word in the case of their loved one brings fresh pain.
“I kind of lost hope that anyone was even searching for the killer anymore,” said Joyce Roberts, whose daughter Tracy Ann was one of the four Atlantic City-area victims. “The first six months, the prosecutor did get on the phone with me and told me they were working on it.
“Then it just fell off the radar,” she said. “It was like nobody cared anymore.”
That is a sentiment echoed by Phoenix Calida, a former sex worker from Chicago who now advocates for them through the Sex Workers Outreach Project.
“Police departments often refer to it as an ‘NHI’ case: No humans involved,” she said. ”You feel like the only way you’ll be remembered is when they catch the serial killer who killed you, and then they’ll make five movies about him and no one will remember your name.”
Massachusetts State Police are investigating “nine unsolved homicides possibly committed by the same person,” said David Procopio, a spokesperson for the agency. He said two additional missing persons cases may be homicides related to the other nine.
Gilbert Gallegos, a spokesman for the Albuquerque Police Department, said the New Mexico cases remain actively investigated, with “multiple detectives” working them. The 11 victims were all involved in drugs and prostitution, police said.
A reward of $100,000 has been offered for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the case, which involved two victims who were just 15 years old.
Despite the decade-long efforts of a local, state and federal task force, Louisiana has at least eight unsolved apparent homicide cases involving sex workers between the ages of 17 and 30. Their bodies were found in marshy areas in Jennings, a small town in the area known as Cajun Country, between 2005 and 2009.
Prosecutors in New York’s Suffolk County investigating the Gilgo Beach cases have been in touch with multiple law enforcement agencies, but District Attorney Ray Tierney would not say which ones.
“Everything is being examined and looked at, and this is an active investigation,” said Anthony Carter, Suffolk County’s deputy police commissioner. He would not say if his agency was investigating any connection between Heuermann and the Atlantic City murders.
Atlantic County Prosecutor William Reynolds said the four cases from the drainage ditch outside Atlantic City remain active, with detectives assigned to them, but would not say how many. He declined comment on the Long Island case “as we are not involved.”
Joyce Roberts, the victim’s mother, said no one from law enforcement has called her since the arrest was made in the Long Island cases.
Police in Las Vegas, where Heuermann owns a time share, said they are investigating whether Heuermann may be involved in cases involving the killings of sex workers there.
In the months immediately after the bodies’ discovery near Atlantic City, the local prosecutor’s office and a dozen other law enforcement agencies had 140 people assigned to the cases, Ted Housel, who was prosecutor at the time, said in 2008. By the first anniversary, the total had fallen to 85, and those investigators were also working other cases.
Calida, the former sex worker from Chicago, said women involved the sex trade are frequently robbed by people who know they’re carrying cash, and are sometimes coerced into sexual activity by police in return for not being arrested.
She said an attacker “knows you can’t or won’t report it. You’re an easy target and they know it.”
Three of her friends who were also sex workers in Chicago also turned up dead.
“You see someone, you become friends with them and then one day they’re suddenly just not there,” she said. “We’d all go out asking around and looking for them, and then a few days later a body would be found. There’s always this specific fear that it’s a serial killer. Sometimes we never even get a body back to bury. And we wonder: Will law enforcement take it seriously because it’s ‘just another sex worker?’”
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AP writers Susan Montoya Bryan in Albuquerque; Steve LeBlanc in Boston; Julie Walker and Robert Bumsted in Suffolk County, New York; Sara Cline in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Rhonda Shafner in New York contributed to this story.
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Braves vs. Brewers: Odds, spread, over/under - July 30
Ronald Acuna Jr. and the Atlanta Braves (66-36), who are going for a series sweep, will host Christian Yelich and the Milwaukee Brewers (57-48) at Truist Park on Sunday, July 30. The game will begin at 1:35 PM ET.
The favored Braves have -210 moneyline odds against the underdog Brewers, who are listed at +170. The over/under for the matchup is set at 11.5 runs.
Braves vs. Brewers Time and TV Channel
- Date: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Time: 1:35 PM ET
- TV: MLB Network
- Location: Atlanta, Georgia
- Venue: Truist Park
- Probable Pitchers: AJ Smith-Shawver - ATL (0-0, 0.00 ERA) vs Colin Rea - MIL (5-4, 4.53 ERA)
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Braves vs. Brewers Betting Odds, Run Line and Total
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Braves vs. Brewers Betting Trends and Insights
- The Braves have been favorites in 89 games this season and won 58 (65.2%) of those contests.
- The Braves have a record of 20-8 when playing as moneyline favorites with odds of -210 or shorter (71.4% winning percentage).
- The bookmakers' moneyline implies a 67.7% chance of a victory for Atlanta.
- The Braves have a 5-5 record over the 10 games they were a moneyline favorite in their last 10 matchups.
- In its last 10 matchups (all 10 of them had set totals), Atlanta and its opponents combined to hit the over five times.
- The Brewers have come away with 25 wins in the 51 contests they have been listed as the underdogs in this season.
- The Brewers have played as an underdog of +170 or more just one time this year and came away with a loss in that game.
- The Brewers have played as underdogs in six of their past 10 games and won two of those contests.
- In the last 10 games with a total, Milwaukee and its opponents are 3-7-0 when it comes to hitting the over.
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As NHL talent evaluators prepared for the 2023 NHL draft last summer, attention focused on Cam Allen, a defenseman for the Guelph Storm. In his standout 2021-22 season, Allen scored 13 goals and had 24 assists for 37 total points. He earned rookie of the year honors in the Ontario Hockey League.
After a strong performance as Canada’s captain at the Hlinka Gretzky Cup in August, leading his team to gold at the unofficial kickoff event for the upcoming draft class, Allen was viewed as a first-round pick by most public draft rankings — with some considering him the top defenseman in the class.
“This was the standard Allen performance,” EliteProspects wrote after the Hlinka Gretzky Cup, where Allen led all defensemen with seven points in five games. “He’s a model of consistency and refinement.”
“Allen has a lot of the tools needed for success in the modern NHL,” wrote draft analyst Chris Peters after slotting Allen 13th — the highest-ranked defenseman — on his initial draft ranking in November. “ … He has poise and vision with the puck on his stick and spots the right play often.”
But when the draft rolled around, Allen wasn’t the first defenseman picked, and he didn’t go in the first round. The Capitals selected Allen in the fifth round with the 136th overall pick; he was the 37th defenseman off the board.
How did Allen slide from having lofty preseason expectations to being a fifth-round pick? Let him explain.
“I put the most pressure on myself,” Allen said at the draft in Nashville. “No one puts more pressure on me than me. I don’t know if that held me back. Ultimately, I think that’s why I’m sitting here today. That’s why I’ve gotten to this point, just the expectations I hold myself to.
“But I think there’s a healthy way to do it, and maybe I went over the top a little bit this year.”
The pressure Allen put on himself — to be a top pick, to take another step forward after his rookie year in Guelph, to lead the Storm to success — created inconsistency in a player whose calling card used to be his steadiness. Allen was also tasked with increasingly challenging defensive assignments, regularly matching up against the opposing teams’ top lines.
The combination of a larger, more demanding role and Allen’s internal pressure, as well as the external, evaluating eyes, combined to make the 2022-23 season a difficult one for Allen.
“Allen’s draft year got away from him and he looked like he was in a crisis of confidence the more it wore on,” wrote draft analyst Scott Wheeler in June after listing Allen 92nd on his final draft ranking. Allen was 20th on Wheeler’s initial ranking last fall.
Allen admitted hearing his name called by Washington brought a sense of relief after a tense wait during the draft. He hopes now to channel that relief into regaining his confidence, and he’s working with Guelph’s mental performance consultant, Ashwin Patel.
“Just working with people to be able to take some pressure off myself, really, and just be able to play my game,” Allen said. “When I’m doing that, I’m at my best and having fun out there. … I’m pretty hard on myself, but there’s a healthy way to do it and a way you can do it where you fulfill your best potential.”
Allen and Patel have worked to find what Allen describes as a pocket: a mental space that encapsulates the elements he needs for a consistent performance. Patel’s process often starts with identifying the values his athletes want to embody, and Allen’s description of his mental pocket demonstrates the work he’s done with Patel.
“I play a pretty intense game, so [I want to be] able to competitive and aggressive,” Allen said. “Also just enjoying it and playing relaxed and loose is when I’m playing my best. I think the aggression needs to be there, and the competitiveness.
“That’s something that helps me in my game and one of my greatest strengths, but just playing relaxed as well and trusting myself. Playing with a little bit of swagger as well and not getting too down on myself.”
In drafting Allen, the Capitals took a low-risk swing on a player who has shown the qualities of an NHL defenseman. His play slipped during his challenging draft season, but Washington believes Allen can rediscover the version of his game that made him a prominent prospect a year ago.
At the Capitals’ development camp in early July, Allen’s confidence visibly grew throughout the week. In the camp’s finale, a three-on-three tournament, Allen was assertive and poised with the puck on his stick — and scored a couple of goals that looked more like a forward’s finish than a defenseman’s.
“I think getting a little confidence back is good for Cam,” said Capitals assistant general manager Ross Mahoney. “When you’re kind of projected to go maybe higher in the draft and you have a bit of a tough year, and then you do get drafted where he did … I thought he did very well. It’s a bit of a confidence factor. I think this camp will help him out a lot.”
Allen has an even wider view of how going through his draft year might help him going forward.
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Four women whose lives ended in a drainage ditch outside Atlantic City
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The four women whose bodies were found in a drainage ditch just outside Atlantic City in November 2006, in the order that they were identified:
KIM RAFFO, 35. Born in Brooklyn, New York, she met her future husband, Hugh Auslander, when they were both teenagers living there. They got married and moved to a four-bedroom home Florida in the 1990s, and had two kids. She led what relatives said appeared to be a tranquil domestic life with her husband, who worked as a carpenter. A sister described her as a “mom of the year”-type. She volunteered with the Girl Scouts and PTA. A relative said Raffo “was like Martha Stewart” before growing bored with life as a housewife. She enrolled in a cooking class at a technical school, and met a drug user who introduced her to cocaine and heroin. Her husband took the kids and left; Raffo and her boyfriend settled in Atlantic City, where she worked as a waitress before turning to prostitution. She was clad in a Hard Rock Cafe tank top when her body was found after a few days in the ditch. She had been strangled with either a rope or a cord.
TRACY ANN ROBERTS, 23. Grew up in New Castle, Delaware. As a teenager, Roberts dropped out of high school and briefly studied to become a medical assistant. She lived in Philadelphia before working in strip clubs in and around Atlantic City, but drug use took a toll on her appearance, and club owners stopped hiring her. She began selling sex on the streets, where co-workers called her “the young one” or “the pretty one.” She lived in the same run-down area of seedy rooming houses as Raffo, whom she had befriended on the streets. Wearing a red hooded sweat shirt and a black bra, her body had been in the ditch anywhere from a couple of days to a week. She had a young daughter, grown now, who is about to earn a graduate degree in economics.
BARBARA V. BREIDOR, 42. Raised in Pennsylvania, rented a house in Ventnor, just outside Atlantic City. A cousin recalled her as “a very fun, happy girl” who was always smiling and joking around when she was young. She ran her family’s Boardwalk jewelry store and worked as a cocktail waitress at the Tropicana casino before a longtime drug problem worsened and pushed her into prostitution. She and a boyfriend had a daughter in 1997, which they asked her relatives in Florida to raise. Breidor briefly attended Penn State University and liked to watch the History Channel. Prosecutors said she had a “lethal” level of heroin in her system at the time of her death. Authorities were unable to determine how she died. Wearing blue jeans and a long-sleeve zippered shirt, she had been in the ditch at least two weeks.
MOLLY JEAN DILTS, 20. Grew up in Black Lick, Pennsylvania. She, too, had a young child that she asked relatives to care for. A former fast-food cook, she had never been arrested for prostitution in Atlantic City, although numerous streetwalkers said they saw her working in the sex trade as well in the short time between her arrival here and her death. They said she called herself “Amber” or “Princess” on the streets. A friend told The New York Times that Dilts cried a lot and spoke of considering suicide. Her body showed no traces of drugs, but she had been drinking just before her death. Clad in a denim miniskirt, a bra and mesh blouse, Dilts was believed to have been in the ditch the longest, for up to a month. “I want everyone to know Molly was a good woman and a good mother,” her father, Verner Dilts, told a Pittsburgh newspaper shortly after her death.
Source: AP research, Atlantic County prosecutor’s office, Atlantic City Police Department.
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A boom in apartment construction is helping to curb rents but not all renters will benefit
LOS ANGELES (AP) — When viewed through a wide lens, renters across the U.S. finally appear to be getting some relief, thanks in part to the biggest apartment construction boom in decades.
Median rent rose just 0.5% in June, year over year, after falling in May for the first time since the pandemic hit the U.S. Some economists project U.S. rents will be down modestly this year after soaring nearly 25% over the past four years.
A closer look, however, shows the trend will likely be little comfort for many U.S. renters who’ve had to put an increasing share of their income toward their monthly payment. Renters in cities such as Cincinnati and Indianapolis are still getting hit with increases of 5% or more. Much of the new construction is located in just a few metro areas, and many of the new units are luxury apartments, which rent for well north of $2,000.
Median U.S. rent has risen to $2,029 this June from $1,629 in June 2019, according to rental listings company Rent, which tracks rents in 50 of the largest U.S. metropolitan areas. Demand for apartments exploded during the pandemic as people who could work remotely sought more space or decided to relocate to another part of the country.
The steep rent increases have left tenants like Melissa Lombana, a high school teacher who lives in the South Florida city of Miramar, with progressively less income to spend on other needs.
The rent on her one-bedroom apartment jumped 13% last year to $1,700. It climbed another 6% to $1,800 this month when she renewed her lease.
“Even the $1,700 was a stretch for me,” said Lombana, 43, who supplements her teaching income with a side job doing educational testing. “In a year, I will not be able to afford living here at all.”
Lombana’s rent is now gobbling up nearly half her monthly income. That puts her in a category referred to as “cost-burdened” by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, denoting households that pay 30% or more of their income toward rent. Last year, the average rent-to-income ratio per household rose to 30%. This March, it was 29.6%.
Lombana hasn’t had any luck finding a more affordable apartment. While South Florida is one of the metropolitan areas seeing a rise in apartment construction, the units are mostly high-end and not a viable option.
That scenario is playing out across the nation. Developers are rushing to complete projects that were green-lit during the pandemic-era surge in demand for rentals or left in limbo by delays in supplies of fixtures and building materials. Nearly 1.1 million apartments are currently under construction, according to the commercial real estate tracker CoStar, a pace not seen since the 1970s.
Increasing the supply of apartments tends to moderate rent increases over time and can give tenants more options on where to live. But more than 40% of the new rentals to be completed this year will be concentrated in about 10 high job growth metropolitan areas, including Austin, Nashville, Denver, Atlanta and New York, according to Marcus & Millichap. In many areas, the boost to overall inventory will be barely noticeable.
Even within metros where there’ll be a notable increase in available apartments, such as Nashville, most of it will be in the luxury category, where rents average $2,270, nationally. Some 70% of the new rental inventory will be the luxury class, said Jay Lybik, national director of multifamily analytics at CoStar.
That will leave most tenants unlikely to see a big enough reduction in rent to make a difference, industry experts and economists say.
“I think we’re in a period of rent flattening for 12 or 18 months, but it’s certainly not a big rent decline,” said Hessam Nadji, CEO of commercial real estate firm Marcus & Millichap.
“We’re building a multi-decade record number of units,” Nadji said. “It’s going to cause some softening and some pockets of overbuilding, but it’s not going to fundamentally resolve the housing shortage or the affordability problem for renters across the U.S.”
The surge in rents has made it difficult for workers to keep up with inflation despite solid wage gains the past few years and exacerbated a long-term trend. Between 1999 and 2022, U.S. rents soared 135%, while income grew 77%, according to data from Moody’s Analytics.
Realtor.com is forecasting that rents will drop an average of 0.9% this year. But while down nationally, rents are still rising in many markets around the country, especially those where hiring remains robust.
In the New York metro area, the median rent climbed 4.7% in June from a year earlier to $2,899, according to Realtor.com. In the Midwest, rents surged 5.6% in the Cincinnati metro area to $1,188, and 6.9% to $1,350 in the Indianapolis metro area.
The current spike in apartment construction alone isn’t going to be enough to address how costly renting has become for many Americans.
“For the rest of the 2020s rents will continue to grow because millennials are such a big generation and we’re very much in the hole in terms of building housing for that generation,” said Daryl Fairweather, chief economist at Redfin. “It will take many good years of new construction to build adequate housing for millennials.”
The bigger challenge is building more work force housing, because the cost of land, labor and navigating the government approval process incentivize developers to put up luxury apartments buildings.
Expanding the supply of modestly priced rentals would help alleviate the strain from so many new apartments targeting renters with high incomes, “although additional subsidies will be needed to make housing affordable to households with the lowest incomes,” researchers at Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies wrote in a recent report.
Despite the overall pullback in U.S. rents, Joey Di Girolamo, in Pembroke Pines, Florida, worries that he’ll face more sharp rent increases in coming years.
Last year, the web designer left a two-bedroom, two-bath townhome he rented for $2,200 a month to avoid a $600 a month increase. This year, his rent went up by $200, a nearly 10% jump.
“That blew me away,” said Di Girolamo, 50. “I’m just kind of dreading what it’s going to be like next year, but especially 3 or 4 years from now.”
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Top Player Prop Bets for Reds vs. Dodgers on July 30, 2023
Player prop betting options for Freddie Freeman, Spencer Steer and others are available in the Los Angeles Dodgers-Cincinnati Reds matchup at Dodger Stadium on Sunday, starting at 4:10 PM ET.
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Reds vs. Dodgers Game Info
- When: Sunday, July 30, 2023 at 4:10 PM ET
- Where: Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California
- How to Watch on TV: SportsNet LA
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MLB Props Today: Cincinnati Reds
Spencer Steer Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -233)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +115)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +550)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +170)
Steer Stats
- Steer has 103 hits with 20 doubles, two triples, 15 home runs, 44 walks and 57 RBI. He's also stolen nine bases.
- He's slashing .276/.361/.461 so far this season.
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MLB Props Today: Los Angeles Dodgers
Michael Grove Props
- Strikeouts Prop: Over/Under 4.5 (Over Odds: -169)
Grove Stats
- The Dodgers will send Michael Grove (2-2) to the mound for his 11th start this season.
- In 10 starts this season, Grove has not yet earned a quality start.
- In 10 starts, Grove has pitched through or past the fifth inning six times. He has a season average of 4.3 frames per outing.
- He has one appearance with no earned runs allowed in 13 chances this season.
Grove Recent Games
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Freddie Freeman Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 1.5 (Over Odds: +160)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -141)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +450)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +145)
Freeman Stats
- Freeman has 135 hits with 35 doubles, two triples, 21 home runs and 51 walks. He has driven in 73 runs with 12 stolen bases.
- He's slashed .328/.409/.577 so far this season.
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Mookie Betts Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 1.5 (Over Odds: +170)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -164)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +320)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +135)
Betts Stats
- Mookie Betts has 107 hits with 26 doubles, a triple, 27 home runs and 65 walks. He has driven in 68 runs with seven stolen bases.
- He's slashing .277/.383/.560 on the season.
- Betts takes a seven-game streak with at least one hit into this one. In his last 10 games he is batting .200 with three doubles, nine walks and three RBI.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. — With less than a month to go until the first Republican presidential debate of the 2024 campaign, seven candidates say they have met qualifications for a spot on stage in Milwaukee.
But that also means that about half the broad GOP field is running short on time to make the cut.
To qualify for the Aug. 23 debate, candidates needed to satisfy polling and donor requirements set by the Republican National Committee: at least 1% in three high-quality national polls or a mix of national and early-state polls, between July 1 and Aug. 21, and a minimum of 40,000 donors, with 200 in 20 or more states.
A look at who's in, who's (maybe) out and who's still working on making it:
WHO'S QUALIFIED
DONALD TRUMP
The current front-runner long ago satisfied the polling and donor thresholds. But he is considering boycotting and holding a competing event.
Campaign advisers have said the former president has not made a final decision about the debate. One noted that “it’s pretty clear,” based on Trump's public and private statements, that he is unlikely to appear with the other candidates.
“If you’re leading by a lot, what’s the purpose of doing it?” Trump asked on Newsmax.
In the meantime, aides have discussed potential alternative programming if Trump opts for a rival event. One option Trump has floated is an interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who now has a program on X, the site formerly known as Twitter.
RON DESANTIS
The Florida governor has long been seen as Trump's top rival, finishing a distant second to him in a series of polls in early-voting states, as well as national polls, and raising an impressive amount of money.
But DeSantis' campaign has struggled in recent weeks to live up to the sky-high expectations that awaited him when he entered the race. He let go of more than one-third of his staff as federal filings showed his campaign was burning through cash at an unsustainable rate.
If Trump is absent, DeSantis may be the top target on stage at the debate.
TIM SCOTT
The South Carolina senator has been looking for a breakout moment. The first debate could be his chance.
A prolific fundraiser, Scott enters the summer with $21 million cash on hand.
In one debate-approved poll in Iowa, Scott joined Trump and DeSantis in reaching double digits. The senator has focused much of his campaign resources on the leadoff GOP voting state, which is dominated by white evangelical voters.
NIKKI HALEY
She has blitzed early-voting states with campaign events, walking crowds through her electoral successes ousting a longtime incumbent South Carolina lawmaker, then becoming the state's first woman and first minority governor. Also serving as Trump's U.N. ambassador for about two years, Haley frequently cites her international experience, arguing about the threat China poses to the United States.
The only woman in the GOP race, Haley has said transgender students competing in sports is “the women’s issue of our time” and has drawn praise from a leading anti-abortion group, which called her “uniquely gifted at communicating from a pro-life woman’s perspective.”
Bringing in $15.6 million since the start of her campaign, Haley's campaign says she has “well over 40,000 unique donors" and has satisfied the debate polling requirements.
VIVEK RAMASWAMY
The biotech entrepreneur and author of “Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America’s Social Justice Scam” is an audience favorite at multicandidate events and has polled well despite not being nationally known when he entered the race.
Ramaswamy's campaign says he met the donor threshold earlier this year. He recently rolled out “Vivek's Kitchen Cabinet" to boost his donor numbers even more, by letting fundraisers keep 10% of what they bring in for his campaign.
CHRIS CHRISTIE
The former New Jersey governor opened his campaign by portraying himself as the only candidate ready to take on Trump. Christie called on the former president to “show up at the debates and defend his record.”
Christie will be on that stage, even if Trump isn't, telling CNN this month that he surpassed “40,000 unique donors in just 35 days.” He also has met the polling requirements.
DOUG BURGUM
Burgum, a wealthy former software entrepreneur now in his second term as North Dakota’s governor, has been using his fortune to boost his campaign.
He announced a program this month to give away $20 gift cards — “Biden Relief Cards,” as a critique of President Joe Biden’s handling of the economy — to as many as 50,000 people in exchange for $1 donations. Critics have questioned whether the offer violated campaign finance law.
Within about a week of launching that effort, Burgum announced he had surpassed the donor threshold. Ad blitzes in the early-voting states also helped him meet the polling requirements.
WHO HASN'T QUALIFIED:
MIKE PENCE
Trump's vice president has met the polling threshold but has yet to amass a sufficient number of donors, raising the possibility that he might not qualify for the party's first debate.
Pence and his advisers have expressed confidence he will do so, noting that most other Republican hopefuls took a month or two of being active candidates to meet the mark. Pence entered the race on June 7, the same day as Burgum and one day after Christie.
“We’re making incredible progress toward that goal. We’re not there yet,” Pence told CNN in a recent interview. “We will make it. I will see you at that debate stage."
ASA HUTCHINSON
According to his campaign, the former two-term Arkansas governor has met the polling requirements but is working on satisfying the donor threshold. As of Wednesday, Hutchinson marked more than 11,000 unique donors.
Hutchinson is running in the mold of an old-school Republican and has differentiated himself from many of his GOP rivals in his willingness to criticize Trump. He has posted pleas on Twitter for $1 donations to help secure his slot.
FRANCIS SUAREZ
The Miami mayor has been one of the more creative candidates in his efforts to boost his donor numbers. He offered up a chance to see Argentine soccer legend Lionel Messi’s debut as a player for Inter Miami, saying donors who gave $1 would be entered in a chance to get front-row tickets.
Still shy of the donor threshold, he took a page from Burgum’s playbook by offering a $20 “Bidenomics Relief Card” in return for $1 donations. A super political action committee supporting Suarez launched a sweepstakes for a chance at up to $15,000 in tuition, in exchange for a $1 donation to Suarez’s campaign.
Suarez's campaign did not return a message seeking details on his number of donors or qualifying polls.
LARRY ELDER
The conservative radio host wrote in an op-ed that the RNC “has rigged the rules of the game by instituting a set of criteria that is so onerous and poorly designed that only establishment-backed and billionaire candidates are guaranteed to be on stage.”
His campaign last week declined to detail its number of donors, saying only that there had been "a strong increase the last few weeks.” He has not met the polling requirements.
PERRY JOHNSON
Johnson, a wealthy but largely unknown businessman from Michigan, said in a recent social media post that he had notched 23,000 donors and was “confident” he would make the debate stage. He added that all donors were “eligible to attend my free concert in Iowa featuring” country duo Big & Rich next month.
Johnson, who has reached 1% in one qualifying poll, has also offered to give copies of his book “Two Cents to Save America” to anyone who donated to his campaign.
WILL HURD
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with children's book author Matt de la Peña about summer reading recommendations for kids of all ages when they complain, "I'm bored!"
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with children's book author Matt de la Peña about summer reading recommendations for kids of all ages when they complain, "I'm bored!"
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Russian authorities say three Ukrainian drones attacked Moscow in the early hours on Sunday, injuring one person and prompting a temporary closure for traffic of one of four airports around the Russian capital.
It was the fourth such attempt at a strike on the capital region this month and the third this week, fueling concerns about Moscow's vulnerability to attacks as Russia's war in Ukraine drags into its 18th month.
The Russian Defense Ministry referred to the incident as an "attempted terrorist attack by the Kyiv regime" and said three drones targeted the city. One was shot down in the surrounding Moscow region by air defense systems and two others were jammed. Those two crashed into the Moscow City business district in the capital.
Photos from the site of the crash showed the facade of a skyscraper damaged on one floor. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said the attack "insignificantly damaged" the outsides of two buildings in the Moscow City district. A security guard was injured, Russia's state news agency Tass reported, citing emergency officials.
No flights went into or out of the Vnukovo airport on the southern outskirts of the city for about an hour, according to Tass, and the air space over Moscow and the outlying regions was temporarily closed for any aircraft. Those restrictions have since been lifted.
Moscow authorities have also closed a street for traffic near the site of the crash in the Moscow City area.
There was no immediate comment from Ukrainian officials, who rarely if ever take responsibility for attacks on Russian soil.
Russia's Defense Ministry reported shooting down a Ukrainian drone outside Moscow on Friday. Two more drones struck the Russian capital on Monday, one of them falling in the center of the city near the Defense Ministry's headquarters along the Moscow River about 3 kilometers (2 miles) from the Kremlin. The other drone hit an office building in southern Moscow, gutting several upper floors.
In another attack on July 4, the Russian military said four drones were downed by air defenses on the outskirts of Moscow and a fifth was jammed by electronic warfare means and forced down.
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Persian-American Chef Nasim Alikhani has published her first cookbook, based on her highly acclaimed restaurant in Brooklyn. She brought the feast to Los Angeles for a recent series of pop up dinners.
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Persian-American Chef Nasim Alikhani has published her first cookbook, based on her highly acclaimed restaurant in Brooklyn. She brought the feast to Los Angeles for a recent series of pop up dinners.
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In Turkey, what started out as an exploration of a Roman garrison has uncovered artifacts dating back to the time of the Assyrian empire.
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The U.S. auto industry is experiencing unanticipated stumbles and challenges as it pivots to producing more electric vehicles, even as it makes large profits.
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The U.S. auto industry is experiencing unanticipated stumbles and challenges as it pivots to producing more electric vehicles, even as it makes large profits.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Professor Amit Bhasin of the University of Texas at Austin about constructing roads and railways that can withstand extreme heat.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Professor Amit Bhasin of the University of Texas at Austin about constructing roads and railways that can withstand extreme heat.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Morristown Medical Center sports cardiologist Matthew Martinez about why some young athletes suffer from sudden cardiac-related medical emergencies.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Morristown Medical Center sports cardiologist Matthew Martinez about why some young athletes suffer from sudden cardiac-related medical emergencies.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with director D. Smith about her new documentary. "Kokomo City" highlights the experiences of trans sex workers.
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Is recent news about the economy so good that the U.S. can say it is coming in for a "soft landing," where inflation gets tamed without a recession?
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Is recent news about the economy so good that the U.S. can say it is coming in for a "soft landing," where inflation gets tamed without a recession?
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Is recent news about the economy so good that the U.S. can say it is coming in for a "soft landing," where inflation gets tamed without a recession?
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Is recent news about the economy so good that the U.S. can say it is coming in for a "soft landing," where inflation gets tamed without a recession?
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Washington became the first state to start deducting money from workers' paychecks to fund long-term care benefits. (This story first aired on All Things Considered on July 25, 2023.)
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Washington became the first state to start deducting money from workers' paychecks to fund long-term care benefits. (This story first aired on All Things Considered on July 25, 2023.)
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to a patron of the party, musician George Brown of the band Kool & The Gang, about his new book, new record, and the "Celebration" of a long and funky career.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to a patron of the party, musician George Brown of the band Kool & The Gang, about his new book, new record, and the "Celebration" of a long and funky career.
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After nearly five years, the Big Peanut statue has returned to Ashburn, Ga. The original roadside attraction went down during Hurricane Michael. The new one is stronger and locally crafted.
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After nearly five years, the Big Peanut statue has returned to Ashburn, Ga. The original roadside attraction went down during Hurricane Michael. The new one is stronger and locally crafted.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with University of California, Berkeley, digital forensics expert Hany Farid about a recent political ad that used an AI-cloned vocal clip.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with University of California, Berkeley, digital forensics expert Hany Farid about a recent political ad that used an AI-cloned vocal clip.
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Members of the mid-Columbia River tribes set off on an annual intertribal canoe journey after a three-year hiatus due to COVID. (This story first aired on All Things Considered on July 28, 2023.)
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Members of the mid-Columbia River tribes set off on an annual intertribal canoe journey after a three-year hiatus due to COVID. (This story first aired on All Things Considered on July 28, 2023.)
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More than 1,100 people have already been charged for their actions around Jan. 6 and many of them invoked Former President Donald Trump, who may also be indicted.
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More than 1,100 people have already been charged for their actions around Jan. 6 and many of them invoked Former President Donald Trump, who may also be indicted.
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The new charges against former Pres. Trump in the classified documents case are in a different legal league and there are hints he is also not politically immune from them either.
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The new charges against former Pres. Trump in the classified documents case are in a different legal league and there are hints he is also not politically immune from them either.
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On-air challenge: I'm going to give you some words. For each one, think of something that starts with the first letter of my word ... and that fits in the category named by the rest of my word.
Example: Factor — (Morgan) Freeman, (Henry) Fonda, (Harrison) Ford [actor starting with F]1. Scar
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8. Cape
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Last week's challenge: Name a classic TV show in two words, in which the respective words rhyme with the first and last names of a famous writer - four letters in the first name, five letter in the last name. Who is it?
Challenge answer: "Get Smart" --> Bret Harte
Winner: Mary Butler from Columbus, Nebraska
This week's challenge: This challenge comes from listener Jim Vespe, of Mamaroneck, N.Y. Name a well-known U.S. city in nine letters. Change the third and fifth letters to get the name of a beverage. What is it?
If you know the answer to the challenge, submit it here by Thursday, August 3rd at 3 p.m. ET. Listeners whose answers are selected win a chance to play the on-air puzzle. Important: include a phone number where we can reach you.
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The IRS is discontinuing unannounced home visits as an enforcement method. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel why.
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Washington became the first state to start deducting money from workers' paychecks to fund long-term care benefits. (This story first aired on All Things Considered on July 25, 2023.)
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Washington became the first state to start deducting money from workers' paychecks to fund long-term care benefits. (This story first aired on All Things Considered on July 25, 2023.)
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Keng Xiong’s Gateway Technical College journey is a first in many ways.
It’s also something that he feels will carry him a long time into his career.
Keng is one of the first two recipients of the SC Johnson STEM Scholarship to earn a degree. The program pays for tuition, fees, books and supplies for students to earn a degree in one of several science, engineering or information technology-related fields at Gateway Technical College, and then the program financially assists students as they complete a four-year degree at an area institution.
This also marks the first stop on Keng’s postsecondary education journey. He’s earned an Information Technology—Cybersecurity Specialist associate degree and will soon transfer to a four-year college where he plans to earn a Computer Science bachelor’s degree.
The SC Johnson STEM Scholars Pathway program started with its first cohort two years ago. Keng, in high school at that time, decided to check out the scholarship and feels today that it was a great decision because of the impact it had on his finances and education.
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“I wasn’t sure about it at first, but was pushed in the right direction by the right people, and I came to realize it was way more than I expected,” says Keng. “Initially, I was thinking, ‘it’s a technical school, there’s nothing crazy about it.’
“Once I came and realized the amount of hands-on experience you get, the number of students in each class and how interactive and knowledgeable all the instructors are, my mind was really changed on technical colleges. They are a great place to get an education.”
Keng has already applied what he’s learned in the workplace at a position at an area company.
“What was amazing to me was what I was learning in class, I could apply in the workplace,” says Keng. “It was almost one-to-one – exactly what we did in class, I did at work. Me realizing and seeing that in person, to use the skills I learned at college now in my work, it gave me a great feeling.”
Keng says he also benefited from being able to take online courses because they allowed him the flexibility to work while earning his degree.
“I could work in the morning and take classes in the afternoon,” says Keng. “My main focus was college, but at the same time, it was also working. I was able to get these two very important things – experience and a degree.
“I think Gateway has really set me apart from others who are graduating and others who are my age just because I was able to do both at the same time.”
Keng says he is grateful to SC Johnson and to be a part of the scholarship program that’s had such an impact on his life and education. So, what does he tell others about the scholarship?
“I like to catch them off guard and say my tuition at Gateway is completely covered, I didn’t pay anything for it,” says Keng. “That reels them in first. Then, I explain that on top of that, I get $7,500 from SC Johnson when I transfer to a four-year college, plus the college matches it, so that’s $15,000 total.
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A boom in apartment construction is helping to curb rents but not all renters will benefit
LOS ANGELES (AP) — When viewed through a wide lens, renters across the U.S. finally appear to be getting some relief, thanks in part to the biggest apartment construction boom in decades.
Median rent rose just 0.5% in June, year over year, after falling in May for the first time since the pandemic hit the U.S. Some economists project U.S. rents will be down modestly this year after soaring nearly 25% over the past four years.
A closer look, however, shows the trend will likely be little comfort for many U.S. renters who’ve had to put an increasing share of their income toward their monthly payment. Renters in cities such as Cincinnati and Indianapolis are still getting hit with increases of 5% or more. Much of the new construction is located in just a few metro areas, and many of the new units are luxury apartments, which rent for well north of $2,000.
Median U.S. rent has risen to $2,029 this June from $1,629 in June 2019, according to rental listings company Rent, which tracks rents in 50 of the largest U.S. metropolitan areas. Demand for apartments exploded during the pandemic as people who could work remotely sought more space or decided to relocate to another part of the country.
The steep rent increases have left tenants like Melissa Lombana, a high school teacher who lives in the South Florida city of Miramar, with progressively less income to spend on other needs.
The rent on her one-bedroom apartment jumped 13% last year to $1,700. It climbed another 6% to $1,800 this month when she renewed her lease.
“Even the $1,700 was a stretch for me,” said Lombana, 43, who supplements her teaching income with a side job doing educational testing. “In a year, I will not be able to afford living here at all.”
Lombana’s rent is now gobbling up nearly half her monthly income. That puts her in a category referred to as “cost-burdened” by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, denoting households that pay 30% or more of their income toward rent. Last year, the average rent-to-income ratio per household rose to 30%. This March, it was 29.6%.
Lombana hasn’t had any luck finding a more affordable apartment. While South Florida is one of the metropolitan areas seeing a rise in apartment construction, the units are mostly high-end and not a viable option.
That scenario is playing out across the nation. Developers are rushing to complete projects that were green-lit during the pandemic-era surge in demand for rentals or left in limbo by delays in supplies of fixtures and building materials. Nearly 1.1 million apartments are currently under construction, according to the commercial real estate tracker CoStar, a pace not seen since the 1970s.
Increasing the supply of apartments tends to moderate rent increases over time and can give tenants more options on where to live. But more than 40% of the new rentals to be completed this year will be concentrated in about 10 high job growth metropolitan areas, including Austin, Nashville, Denver, Atlanta and New York, according to Marcus & Millichap. In many areas, the boost to overall inventory will be barely noticeable.
Even within metros where there’ll be a notable increase in available apartments, such as Nashville, most of it will be in the luxury category, where rents average $2,270, nationally. Some 70% of the new rental inventory will be the luxury class, said Jay Lybik, national director of multifamily analytics at CoStar.
That will leave most tenants unlikely to see a big enough reduction in rent to make a difference, industry experts and economists say.
“I think we’re in a period of rent flattening for 12 or 18 months, but it’s certainly not a big rent decline,” said Hessam Nadji, CEO of commercial real estate firm Marcus & Millichap.
“We’re building a multi-decade record number of units,” Nadji said. “It’s going to cause some softening and some pockets of overbuilding, but it’s not going to fundamentally resolve the housing shortage or the affordability problem for renters across the U.S.”
The surge in rents has made it difficult for workers to keep up with inflation despite solid wage gains the past few years and exacerbated a long-term trend. Between 1999 and 2022, U.S. rents soared 135%, while income grew 77%, according to data from Moody’s Analytics.
Realtor.com is forecasting that rents will drop an average of 0.9% this year. But while down nationally, rents are still rising in many markets around the country, especially those where hiring remains robust.
In the New York metro area, the median rent climbed 4.7% in June from a year earlier to $2,899, according to Realtor.com. In the Midwest, rents surged 5.6% in the Cincinnati metro area to $1,188, and 6.9% to $1,350 in the Indianapolis metro area.
The current spike in apartment construction alone isn’t going to be enough to address how costly renting has become for many Americans.
“For the rest of the 2020s rents will continue to grow because millennials are such a big generation and we’re very much in the hole in terms of building housing for that generation,” said Daryl Fairweather, chief economist at Redfin. “It will take many good years of new construction to build adequate housing for millennials.”
The bigger challenge is building more work force housing, because the cost of land, labor and navigating the government approval process incentivize developers to put up luxury apartments buildings.
Expanding the supply of modestly priced rentals would help alleviate the strain from so many new apartments targeting renters with high incomes, “although additional subsidies will be needed to make housing affordable to households with the lowest incomes,” researchers at Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies wrote in a recent report.
Despite the overall pullback in U.S. rents, Joey Di Girolamo, in Pembroke Pines, Florida, worries that he’ll face more sharp rent increases in coming years.
Last year, the web designer left a two-bedroom, two-bath townhome he rented for $2,200 a month to avoid a $600 a month increase. This year, his rent went up by $200, a nearly 10% jump.
“That blew me away,” said Di Girolamo, 50. “I’m just kind of dreading what it’s going to be like next year, but especially 3 or 4 years from now.”
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The House Republicans who craft the conference’s government funding bills are showing signs of frustration as hard-line conservatives pressure leadership for further cuts to spending that some worry could be too aggressive.
Some of the 12 Appropriations subcommittee chairs — the so-called cardinals — told reporters that they are struggling to see where those additional cuts could come from, as September’s shutdown deadline looms.
“I just don’t see the wisdom in trying to further cut to strengthen our hand. I don’t know how that strengthens our hand,” Rep. Steve Womack (R-Ark.), a House Appropriations subcommittee chairman, said of conservatives’ push to further cut the already-scaled-back spending bills.
“I do think it puts some of our members in a very difficult spot, particularly those in tough districts, because they’re going to be taking some votes that become problematic,” he added.
The House left Washington for a long summer recess Thursday after being forced to punt a bill to fund agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration.
Conservatives are dug in on their demand for steeper spending cuts, to the chagrin of moderates who are wary of slashing funding even more. The chamber has passed just one appropriations bill, funding military construction and the Department of Veterans Affairs.
The internal divisions are gripping the party as time is running out: The House has just 12 days in September to move the remaining 11 appropriations measures and hash out their disagreements with the Senate, which is marking up its spending bills at higher levels, setting the scene for a hectic fall that could bring the U.S. to the brink of a shutdown.
Those dynamics are putting GOP appropriators in a bind, leaving them searching for ways to appease conservative requests without gutting their spending bills.
“We’ve done a lot of cuts, a lot of cuts,” House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Kay Granger (R-Texas) told The Hill this week. “And so if it’s cuts just for cut’s sake, I don’t agree with it. But if it’s something that we can do without, that’s fine.”
‘Not a lot of wiggle room left’
Republican appropriators in the House announced earlier this year that they would mark up their bills for fiscal 2024 at fiscal 2022 levels, as leaders sought to placate conservatives who thought the debt ceiling deal struck by President Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) earlier this year didn’t do enough to curb spending.
The Senate is crafting its bills more in line with the budget caps agreed to in the deal, but House Republicans are already fuming about a bipartisan deal in the upper chamber that would allow for more than $13 billion in additional emergency spending on top of those levels.
House GOP negotiators also said they would pursue clawing back more than $100 billion in old funding that was allocated for Democratic priorities without GOP support in the previous Congress.
While that move drew support from hard-line conservatives, the right flank was far from pleased when it heard appropriators planned to repurpose that old funding — known as rescissions — to plus-up the spending bills.
In a letter to McCarthy earlier this month, a group of hard-line conservatives called for all 12 appropriations bills to be in line with fiscal 2022 spending levels “without the use of reallocated rescissions to increase discretionary spending above that top-line.”
Otherwise, the 21 lawmakers threatened, they would vote against the measures. But that request could prove difficult for GOP appropriators to fulfill.
Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.), chairman of the panel that proposes funding for the Department of State and foreign operations, said that appropriators are already “dramatically reducing spending,” suggesting that there are not too many remaining areas to trim from.
“My bill is below the 2016 levels,” he said, later adding, “When you’re below the 2016 level — and we’re still confronting China — I think there’s not a lot of wiggle room left.”
“It’s a challenge, but I think we’ll get through it. I really do,” he added.
Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho), who heads the subcommittee that oversees funding for the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Interior, scoffed at the idea of even steeper cuts to his bill.
“Then you just drop it on the floor and stomp on it. What else do you do with it?” he told reporters. “You can’t make logical cuts in there.”
Republicans appropriators are voicing optimism that the conference will be able to sort out its differences on spending, but some also hope their levels will stick — even though they include rescissions.
Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-Tenn.) — whose panel handles funding for the Department of Energy, which is proposing offsetting billions of dollars in spending with clawbacks — said it would be “extremely difficult” to craft his bill without the rescinded funds.
“And given our priorities in my bill, national defense with the nuclear weapons portfolio, nuclear cleanup, Army Corps including, all the community-directed fundings, I feel good about my bill, and I hope my numbers hold,” he said.
“Because it’s gonna have to be in negotiations with the Senate and the White House as well,” he added.
Womack — whose subcommittee crafts funding for the IRS and the Treasury Department — said he doesn’t think “moving the goalposts on these numbers is helpful in strengthening our ability to negotiate with the Senate.”
August preparations for a busy September
Frustrations among appropriators are bubbling up as Congress inches closer to the fall, when lawmakers are facing a Sept. 30 deadline to approve funding or risk a government shutdown.
With time running out, some House lawmakers say conversations may continue over the long August recess to try to hash out remaining differences.
“We’ll have to see,” Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) said when asked about potential plans for talks between leaders and House Freedom Caucus members over the break. “I mean, we got a lot of work to do.”
“I think a lot of work [has] got to be done behind the scenes,” he said. “If not, you know, here — You gotta beg the question about whether we should be gone for six weeks. We should be getting our job done.”
Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.) echoed that sentiment, saying “I would think so” when asked if lawmakers will have conversations over the break.
Adding to the August workload, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) suggested earlier this week that bicameral negotiations could take place over the weeks-long recess as lawmakers stare down the shutdown deadline.
Not all Republicans, however, are viewing a shutdown as a risk.
During a House Freedom Caucus press conference this week, Good said “we should not fear a government shutdown,” claiming that “most of what we do up here is bad anyway; most of what we do up here hurts the American people.”
But that perspective does not jive with the view of McCarthy, who declared Thursday: “I don’t want the government to shut down.”
Multiple Republicans are ultimately expecting Congress to eventually pass what’s known as a continuing resolution (CR), or a measure that temporarily allows the government to be funded at the previous fiscal year’s levels, to prevent a lapse at the end of September.
But they also understand the task could be difficult in the GOP-led chamber, where Republicans aren’t happy about the idea of continuing funding at the current levels — which were last set when Democrats held control of Congress.
“I think there’s a very good chance that we’ll see a CR, but I know there’s a lot of work to get a CR done,” Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-Ala.), another appropriator, said Thursday, noting there are “a lot of members that don’t want CRs that are tired of them.”
But Aderholt suggested a CR could notch sufficient GOP backing if there’s a larger plan in sight that the party can support.
“The Speaker’s been very good about having a plan,” he said, adding, “I think that’s what he’s good at, and I’m optimistic that he can come up with something.”
Emily Brooks contributed. | https://www.kxnet.com/hill-politics/frustration-emerges-among-gop-spending-cardinals-as-conservatives-push-for-cuts/ | 2023-07-30T13:38:47 | 0 | https://www.kxnet.com/hill-politics/frustration-emerges-among-gop-spending-cardinals-as-conservatives-push-for-cuts/ |
Royals vs. Twins Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - July 30
Sunday's contest features the Minnesota Twins (54-52) and the Kansas City Royals (31-75) clashing at Kauffman Stadium in what is expected to be a competitive matchup, with a projected 5-3 victory for the Twins according to our computer prediction. First pitch is at 2:10 PM ET on July 30.
This contest's pitching matchup is set, as the Twins will send Kenta Maeda (2-5) to the mound, while Ryan Yarbrough (3-5) will get the nod for the Royals.
Royals vs. Twins Game Info & Odds
- When: Sunday, July 30, 2023 at 2:10 PM ET
- Where: Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri
- How to Watch on TV: BSKC
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
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Royals vs. Twins Score Prediction
Our pick for this game is Twins 5, Royals 4.
Total Prediction for Royals vs. Twins
- Total Prediction: Under 9 runs
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Royals Performance Insights
- In 10 games as the underdog over the last 10 matchups, the Royals have posted a mark of 3-7.
- When it comes to the over/under, Kansas City and its foes are 5-5-0 in its last 10 contests.
- Bookmakers have not posted a spread in any of the Royals' past 10 matchups.
- The Royals have been chosen as underdogs in 93 games this year and have walked away with the win 28 times (30.1%) in those games.
- Kansas City has a mark of 12-34 in contests where bookmakers favor it by +145 or worse on the moneyline.
- The moneyline set for this matchup implies the Royals have a 40.8% chance of walking away with the win.
- Kansas City is the second-lowest scoring team in baseball averaging 3.8 runs per game (401 total).
- The Royals have the 28th-ranked ERA (5.21) in the majors this season.
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OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – The U.S. Geological Survey has a morbid request: they want you to mail in deceased butterflies, moths, and skippers if you live in one of six states.
According to the USGS, the pilot program hopes to collect specimens that can help “identify contaminants and environmental factors which may be contributing to the decline of insect populations.” said USGS.
“There are some questions that can’t effectively be answered without help from a lot of people. It’s what makes citizen science so special and valuable,” said Julie Dietze, USGS scientist-in-charge of the effort. “Collections like this one are important because they have the potential to provide scientists now, and 20 years from now, access to specimens.”
“Citizen scientists” have been submitting their butterflies, moths, and skippers since April, but based on how many specimens have been received, collections may continue through November 2024.
The USGS is hoping to collect these dead insects to establish a Lepidoptera Research Collection and all the specimens collected will be added to the USGS Research Scientific Collections database.
If you live in Alabama, Georgia, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, or Texas, you can participate in the USGS’s pilot program. These states were selected because they’re relatively close the migration pathway of Monarch butterflies, their proximity to the Corn Belt, and the number of Confined Animal Feeding Operations.
Before you run out to catch butterflies for submission, USGS says it will only accept insects that are already dead that have not been collected alive. The insect must also be larger than two inches.
Additionally, species that are protected by the U.S.’s Endangered Species Act or by state law are not accepted. Within the six participating states, that includes only the Mitchell’s satyr Butterfly, which is found in Alabama.
Once you’ve found your dead bug, the USGS recommends putting it in a resealable plastic bag. Insects that are damaged or not fully intact will be accepted, and bugs can be put into the same bags. If you aren’t able to ship your bugs within three days, you can freeze them.
Specimens should then be placed into a sealed envelope addressed to:
USGS LRC
1217 Biltmore Drive
Lawrence, KS 66049
You do not need to include a return address.
Species that are mailed in will be evaluated for the occurrence of antibiotics, pesticides, hormones, and mycotoxins, according to USGS.
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A boom in apartment construction is helping to curb rents but not all renters will benefit
LOS ANGELES (AP) — When viewed through a wide lens, renters across the U.S. finally appear to be getting some relief, thanks in part to the biggest apartment construction boom in decades.
Median rent rose just 0.5% in June, year over year, after falling in May for the first time since the pandemic hit the U.S. Some economists project U.S. rents will be down modestly this year after soaring nearly 25% over the past four years.
A closer look, however, shows the trend will likely be little comfort for many U.S. renters who’ve had to put an increasing share of their income toward their monthly payment. Renters in cities such as Cincinnati and Indianapolis are still getting hit with increases of 5% or more. Much of the new construction is located in just a few metro areas, and many of the new units are luxury apartments, which rent for well north of $2,000.
Median U.S. rent has risen to $2,029 this June from $1,629 in June 2019, according to rental listings company Rent, which tracks rents in 50 of the largest U.S. metropolitan areas. Demand for apartments exploded during the pandemic as people who could work remotely sought more space or decided to relocate to another part of the country.
The steep rent increases have left tenants like Melissa Lombana, a high school teacher who lives in the South Florida city of Miramar, with progressively less income to spend on other needs.
The rent on her one-bedroom apartment jumped 13% last year to $1,700. It climbed another 6% to $1,800 this month when she renewed her lease.
“Even the $1,700 was a stretch for me,” said Lombana, 43, who supplements her teaching income with a side job doing educational testing. “In a year, I will not be able to afford living here at all.”
Lombana’s rent is now gobbling up nearly half her monthly income. That puts her in a category referred to as “cost-burdened” by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, denoting households that pay 30% or more of their income toward rent. Last year, the average rent-to-income ratio per household rose to 30%. This March, it was 29.6%.
Lombana hasn’t had any luck finding a more affordable apartment. While South Florida is one of the metropolitan areas seeing a rise in apartment construction, the units are mostly high-end and not a viable option.
That scenario is playing out across the nation. Developers are rushing to complete projects that were green-lit during the pandemic-era surge in demand for rentals or left in limbo by delays in supplies of fixtures and building materials. Nearly 1.1 million apartments are currently under construction, according to the commercial real estate tracker CoStar, a pace not seen since the 1970s.
Increasing the supply of apartments tends to moderate rent increases over time and can give tenants more options on where to live. But more than 40% of the new rentals to be completed this year will be concentrated in about 10 high job growth metropolitan areas, including Austin, Nashville, Denver, Atlanta and New York, according to Marcus & Millichap. In many areas, the boost to overall inventory will be barely noticeable.
Even within metros where there’ll be a notable increase in available apartments, such as Nashville, most of it will be in the luxury category, where rents average $2,270, nationally. Some 70% of the new rental inventory will be the luxury class, said Jay Lybik, national director of multifamily analytics at CoStar.
That will leave most tenants unlikely to see a big enough reduction in rent to make a difference, industry experts and economists say.
“I think we’re in a period of rent flattening for 12 or 18 months, but it’s certainly not a big rent decline,” said Hessam Nadji, CEO of commercial real estate firm Marcus & Millichap.
“We’re building a multi-decade record number of units,” Nadji said. “It’s going to cause some softening and some pockets of overbuilding, but it’s not going to fundamentally resolve the housing shortage or the affordability problem for renters across the U.S.”
The surge in rents has made it difficult for workers to keep up with inflation despite solid wage gains the past few years and exacerbated a long-term trend. Between 1999 and 2022, U.S. rents soared 135%, while income grew 77%, according to data from Moody’s Analytics.
Realtor.com is forecasting that rents will drop an average of 0.9% this year. But while down nationally, rents are still rising in many markets around the country, especially those where hiring remains robust.
In the New York metro area, the median rent climbed 4.7% in June from a year earlier to $2,899, according to Realtor.com. In the Midwest, rents surged 5.6% in the Cincinnati metro area to $1,188, and 6.9% to $1,350 in the Indianapolis metro area.
The current spike in apartment construction alone isn’t going to be enough to address how costly renting has become for many Americans.
“For the rest of the 2020s rents will continue to grow because millennials are such a big generation and we’re very much in the hole in terms of building housing for that generation,” said Daryl Fairweather, chief economist at Redfin. “It will take many good years of new construction to build adequate housing for millennials.”
The bigger challenge is building more work force housing, because the cost of land, labor and navigating the government approval process incentivize developers to put up luxury apartments buildings.
Expanding the supply of modestly priced rentals would help alleviate the strain from so many new apartments targeting renters with high incomes, “although additional subsidies will be needed to make housing affordable to households with the lowest incomes,” researchers at Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies wrote in a recent report.
Despite the overall pullback in U.S. rents, Joey Di Girolamo, in Pembroke Pines, Florida, worries that he’ll face more sharp rent increases in coming years.
Last year, the web designer left a two-bedroom, two-bath townhome he rented for $2,200 a month to avoid a $600 a month increase. This year, his rent went up by $200, a nearly 10% jump.
“That blew me away,” said Di Girolamo, 50. “I’m just kind of dreading what it’s going to be like next year, but especially 3 or 4 years from now.”
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A boom in apartment construction is helping to curb rents but not all renters will benefit
LOS ANGELES (AP) — When viewed through a wide lens, renters across the U.S. finally appear to be getting some relief, thanks in part to the biggest apartment construction boom in decades.
Median rent rose just 0.5% in June, year over year, after falling in May for the first time since the pandemic hit the U.S. Some economists project U.S. rents will be down modestly this year after soaring nearly 25% over the past four years.
A closer look, however, shows the trend will likely be little comfort for many U.S. renters who’ve had to put an increasing share of their income toward their monthly payment. Renters in cities such as Cincinnati and Indianapolis are still getting hit with increases of 5% or more. Much of the new construction is located in just a few metro areas, and many of the new units are luxury apartments, which rent for well north of $2,000.
Median U.S. rent has risen to $2,029 this June from $1,629 in June 2019, according to rental listings company Rent, which tracks rents in 50 of the largest U.S. metropolitan areas. Demand for apartments exploded during the pandemic as people who could work remotely sought more space or decided to relocate to another part of the country.
The steep rent increases have left tenants like Melissa Lombana, a high school teacher who lives in the South Florida city of Miramar, with progressively less income to spend on other needs.
The rent on her one-bedroom apartment jumped 13% last year to $1,700. It climbed another 6% to $1,800 this month when she renewed her lease.
“Even the $1,700 was a stretch for me,” said Lombana, 43, who supplements her teaching income with a side job doing educational testing. “In a year, I will not be able to afford living here at all.”
Lombana’s rent is now gobbling up nearly half her monthly income. That puts her in a category referred to as “cost-burdened” by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, denoting households that pay 30% or more of their income toward rent. Last year, the average rent-to-income ratio per household rose to 30%. This March, it was 29.6%.
Lombana hasn’t had any luck finding a more affordable apartment. While South Florida is one of the metropolitan areas seeing a rise in apartment construction, the units are mostly high-end and not a viable option.
That scenario is playing out across the nation. Developers are rushing to complete projects that were green-lit during the pandemic-era surge in demand for rentals or left in limbo by delays in supplies of fixtures and building materials. Nearly 1.1 million apartments are currently under construction, according to the commercial real estate tracker CoStar, a pace not seen since the 1970s.
Increasing the supply of apartments tends to moderate rent increases over time and can give tenants more options on where to live. But more than 40% of the new rentals to be completed this year will be concentrated in about 10 high job growth metropolitan areas, including Austin, Nashville, Denver, Atlanta and New York, according to Marcus & Millichap. In many areas, the boost to overall inventory will be barely noticeable.
Even within metros where there’ll be a notable increase in available apartments, such as Nashville, most of it will be in the luxury category, where rents average $2,270, nationally. Some 70% of the new rental inventory will be the luxury class, said Jay Lybik, national director of multifamily analytics at CoStar.
That will leave most tenants unlikely to see a big enough reduction in rent to make a difference, industry experts and economists say.
“I think we’re in a period of rent flattening for 12 or 18 months, but it’s certainly not a big rent decline,” said Hessam Nadji, CEO of commercial real estate firm Marcus & Millichap.
“We’re building a multi-decade record number of units,” Nadji said. “It’s going to cause some softening and some pockets of overbuilding, but it’s not going to fundamentally resolve the housing shortage or the affordability problem for renters across the U.S.”
The surge in rents has made it difficult for workers to keep up with inflation despite solid wage gains the past few years and exacerbated a long-term trend. Between 1999 and 2022, U.S. rents soared 135%, while income grew 77%, according to data from Moody’s Analytics.
Realtor.com is forecasting that rents will drop an average of 0.9% this year. But while down nationally, rents are still rising in many markets around the country, especially those where hiring remains robust.
In the New York metro area, the median rent climbed 4.7% in June from a year earlier to $2,899, according to Realtor.com. In the Midwest, rents surged 5.6% in the Cincinnati metro area to $1,188, and 6.9% to $1,350 in the Indianapolis metro area.
The current spike in apartment construction alone isn’t going to be enough to address how costly renting has become for many Americans.
“For the rest of the 2020s rents will continue to grow because millennials are such a big generation and we’re very much in the hole in terms of building housing for that generation,” said Daryl Fairweather, chief economist at Redfin. “It will take many good years of new construction to build adequate housing for millennials.”
The bigger challenge is building more work force housing, because the cost of land, labor and navigating the government approval process incentivize developers to put up luxury apartments buildings.
Expanding the supply of modestly priced rentals would help alleviate the strain from so many new apartments targeting renters with high incomes, “although additional subsidies will be needed to make housing affordable to households with the lowest incomes,” researchers at Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies wrote in a recent report.
Despite the overall pullback in U.S. rents, Joey Di Girolamo, in Pembroke Pines, Florida, worries that he’ll face more sharp rent increases in coming years.
Last year, the web designer left a two-bedroom, two-bath townhome he rented for $2,200 a month to avoid a $600 a month increase. This year, his rent went up by $200, a nearly 10% jump.
“That blew me away,” said Di Girolamo, 50. “I’m just kind of dreading what it’s going to be like next year, but especially 3 or 4 years from now.”
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A boom in apartment construction is helping to curb rents but not all renters will benefit
LOS ANGELES (AP) — When viewed through a wide lens, renters across the U.S. finally appear to be getting some relief, thanks in part to the biggest apartment construction boom in decades.
Median rent rose just 0.5% in June, year over year, after falling in May for the first time since the pandemic hit the U.S. Some economists project U.S. rents will be down modestly this year after soaring nearly 25% over the past four years.
A closer look, however, shows the trend will likely be little comfort for many U.S. renters who’ve had to put an increasing share of their income toward their monthly payment. Renters in cities such as Cincinnati and Indianapolis are still getting hit with increases of 5% or more. Much of the new construction is located in just a few metro areas, and many of the new units are luxury apartments, which rent for well north of $2,000.
Median U.S. rent has risen to $2,029 this June from $1,629 in June 2019, according to rental listings company Rent, which tracks rents in 50 of the largest U.S. metropolitan areas. Demand for apartments exploded during the pandemic as people who could work remotely sought more space or decided to relocate to another part of the country.
The steep rent increases have left tenants like Melissa Lombana, a high school teacher who lives in the South Florida city of Miramar, with progressively less income to spend on other needs.
The rent on her one-bedroom apartment jumped 13% last year to $1,700. It climbed another 6% to $1,800 this month when she renewed her lease.
“Even the $1,700 was a stretch for me,” said Lombana, 43, who supplements her teaching income with a side job doing educational testing. “In a year, I will not be able to afford living here at all.”
Lombana’s rent is now gobbling up nearly half her monthly income. That puts her in a category referred to as “cost-burdened” by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, denoting households that pay 30% or more of their income toward rent. Last year, the average rent-to-income ratio per household rose to 30%. This March, it was 29.6%.
Lombana hasn’t had any luck finding a more affordable apartment. While South Florida is one of the metropolitan areas seeing a rise in apartment construction, the units are mostly high-end and not a viable option.
That scenario is playing out across the nation. Developers are rushing to complete projects that were green-lit during the pandemic-era surge in demand for rentals or left in limbo by delays in supplies of fixtures and building materials. Nearly 1.1 million apartments are currently under construction, according to the commercial real estate tracker CoStar, a pace not seen since the 1970s.
Increasing the supply of apartments tends to moderate rent increases over time and can give tenants more options on where to live. But more than 40% of the new rentals to be completed this year will be concentrated in about 10 high job growth metropolitan areas, including Austin, Nashville, Denver, Atlanta and New York, according to Marcus & Millichap. In many areas, the boost to overall inventory will be barely noticeable.
Even within metros where there’ll be a notable increase in available apartments, such as Nashville, most of it will be in the luxury category, where rents average $2,270, nationally. Some 70% of the new rental inventory will be the luxury class, said Jay Lybik, national director of multifamily analytics at CoStar.
That will leave most tenants unlikely to see a big enough reduction in rent to make a difference, industry experts and economists say.
“I think we’re in a period of rent flattening for 12 or 18 months, but it’s certainly not a big rent decline,” said Hessam Nadji, CEO of commercial real estate firm Marcus & Millichap.
“We’re building a multi-decade record number of units,” Nadji said. “It’s going to cause some softening and some pockets of overbuilding, but it’s not going to fundamentally resolve the housing shortage or the affordability problem for renters across the U.S.”
The surge in rents has made it difficult for workers to keep up with inflation despite solid wage gains the past few years and exacerbated a long-term trend. Between 1999 and 2022, U.S. rents soared 135%, while income grew 77%, according to data from Moody’s Analytics.
Realtor.com is forecasting that rents will drop an average of 0.9% this year. But while down nationally, rents are still rising in many markets around the country, especially those where hiring remains robust.
In the New York metro area, the median rent climbed 4.7% in June from a year earlier to $2,899, according to Realtor.com. In the Midwest, rents surged 5.6% in the Cincinnati metro area to $1,188, and 6.9% to $1,350 in the Indianapolis metro area.
The current spike in apartment construction alone isn’t going to be enough to address how costly renting has become for many Americans.
“For the rest of the 2020s rents will continue to grow because millennials are such a big generation and we’re very much in the hole in terms of building housing for that generation,” said Daryl Fairweather, chief economist at Redfin. “It will take many good years of new construction to build adequate housing for millennials.”
The bigger challenge is building more work force housing, because the cost of land, labor and navigating the government approval process incentivize developers to put up luxury apartments buildings.
Expanding the supply of modestly priced rentals would help alleviate the strain from so many new apartments targeting renters with high incomes, “although additional subsidies will be needed to make housing affordable to households with the lowest incomes,” researchers at Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies wrote in a recent report.
Despite the overall pullback in U.S. rents, Joey Di Girolamo, in Pembroke Pines, Florida, worries that he’ll face more sharp rent increases in coming years.
Last year, the web designer left a two-bedroom, two-bath townhome he rented for $2,200 a month to avoid a $600 a month increase. This year, his rent went up by $200, a nearly 10% jump.
“That blew me away,” said Di Girolamo, 50. “I’m just kind of dreading what it’s going to be like next year, but especially 3 or 4 years from now.”
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A boom in apartment construction is helping to curb rents but not all renters will benefit
LOS ANGELES (AP) — When viewed through a wide lens, renters across the U.S. finally appear to be getting some relief, thanks in part to the biggest apartment construction boom in decades.
Median rent rose just 0.5% in June, year over year, after falling in May for the first time since the pandemic hit the U.S. Some economists project U.S. rents will be down modestly this year after soaring nearly 25% over the past four years.
A closer look, however, shows the trend will likely be little comfort for many U.S. renters who’ve had to put an increasing share of their income toward their monthly payment. Renters in cities such as Cincinnati and Indianapolis are still getting hit with increases of 5% or more. Much of the new construction is located in just a few metro areas, and many of the new units are luxury apartments, which rent for well north of $2,000.
Median U.S. rent has risen to $2,029 this June from $1,629 in June 2019, according to rental listings company Rent, which tracks rents in 50 of the largest U.S. metropolitan areas. Demand for apartments exploded during the pandemic as people who could work remotely sought more space or decided to relocate to another part of the country.
The steep rent increases have left tenants like Melissa Lombana, a high school teacher who lives in the South Florida city of Miramar, with progressively less income to spend on other needs.
The rent on her one-bedroom apartment jumped 13% last year to $1,700. It climbed another 6% to $1,800 this month when she renewed her lease.
“Even the $1,700 was a stretch for me,” said Lombana, 43, who supplements her teaching income with a side job doing educational testing. “In a year, I will not be able to afford living here at all.”
Lombana’s rent is now gobbling up nearly half her monthly income. That puts her in a category referred to as “cost-burdened” by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, denoting households that pay 30% or more of their income toward rent. Last year, the average rent-to-income ratio per household rose to 30%. This March, it was 29.6%.
Lombana hasn’t had any luck finding a more affordable apartment. While South Florida is one of the metropolitan areas seeing a rise in apartment construction, the units are mostly high-end and not a viable option.
That scenario is playing out across the nation. Developers are rushing to complete projects that were green-lit during the pandemic-era surge in demand for rentals or left in limbo by delays in supplies of fixtures and building materials. Nearly 1.1 million apartments are currently under construction, according to the commercial real estate tracker CoStar, a pace not seen since the 1970s.
Increasing the supply of apartments tends to moderate rent increases over time and can give tenants more options on where to live. But more than 40% of the new rentals to be completed this year will be concentrated in about 10 high job growth metropolitan areas, including Austin, Nashville, Denver, Atlanta and New York, according to Marcus & Millichap. In many areas, the boost to overall inventory will be barely noticeable.
Even within metros where there’ll be a notable increase in available apartments, such as Nashville, most of it will be in the luxury category, where rents average $2,270, nationally. Some 70% of the new rental inventory will be the luxury class, said Jay Lybik, national director of multifamily analytics at CoStar.
That will leave most tenants unlikely to see a big enough reduction in rent to make a difference, industry experts and economists say.
“I think we’re in a period of rent flattening for 12 or 18 months, but it’s certainly not a big rent decline,” said Hessam Nadji, CEO of commercial real estate firm Marcus & Millichap.
“We’re building a multi-decade record number of units,” Nadji said. “It’s going to cause some softening and some pockets of overbuilding, but it’s not going to fundamentally resolve the housing shortage or the affordability problem for renters across the U.S.”
The surge in rents has made it difficult for workers to keep up with inflation despite solid wage gains the past few years and exacerbated a long-term trend. Between 1999 and 2022, U.S. rents soared 135%, while income grew 77%, according to data from Moody’s Analytics.
Realtor.com is forecasting that rents will drop an average of 0.9% this year. But while down nationally, rents are still rising in many markets around the country, especially those where hiring remains robust.
In the New York metro area, the median rent climbed 4.7% in June from a year earlier to $2,899, according to Realtor.com. In the Midwest, rents surged 5.6% in the Cincinnati metro area to $1,188, and 6.9% to $1,350 in the Indianapolis metro area.
The current spike in apartment construction alone isn’t going to be enough to address how costly renting has become for many Americans.
“For the rest of the 2020s rents will continue to grow because millennials are such a big generation and we’re very much in the hole in terms of building housing for that generation,” said Daryl Fairweather, chief economist at Redfin. “It will take many good years of new construction to build adequate housing for millennials.”
The bigger challenge is building more work force housing, because the cost of land, labor and navigating the government approval process incentivize developers to put up luxury apartments buildings.
Expanding the supply of modestly priced rentals would help alleviate the strain from so many new apartments targeting renters with high incomes, “although additional subsidies will be needed to make housing affordable to households with the lowest incomes,” researchers at Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies wrote in a recent report.
Despite the overall pullback in U.S. rents, Joey Di Girolamo, in Pembroke Pines, Florida, worries that he’ll face more sharp rent increases in coming years.
Last year, the web designer left a two-bedroom, two-bath townhome he rented for $2,200 a month to avoid a $600 a month increase. This year, his rent went up by $200, a nearly 10% jump.
“That blew me away,” said Di Girolamo, 50. “I’m just kind of dreading what it’s going to be like next year, but especially 3 or 4 years from now.”
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Buckle up: New laws from seat belts to library books take effect in North Dakota
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Hundreds of new laws will take effect Tuesday in North Dakota, including greater enforcement of seat belt use and restrictions regarding gender identity, sexual content in public libraries and ownership of farmland by foreign entities.
North Dakota’s Republican-controlled Legislature adjourned April 30 after writing new laws and budgets for the next two years. Some contentious policy bills have already taken effect due to emergency clauses, which make legislation immediately into law when signed by the governor.
Among those already in effect are revised laws outlawing all abortions, except in cases where women could face death or a “serious health risk.” Another exception for pregnancies caused by rape and incest applies only in the first six weeks, before many women know they are pregnant.
Here is what to know about the new laws taking effect in North Dakota.
SEAT BELTS
North Dakota joins a majority of states with some form of a primary enforcement seat belt law, according to information from the Governors Highway Safety Association.
The state previously had secondary enforcement, meaning officers could cite front-seat occupants for not wearing a seat belt only after a previous traffic infraction, though there was primary enforcement for minors in all seats.
The new law will require all vehicle occupants to wear seat belts, not just those in front seats. The fine remains at $20.
The proposed change was a hot debate for years in the Legislature, involving arguments of safety versus personal freedom. The change initially will be one of education before transitioning to enforcement, said Burleigh County Sheriff Kelly Leben, who supported the legislation.
“One of the arguments is people always say we should have personal choice, but we regulate a lot of things in our society, and that’s just part of living in a modern society, is there’s going to be rules, and seat belts are proven, time and time again, that’s the one thing people can do that will make a difference in a crash,” Leben said.
The state government’s Vision Zero initiative aims to mitigate traffic deaths, with seat belts as one component.
North Dakota logged a 20-year low of 98 traffic deaths in 2022, according to preliminary data from the state Department of Transportation. Nearly 82% of front-seat vehicle occupants used seat belts in 2021, according to NDDOT data.
GENDER IDENTITY
The Legislature passed a raft of gender-related bills that will soon take effect.
Those include two bills restricting transgender girls and women from participating on school sports teams matching their gender identity.
Other new laws will restrict sex amendments on birth records and bar transgender people from using restrooms and showers aligning with their identity in correctional facilities and public college dormitories.
Another bill that took effect in May prohibits transgender K-12 students from using restrooms aligning with their gender identity, among other restrictions. The Fargo School Board indicated it will defy the law.
One other bill, which took effect in April, criminalizes sex reassignment surgeries and gender-affirming care for minors.
BOOK BANNING
Republican lawmakers targeted sexual content in public libraries with a new law for removing or relocating “explicit sexual material” from public libraries’ children’s collections.
Republican Gov. Doug Burgum, who vetoed a broader bill allowing misdemeanor charges against librarians, said the new law “standardizes the process for local public libraries to review material when requested by parents, library users or other members of the public — a process already in place and working at nearly all public libraries across the state.”
Fargo Public Library Director Tim Dirks consulted the city attorney regarding the library’s current policies for compliance with the new law, with which he said he feels comfortable. The law requires a “compliance report” from public libraries to a top legislative panel.
“I think the key thing for us is the existing policies and procedures that we have in place,” but it remains to be seen how people will respond, Dirks said. The library has about 300,000 items on its shelves at three branches, plus vast collections of electronic materials.
It’s unclear how many challenges might arise to library materials, Dirks said. Fargo’s public library has had one or two challenges per year.
Republican lawmakers decried books such as “This Book Is Gay” by Juno Dawson and “Gender Queer” by Maia Kobabe.
“What I always found incredible to this whole conversation ... is that in a society with the First Amendment, free and open, you have to understand you are going to run into things that you find offensive,” Dirks told The Associated Press. “Our job as the public library is to be representative as broadly as we can in terms of our society and our community.”
FOREIGN OWNERS OF FARMLAND
Two new laws will ban foreign governments and adversaries from owning land in North Dakota. The legislation came amid concerns of Chinese ties to a company’s proposed corn milling plant near the Grand Forks Air Force Base.
One law has exemptions for Canada and for agricultural research on no more than 160 acres (64.75 hectares).
The other law also bans local government boards from advancing foreign adversaries’ development plans during a two-year legislative study into related issues.
The new laws respond to constituents’ concerns but could create confusion for agribusiness companies with ties to foreign countries, Republican state Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring told the AP.
“It’s not a government that owns them, but it is a foreign entity, and the reality is all the work that they have to do for research ... they have to do at ground zero,” he said.
Goehring noted all land in the U.S. is agricultural land until designated otherwise and an area of 160 acres is not enough for extensive research.
Other states such as Hawaii, Iowa, Minnesota, Mississippi and Oklahoma also have laws banning foreign ownership of farmland.
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Top Player Prop Bets for Diamondbacks vs. Mariners on July 30, 2023
You can find player prop bet odds for Corbin Carroll, Julio Rodriguez and other players on the Arizona Diamondbacks and Seattle Mariners before their matchup at 4:10 PM ET on Sunday at Chase Field.
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Diamondbacks vs. Mariners Game Info
- When: Sunday, July 30, 2023 at 4:10 PM ET
- Where: Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona
- How to Watch on TV: ARID
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MLB Props Today: Arizona Diamondbacks
Merrill Kelly Props
- Strikeouts Prop: Over/Under 6.5 (Over Odds: +115)
Kelly Stats
- The Diamondbacks will send Merrill Kelly (9-4) to the mound for his 18th start this season.
- He has started 17 games this season, earning a quality start (6 or more IP, 3 or fewer ER) in 11 of them.
- Kelly will look to finish five or more innings for the 17th start in a row.
- He has made 17 appearances and finished one of them without allowing an earned run.
Kelly Recent Games
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Corbin Carroll Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -200)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +110)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +475)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +175)
Carroll Stats
- Carroll has 21 doubles, five triples, 21 home runs, 39 walks and 57 RBI (103 total hits). He's also stolen 31 bases.
- He has a slash line of .288/.367/.550 so far this season.
Carroll Recent Games
Ketel Marte Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -222)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +110)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +500)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +195)
Marte Stats
- Ketel Marte has 112 hits with 18 doubles, seven triples, 17 home runs, 45 walks and 55 RBI. He's also stolen six bases.
- He's slashed .296/.376/.516 so far this year.
- Marte brings a two-game streak with at least one hit into this one. During his last five outings he is batting .400 with a triple and three walks.
Marte Recent Games
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MLB Props Today: Seattle Mariners
Julio Rodríguez Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -263)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -105)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +425)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +165)
Rodríguez Stats
- Rodriguez has 106 hits with 21 doubles, a triple, 17 home runs, 33 walks and 55 RBI. He's also stolen 24 bases.
- He has a slash line of .252/.317/.428 on the year.
- Rodriguez has recorded at least one hit in seven games in a row. During his last 10 outings he is batting .286 with three doubles, four home runs, two walks and five RBI.
Rodríguez Recent Games
J.P. Crawford Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -196)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +115)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +850)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +225)
Crawford Stats
- J.P. Crawford has put up 91 hits with 24 doubles, eight home runs and 59 walks. He has driven in 35 runs with one stolen base.
- He's slashed .261/.371/.399 on the season.
- Crawford brings a four-game streak with at least one hit into this one. In his last five games he is hitting .263 with three doubles and four walks.
Crawford Recent Games
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Fever vs. Storm: Odds, spread, over/under and other Vegas lines - July 30
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 8:36 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
On Sunday, July 30, 2023 at Gainbridge Fieldhouse, the Indiana Fever (6-18) will be attempting to stop a three-game losing streak when hosting the Seattle Storm (5-19). It will air at 4:00 PM ET on ESPN3, FOX13+, and Prime Video.
In this article, you can find the spread and odds across multiple sportsbooks for the Fever vs. Storm matchup.
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Fever vs. Storm Game Info
- Game Day: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Game Time: 4:00 PM ET
- TV Channel: ESPN3, FOX13+, and Prime Video
- Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
- Arena: Gainbridge Fieldhouse
Fever vs. Storm Odds, Spread, Over/Under
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Fever vs. Storm Betting Trends
- The Fever have won 13 games against the spread this season, while failing to cover nine times.
- The Storm have covered 12 times in 23 matchups with a spread this season.
- Indiana has not covered the spread when favored by 3.5 points or more this season (in one opportunity).
- Seattle has an ATS record of 11-8 when playing as at least 3.5-point underdogs this season.
- So far this season, 12 out of the Fever's 23 games have hit the over.
- So far this year, 11 out of the Storm's 23 games with an over/under have gone over the point total.
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Vehicle pursuit leads to crash in construction zone and serious injuries for driver in Mountrail County
MOUNTRAIL COUNTY, N.D. (KFYR) - After a driver fled at a high rate of speed from a police officer Friday night in northwest North Dakota, they crashed in a construction zone and sustained serious injuries.
The North Dakota Highway Patrol said that a Stanley police officer initially attempted to conduct a traffic stop in Stanley on a pickup truck driven by 31-year-old Sidney Bowman from Conrad, Montana. However, Bowman fled westbound on Highway 2 at speeds in excess of 100 mph, the Highway Patrol said.
The crash report states that shortly after 11 p.m., the pickup entered a 45 mph speed limit construction zone about 20 miles west of Stanley on Highway 2, still traveling at a high rate of speed. The Highway Patrol said Bowman failed to negotiate the reduced speed zone and the pickup left the roadway.
NDHP said the pickup entered the median and struck a steel bridge guardrail that prevented the vehicle from traveling off the bridge into the White Earth River. Bowman was left with serious injuries and transported by ambulance to Tioga Medical Center, then taken by air to Trinity Health in Minot.
The Highway Patrol said Bowman is charged with fleeing a peace officer, DUI-Felony, driving under revocation, reckless endangerment, and multiple weapons violations.
The crash remains under investigation by the North Dakota Highway Patrol.
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Mercury vs. Sky: Odds, spread, over/under and other Vegas lines - July 30
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 5:36 AM MST|Updated: 1 hour ago
The Phoenix Mercury (6-17) will visit the Chicago Sky (9-15) after dropping eight consecutive road games. The matchup starts at 4:00 PM ET on Sunday, July 30, 2023.
In this article, you will find odds and spreads for the Mercury vs. Sky matchup across multiple sportsbooks.
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Mercury vs. Sky Game Info
- Game Day: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Game Time: 4:00 PM ET
- TV Channel: ESPN3 and AZFamily
- Location: Chicago, Illinois
- Arena: Wintrust Arena
Mercury vs. Sky Odds, Spread, Over/Under
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Mercury vs. Sky Betting Trends
- The Sky have covered 11 times in 23 games with a spread this season.
- The Mercury have compiled a 7-15-0 ATS record so far this season.
- Phoenix has covered the spread twice this season (2-5 ATS) when playing as at least 7.5-point underdogs.
- In the Sky's 23 games this season, the combined scoring has gone over the point total 10 times.
- In the Mercury's 22 chances this season, the combined scoring has gone over the point total nine times.
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Top Player Prop Bets for Reds vs. Dodgers on July 30, 2023
Player prop betting options for Freddie Freeman, Spencer Steer and others are available in the Los Angeles Dodgers-Cincinnati Reds matchup at Dodger Stadium on Sunday, starting at 4:10 PM ET.
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Reds vs. Dodgers Game Info
- When: Sunday, July 30, 2023 at 4:10 PM ET
- Where: Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California
- How to Watch on TV: SportsNet LA
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MLB Props Today: Cincinnati Reds
Spencer Steer Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -233)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +115)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +550)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +170)
Steer Stats
- Steer has 103 hits with 20 doubles, two triples, 15 home runs, 44 walks and 57 RBI. He's also stolen nine bases.
- He's slashing .276/.361/.461 so far this season.
Steer Recent Games
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MLB Props Today: Los Angeles Dodgers
Michael Grove Props
- Strikeouts Prop: Over/Under 4.5 (Over Odds: -169)
Grove Stats
- The Dodgers will send Michael Grove (2-2) to the mound for his 11th start this season.
- In 10 starts this season, Grove has not yet earned a quality start.
- In 10 starts, Grove has pitched through or past the fifth inning six times. He has a season average of 4.3 frames per outing.
- He has one appearance with no earned runs allowed in 13 chances this season.
Grove Recent Games
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Freddie Freeman Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 1.5 (Over Odds: +160)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -141)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +450)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +145)
Freeman Stats
- Freeman has 135 hits with 35 doubles, two triples, 21 home runs and 51 walks. He has driven in 73 runs with 12 stolen bases.
- He's slashed .328/.409/.577 so far this season.
Freeman Recent Games
Mookie Betts Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 1.5 (Over Odds: +170)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -164)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +320)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +135)
Betts Stats
- Mookie Betts has 107 hits with 26 doubles, a triple, 27 home runs and 65 walks. He has driven in 68 runs with seven stolen bases.
- He's slashing .277/.383/.560 on the season.
- Betts takes a seven-game streak with at least one hit into this one. In his last 10 games he is batting .200 with three doubles, nine walks and three RBI.
Betts Recent Games
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Twins vs. Royals Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - July 30
Sunday's contest that pits the Minnesota Twins (54-52) versus the Kansas City Royals (31-75) at Kauffman Stadium has a good chance to be a close matchup based on our computer prediction, which projects a final score of 5-3 in favor of the Twins. First pitch is at 2:10 PM ET on July 30.
The Twins will give the nod to Kenta Maeda (2-5, 4.62 ERA), who is eyeing win No. 3 on the season, and the Royals will turn to Ryan Yarbrough (3-5, 4.70 ERA).
Twins vs. Royals Game Info & Odds
- When: Sunday, July 30, 2023 at 2:10 PM ET
- Where: Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri
- How to Watch on TV: BSKC
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Twins vs. Royals Score Prediction
Our prediction for this game is Twins 5, Royals 4.
Total Prediction for Twins vs. Royals
- Total Prediction: Under 9 runs
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Twins Performance Insights
- The Twins have played as the favorite in eight of their past 10 games and have gone 4-4 in those contests.
- When it comes to hitting the over, Minnesota and its opponents are 7-3-0 in its last 10 games with a total.
- Sportsbooks have not set a spread for any of the Twins' last 10 games.
- The Twins have been favorites in 68 games this season and won 41 (60.3%) of those contests.
- Minnesota has entered 20 games this season favored by -175 or more and is 12-8 in those contests.
- Sportsbooks have implied with the moneyline set for this matchup that the Twins have a 63.6% chance to win.
- Minnesota has scored the 17th-most runs in the majors this season with 469 (4.4 per game).
- The Twins have the seventh-ranked team ERA across all league pitching staffs (3.88).
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Mercury vs. Sky Injury Report, Betting Odds - July 30
The Phoenix Mercury's (6-17) injury report has two players listed ahead of their Sunday, July 30 matchup with the Chicago Sky (9-15) at Wintrust Arena. The game tips at 4:00 PM ET.
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The Mercury's last game was a 78-65 loss to the Dream on Tuesday.
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Mercury vs. Sky Game Info
- Game Day: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Game Time: 4:00 PM ET
- TV Channel: ESPN3 and AZFamily
- Location: Chicago, Illinois
- Arena: Wintrust Arena
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Mercury Player Leaders
- Brittney Griner is posting team highs in points (18.2 per game) and assists (2). And she is contributing 6.7 rebounds, making 57.5% of her shots from the field (second in WNBA).
- Sug Sutton is No. 1 on the Mercury in assists (4.8 per game), and puts up 8.4 points and 2.6 rebounds. She also delivers 0.7 steals and 0.1 blocked shots.
- The Mercury receive 9.7 points, 4.3 rebounds and 1.5 assists per game from Michaela Onyenwere.
- The Mercury receive 9 points, 1.7 rebounds and 2.8 assists per game from Moriah Jefferson.
Mercury vs. Sky Betting Info
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How to Watch the Twins vs. Royals Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for July 30
Kenta Maeda takes the mound for the Minnesota Twins on Sunday at Kauffman Stadium against Michael Massey and the Kansas City Royals. First pitch is at 2:10 PM ET.
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Twins vs. Royals Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info:
- Date: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Time: 2:10 PM ET
- TV Channel: BSKC
- Location: Kansas City, Missouri
- Venue: Kauffman Stadium
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Twins Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Twins rank eighth in MLB play with 140 home runs. They average 1.3 per game.
- Minnesota is 13th in MLB with a .413 slugging percentage.
- The Twins have the 21st-ranked batting average in the majors (.237).
- Minnesota ranks 17th in runs scored with 469 (4.4 per game).
- The Twins rank 20th in baseball with a .315 on-base percentage.
- Twins hitters strike out 10.4 times per game, the most in MLB.
- The pitching staff for Minnesota has a collective 9.7 K/9, the first-best in MLB.
- Minnesota's 3.88 team ERA ranks seventh across all MLB pitching staffs.
- The Twins have the lowest WHIP in the majors (1.185).
Twins Probable Starting Pitcher
- Maeda (2-5 with a 4.62 ERA and 58 strikeouts in 48 2/3 innings pitched) makes the start for the Twins, his 11th of the season.
- His last appearance was on Monday against the Seattle Mariners, when the right-hander tossed 6 1/3 innings, surrendering one earned run while allowing six hits.
- Maeda is seeking his third quality start in a row.
- Maeda will aim to pitch five or more innings for his third straight start. He's averaging 4.8 innings per outing.
- He has made one appearance this season in which he did not surrender an earned run.
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Twins vs. Royals: Odds, spread, over/under - July 30
Kansas City Royals (31-75) will play the Minnesota Twins (54-52) at Kauffman Stadium on Sunday, July 30 at 2:10 PM ET. Currently sitting at 29 steals, Bobby Witt Jr. will be looking to swipe his 30th stolen base of the year.
The favored Twins have -185 moneyline odds against the underdog Royals, who are listed at +150. A 9-run total is set for the matchup.
Twins vs. Royals Time and TV Channel
- Date: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Time: 2:10 PM ET
- TV: BSKC
- Location: Kansas City, Missouri
- Venue: Kauffman Stadium
- Probable Pitchers: Kenta Maeda - MIN (2-5, 4.62 ERA) vs Ryan Yarbrough - KC (3-5, 4.70 ERA)
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Twins vs. Royals Betting Odds, Run Line and Total
Here's a look at the odds, run line and over/under for this matchup across multiple sportsbooks.
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Twins vs. Royals Betting Trends and Insights
- This season, the Twins have been favored 68 times and won 41, or 60.3%, of those games.
- The Twins have an 11-7 record (winning 61.1% of their games) when they have played as moneyline favorites of -185 or shorter.
- The implied probability of a win from Minnesota, based on the moneyline, is 64.9%.
- The Twins were the moneyline favorite for eight of their last 10 games, and they went 4-4 in those matchups.
- Over its last 10 outings, Minnesota and its opponents combined to go over the run total seven times (all 10 of the games had set totals).
- The Royals have been chosen as underdogs in 93 games this year and have walked away with the win 28 times (30.1%) in those games.
- This year, the Royals have won 11 of 42 games when listed as at least +150 or worse on the moneyline.
- The Royals have played as underdogs in 10 of their past 10 games and won three of those contests.
- When it comes to hitting the over, Kansas City and its opponents are 5-5-0 in the last 10 games with a total.
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QUINTANA, Texas — A massive, stranded loggerhead sea turtle was rescued by volunteers Saturday morning off the Texas coast.
Officials in Brazoria County said a friend of the park and a turtle rescue volunteer spotted it on Quintana Beach and immediately contacted the Gulf Center for Sea Turtle Research.
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The group was able to lift the loggerhead and transport it to the research center for care.
Park officials want to remind beachgoers that if they see an injured, stranded, or nesting sea turtle on the coast, call 1-866-TURTLE-5 and listen to the options until they can be connected with the proper rescue group in the area.
Loggerhead sea turtles are one of five species that inhabit the Gulf of Mexico. Adults grow about three feet long and weigh up to 350 pounds. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/life/animals/loggerhead-sea-turtle-rescued-quintana-beach-texas/285-23db1c12-9913-411d-9c48-21af05db2c53 | 2023-07-30T13:41:10 | 0 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/life/animals/loggerhead-sea-turtle-rescued-quintana-beach-texas/285-23db1c12-9913-411d-9c48-21af05db2c53 |
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The Little Rock Animal Village (LRAV) reunited a Texas family with its loving furbaby on Friday.
Jill, who has been missing for two years, found her way back to the family thanks to a microchip.
"We love a happy ending," said Friends of the Animal Village, a nonprofit dedicated to providing supplemental support to LRAV. "Microchips make them possible. Please microchip your pets, and be sure to register them."
According to Friends of the Animal Village, the family drove from Texas to Little Rock to pick up Jill after receiving the phone call Thursday afternoon. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/life/heartwarming/lrav-reunites-dog-with-family/91-c1044a2f-a5ab-4530-868f-ed5a570cc20f | 2023-07-30T13:41:16 | 1 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/life/heartwarming/lrav-reunites-dog-with-family/91-c1044a2f-a5ab-4530-868f-ed5a570cc20f |
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — 109 days after a mass shooting in downtown Louisville, a young police officer who was critically injured during a shootout with the gunman was released from the hospital after months of "remarkable" recovery.
On April 10, 2023, Louisville Metro Police Officer Nickolas Wilt, 26, responded to the shooting at Old National Bank when he was shot. He was then rushed to UofL Hospital, where he remained in critical condition for nearly a month.
After multiple surgeries and procedures at UofL Hospital and Jewish Hospital, his condition improved enough to be transferred to Frazier Rehabilitation Institute on May 10 to start neuro and physical rehabilitation, health officials said in a press release.
Officials said Wilt is still recovering from a traumatic brain injury and will continue his therapy at Frazier Rehabilitation Institute through outpatient care. In total, Wilt spent more than three and a half months recovering in the hospital.
On Friday, Wilt's brother, Zack Wilt, spoke on behalf of the family crediting the doctors at UofL Health for helping bring their brother home. "Nothing short of miracle work they do," he said.
"Nick gets to go home today, sleep in his own bed with his own TV -- and he's been asking for a steak dinner for a couple of weeks now," Zack said. "You bet we're gonna get him a steak dinner tonight."
BELOW: Check out the emotional moment as Wilt left the hospital.
Despite the long road ahead of him, Zack said his brother is more than ready to tackle the marathon head-on.
"Just a few days ago one of the therapists told us, she's been pulling teeth to get people out of bed, to get people to do what they need to do to heal. And those people have only been here for a few weeks," he said. "Nick has been here [months] he's in his chair ready to go and out the door with the therapist."
Zack joked about Wilt's catchphrase every time he's wheeled out of his room, "He goes, 'Let's boogie-woogie,' like he is ready to go. And that's just his mentality, he's ready to go."
"Officer Wilt is a hero in every sense of the word and I'm humbled to be here to celebrate his huge step forward in his recovery," Jim Ryan, CEO of Old National Bank, said.
Ryan called Wilt's release an answered prayer. He said the last few months have been very difficult on the Louisville bank team.
Dr. Darryl Kaelin, medical director at Frazier Rehabilitation Institute said Wilt's long-term prognosis is very good.
"Over the weeks and months to come, he is going to become more and more independent, I truly believe that there is no limits to the potential of what he can achieve, I would put no restrictions on his ability," Kaelin said. "Having said that, there will probably be long-term deficits, will he be back to 100%? Probably not...but that doesn't in any way say that he has not made a remarkable recovery so far and that he won't in the months and years to come."
He also said there is still a lot of work to be done. "Will he be at a level that if you met him you knew he had a brain injury? Maybe not. But there might be some signs and symptoms that he can tell and others can tell that he's not the way he was before."
On Thursday, LMPD made a post on Facebook saying this was the day they were "praying" for.
"The Wilt family has felt so much love and support from so many people and would like to extend an invite to all LMPD, all first responders, as well as the entire community to attend a celebration of Ofc. Wilt returning home!" a portion of the statement said.
LMPD Chief Jaquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel said at Friday's press conference that she appreciated the outpouring of support and love the department and Wilt's family received over the past few months.
"Your prayers were needed, and your prayers were welcomed," she said.
Dozens in the community gathered along the family's route home to celebrate Wilt's homecoming.
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SWANTON, Ohio — In the little library on Chestnut Street, there is a new employee with a personality that is anything but small.
With gray hair, green eyes, youthful energy and four little paws, he may be the cutest employee, too.
Meet Benny the cat, Swanton Public Library's newest reader.
Benny is a 3-month-old tuxedo kitten who was found as a stray after being thrown out of a moving truck. Luckily for him, the Wood County Humane Society found him and helped him recover.
And luckily for the kids, library-goers, and anyone else in Swanton who loves books and cats, the person who eventually adopted Benny had ties to the local library.
Anna Burwell is the adult services coordinator for Swanton Public Library and is also Benny's human. Not long after Burwell started bringing Benny to work, the kitten took the initiative and started helping out the best way he knew how: being adorable.
"The kids love him," Burwell said. "People tend to react really well to animals."
And Benny reacts well to his new routine, too. While not technically on the payroll, he does have duties. He starts each shift by making his rounds around the library by zooming through the empty bottom shelves of the bookcases and chasing the children before settling down for storytime.
"He likes to pop in to see what the kids are up to then passes out," Burwell said.
In just a couple of short weeks, Benny has made a big impression.
"We've had a couple of people come up to the desk and ask for him," Burwell said.
The library hopes to train Benny as an official therapy cat and, of course, hopes he encourages the children to read.
"Benny is a good listener. He makes the children feel comfortable," Burwell said.
So the next time you find yourself in Swanton ready to check out your next book, stop by the little library on Chestnut and also check out Benny the cat. He may have the purr-fect book for you. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/life/heartwarming/swanton-library-benny-the-cat/512-2f39a0c6-3a2f-4c5a-a780-ccc2e078ff09 | 2023-07-30T13:41:28 | 0 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/life/heartwarming/swanton-library-benny-the-cat/512-2f39a0c6-3a2f-4c5a-a780-ccc2e078ff09 |
COLUMBIA, S.C. — With less than a month to go until the first Republican presidential debate of the 2024 campaign, seven candidates say they have met qualifications for a spot on stage in Milwaukee.
But that also means that about half the broad GOP field is running short on time to make the cut.
To qualify for the Aug. 23 debate, candidates needed to satisfy polling and donor requirements set by the Republican National Committee: at least 1% in three high-quality national polls or a mix of national and early-state polls, between July 1 and Aug. 21, and a minimum of 40,000 donors, with 200 in 20 or more states.
A look at who's in, who's (maybe) out and who's still working on making it:
WHO'S QUALIFIED
DONALD TRUMP
The current front-runner long ago satisfied the polling and donor thresholds. But he is considering boycotting and holding a competing event.
Campaign advisers have said the former president has not made a final decision about the debate. One noted that “it’s pretty clear,” based on Trump's public and private statements, that he is unlikely to appear with the other candidates.
“If you’re leading by a lot, what’s the purpose of doing it?” Trump asked on Newsmax.
In the meantime, aides have discussed potential alternative programming if Trump opts for a rival event. One option Trump has floated is an interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who now has a program on X, the site formerly known as Twitter.
RON DESANTIS
The Florida governor has long been seen as Trump's top rival, finishing a distant second to him in a series of polls in early-voting states, as well as national polls, and raising an impressive amount of money.
But DeSantis' campaign has struggled in recent weeks to live up to the sky-high expectations that awaited him when he entered the race. He let go of more than one-third of his staff as federal filings showed his campaign was burning through cash at an unsustainable rate.
If Trump is absent, DeSantis may be the top target on stage at the debate.
TIM SCOTT
The South Carolina senator has been looking for a breakout moment. The first debate could be his chance.
A prolific fundraiser, Scott enters the summer with $21 million cash on hand.
In one debate-approved poll in Iowa, Scott joined Trump and DeSantis in reaching double digits. The senator has focused much of his campaign resources on the leadoff GOP voting state, which is dominated by white evangelical voters.
NIKKI HALEY
She has blitzed early-voting states with campaign events, walking crowds through her electoral successes ousting a longtime incumbent South Carolina lawmaker, then becoming the state's first woman and first minority governor. Also serving as Trump's U.N. ambassador for about two years, Haley frequently cites her international experience, arguing about the threat China poses to the United States.
The only woman in the GOP race, Haley has said transgender students competing in sports is “the women’s issue of our time” and has drawn praise from a leading anti-abortion group, which called her “uniquely gifted at communicating from a pro-life woman’s perspective.”
Bringing in $15.6 million since the start of her campaign, Haley's campaign says she has “well over 40,000 unique donors" and has satisfied the debate polling requirements.
VIVEK RAMASWAMY
The biotech entrepreneur and author of “Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America’s Social Justice Scam” is an audience favorite at multicandidate events and has polled well despite not being nationally known when he entered the race.
Ramaswamy's campaign says he met the donor threshold earlier this year. He recently rolled out “Vivek's Kitchen Cabinet" to boost his donor numbers even more, by letting fundraisers keep 10% of what they bring in for his campaign.
CHRIS CHRISTIE
The former New Jersey governor opened his campaign by portraying himself as the only candidate ready to take on Trump. Christie called on the former president to “show up at the debates and defend his record.”
Christie will be on that stage, even if Trump isn't, telling CNN this month that he surpassed “40,000 unique donors in just 35 days.” He also has met the polling requirements.
DOUG BURGUM
Burgum, a wealthy former software entrepreneur now in his second term as North Dakota’s governor, has been using his fortune to boost his campaign.
He announced a program this month to give away $20 gift cards — “Biden Relief Cards,” as a critique of President Joe Biden’s handling of the economy — to as many as 50,000 people in exchange for $1 donations. Critics have questioned whether the offer violated campaign finance law.
Within about a week of launching that effort, Burgum announced he had surpassed the donor threshold. Ad blitzes in the early-voting states also helped him meet the polling requirements.
WHO HASN'T QUALIFIED:
MIKE PENCE
Trump's vice president has met the polling threshold but has yet to amass a sufficient number of donors, raising the possibility that he might not qualify for the party's first debate.
Pence and his advisers have expressed confidence he will do so, noting that most other Republican hopefuls took a month or two of being active candidates to meet the mark. Pence entered the race on June 7, the same day as Burgum and one day after Christie.
“We’re making incredible progress toward that goal. We’re not there yet,” Pence told CNN in a recent interview. “We will make it. I will see you at that debate stage."
ASA HUTCHINSON
According to his campaign, the former two-term Arkansas governor has met the polling requirements but is working on satisfying the donor threshold. As of Wednesday, Hutchinson marked more than 11,000 unique donors.
Hutchinson is running in the mold of an old-school Republican and has differentiated himself from many of his GOP rivals in his willingness to criticize Trump. He has posted pleas on Twitter for $1 donations to help secure his slot.
FRANCIS SUAREZ
The Miami mayor has been one of the more creative candidates in his efforts to boost his donor numbers. He offered up a chance to see Argentine soccer legend Lionel Messi’s debut as a player for Inter Miami, saying donors who gave $1 would be entered in a chance to get front-row tickets.
Still shy of the donor threshold, he took a page from Burgum’s playbook by offering a $20 “Bidenomics Relief Card” in return for $1 donations. A super political action committee supporting Suarez launched a sweepstakes for a chance at up to $15,000 in tuition, in exchange for a $1 donation to Suarez’s campaign.
Suarez's campaign did not return a message seeking details on his number of donors or qualifying polls.
LARRY ELDER
The conservative radio host wrote in an op-ed that the RNC “has rigged the rules of the game by instituting a set of criteria that is so onerous and poorly designed that only establishment-backed and billionaire candidates are guaranteed to be on stage.”
His campaign last week declined to detail its number of donors, saying only that there had been "a strong increase the last few weeks.” He has not met the polling requirements.
PERRY JOHNSON
Johnson, a wealthy but largely unknown businessman from Michigan, said in a recent social media post that he had notched 23,000 donors and was “confident” he would make the debate stage. He added that all donors were “eligible to attend my free concert in Iowa featuring” country duo Big & Rich next month.
Johnson, who has reached 1% in one qualifying poll, has also offered to give copies of his book “Two Cents to Save America” to anyone who donated to his campaign.
WILL HURD
The former Texas congressman — the last candidate to enter the race, on June 22 — has said repeatedly that he would not pledge to support the eventual GOP nominee, a stance that would keep him off the stage even if he had the qualifying donor and polling numbers. | https://www.12news.com/article/news/nation-world/republican-presidential-candidates-august-gop-debate/507-705744a6-d4a1-4333-af89-210923a3d87b | 2023-07-30T13:41:31 | 0 | https://www.12news.com/article/news/nation-world/republican-presidential-candidates-august-gop-debate/507-705744a6-d4a1-4333-af89-210923a3d87b |
(CNN) — An American nurse and her child have been kidnapped in Haiti, according to El Roi Haiti, the Christian humanitarian aid organization she works for.
Alix Dorsainvil, wife of El Roi Haiti Director Sandro Dorsainvil, and their child were reportedly abducted Thursday morning, according to a statement on El Roi Haiti’s website.
The two were taken while serving in their community ministry on El Roi Haiti’s campus near capital city Port-au-Prince, the post read.
“Alix is a deeply compassionate and loving person who considers Haiti her home and the Haitian people her friends and family. Alix has worked tirelessly as our school and community nurse to bring relief to those who are suffering as she loves and serves the people of Haiti in the name of Jesus,” the statement said.
Dorsainvil, originally a nurse from New Hampshire, moved to Haiti after her husband invited her to a Haitian school to provide nursing care for the children, Dorsainvil said in a video on the organization’s website.
US authorities are aware of the abductions and are working with Haitian authorities and U.S. government interagency partners, according to a statement given to CNN by a State Department spokesperson.
“The U.S. Department of State and our embassies and consulates abroad have no higher priority than the safety and security of U.S. citizens overseas,” the spokesperson said. | https://www.channel3000.com/news/national-and-world-news/american-nurse-and-child-kidnapped-in-haiti/article_9641b721-c47b-5752-a6ce-8b2ab300eab9.html | 2023-07-30T13:41:33 | 1 | https://www.channel3000.com/news/national-and-world-news/american-nurse-and-child-kidnapped-in-haiti/article_9641b721-c47b-5752-a6ce-8b2ab300eab9.html |
Video captured by a bystander shows the moment a drone hits a building in Moscow, the latest in a series of attacks that have brought the Ukraine war to Russia's capital.
(CNN) — Russia says Ukraine targeted Moscow with drones on Sunday, the latest in a series of attacks that have brought the Ukraine war to Russia’s capital.
The Russian Defense Ministry said three drones were intercepted but a business and shopping development in the west of the capital was hit. The fifth and sixth floor of a 50-story building were damaged, and no casualties were reported, state news agency TASS reported.
Videos showed debris as well as emergency services at the scene.
A spokesman for Ukraine’s Air Force said the latest drone attacks on Moscow were aimed at impacting Russians who, since the Kremlin invaded Ukraine in February 2022, felt the war was distant.
“There’s always something flying in Russia, as well as in Moscow. Now the war is affecting those who were not concerned,” the spokesman, Yurii Ihnat, said on Ukrainian television.
“No matter how the Russian authorities would like to turn a blind eye on this by saying they have intercepted everything … something does hit.”
Ukraine’s military has increasingly been deploying unmanned aerial vehicles for more than just reconnaissance.
Ukrainian Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, whose Digital Transformation Ministry oversees the country’s “Army of Drones” procurement plan, had said there would be more drone strikes to come as Kyiv ramps up a summer counteroffensive aimed at pushing Russian troops out of Ukrainian territory.
Moscow was targeted earlier this week. Ukraine claimed responsibility for a strike on Monday that hit two non-residential buildings, including one near the Ministry of Defense headquarter. Russia called that incident a “terrorist attack,” although the Kremlin’s military actions in Ukraine have regularly caused civilian casualties.
A Russian missile attack in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy late on Saturday killed at least two people civilian and injured another 20, while a rocket strike on Zaporizhzhia left another two people dead.
Both areas had been subject to lengthy bombardments over the weekend. Ukrainian authorities in Sumy said there had been 25 instances of shelling in a single day, while a military leader in Zaporizhzhia said Russian forces had carried out 77 attacks on 20 settlements across the Zaporizhzhia, hitting 31 residential buildings and other pieces of infrastructure.
Though the strikes in Moscow did not reportedly cause any injuries or fatalities, they have unsettled residents of the Russian capital.
One witness to Sunday’s attack explained how the incident upended some planned down time.
“My friends and I rented an apartment to come here and unwind, and at some point, we heard an explosion – it was like a wave, everyone jumped,” she told Reuters. “There was a lot of smoke, and you couldn’t see anything. From above, you could see fire.”
Ukrainian drones also targeted the Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula on Sunday.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said it intercepted 25 unmanned aerial vehicles over the territory, which Moscow illegally annexed from Ukraine in 2014, shooting down 16 of them with air defense systems.
The other nine crashed into the Black Sea after their signals were jammed by electronic warfare equipment, according to the ministry. There do not appear to have been any casualties, but CNN has not been able to verify claims made by Russia’s Defense Ministry. | https://www.channel3000.com/news/national-and-world-news/moscow-targeted-again-as-kyiv-steps-up-drone-attacks-inside-russia/article_97cf3d9f-5815-54f6-b638-b7ee109f027a.html | 2023-07-30T13:41:33 | 0 | https://www.channel3000.com/news/national-and-world-news/moscow-targeted-again-as-kyiv-steps-up-drone-attacks-inside-russia/article_97cf3d9f-5815-54f6-b638-b7ee109f027a.html |
TEMPLE, Texas — Two Central Texas soccer coaches are giving back to the community by hosting a charity soccer tournament event for the third year in a row. It's all to help raise funds for a specific family or group in need.
Centex Storm soccer coaches, Abby and Jonathan Hernandez chose Maddie Proctor this year, a young girl who suffers from Rett syndrome. She is 1 out of 350,000 children in the world with this diagnosis.
"Our close friend let us know about what was going on with Maddie, and it was just a no brainer that we wanted her to be our cause this year," Abby Hernandez said. "Our win is giving whatever we can to donate to Maddie."
Rett syndrome is a rare disorder leading to severe impairments. It affects nearly every aspect of life, including the ability to speak, walk, eat and breathe easily.
"For Maddie's specific deletion, there are 47 registered girls in the world, 47 with her specific deletion," Adriene Proctor, Maddie's mother, said.
Maddie Proctor is in eight therapies a week. Through daily physical therapy and a gait trainer, she is currently learning to walk.
"It is so important for her to get therapy every single day, occupational therapy and physical therapy to help her learn to keep that preserved hand movement to help with the preserved speech," Adriene Proctor added.
While the therapy is essential for children like Maddie, it comes at a high price. But with the help of the Hernandez family and a strong community, Maddie and her family will be able to continue the fight.
"They are giving my child additional years on her life," Adriene Proctor said. "That's priceless."
The GoFundMe for Maddie can be found here.
Adriene Proctor says as much as she appreciates the awareness and attention, there are other matters out there and wants to speak out for those who don't always get the chance to be heard.
"Bell County has an influx of special needs families due to being home to McLane Children's Hospital as well as Fort Hood (Fort Cavazos)," Adriene Proctor said. "With Maddie's new diagnosis, we want to take our family pain and strife and turn it into something beautiful. We not only want to be Maddie's voice, but we want to be a voice for all families and children who fight daily for things we all take for granted."
More ways to help in the community: | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/community/central-texas-soccer-coaches-host-soccer-tournament-charity/500-dbafaaf0-943b-4bfd-a9bb-42d53ffe5615 | 2023-07-30T13:41:34 | 0 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/community/central-texas-soccer-coaches-host-soccer-tournament-charity/500-dbafaaf0-943b-4bfd-a9bb-42d53ffe5615 |
A boom in apartment construction is helping to curb rents but not all renters will benefit
LOS ANGELES (AP) — When viewed through a wide lens, renters across the U.S. finally appear to be getting some relief, thanks in part to the biggest apartment construction boom in decades.
Median rent rose just 0.5% in June, year over year, after falling in May for the first time since the pandemic hit the U.S. Some economists project U.S. rents will be down modestly this year after soaring nearly 25% over the past four years.
A closer look, however, shows the trend will likely be little comfort for many U.S. renters who’ve had to put an increasing share of their income toward their monthly payment. Renters in cities such as Cincinnati and Indianapolis are still getting hit with increases of 5% or more. Much of the new construction is located in just a few metro areas, and many of the new units are luxury apartments, which rent for well north of $2,000.
Median U.S. rent has risen to $2,029 this June from $1,629 in June 2019, according to rental listings company Rent, which tracks rents in 50 of the largest U.S. metropolitan areas. Demand for apartments exploded during the pandemic as people who could work remotely sought more space or decided to relocate to another part of the country.
The steep rent increases have left tenants like Melissa Lombana, a high school teacher who lives in the South Florida city of Miramar, with progressively less income to spend on other needs.
The rent on her one-bedroom apartment jumped 13% last year to $1,700. It climbed another 6% to $1,800 this month when she renewed her lease.
“Even the $1,700 was a stretch for me,” said Lombana, 43, who supplements her teaching income with a side job doing educational testing. “In a year, I will not be able to afford living here at all.”
Lombana’s rent is now gobbling up nearly half her monthly income. That puts her in a category referred to as “cost-burdened” by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, denoting households that pay 30% or more of their income toward rent. Last year, the average rent-to-income ratio per household rose to 30%. This March, it was 29.6%.
Lombana hasn’t had any luck finding a more affordable apartment. While South Florida is one of the metropolitan areas seeing a rise in apartment construction, the units are mostly high-end and not a viable option.
That scenario is playing out across the nation. Developers are rushing to complete projects that were green-lit during the pandemic-era surge in demand for rentals or left in limbo by delays in supplies of fixtures and building materials. Nearly 1.1 million apartments are currently under construction, according to the commercial real estate tracker CoStar, a pace not seen since the 1970s.
Increasing the supply of apartments tends to moderate rent increases over time and can give tenants more options on where to live. But more than 40% of the new rentals to be completed this year will be concentrated in about 10 high job growth metropolitan areas, including Austin, Nashville, Denver, Atlanta and New York, according to Marcus & Millichap. In many areas, the boost to overall inventory will be barely noticeable.
Even within metros where there’ll be a notable increase in available apartments, such as Nashville, most of it will be in the luxury category, where rents average $2,270, nationally. Some 70% of the new rental inventory will be the luxury class, said Jay Lybik, national director of multifamily analytics at CoStar.
That will leave most tenants unlikely to see a big enough reduction in rent to make a difference, industry experts and economists say.
“I think we’re in a period of rent flattening for 12 or 18 months, but it’s certainly not a big rent decline,” said Hessam Nadji, CEO of commercial real estate firm Marcus & Millichap.
“We’re building a multi-decade record number of units,” Nadji said. “It’s going to cause some softening and some pockets of overbuilding, but it’s not going to fundamentally resolve the housing shortage or the affordability problem for renters across the U.S.”
The surge in rents has made it difficult for workers to keep up with inflation despite solid wage gains the past few years and exacerbated a long-term trend. Between 1999 and 2022, U.S. rents soared 135%, while income grew 77%, according to data from Moody’s Analytics.
Realtor.com is forecasting that rents will drop an average of 0.9% this year. But while down nationally, rents are still rising in many markets around the country, especially those where hiring remains robust.
In the New York metro area, the median rent climbed 4.7% in June from a year earlier to $2,899, according to Realtor.com. In the Midwest, rents surged 5.6% in the Cincinnati metro area to $1,188, and 6.9% to $1,350 in the Indianapolis metro area.
The current spike in apartment construction alone isn’t going to be enough to address how costly renting has become for many Americans.
“For the rest of the 2020s rents will continue to grow because millennials are such a big generation and we’re very much in the hole in terms of building housing for that generation,” said Daryl Fairweather, chief economist at Redfin. “It will take many good years of new construction to build adequate housing for millennials.”
The bigger challenge is building more work force housing, because the cost of land, labor and navigating the government approval process incentivize developers to put up luxury apartments buildings.
Expanding the supply of modestly priced rentals would help alleviate the strain from so many new apartments targeting renters with high incomes, “although additional subsidies will be needed to make housing affordable to households with the lowest incomes,” researchers at Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies wrote in a recent report.
Despite the overall pullback in U.S. rents, Joey Di Girolamo, in Pembroke Pines, Florida, worries that he’ll face more sharp rent increases in coming years.
Last year, the web designer left a two-bedroom, two-bath townhome he rented for $2,200 a month to avoid a $600 a month increase. This year, his rent went up by $200, a nearly 10% jump.
“That blew me away,” said Di Girolamo, 50. “I’m just kind of dreading what it’s going to be like next year, but especially 3 or 4 years from now.”
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(KTLA) — An invasive fly species has prompted the quarantine of an upscale Southern California neighborhood, the first of its kind in the Western Hemisphere.
The Tau fruit fly is native to Asia and is a “serious pest for agriculture and natural resources,” according to the California Department of Food and Agriculture.
The flies can be typically found on a variety of fruits and vegetables along with a “select range of native plants in California,” officials said.
After the detection of more than 20 Tau flies in the Stevenson Ranch area of the Santa Clarita Valley, a quarantine was placed on residents.
The quarantine area spans about 79 square miles, bordered on the north by Castaic Junction, on the south by Oat Mountain, on the west by Del Valle, and on the east by Honby Avenue.
Stevenson Ranch is an upscale neighborhood with a median home price of $1.15 million dollars according to Redfin.
Officials believe the fly was introduced to Los Angeles County by travelers who brought uninspected produce into the state. Agriculture officials note this is a common way for invasive species to arrive.
To prevent the species’ further spread, quarantined residents are asked not to move any fruits or vegetables away from their property. The produce they own may be safely consumed or processed, but must remain at the property.
If residents choose not to consume their produce, they must be disposed of by “double-bagging in plastic and placing the bags in a bin specifically for garbage,” officials said.
CDFA is working with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the L.A. County Agricultural Commissioner to “utilize a multi-tiered approach to eliminate the Tau fruit fly and prevent its spread to new areas.”
On properties within 200 meters of fly detections, crews will cut host fruit and vegetables to inspect for present fly larvae. Those properties will also be treated with a “naturally derived organic-approved material known as Spinosad, which will help remove any live adult fruit flies and reduce the density of the population,” said CDFA.
Fly traps that incorporate a pheromone along with a small amount of pesticide will also be placed throughout the treatment zones. | https://www.wdtn.com/news/california-neighborhood-under-quarantine-due-to-invasive-fly-species/ | 2023-07-30T13:41:37 | 1 | https://www.wdtn.com/news/california-neighborhood-under-quarantine-due-to-invasive-fly-species/ |
WHAT WE'RE TRACKING: Quiet and comfortable weather is expected into the start of the upcoming week. A few chances of rain next week, but not much is expected at this time.
PLANNING THE NEXT 24 HOURS: Southern Wisconsin can enjoy a period of calm, comfortable & quiet weather into Monday with highs near 80 and overnight lows near 60.
EXTENDED FORECAST: Another slight rise in the high temperatures and humidity is expected by the middle of the week before cooling off slightly at the end of the week. Along with this rise and fall in temperatures, there will be slight chances of showers and thunderstorms next week. Dry and seasonable conditions are expected next weekend.
TODAY: Mostly sunny and seasonable. High: 80 Wind: N 6-12 MPH
TONIGHT: Mostly clear. Low: 57 Wind: Light N
MONDAY: Mostly sunny and seasonable. (A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms Monday night.) High: 82 Wind: NW 5 MPH
MONDAY NIGHT: Mostly clear. Low: 62 Wind: Light & Var.
TUESDAY: Mostly sunny and warm. (A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms Tuesday night.) High: 85
WEDNESDAY: Partly sunny and continued warm, with a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Low: 64 High: 86
THURSDAY: Partly sunny and continued warm with a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Low: 65 High: 85
FRIDAY: Partly sunny and seasonable. Low: 61 High: 82
SATURDAY: Mostly sunny and seasonable. Low: 59 High: 82
SUNDAY: Partly sunny and seasonable. Low: 58 High: 82
MONDAY: Partly sunny and a little warmer. Low: 58 High: 85
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BURBANK, Calif. — With the summer heat wave in full swing in Southern California, a backyard pool is a tempting place to take a dip.
Even for a bear.
Police in the city of Burbank responded to a report of a bear sighting in a residential neighborhood and found the animal sitting in a Jacuzzi behind one of the homes.
After a short dip, the bear climbed over a wall and headed to a tree behind the home, police said in a statement Friday.
Police released a video of the animal in the neighborhood, which is about 10 miles north of Los Angeles and near the Verdugo Mountains.
The Burbank police have issued warnings for residents to avoid bears and to keep all garbage and food locked up to discourage bears from coming to their residences. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/nation-world/bear-spotted-in-california-jacuzzi/507-5f9278de-6918-4d7a-ac90-bff00c664569 | 2023-07-30T13:41:40 | 1 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/nation-world/bear-spotted-in-california-jacuzzi/507-5f9278de-6918-4d7a-ac90-bff00c664569 |
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (WDTN) — The pilot in Saturday’s deadly helicopter crash in Springfield is now identified.
According to the Springfield Post of OSP, the preliminary investigation shows Isaac Lee Santos, 36, of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania was operating the helicopter near I-70 in Clark County on Saturday, July 29, around noon. It is believed by authorities that the pilot lost control, crashed into a field, taking the power lines down onto all lanes of I-70.
Santos was pronounced dead at the scene.
OSP reports only seven vehicles on the interstate were reportedly involved in “minor” crashes. At this time, law enforcement says no other injuries were reported.
After the highway was closed for numerous hours, traffic is back and moving following the crash.
The crash remains under investigation. | https://www.wdtn.com/news/local-news/pilot-idd-after-deadly-helicopter-crash-in-clark-county/ | 2023-07-30T13:41:43 | 1 | https://www.wdtn.com/news/local-news/pilot-idd-after-deadly-helicopter-crash-in-clark-county/ |
COLUMBIA, S.C. — With less than a month to go until the first Republican presidential debate of the 2024 campaign, seven candidates say they have met qualifications for a spot on stage in Milwaukee.
But that also means that about half the broad GOP field is running short on time to make the cut.
To qualify for the Aug. 23 debate, candidates needed to satisfy polling and donor requirements set by the Republican National Committee: at least 1% in three high-quality national polls or a mix of national and early-state polls, between July 1 and Aug. 21, and a minimum of 40,000 donors, with 200 in 20 or more states.
A look at who's in, who's (maybe) out and who's still working on making it:
WHO'S QUALIFIED
DONALD TRUMP
The current front-runner long ago satisfied the polling and donor thresholds. But he is considering boycotting and holding a competing event.
Campaign advisers have said the former president has not made a final decision about the debate. One noted that “it’s pretty clear,” based on Trump's public and private statements, that he is unlikely to appear with the other candidates.
“If you’re leading by a lot, what’s the purpose of doing it?” Trump asked on Newsmax.
In the meantime, aides have discussed potential alternative programming if Trump opts for a rival event. One option Trump has floated is an interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who now has a program on X, the site formerly known as Twitter.
RON DESANTIS
The Florida governor has long been seen as Trump's top rival, finishing a distant second to him in a series of polls in early-voting states, as well as national polls, and raising an impressive amount of money.
But DeSantis' campaign has struggled in recent weeks to live up to the sky-high expectations that awaited him when he entered the race. He let go of more than one-third of his staff as federal filings showed his campaign was burning through cash at an unsustainable rate.
If Trump is absent, DeSantis may be the top target on stage at the debate.
TIM SCOTT
The South Carolina senator has been looking for a breakout moment. The first debate could be his chance.
A prolific fundraiser, Scott enters the summer with $21 million cash on hand.
In one debate-approved poll in Iowa, Scott joined Trump and DeSantis in reaching double digits. The senator has focused much of his campaign resources on the leadoff GOP voting state, which is dominated by white evangelical voters.
NIKKI HALEY
She has blitzed early-voting states with campaign events, walking crowds through her electoral successes ousting a longtime incumbent South Carolina lawmaker, then becoming the state's first woman and first minority governor. Also serving as Trump's U.N. ambassador for about two years, Haley frequently cites her international experience, arguing about the threat China poses to the United States.
The only woman in the GOP race, Haley has said transgender students competing in sports is “the women’s issue of our time” and has drawn praise from a leading anti-abortion group, which called her “uniquely gifted at communicating from a pro-life woman’s perspective.”
Bringing in $15.6 million since the start of her campaign, Haley's campaign says she has “well over 40,000 unique donors" and has satisfied the debate polling requirements.
VIVEK RAMASWAMY
The biotech entrepreneur and author of “Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America’s Social Justice Scam” is an audience favorite at multicandidate events and has polled well despite not being nationally known when he entered the race.
Ramaswamy's campaign says he met the donor threshold earlier this year. He recently rolled out “Vivek's Kitchen Cabinet" to boost his donor numbers even more, by letting fundraisers keep 10% of what they bring in for his campaign.
CHRIS CHRISTIE
The former New Jersey governor opened his campaign by portraying himself as the only candidate ready to take on Trump. Christie called on the former president to “show up at the debates and defend his record.”
Christie will be on that stage, even if Trump isn't, telling CNN this month that he surpassed “40,000 unique donors in just 35 days.” He also has met the polling requirements.
DOUG BURGUM
Burgum, a wealthy former software entrepreneur now in his second term as North Dakota’s governor, has been using his fortune to boost his campaign.
He announced a program this month to give away $20 gift cards — “Biden Relief Cards,” as a critique of President Joe Biden’s handling of the economy — to as many as 50,000 people in exchange for $1 donations. Critics have questioned whether the offer violated campaign finance law.
Within about a week of launching that effort, Burgum announced he had surpassed the donor threshold. Ad blitzes in the early-voting states also helped him meet the polling requirements.
WHO HASN'T QUALIFIED:
MIKE PENCE
Trump's vice president has met the polling threshold but has yet to amass a sufficient number of donors, raising the possibility that he might not qualify for the party's first debate.
Pence and his advisers have expressed confidence he will do so, noting that most other Republican hopefuls took a month or two of being active candidates to meet the mark. Pence entered the race on June 7, the same day as Burgum and one day after Christie.
“We’re making incredible progress toward that goal. We’re not there yet,” Pence told CNN in a recent interview. “We will make it. I will see you at that debate stage."
ASA HUTCHINSON
According to his campaign, the former two-term Arkansas governor has met the polling requirements but is working on satisfying the donor threshold. As of Wednesday, Hutchinson marked more than 11,000 unique donors.
Hutchinson is running in the mold of an old-school Republican and has differentiated himself from many of his GOP rivals in his willingness to criticize Trump. He has posted pleas on Twitter for $1 donations to help secure his slot.
FRANCIS SUAREZ
The Miami mayor has been one of the more creative candidates in his efforts to boost his donor numbers. He offered up a chance to see Argentine soccer legend Lionel Messi’s debut as a player for Inter Miami, saying donors who gave $1 would be entered in a chance to get front-row tickets.
Still shy of the donor threshold, he took a page from Burgum’s playbook by offering a $20 “Bidenomics Relief Card” in return for $1 donations. A super political action committee supporting Suarez launched a sweepstakes for a chance at up to $15,000 in tuition, in exchange for a $1 donation to Suarez’s campaign.
Suarez's campaign did not return a message seeking details on his number of donors or qualifying polls.
LARRY ELDER
The conservative radio host wrote in an op-ed that the RNC “has rigged the rules of the game by instituting a set of criteria that is so onerous and poorly designed that only establishment-backed and billionaire candidates are guaranteed to be on stage.”
His campaign last week declined to detail its number of donors, saying only that there had been "a strong increase the last few weeks.” He has not met the polling requirements.
PERRY JOHNSON
Johnson, a wealthy but largely unknown businessman from Michigan, said in a recent social media post that he had notched 23,000 donors and was “confident” he would make the debate stage. He added that all donors were “eligible to attend my free concert in Iowa featuring” country duo Big & Rich next month.
Johnson, who has reached 1% in one qualifying poll, has also offered to give copies of his book “Two Cents to Save America” to anyone who donated to his campaign.
WILL HURD
The former Texas congressman — the last candidate to enter the race, on June 22 — has said repeatedly that he would not pledge to support the eventual GOP nominee, a stance that would keep him off the stage even if he had the qualifying donor and polling numbers. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/nation-world/republican-presidential-candidates-august-gop-debate/507-705744a6-d4a1-4333-af89-210923a3d87b | 2023-07-30T13:41:50 | 1 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/nation-world/republican-presidential-candidates-august-gop-debate/507-705744a6-d4a1-4333-af89-210923a3d87b |
ASHBURN, Va. — WBIG "BIG 100" radio presenter Don Geronimo has been fired.
"After an internal review, Don Geronimo is no longer an employee of WBIG. We take matters of this nature very seriously and this behavior does not align with our core values," said President of the Washington DC Region for iHeartMedia, Aaron Hyland.
His termination comes after both he and Crash Young were barred from broadcasting at Washington Commanders training camp in Ashburn, Virginia Friday morning following comments made during their radio show Thursday.
A large outdoor tent utilized by the radio station Thursday was unoccupied on Friday while the second day of Commanders training camp got underway.
Commanders' leadership banned iHeartMedia, the parent company of WBIG, from broadcasting on the premises on Friday.
"Hey look, Barbie's here. Hi, Barbie girl," Geronimo shouted out to WUSA9's Sharla McBride, while live on air Thursday as she was walking in to cover the team's training camp activities. "I'm guessing she's a cheerleader."
Later in the broadcast, Geronimo again spotted McBride as she was conducting interviews.
"Oh hey. There's that chick that you thought .. said tight," said Geronimo.
"Yah. I screamed tight when she was .." said Crash before being interrupted.
"I think. I think she's a sportscaster at Channel 9. Or Channel 7," said Geronimo.
"Yeah, She's familiar," replied Crash.
"I thought she was a cheerleader," said Geronimo.
In 2022, during the Dan Snyder era, the Washington Commanders signed a three year partnership deal with iHeartMedia which is the parent company of WBIG and several other Washington-area radio stations.
McBride said she was hurt and incredibly offended that after 17 years as a journalist, sexist comments like that discredit her as a professional. She called it inappropriate, unprofessional and embarrassing.
When the new Commanders ownership group, led by Josh Harris, heard about Thursday's radio comments by the duo, team President Jason Wright was fuming.
"We have worked hard to ensure that everyone feels safe and respected in our workplace, and we took swift action when we learned that an employee of our partner iHeart made sexually disparaging remarks to and about a member of the media while she was broadcasting live from training camp yesterday," said a Commanders spokesperson in a statement to WUSA9.
"iHeart and the individual were not permitted to broadcast from Training Camp today, and we will continue to work collaboratively with iHeart to address the issue and trust that iHeart will take appropriate action as it works through an internal investigation."
“Objectifying women is harmful and disrespectful," said WUSA9 General Manager Richard Dyer. "We’ve heard from the Washington Commanders that they are addressing this situation directly with iHeartRadio. Promoting respect, empathy and equal treatment for all individuals, regardless of gender, is crucial for building respect in any workplace.”
Aaron Hyland, the D.C. region President for iHeartMedia, wouldn't address if the broadcasters had been reprimanded.
"We are taking this matter seriously and currently reviewing it internally," he told WUSA9. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/sports/nfl/don-geronimo-crash-young-commanders-training-camp-sharla-mcbride/65-ee7b8b73-ce3c-4545-a683-265f02b0bc18 | 2023-07-30T13:41:56 | 0 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/sports/nfl/don-geronimo-crash-young-commanders-training-camp-sharla-mcbride/65-ee7b8b73-ce3c-4545-a683-265f02b0bc18 |
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with children's book author Matt de la Peña about summer reading recommendations for kids of all ages when they complain, "I'm bored!"
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with children's book author Matt de la Peña about summer reading recommendations for kids of all ages when they complain, "I'm bored!"
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Russian authorities say three Ukrainian drones attacked Moscow in the early hours on Sunday, injuring one person and prompting a temporary closure for traffic of one of four airports around the Russian capital.
It was the fourth such attempt at a strike on the capital region this month and the third this week, fueling concerns about Moscow's vulnerability to attacks as Russia's war in Ukraine drags into its 18th month.
The Russian Defense Ministry referred to the incident as an "attempted terrorist attack by the Kyiv regime" and said three drones targeted the city. One was shot down in the surrounding Moscow region by air defense systems and two others were jammed. Those two crashed into the Moscow City business district in the capital.
Photos from the site of the crash showed the facade of a skyscraper damaged on one floor. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said the attack "insignificantly damaged" the outsides of two buildings in the Moscow City district. A security guard was injured, Russia's state news agency Tass reported, citing emergency officials.
No flights went into or out of the Vnukovo airport on the southern outskirts of the city for about an hour, according to Tass, and the air space over Moscow and the outlying regions was temporarily closed for any aircraft. Those restrictions have since been lifted.
Moscow authorities have also closed a street for traffic near the site of the crash in the Moscow City area.
There was no immediate comment from Ukrainian officials, who rarely if ever take responsibility for attacks on Russian soil.
Russia's Defense Ministry reported shooting down a Ukrainian drone outside Moscow on Friday. Two more drones struck the Russian capital on Monday, one of them falling in the center of the city near the Defense Ministry's headquarters along the Moscow River about 3 kilometers (2 miles) from the Kremlin. The other drone hit an office building in southern Moscow, gutting several upper floors.
In another attack on July 4, the Russian military said four drones were downed by air defenses on the outskirts of Moscow and a fifth was jammed by electronic warfare means and forced down.
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Persian-American Chef Nasim Alikhani has published her first cookbook, based on her highly acclaimed restaurant in Brooklyn. She brought the feast to Los Angeles for a recent series of pop up dinners.
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Persian-American Chef Nasim Alikhani has published her first cookbook, based on her highly acclaimed restaurant in Brooklyn. She brought the feast to Los Angeles for a recent series of pop up dinners.
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Thousands of survivors of the earthquakes that devastated Turkey in the spring are still displaced and struggling to rebuild, despite the president's promise of rapid reconstruction.
Thousands of survivors of the earthquakes that devastated Turkey in the spring are still displaced and struggling to rebuild, despite the president's promise of rapid reconstruction. | https://www.wunc.org/2023-07-30/an-archeological-dig-in-turkey-has-uncovered-artifacts-dating-back-1-000-years | 2023-07-30T13:42:24 | 1 | https://www.wunc.org/2023-07-30/an-archeological-dig-in-turkey-has-uncovered-artifacts-dating-back-1-000-years |
MUNCIE, Ind. — The Muncie Police Department along with Muncie Fire/EMS responded to multiple reports of people shot.
Police say there was a large party in the area of South Hackley and Willard Streets early Sunday morning.
When officers arrived on the scene, they located one 30-year-old male who was confirmed deceased and multiple others with injuries according to the press release.
Those injured were transferred to local hospitals to be cared for.
According to IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital in Muncie, 19 total patients were treated in the ED related to the event and some were transported to other facilities.
This is an ongoing investigation.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Muncie Police Department Detective Division at 765-747-4867 or Muncie Police Dispatch at 765-747-4838.
This story will be updated as more information becomes available. | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/crime/police-multiple-shot-at-muncie-party/531-2e06f22a-e55f-4325-9a3e-26c505174146 | 2023-07-30T13:42:31 | 0 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/crime/police-multiple-shot-at-muncie-party/531-2e06f22a-e55f-4325-9a3e-26c505174146 |
TRAVERSE CITY — Just a year ago, the cost to build the Hartman-Hammond crossing was estimated at about $100 million, according to the Grand Traverse County Road Commission.
The estimate has shot up to between $280 million and $320 million, according to a Social, Economic and Environmental Evaluation on the project by consultants OHM Advisors that was submitted to the Michigan Department of Transportation in March.
“It is going to be substantially higher than was first proposed,” said Brad Kluczynski, road commission manager.
The document was obtained by the Groundwork Center for Resilient Communities via a Freedom of Information Act request and forwarded to the Record-Eagle.
“The public hasn’t been informed of the tripling of the cost,” said Kelly Thayer, a consultant for Groundworks, the former Land Use Institute. “We think it’s the most expensive county-owned bridge in the United States.”
The evaluation must be cleared by the Michigan Department of Transportation, which determines if the project meets the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act. It also must be on file for the project to get federal funding.
Road Commissioner Jason Gillman said he just learned of the increased cost at the July 27 board meeting.
“If that’s the cost, I suspect we’re going to have a really hard time making it happen,” Gillman said. “I’m of the opinion that if we want the bridge, we need to decide how to pay for it.”
The bridge is needed, Gillman said. “But at what cost?”
Kluczynski said the cost will likely be even higher once the design is complete. “When we start designing, that’s when we start tuning in,” he said.
Inflationary costs also need to be considered, since actual construction could be 10 years down the road, he noted.
Kluczynski said he doesn’t think people understand that the cost is not just for the bridge itself, but for the entire project – which would be about 2 miles long from beginning to end. The bridge span itself would be about 2,200 feet long.
About 80 percent of the project would likely be federally funded, Kluczynski said, leaving about 20 percent — or about $64 million — to be covered by state and local funding.
He said he “couldn’t even begin to guess” how much of the cost would fall on local residents.
Traffic in the county is impacted by tourism, as well as being a medical hub with Munson Medical Center located here, and by all the people who work here, but can’t afford to live here, he said.
The next step will be to talk to officials from other counties to see if they would support the bridge, not necessarily financially, but by adding their signatures to letters saying it is needed.
Gillman said the road commission has already spent about $5 million on studies and consultants.
“We’ve jumped through a lot of hoops,” Gillman said. “We’ve literally spent millions of dollars. How many more hoops do we have to jump through? It’s a ridiculous cost.”
The Road Commission began exploring a crossing for the Boardman River at Hartman and Hammond roads more than 40 years ago. The county was looking for a way to ease traffic congestion on major roadways – most notably South Airport Road.
In 1987, voters soundly defeated two proposals to fund a $25 million road improvement package, including a bridge, that was intended to “meet the present and future traffic needs of the county,” according to ballot language.
The Hammond-Hartman proposal was resurrected in the mid-1990s, when it drew opposition from environmental and land-use groups. An environmental impact statement, which wasn’t prepared until 2001, was found lacking. A permit was not issued and the project died.
In 2005, road commission funds were used to pay for The Grand Vision land use and traffic study, which took five years and ultimately recommended the project be abandoned until a future date.
The county continued to grow and, in 2019, the bridge project was again explored.
OHM Advisors was paid $391,062 to do an East-West corridor study that also gave the county other options to cut down on congestion, not just on Airport Road, but around the county. Ideas included traffic signal optimization and adding roundabouts — several of which have since been constructed.
It also included a redesign of South Airport Road that would ease traffic congestion without the impact or cost a bridge would have, Thayer said. That project could still be done, he said.
At that time, the bridge’s cost had been estimated at $44 million.
OHM also was paid $2 million for a Planning and Environmental Linkages (PEL) study that looked at Sabin Dam and Cass Road crossings, and included several public meetings. Hartman-Hammond was chosen by OHM as the best option after costs, environmental and residential impacts were compared.
In 2021, the estimated cost for the bridge grew to $81 million and, in 2022, to $100 million. | https://www.record-eagle.com/news/lifestyles/hartman-hammond-crossing-bridge-estimate-soars-to-320m/article_ddbef4ca-2d5e-11ee-8e9c-139c04a2e8b6.html | 2023-07-30T13:42:31 | 1 | https://www.record-eagle.com/news/lifestyles/hartman-hammond-crossing-bridge-estimate-soars-to-320m/article_ddbef4ca-2d5e-11ee-8e9c-139c04a2e8b6.html |
The U.S. auto industry is experiencing unanticipated stumbles and challenges as it pivots to producing more electric vehicles, even as it makes large profits.
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The U.S. auto industry is experiencing unanticipated stumbles and challenges as it pivots to producing more electric vehicles, even as it makes large profits.
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BURBANK, Calif. — With the summer heat wave in full swing in Southern California, a backyard pool is a tempting place to take a dip.
Even for a bear.
Police in the city of Burbank responded to a report of a bear sighting in a residential neighborhood and found the animal sitting in a Jacuzzi behind one of the homes.
After a short dip, the bear climbed over a wall and headed to a tree behind the home, police said in a statement Friday.
Police released a video of the animal in the neighborhood, which is about 10 miles north of Los Angeles and near the Verdugo Mountains.
The Burbank police have issued warnings for residents to avoid bears and to keep all garbage and food locked up to discourage bears from coming to their residences. | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/nation-world/bear-spotted-in-california-jacuzzi/507-5f9278de-6918-4d7a-ac90-bff00c664569 | 2023-07-30T13:42:37 | 1 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/nation-world/bear-spotted-in-california-jacuzzi/507-5f9278de-6918-4d7a-ac90-bff00c664569 |
Meet the senator
SUTTONS BAY — Sen. John Damoose will meet with residents of the 37th Senate District Wednesday at 10 a.m. at the Leelanau County Government Center and 12:30 p.m. at Traverse Area District Library.
Bring questions or comments on state, community or business issues.
Appointments are not needed.
Horticulture garden tour
INTERLOCHEN — Plant It Wild will offer a tour from 9 a.m. to noon Thursday at the Interlochen Arts Academy’s Horticulture Gardens. Meet at the pavilion on Lyon Road.
See the native pollinator garden, rain garden and other spaces on the school campus.
Native American talk
PETOSKEY — Professors Matthew Fletcher and Wenona Singel will present on the Native American experience at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Voorhies Hall at Bay View Association.
More details: www.bayviewassociation.org/events/mini-american-experience-lecture/.
Call for art
TRAVERSE CITY — Old Town Playhouse is seeking art for its “At the Corner of Art and Culture” project.
Artists can submit pieces that show local music, dance, artwork, literature, theater and film.
This project is supported with a grant from the Michigan Arts and Culture Council and matching grants from playhouse donors.
Submissions are due Aug. 5 to deb@oldtownplayhouse.com. Full details: OldTownPlayhouse.com/artist-call.html.
Antique show
PETOSKEY — The Petoskey Antiques Show is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Aug. 5 and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Aug. 6 at Emmet County Fairgrounds.
Admission is $10 per person. Kids younger than 16 are free.
Arts event
NORTHPORT — Blue Ribbon Events will host the Northport Art and Craft Show from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Aug. 5-6 at Haserot Park.
Bring a nonperishable food item for entry.
Art festival
SUTTONS BAY — The annual Suttons Bay Art Festival goes from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Aug. 5 and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Aug. 6 at Marina Park.
Artists, a library book sale, food vendors and a kids’ area are available.
Clothing giveaway
EAST JORDAN — Bright Lights, an East Jordan girls youth group, is hosting “My Sister’s Closet” from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Aug. 5 at Lighthouse Missionary Church.
Refreshments, fellowship and free shopping are included. Women of all ages can receive free clothing items.
Rock event
TRAVERSE CITY — Grand Traverse Rock and Mineral Club will offer the “Rockin’ the Tailgate” sale from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Aug. 5 at Woodland Creek Furniture.
Items include jewelry, Petoskey stones, crystals and more.
Chorus program
TRAVERSE CITY — Cherry Capital Men’s Chorus will perform “Hooked on Harmony” at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 5 at the Presbyterian Church.
Price is $10 for students and $20 for adults at MyNorthTickets.com.
House concert
HARBOR SPRINGS — The next Rhubarbary House Concert features Riely O’Connor and Molly B. Moon at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 6 at 3550 Five Mile Creek Road.
A $20 donation is requested for the artists. RSVP: 231-499-8038.
Airplane tops roof
BEULAH — Cognition Science and Discovery Center recently completed construction of the “Adventure 333” airplane on its roof at 232 N. Michigan Ave.
The project was led by Cognition board member Rich Brauer received assistance from Team Elmer’s, Gillison Excavating, Wheelock & Sons Welding, Kent Companies and others. Kim House donated the airplane, and Rotary Charities supplied grant funding.
Charity program
TRAVERSE CITY — Brys Secret Garden is collecting funds for Cherryland Humane Society through its “Propagate Kindness” charitable campaign.
This year, artwork by local artist and veterinarian Ed Farnham is featured on a hand soap, a linen spray and a pet bandana. Some of the sales proceeds goes to the humane society. Items are available through April. For more details, visit www.bryssecretgarden.com/propagatekindness.html#/. | https://www.record-eagle.com/news/lifestyles/northern-living-in-brief-07-30-2023/article_f84f23be-2a25-11ee-becf-536726576a7f.html | 2023-07-30T13:42:37 | 0 | https://www.record-eagle.com/news/lifestyles/northern-living-in-brief-07-30-2023/article_f84f23be-2a25-11ee-becf-536726576a7f.html |
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Professor Amit Bhasin of the University of Texas at Austin about constructing roads and railways that can withstand extreme heat.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Professor Amit Bhasin of the University of Texas at Austin about constructing roads and railways that can withstand extreme heat.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. — With less than a month to go until the first Republican presidential debate of the 2024 campaign, seven candidates say they have met qualifications for a spot on stage in Milwaukee.
But that also means that about half the broad GOP field is running short on time to make the cut.
To qualify for the Aug. 23 debate, candidates needed to satisfy polling and donor requirements set by the Republican National Committee: at least 1% in three high-quality national polls or a mix of national and early-state polls, between July 1 and Aug. 21, and a minimum of 40,000 donors, with 200 in 20 or more states.
A look at who's in, who's (maybe) out and who's still working on making it:
WHO'S QUALIFIED
DONALD TRUMP
The current front-runner long ago satisfied the polling and donor thresholds. But he is considering boycotting and holding a competing event.
Campaign advisers have said the former president has not made a final decision about the debate. One noted that “it’s pretty clear,” based on Trump's public and private statements, that he is unlikely to appear with the other candidates.
“If you’re leading by a lot, what’s the purpose of doing it?” Trump asked on Newsmax.
In the meantime, aides have discussed potential alternative programming if Trump opts for a rival event. One option Trump has floated is an interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who now has a program on X, the site formerly known as Twitter.
RON DESANTIS
The Florida governor has long been seen as Trump's top rival, finishing a distant second to him in a series of polls in early-voting states, as well as national polls, and raising an impressive amount of money.
But DeSantis' campaign has struggled in recent weeks to live up to the sky-high expectations that awaited him when he entered the race. He let go of more than one-third of his staff as federal filings showed his campaign was burning through cash at an unsustainable rate.
If Trump is absent, DeSantis may be the top target on stage at the debate.
TIM SCOTT
The South Carolina senator has been looking for a breakout moment. The first debate could be his chance.
A prolific fundraiser, Scott enters the summer with $21 million cash on hand.
In one debate-approved poll in Iowa, Scott joined Trump and DeSantis in reaching double digits. The senator has focused much of his campaign resources on the leadoff GOP voting state, which is dominated by white evangelical voters.
NIKKI HALEY
She has blitzed early-voting states with campaign events, walking crowds through her electoral successes ousting a longtime incumbent South Carolina lawmaker, then becoming the state's first woman and first minority governor. Also serving as Trump's U.N. ambassador for about two years, Haley frequently cites her international experience, arguing about the threat China poses to the United States.
The only woman in the GOP race, Haley has said transgender students competing in sports is “the women’s issue of our time” and has drawn praise from a leading anti-abortion group, which called her “uniquely gifted at communicating from a pro-life woman’s perspective.”
Bringing in $15.6 million since the start of her campaign, Haley's campaign says she has “well over 40,000 unique donors" and has satisfied the debate polling requirements.
VIVEK RAMASWAMY
The biotech entrepreneur and author of “Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America’s Social Justice Scam” is an audience favorite at multicandidate events and has polled well despite not being nationally known when he entered the race.
Ramaswamy's campaign says he met the donor threshold earlier this year. He recently rolled out “Vivek's Kitchen Cabinet" to boost his donor numbers even more, by letting fundraisers keep 10% of what they bring in for his campaign.
CHRIS CHRISTIE
The former New Jersey governor opened his campaign by portraying himself as the only candidate ready to take on Trump. Christie called on the former president to “show up at the debates and defend his record.”
Christie will be on that stage, even if Trump isn't, telling CNN this month that he surpassed “40,000 unique donors in just 35 days.” He also has met the polling requirements.
DOUG BURGUM
Burgum, a wealthy former software entrepreneur now in his second term as North Dakota’s governor, has been using his fortune to boost his campaign.
He announced a program this month to give away $20 gift cards — “Biden Relief Cards,” as a critique of President Joe Biden’s handling of the economy — to as many as 50,000 people in exchange for $1 donations. Critics have questioned whether the offer violated campaign finance law.
Within about a week of launching that effort, Burgum announced he had surpassed the donor threshold. Ad blitzes in the early-voting states also helped him meet the polling requirements.
WHO HASN'T QUALIFIED:
MIKE PENCE
Trump's vice president has met the polling threshold but has yet to amass a sufficient number of donors, raising the possibility that he might not qualify for the party's first debate.
Pence and his advisers have expressed confidence he will do so, noting that most other Republican hopefuls took a month or two of being active candidates to meet the mark. Pence entered the race on June 7, the same day as Burgum and one day after Christie.
“We’re making incredible progress toward that goal. We’re not there yet,” Pence told CNN in a recent interview. “We will make it. I will see you at that debate stage."
ASA HUTCHINSON
According to his campaign, the former two-term Arkansas governor has met the polling requirements but is working on satisfying the donor threshold. As of Wednesday, Hutchinson marked more than 11,000 unique donors.
Hutchinson is running in the mold of an old-school Republican and has differentiated himself from many of his GOP rivals in his willingness to criticize Trump. He has posted pleas on Twitter for $1 donations to help secure his slot.
FRANCIS SUAREZ
The Miami mayor has been one of the more creative candidates in his efforts to boost his donor numbers. He offered up a chance to see Argentine soccer legend Lionel Messi’s debut as a player for Inter Miami, saying donors who gave $1 would be entered in a chance to get front-row tickets.
Still shy of the donor threshold, he took a page from Burgum’s playbook by offering a $20 “Bidenomics Relief Card” in return for $1 donations. A super political action committee supporting Suarez launched a sweepstakes for a chance at up to $15,000 in tuition, in exchange for a $1 donation to Suarez’s campaign.
Suarez's campaign did not return a message seeking details on his number of donors or qualifying polls.
LARRY ELDER
The conservative radio host wrote in an op-ed that the RNC “has rigged the rules of the game by instituting a set of criteria that is so onerous and poorly designed that only establishment-backed and billionaire candidates are guaranteed to be on stage.”
His campaign last week declined to detail its number of donors, saying only that there had been "a strong increase the last few weeks.” He has not met the polling requirements.
PERRY JOHNSON
Johnson, a wealthy but largely unknown businessman from Michigan, said in a recent social media post that he had notched 23,000 donors and was “confident” he would make the debate stage. He added that all donors were “eligible to attend my free concert in Iowa featuring” country duo Big & Rich next month.
Johnson, who has reached 1% in one qualifying poll, has also offered to give copies of his book “Two Cents to Save America” to anyone who donated to his campaign.
WILL HURD
The former Texas congressman — the last candidate to enter the race, on June 22 — has said repeatedly that he would not pledge to support the eventual GOP nominee, a stance that would keep him off the stage even if he had the qualifying donor and polling numbers. | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/nation-world/republican-presidential-candidates-august-gop-debate/507-705744a6-d4a1-4333-af89-210923a3d87b | 2023-07-30T13:42:43 | 1 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/nation-world/republican-presidential-candidates-august-gop-debate/507-705744a6-d4a1-4333-af89-210923a3d87b |
With this road trip I’m taking you to the town I grew up in and was married in — Reed City — and if nothing else it’s proof positive that I’ve come full circle in my writing career.
And while there are those who might say I’ve simply been writing in circles since I sold my first newspaper story to the Grit newspaper some 60 or so years ago for publication in a special section they called “I’m Proud of My Town,” I find myself proudly writing about this little town again, but for a different subject matter.
Sixty years ago I wrote about a new “teen club” the kids had built in their city. This time I’m writing about the community’s criss-crossing trails system that is as inviting and unique as any trails system in the state and I’m pretty proud of that, just as those who still live in Reed City are proud of their trails system, today.
“Reed City is continuing to develop our city trail system to provide looping opportunities for cyclists, runners and walkers,” said City Manager Rich Saladin. “Our shops and restaurants appreciate the tourists and travelers that stop to use our trails and parks.
“Reed City is a great starting point if you are accessing the trail for a short bike ride, or walk, or looking for a nice long ride or run. There is plenty of parking at the Depot and it’s close to many restaurants where you can have a hearty breakfast prior to heading out or a great lunch or dinner on your return. Reed City also has a nice park system including the Purple Heart Linear Trail that runs along the Hersey River connecting Rambadt Park and Westerburg Park. You can access the trail at the covered bridge located on the White Pine Trail on the northern section of town or on the Pere Marquette Trail where it veers off on the east end of town.”
Saladin reminded me that Rambadt Park is home to 11 campsites with full electrical and water hookups. It has a playground, pavilion, bathrooms with showers and a bandshell.
“During the summer, Reed City hosts the Crossroads Picnic Showcase Music Series which provides a great variety of music every Friday night,” he said. “It’s free, just bring a lawn chair or blanket and some drinks and snacks. The Purple Heart Trail includes a walk over the ‘Little Mac’ suspension bridge that crosses the Hersey River. There is also a scenic mural painted on a section of the trail that passes underneath Chestnut street. The trail continues to Westerburg Park which contains another playground, softball and baseball fields, basketball courts, two pavilions and bathrooms.”
As I remember, and as the city manager was kind enough to remind me, a favorite ride is from Reed City to Big Rapids, which is 13 miles one way, that takes a person through wooded areas, flowering fields and beautiful farmlands. Paris Park, located six miles midway between the cities, is operated by Mecosta County Parks and is a welcome place to take a short break with bathrooms, fishponds and campsites. A mini Eiffel Tower is a great picture taking opportunity.
“As you continue south, you’ll see glimpses of the Mighty Muskegon River and, eventually, you’ll cross the Muskegon River on a long wooden trestle bridge that gives an amazing overlook of the river,” said Saladin. “Big Rapids has multiple city trails that also connect the White Pine Trail to their park system and downtown area.
“If you’re looking for a longer ride, it’s about 27 miles from Reed City to Cadillac. It connects to Cadillac’s city trails and you can take a ride around Lake Cadillac, stop for a snack or drink, before heading back to Reed City. LeRoy and Tustin are small villages located on the trail and provide amenities like bathrooms, picnic spots, dining and stores along the way.
“I’ve also ridden east on the Pere Marquette Trail several times,” said Saladin. “It’s paved from Reed City to Midland. From Reed City to Hersey, you’ll catch several great views of the Hersey River and cross over it near Camp Albright and Event Center. As you head toward Evart, you’ll start seeing great views of the Muskegon River including a wonderful overlook.
“As city manager, I have tried to truly market the trail system in and around Reed City. In 2020, Reed City became a Pure Michigan Trail Town. Cadillac and Big Rapids have joined us in this recognition from the state in 2022. Many other towns along the White Pine Trail are working toward this designation as we try to develop an amazing corridor of resources, recreation, dining, and fun along the north-south route. Friends of the White Pine Trail have been working diligently to pave the entire trail from Cadillac south to Belmont – over 70 miles. One of the newest sections of paved trail is from Reed City north to Cadillac. The Pere Marquette Trail, which runs east and west, also travels through Reed City and dissects the White Pine Trail at the William and Mable Porteous Depot at the center of our downtown area. Bill Porteous was a great advocate for the paving of trails throughout the state and is considered the Grandfather of the White Pine Trail. The Porteous Depot has multiple amenities including a 24/7 bathroom, drinking fountain, covered area, picnic tables, outdoor firepit and bike repair station. It’s also home to the Reed City Chamber of Commerce which has local information including maps, menus and guides.”
Situated at the U.S. 131 and U.S. 10 cross roads some 75 miles south of Traverse City — it’s an easy 90-minute drive, if that — Reed City certainly is a destination any and all trail enthusiasts should make. | https://www.record-eagle.com/news/lifestyles/road-trip-reed-city-trails-system-is-as-inviting-as-any-in-the-state/article_d56e99d8-2afc-11ee-b337-573327a8c93c.html | 2023-07-30T13:42:43 | 0 | https://www.record-eagle.com/news/lifestyles/road-trip-reed-city-trails-system-is-as-inviting-as-any-in-the-state/article_d56e99d8-2afc-11ee-b337-573327a8c93c.html |
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Morristown Medical Center sports cardiologist Matthew Martinez about why some young athletes suffer from sudden cardiac-related medical emergencies.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Morristown Medical Center sports cardiologist Matthew Martinez about why some young athletes suffer from sudden cardiac-related medical emergencies.
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TRAVERSE CITY — Grand Traverse Pavilions CEO Rose Coleman was given a lukewarm annual review by the three-member Department of Health and Human Services board that oversees the skilled nursing home.
Board members wrote that Coleman gets defensive when criticized, needs to be more transparent with the board and the public, and did not complete goals set in the previous year’s evaluation.
They also expressed concern with 20 deficiencies, including an incident of non-consensual sexual contact, that were found during an annual state licensure inspection in July and August 2022.
The facility received an overall rating of two out of five possible stars. In the last three years, the facility has had 40 deficiencies.
Many of last year’s deficiencies were related to poor food service, while others addressed the care given to residents.
Coleman is paid $172,000 per year, plus benefits. She was hired in 2012 as chief operating officer and was named CEO in November 2021.
She was evaluated May 11 in a closed session, as is her right. After returning to regular session, the board approved adding an indemnification clause to her contract.
“I did not think it was a bad evaluation,” Coleman said when contacted. “I think there’s always something to be worked on; there’s always room for improvement.”
That’s the purpose of an evaluation, she said.
The board also gave Coleman 21 goals for her next evaluation. Results and goals were obtained by the Record-Eagle via a Freedom of Information Act request.
“I think it was a pretty fair and open communication that we had with Rose,” said board Chairman Cecil McNally. “We pointed out some areas that are working well and expressed our concerns as far as what happened with food service and what happened with the survey.”
Coleman was not given a raise or performance pay. Her three-year employment contract expires at the end of December 2024.
“Based on what happened over the last year, with resident census down, it’s just not a good time to be looking at increases,” McNally said, although employees received wage increases.
Coleman was evaluated in seven areas: Understands the facility’s mission and sets an example for other teammates; listens and responds constructively; shares her expertise as a mentor; works well in a collaborative environment; is trustworthy and willing to be held accountable; supports teammates to build rapport; and successfully completed goals from last year.
She met expectations or needs improvement in several of those areas, with all three board members writing that she needs to improve in the area of completing goals.
One board member rated her as exceeding expectations in trustworthiness. In 2022, her first full year as CEO, she met all expectations, but the evaluation form was different and did not have an “exceeds expectations” category.
Board comments and ratings are anonymous in the evaluation, with one member writing that the annual required inspection of the Pavilions was “... unacceptable with particular mention of the poor quality of the food service, inadequate activities, weight loss of patients, etc...”
Census numbers also were not where they needed to be and the physical therapy department was losing revenue, according to board comments.
A goal that had been set for Coleman – to increase the average census at the facility to 140 residents – was not met, according to Coleman’s written self-evaluation. During the year, the census rose from 129 to 131 residents, she wrote.
When Coleman was named CEO, the world had been in the grip of the COVID pandemic, she wrote. That affected both census, which was down 29 percent from the previous year, and the ability to retain and attract new staff.
Employee pay increases that make the facility competitive with other nursing homes have since been put into place, with staff numbers now on the rise, as previously reported.
Before COVID, the facility had an average daily census of 230 to 240 residents. That number steadily dropped over the three years of the pandemic because nursing homes were restricted from taking new residents, Coleman said.
During the pandemic, workers left long-term care, hospitals and more, leaving shortages not just at the Pavilions, but all over the country.
Other nursing homes also are seeing a loss in residents, she said.
McNally said, this year, Coleman’s 21 goals were more specific and detailed than they have been in the past.
They include: increasing the resident satisfaction rate; strengthening her relationship with the community, elected officials and the press; increasing the census; improving health inspection ratings; increasing therapy revenue; and building and improving relationships with PACE North, Munson Healthcare, Northwestern Michigan College and the Senior Services Network.
“It’s not necessarily that she’s doing poorly,” McNally said. “We just want her to be more open and more cooperative.”
The DHHS board voted to add an indemnification clause to the agreement that holds her harmless for any acts or decisions made in good faith as part of her job. The board will pay Coleman’s expenses for her defense against lawsuits or investigations by the state in connection with her nursing license or nursing home administrator’s license. The clause will remain in effect if Coleman’s employment at the Pavilions ends.
Coleman, along with the DHHS board, McNally, and the Grand Traverse Pavilions, are named in a lawsuit filed in 13th Circuit Court in December 2022 by Mary John-Williams, former executive director of PACE North. John-Williams alleges violation of the Whistleblower Protection Act, as well as discrimination based on her race, age and status as a single mother, according to the lawsuit.
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Ayesha Rascoe is a White House correspondent for NPR. She is currently covering her third presidential administration. Rascoe's White House coverage has included a number of high profile foreign trips, including President Trump's 2019 summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, Vietnam, and President Obama's final NATO summit in Warsaw, Poland in 2016. As a part of the White House team, she's also a regular on the NPR Politics Podcast.
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A boom in apartment construction is helping to curb rents but not all renters will benefit
LOS ANGELES (AP) — When viewed through a wide lens, renters across the U.S. finally appear to be getting some relief, thanks in part to the biggest apartment construction boom in decades.
Median rent rose just 0.5% in June, year over year, after falling in May for the first time since the pandemic hit the U.S. Some economists project U.S. rents will be down modestly this year after soaring nearly 25% over the past four years.
A closer look, however, shows the trend will likely be little comfort for many U.S. renters who’ve had to put an increasing share of their income toward their monthly payment. Renters in cities such as Cincinnati and Indianapolis are still getting hit with increases of 5% or more. Much of the new construction is located in just a few metro areas, and many of the new units are luxury apartments, which rent for well north of $2,000.
Median U.S. rent has risen to $2,029 this June from $1,629 in June 2019, according to rental listings company Rent, which tracks rents in 50 of the largest U.S. metropolitan areas. Demand for apartments exploded during the pandemic as people who could work remotely sought more space or decided to relocate to another part of the country.
The steep rent increases have left tenants like Melissa Lombana, a high school teacher who lives in the South Florida city of Miramar, with progressively less income to spend on other needs.
The rent on her one-bedroom apartment jumped 13% last year to $1,700. It climbed another 6% to $1,800 this month when she renewed her lease.
“Even the $1,700 was a stretch for me,” said Lombana, 43, who supplements her teaching income with a side job doing educational testing. “In a year, I will not be able to afford living here at all.”
Lombana’s rent is now gobbling up nearly half her monthly income. That puts her in a category referred to as “cost-burdened” by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, denoting households that pay 30% or more of their income toward rent. Last year, the average rent-to-income ratio per household rose to 30%. This March, it was 29.6%.
Lombana hasn’t had any luck finding a more affordable apartment. While South Florida is one of the metropolitan areas seeing a rise in apartment construction, the units are mostly high-end and not a viable option.
That scenario is playing out across the nation. Developers are rushing to complete projects that were green-lit during the pandemic-era surge in demand for rentals or left in limbo by delays in supplies of fixtures and building materials. Nearly 1.1 million apartments are currently under construction, according to the commercial real estate tracker CoStar, a pace not seen since the 1970s.
Increasing the supply of apartments tends to moderate rent increases over time and can give tenants more options on where to live. But more than 40% of the new rentals to be completed this year will be concentrated in about 10 high job growth metropolitan areas, including Austin, Nashville, Denver, Atlanta and New York, according to Marcus & Millichap. In many areas, the boost to overall inventory will be barely noticeable.
Even within metros where there’ll be a notable increase in available apartments, such as Nashville, most of it will be in the luxury category, where rents average $2,270, nationally. Some 70% of the new rental inventory will be the luxury class, said Jay Lybik, national director of multifamily analytics at CoStar.
That will leave most tenants unlikely to see a big enough reduction in rent to make a difference, industry experts and economists say.
“I think we’re in a period of rent flattening for 12 or 18 months, but it’s certainly not a big rent decline,” said Hessam Nadji, CEO of commercial real estate firm Marcus & Millichap.
“We’re building a multi-decade record number of units,” Nadji said. “It’s going to cause some softening and some pockets of overbuilding, but it’s not going to fundamentally resolve the housing shortage or the affordability problem for renters across the U.S.”
The surge in rents has made it difficult for workers to keep up with inflation despite solid wage gains the past few years and exacerbated a long-term trend. Between 1999 and 2022, U.S. rents soared 135%, while income grew 77%, according to data from Moody’s Analytics.
Realtor.com is forecasting that rents will drop an average of 0.9% this year. But while down nationally, rents are still rising in many markets around the country, especially those where hiring remains robust.
In the New York metro area, the median rent climbed 4.7% in June from a year earlier to $2,899, according to Realtor.com. In the Midwest, rents surged 5.6% in the Cincinnati metro area to $1,188, and 6.9% to $1,350 in the Indianapolis metro area.
The current spike in apartment construction alone isn’t going to be enough to address how costly renting has become for many Americans.
“For the rest of the 2020s rents will continue to grow because millennials are such a big generation and we’re very much in the hole in terms of building housing for that generation,” said Daryl Fairweather, chief economist at Redfin. “It will take many good years of new construction to build adequate housing for millennials.”
The bigger challenge is building more work force housing, because the cost of land, labor and navigating the government approval process incentivize developers to put up luxury apartments buildings.
Expanding the supply of modestly priced rentals would help alleviate the strain from so many new apartments targeting renters with high incomes, “although additional subsidies will be needed to make housing affordable to households with the lowest incomes,” researchers at Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies wrote in a recent report.
Despite the overall pullback in U.S. rents, Joey Di Girolamo, in Pembroke Pines, Florida, worries that he’ll face more sharp rent increases in coming years.
Last year, the web designer left a two-bedroom, two-bath townhome he rented for $2,200 a month to avoid a $600 a month increase. This year, his rent went up by $200, a nearly 10% jump.
“That blew me away,” said Di Girolamo, 50. “I’m just kind of dreading what it’s going to be like next year, but especially 3 or 4 years from now.”
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Kids programs
TRAVERSE CITY — Great Lakes Children’s Museum is offering programs for preschool and elementary students this week.
Kids Craft Lab starts at 1 and 3:30 p.m. Monday and 10:30 a.m., 1 and 3:30 p.m. Friday. Make a fish-shaped magnet. Storytime Adventures features “Thunder Cake” at 10:30 a.m., 1 and 3:30 p.m. Tuesday. Experiment with water during First Steps Science at 9:30 a.m., noon and 2:30 p.m. Friday.
Sign up for programs at www.greatlakeskids.org.
School clinics
MANISTEE — District Health Department No. 10 is hosting a “Ready, Set, Go!” School Readiness Clinic from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday at 385 Third St. Ages 3-19 can receive immunizations as well as visual and hearing screenings.
Another event is open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday at 916 Diana St. in Ludington. Residents may call 888-217-3904 to register.
BP workshop
ANN ARBOR — The National Kidney Foundation of Michigan is offering the High Blood Pressure Control workshop from 1-2:30 p.m. Tuesday through Sept. 19. New participants receive a blood pressure monitor and can register through Aug. 8 at nkfm.org/HBPC. Contact: 800-482-1455.
Railroad discussion
TRAVERSE CITY — The Railroad Historical Society of Northwest Michigan meets at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Great Lakes Children’s Museum.
The program covers Union Pacific’s operation in the Colorado Rockies. Contact: rrcollector321@gmail.com.
Dance project fundraiserTRAVERSE CITY — Traverse City Dance Project is presenting the Garden Soiree at 6 p.m. Wednesday at Historic Barns Park.
Admission is $150 per person. Proceeds support the dance project’s operations and artists. Purchase seats via MyNorthTickets.com.
‘Sleepless’ shows
GLEN ARBOR — Glen Arbor Players presents “Sleepless” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday at Glen Lake Church. Admission is free; refreshments are served.
Donation program
TRAVERSE CITY — Oryana recently donated $2,344.41 from its June “Groceries for Good” program to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northwestern Michigan.
Customers could round up their total to the next dollar, and the store donated 2% of sales profits to Bigs.
Fundraiser results
PETOSKEY — Crooked Tree Arts Center announces the results of its annual fundraiser “Dart for Art.”
The July 12-13 event included almost 1,000 attendees, more than 200 donated artworks, nearly 65 individual and corporate sponsors and donations from more than 150 local businesses.
The organization collected almost $600,000 to support its arts programs.
Students help with grantSCOTTVILLE — West Shore Community College students in the Winter Reading Methods course earned $1,000 in new library books for Shelby Middle School. Students applied for a grant from the Oceana Community Foundation to obtain the books. This fall, the middle school and college are planning to host a Literacy Night to reveal the books.
Film festival nabs grant
SAULT STE. MARIE — Soo Film Festival received a $2,500 grant from the Michigan Arts and Culture Council to support its 2023 programs. This year’s festival is Sept. 13-17.
The grant is administered by the Eastern U.P. Regional Planning and Development Commission. MACC award recipients also need to match the funds. The nonprofit festival is supported by Sault Ste. Marie Convention and Visitors Bureau and the Roberts P. and Ella B. Hudson Foundation. | https://www.record-eagle.com/news/local_news/community-in-brief-07-30-2023/article_33fdd80e-2b18-11ee-b689-d70fe8011b2c.html | 2023-07-30T13:42:56 | 0 | https://www.record-eagle.com/news/local_news/community-in-brief-07-30-2023/article_33fdd80e-2b18-11ee-b689-d70fe8011b2c.html |
Is recent news about the economy so good that the U.S. can say it is coming in for a "soft landing," where inflation gets tamed without a recession?
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Is recent news about the economy so good that the U.S. can say it is coming in for a "soft landing," where inflation gets tamed without a recession?
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Cardinals vs. Cubs Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - July 30
Sunday's game that pits the Chicago Cubs (53-51) versus the St. Louis Cardinals (46-60) at Busch Stadium is expected to be a close matchup based on our computer prediction, which projects a final score of 6-4 in favor of the Cubs. Game time is at 2:15 PM ET on July 30.
The probable starters are Steven Matz (1-7) for the Cardinals and Kyle Hendricks (4-4) for the Cubs.
Cardinals vs. Cubs Game Info & Odds
- When: Sunday, July 30, 2023 at 2:15 PM ET
- Where: Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Missouri
- How to Watch on TV: BSMW
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Cardinals vs. Cubs Score Prediction
Our prediction for this contest is Cubs 6, Cardinals 5.
Total Prediction for Cardinals vs. Cubs
- Total Prediction: Over 9 runs
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Cardinals Performance Insights
- The Cardinals have played as the favorite in four of their past 10 games and lost each of those contests.
- In its last 10 games with a total, St. Louis and its opponents have failed to hit the over six times.
- There has not been a spread set for any of the Cardinals' last 10 games.
- The Cardinals have entered the game as favorites 52 times this season and won 22, or 42.3%, of those games.
- St. Louis has a record of 15-19, a 44.1% win rate, when favored by -145 or more by sportsbooks this season.
- The moneyline for this contest implies a 59.2% chance of a victory for the Cardinals.
- St. Louis has scored 500 runs (4.7 per game) this season, which ranks 12th in MLB.
- The Cardinals' 4.57 team ERA ranks 23rd across all league pitching staffs.
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TRAVERSE CITY — New Zealand mud snails are in a creek that feeds into a Grand Traverse Bay tributary.
Stream monitors found the tiny mollusks in Four Mile Creek during a routine survey in June, said Heather Smith, the baykeeper for Watershed Center Grand Traverse Bay. It’s part of the Mitchell Creek watershed, which drains into the bay near Keith Charters Traverse City State Park.
Experts with Trout Unlimited and Oakland University confirmed the find, Smith said. It marks the latest infestation in the region by a snail already found in the Boardman/Ottaway, Au Sable and Pere Marquette rivers, as well as Shanty Creek, a tributary of the Grass River between Lake Bellaire and Clam Lake.
New Zealand mud snails have the potential to drastically alter a stream’s ecosystem, Smith said. They outcompete native invertebrates and can disrupt a stream’s nutrient cycle.
She couldn’t say just how the snails might impact Four Mile Creek, but said they’ve wiped out macroinvertebrates in other rivers where infestations have been intense.
Those macroinvertebrates, like larvae for the mayfly, stone fly and caddis fly, are a key food source to fish, said Seth Herbst, research section manager for the Department of Natural Resources’ Fisheries Division. These insect larvae are an important food web link, since they carry energy from a lake or stream bottom to various fish species.
“The concern is when an invasive species becomes introduced and abundant, they outcompete a lot of those macroinvertebrates,” he said. “They basically either displace them or reduce their abundances to very low levels, which then could have a high indirect impact on those higher food web levels.”
Heavy New Zealand mud snail infestations could affect trout populations, since they feed on these larvae, Herbst said.
Mitchell Creek and its tributaries are trout streams, Smith said. She agreed the infestation poses a danger to those fish, not only because of the impacts to macroinvertebrates, but because the snails are a poor food source.
“We have seen in other streams that the fish have poor body conditions because they have a lack of nutritious, healthy food because these invaders are outcompeting other invertebrates,” she said.
Some fish that eat them can’t digest them, so they pass through unharmed, according to the Great Lakes New Zealand Mud Snail Collaborative. They’re a poor source of nutrients even for the fish that can digest them.
There’s little that can be done once a stream is infested, since there are no treatments available that wouldn’t cause as much ecological harm as the snails themselves, Herbst said.
A seemingly endless wave of invasive species have caused widespread damage to Michigan’s waters, land and air.
Zebra and quagga mussels, brought in the ballast water of ocean-going freighters, hollow out the food web in the lakes they infest, causing the collapse of native aquatic life that depends on plankton or prey that eats it. And lake trout were nearly obliterated by parasitic sea lampreys that reached the Great Lakes through the Welland Canal.
On land, invasive plants once introduced as ornamentals, like autumn olive bush and Japanese knotweed, grow unchecked, crowding out native shrubs and undergrowth. And insects, like the emerald ash borer, killed entire forests of ash trees.
Fewer seabirds are in the air after falling victim to botulism poisoning, a problem that crops up at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore and elsewhere. While avian botulism is not new, zebra and quagga mussels are again to blame for worsening outbreaks, since their filter feeding clears the water and lets sunlight reach even deeper. That spurs the growth of algae that, as it decays, harbors bacteria producing the paralyzing neurotoxin.
Those are only a handful of the many documented invasive plants, insects, aquatic life and diseases in the state and surrounding waters.
Smith agreed the constant news of another invasive might be numbing, but there are still actions people can take to slow the spread of New Zealand mud snails.
The tiny creatures can easily hide on fishing gear and boats, so it’s important to decontaminate anything that touches the water by washing it thoroughly and let it dry — five days at minimum, although she recommends two weeks.
New Zealand mud snails were first discovered in the Snake River in Idaho in the 1980s, Herbst said. From there, they spread to rivers around the western U.S., including in Montana, Oregon and Wyoming. It’s thought that recreational users spread them, and potentially fish stocking as well.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to a patron of the party, musician George Brown of the band Kool & The Gang, about his new book, new record, and the "Celebration" of a long and funky career.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to a patron of the party, musician George Brown of the band Kool & The Gang, about his new book, new record, and the "Celebration" of a long and funky career.
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