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Buzzkill: Trump's trade wars threaten America's craft brewers already reeling from changing tastes
America's craft brewers already have enough problems. Hard seltzers and cocktails are muscling into beer sales. Millennials and Gen Z don't drink as much as their elders. Brewpubs still haven't fully recovered from the shock of COVID-19 five years ago.
Now there's a new threat: President Donald Trump's tariffs, including levies ... (full story)
Tariffs and forbearance
Q: How, exactly, do tariffs work? -- P.N., Philadelphia
A: A tariff is a tax on an import -- and it's paid by importers, not foreign countries. As an example, the United States has recently had a 2.5% tariff on many imported passenger vehicles. So the American importer of a $20,000 vehicle would pay $500 -- which would go to the ... (full story)
'I bought their dream': How a US company's huge land deal in Senegal went bust
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Rusting pipes in a barren field and unpaid workers are what remain after a U.S. company promised to turn a huge piece of land in Senegal — about twice the size of Paris — into an agricultural project and create thousands of jobs.
In interviews with company officials and residents, The Asso ... (full story)
Local
Cuts to research into inequality, disparities and other DEIA topics harm science
(THE CONVERSATION) When I taught research methods to undergraduates, I would start by asking whether anyone in the class had $20. Though harder to come by thanks to digital payment options, inevitably someone would produce a $20 bill. I would then ask whether they knew how the bill came to look the way it does. Students would take g ... (full story)
Planned blackouts are becoming more common − and not having cash on hand could cost you
(THE CONVERSATION) Are you prepared for when the power goes out? To prevent massive wildfires in drought-prone, high-wind areas, electrical companies have begun preemptively shutting off electricity. These planned shutdowns are called public safety power shutoffs, abbreviated to PSPS, and they're increasingly common. So far this yea ... (full story)
State
Trial will determine who will pay $600M in derailment settlement
Norfolk Southern wants two other companies to help pay for the $600 million class-action settlement it agreed to over its disastrous 2023 train derailment near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border and the toxic chemicals that were released and burned.
The railroad filed the motion that went to trial last Monday to force the railcar owne ... (full story)
Bill designed to give taxing authorities increased input into timing of levies
A central Ohio lawmaker recently introduced his plan to give local taxing authorities, such as counties, townships, municipalities and school districts, input into when to place certain tax levies on the ballot.
House Bill 137 specifically would apply to library district levies and general-health district levies, Rep. Brian Lore ... (full story)
Miami's Haitian community gathers in prayer as crises escalate in homeland and US
MIAMI (AP) — Packed pews, rollicking singing and emotional devotions have marked Lent worship services at Notre Dame d'Haiti, the Catholic church at the heart of the largest Haitian diaspora in the United States. For a community caught in the crossfire of growing violence in their island homeland and disappearing humanitarian ... (full story)