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...“We know wreaths around here,” a local New England government official in a nearby town tells me. “They’re, like, one layer. They’re cheap.”...
...Sales and shipments have both recently declined and Elkhart employment recorded the largest year-over-year drop among the biggest US counties as of the fourth quarter of 2022....
...These days, Regalado, a county commissioner who is the daughter of Cuban immigrants, delights in what she calls “this fusion that is very Miami”....
...Recent work includes converting Massachusetts community currency BerkShares to blockchain and advising Australian investment app Bamboo on growing in the US....
...They range from tariffs and import controls that are driving up the cost of solar panels to state land-use laws over which the federal government has no control....
...Raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Vermeule grew up steeped in classics. His mother Emily was a Harvard professor and one of the leading archaeologists of her generation....
...Where does their rising power leave governments, the power centres we once expected to solve such problems?...
...Los Angeles, St Louis and Savannah were among those to take action before the CDC’s update, while Atlanta and Miami-Dade county did so in the wake of the health agency’s guidance....
...OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma was all but guaranteed its 2019 case would be overseen by Judge Robert Drain after choosing a court in Westchester county, New York....
...Daron Acemoglu, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, argues that international lenders — including not only the EBRD but also other government-owned banks — deserve some of the blame...
...About 1,000 counties have vaccination coverage of less than 30 per cent, Rochelle Walensky, director of the CDC, told a press briefing on Thursday....
...Former Yorkshire county cricket player Azeem Rafiq detailed his experiences of racism at the club in harrowing testimony to British MPs....
...The justice department’s inquiry, which will also examine the Louisville-Jefferson County Metro government, is known as a “pattern or practice” investigation....
...The book is about Teton County, Wyoming — the richest and most unequal county in America — though with a strong Democratic vote....
...The company remains in negotiations with several states, counties and cities. Sackler family members agreed to pay $225m while denying the allegations against them....
...Mary Dhonau’s house in Worcester, England, was flooded in 2000. “You can replace a fridge, you can replace a sofa. But I lost my children’s little handprints from playgroup,” she says....
...Oregon’s governor on Friday announced a two-week “pause” on activities in certain counties as the state reported a record jump in Covid-19 cases....
...California has introduced a late-night curfew in its hotspot counties. Massachusetts and Ohio have introduced similar curbs....
...Neyfakh, now 35, was born in the Soviet Union; his Russian-Jewish parents emigrated to Cook County, Illinois, when he was a child....
...Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have launched legal proceedings against the federal government to block the move....
...But the US central bank was also tasked by Congress and the White House to manage the main government aid plan for distressed companies in last month’s stimulus bill, placing it at the heart of the fiscal...
...“Everyone’s having trouble calling in the results,” said Des Moines county co-chairman Tom Courtney....
...“It’s a failure of leadership in the national government,” Prof Bloom says....
...It was in King County, which includes Seattle, that the first US patient, a male in his 50s, died from the disease on Friday, triggering concerns that coronavirus was spreading in the area, including a local...
...Chinsky points out that the property developer of the warehouse received a tax break from local officials in Cook County, which has resulted in big savings for Amazon....
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