Amanda Johnston learned she would become the 2024 Texas poet laureate via an afternoon cell phone call on an otherwise typical workday in her home office. She’d been told that she was among 10 finalists, but she’d forsworn any hope … Continued
City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events, public hearings and affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon. A Rent Guidelines Board meeting in 2023. The board will meet Thursday morning. (Adi Talwar) Welcome to City Limits’ NYC … Continued
By JON CHERRY, KIMBERLEE KRUESI and ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE, Associated Press FRANKFORT, Kentucky (AP) — Days of unrelenting heavy rain and storms that killed at least 18 people worsened flooding as some rivers rose to near-record levels and inundated towns across … Continued
By ELAINE KURTENBACH, Associated Press Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — The impact of U.S. President Donald Trump’sblast of tariff hikes was reverberating across world markets Monday as America’s trading partners puzzled over whether there is room for negotiating better deals. … Continued
FRANKFURT, Germany — Global stock markets extended a severe plunge Monday, fueled by fears that U.S. tariffs would lead to a global economic slowdown. European and Asian shares saw dramatic losses, the leading U.S. index flirted with bear market territory … Continued
School board member Chauntyll Allen is the fourth candidate to declare for the Ward 4 seat on the St. Paul City Council this August, and a former chair of the Hamline-Midway Coalition has raised the ire of its nonprofit board … Continued