Hawaiian Electric has known for years that extreme weather was becoming a bigger danger, but the company did little to strengthen its equipment and failed to adopt emergency plans used
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Colorado only adds 800 jobs in July, but unemployment stays low
Colorado added a paltry 800 jobs between June and July, and job gains could have gone negative absent strong government hiring, mostly from schools working to get back toward pre-pandemic
Fed Officials Avoided a Victory Lap at July Meeting
Federal Reserve officials welcomed a recent slowdown in inflation at their July meeting, minutes released on Wednesday showed, but they stopped short of declaring victory. Instead, officials stressed that inflation
Denvers York Space Systems adds fourth production site in metro area
York Space Systems, which manufactures and deploys satellites, has opened a fourth production facility in the Denver area, boosting its production capacity to about 1,000 spacecraft a year. York’s new
What China Isn’t Telling the World About Its Economy
China’s answer to bad news: skip it China released more bad economic news on Tuesday, but it was the number that wasn’t included in the official data dump that stood
Report on Anti-Gay Slur Could Put Local News Site Out of Business
The county board meeting in Wausau, Wis., on Aug. 12, 2021, got contentious fast. Nobody disputes that. But what happened about 12 minutes in, as members of the north-central Wisconsin
A New FAFSA Form Is Coming, Along With Changes in College Aid
A long-awaited, supposedly user-friendly version of the college financial aid form known as the FAFSA will be unveiled for the 2024-25 school year. The new form aims to simplify the
Outrage Online as Chinese Property Giant Wobbles and Stock Dives
It was considered the gold standard in China’s increasingly shaky housing market. Now investors are treating Country Garden, the giant property developer, like a ticking time bomb. The company, China’s
Make the Whole Place Shimmer: America Spends Big for Beyoncé and Taylor Swift
By Jeanna Smialek and Jordyn Holman Photographs by DeSean McClinton-Holland and Maggie Shannon Beyoncé told us that girls run the world. This summer, she and Taylor Swift seemed to prove
Emmy Awards Are Pushed to January Because of Hollywood Strikes
Thanks to Hollywood’s labor disputes, this year’s Emmy Awards are moving to 2024. The organizers of the ceremony said on Thursday that it will be rescheduled to Jan. 15, four