The Chicago Bears announced their new stadium plans in a big, gleaming, star-spangled announcement on September 8. They would be following a well-worn NFL path of moving out of the city and into the suburbs, building their new home in Arlington Heights, just northwest of the city — bragging about the jobs it would bring, the potential to host a …
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Florida taxpayers could lose nearly all of the $218 million the state poured into its controversial Everglades detention center after a federal judge upheld her order shutting it down. The facility, which has been dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” was quickly converted from a remote training airport into a sprawling detention complex. State officials opened it at the beginning of July as …
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Florida taxpayers could be on the hook for $218 million the state spent to convert a remote training airport in the Everglades into an immigration detention center dubbed “ Alligator Alcatraz.” The center may soon be completely empty as a judge upheld her decision late Wednesday ordering operations to wind down indefinitely. Shutting down the facility …
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The rich are different from other people — and that also applies to the share of their income they pay in taxes, according to a new study from University of California, Berkeley, economists. The individuals who make up the Forbes 400 list, topped by Tesla CEO Elon Musk with a fortune of $244 billion, paid an average effective tax rate of …
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Hennepin County commissioners voted 6-1 Tuesday to retake control of the nonprofit that runs HCMC and its clinics after years of budget problems, moving to prevent a closure of the safety-net hospital in downtown Minneapolis. The controversial move dissolves the Hennepin Healthcare System board of community volunteers created in 2007 to oversee the hospital’s day-to-day operations. The health system has …
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