On Marijuana Tax, Colorado Asks: What’s Too High? If marijuana is legalized and properly regulated, its proponents have long said, it could generate millions of dollars in state tax revenue. But how the drug should be taxed has proved to be a thorny question. More
News Corp settles phone hacking case News Corp reaches a $139m (£91m) settlement with shareholders over complaints filed in relation to the UK phone hacking scandal. More
Senate planning vote on Internet sales tax bill The days of tax-free online shopping could finally be numbered. The Senate is planning to vote on a bill as soon as Monday that would give states the authority to collect sales taxes on all Internet purchases, handing local governments as much as $11 billion per year in added revenue that they are legally owed — but that hasn’t been paid to them for years. More
New rules and innovations in California can serve as a template for all.
Homelessness has been a challenge in the United States since before it was a country, as the early colonies struggled to address the “wandering poor.” Today, it is a full-on crisis. The Department of Housing and Urban Development reports that in 2023, more than 650,000 people in the U.
The maker of flash drives and memory cards, gave itself a (dare we say . . . cool) rebrand ahead of its planned spin off next year.
Sandisk Corporation, the maker of flash drives and memory cards, debuted a new logo today, and it’s based on a single pixel.
The storied publication created a quarantined space to experiment with future technologies.
More than 165 years ago, the literary greats of American writing—including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Henry Melville—assembled to cosign a boisterous manifesto promising to lead the discourse on literature, art, and politics in an initiative that would become The Atlantic.
There’s a lot that the private sector can do.
In the wake of hurricanes striking across the Southeast this fall, nonprofit organizations played a vital role in delivering much needed aid to hard hit communities. Last month, nonprofits across the country took part in educating voter. They registered young people to vote, and encouraged broad participation in the democratic process.
The owner of two dilapidated buildings along East Colfax Avenue will go before Denver’s Landmark Preservation Commission for a second time Tuesday, citing financial hardship as the reason he should be allowed to demolish the 130-year-old structures.
Property owner Pando Holdings, developer Kiely Wilson’s firm, is appealing the commission’s rejection last summer of its demolition application, and the financial hardship pleading is one of the final avenues left to get permission to tear down the former mansions in the Wyman Historic District.
The historic designation of the buildings at 1600 and 1618 E.