Q: How many full-time positions have been added to the municipal workforce in Mankato in recent decades? A: That’s a paraphrase of the final of a series of questions asked by a reader in last week’s Ask Us column about city plans to create a new Parks and Rec Department. The reader went on to…
NOVONIX, a leading battery technology company in Chattanooga, only has to jump through one more hoop to be permitted to build another location in town. The Hamilton County Commission will host the final vote on the matter on Wednesday, March 12. NOVONIX highlighted how the Inflation Reduction Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law have…
WASHINGTON (AP) — With his flurry of tariffs, government layoffs and spending freezes, there are growing worries President Donald Trump may be doing more to harm the U.S. economy than to fix it. The labor market remains healthy with a 4.1% unemployment rate and 151,000 jobs added in February, and Trump likes to point to…
Want to comment on this story? Become a subscriber today. Click here. New York – The U.S. stock market is holding steadier on Wednesday, for now at least, following the sharp tumble that wiped out the last of the “Trump bump” it received following the presidential election in November. The S&P 500 was basically unchanged…
Maggie Hassan steps up criticism of Elon Musk | CloseUp Updated: 3:18 PM EST Mar 2, 2025 AND THOSE SECTIONS ARE NOT CONTIGUOUS. WELL, POLLS SHOW DEMOCRATS WANT THEIR ELECTED LEADERS TO FIGHT HARDER AND TAKE A STRONGER STANCE AGAINST THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION. AND SENATOR MAGGIE HASSAN SEEMS TO BE GETTING THE MESSAGE. SHE HAS…
NEW YORK (AP) — Key U.S. agencies, including the FBI and State Department, have instructed their employees not to comply with cost-cutting chief Elon Musk’s demand that federal workers explain what they accomplished last week — or risk losing their jobs. That resistance has intensified a pervasive sense of chaos and confusion, while highlighting a…
NEW YORK (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of federal workers have little more than 48 hours to explain what they accomplished over the last week as part of billionaire Elon Musk’s crusade to slash what he describes as “waste everywhere” in the federal government. Musk, who serves as President Donald Trump’s cost-cutting chief, teased the…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of miles from Elon Musk’s office in the White House complex, a federal worker based in the Pacific Northwest is wondering whether to quit. Musk, one of President Donald Trump’s most powerful advisers, has orchestrated an unprecedented financial incentive for people to leave their government jobs, promising several months of pay…
ATLANTA (AP) — President Donald Trump has taken executive action to impose new tariffs on imports from Canada, China and Mexico. The move fulfills campaign promises but also sparked retaliatory moves that could signal an extended trade war with key trading partners and, in the case of Mexico and Canada, the closest U.S. neighbors and…
A Chattanooga cleaning contractor has been fined $400,000 by the US Department of Labor after employing children illegally and violating the Fair Labor Standards Act. QSI LLC, headquartered in Chattanooga, was investigated by the department’s Wage and Hour Division. They found that they were employing children on overnight sanitation shifts at 13 meat and poultry…