When he was first breaking into the legal weed business in 2011, Joel Pepin did what any sensible, aspiring marijuana entrepreneur would do. He didn’t tell his bank how he was making money. “You give them an LLC name and you’re sorta vague about the rest, you know what I mean?” Pepin recalls. He was […]
Public support for marijuana legalization has reached a new high. According to pollsters at Quinnipiac University, 69 percent of all Americans and clear majorities in every demographic group now favor the legalization of marijuana. That’s up from 51 percent of Americans who said they favored legalization in 2012, the first year Quinnipiac included questions about […]
As America exits the COVID-19 pandemic, demand for goods and services is surging—and triggering worries about inflation. The consumer price index for March showed a 2.6 percent increase over the same month last year. That’s the largest year-to-year increase in prices since the summer of 2018, and significantly more than the 1.4 percent year-to-year increase […]
President Joe Biden will force some 3,000 American troops to spend an additional four months risking their lives in Afghanistan seemingly in the name of symbolism. The White House now plans to withdraw the last American troops from Afghanistan on September 11 of this year, The New York Times and other outlets reported Tuesday, rather […]
It was a high-stakes election with big political implications for the country, one that came at the end of a bruising campaign that attracted a lot of media attention. When all the votes were counted, there was a clear winner. But the losing side refused to concede, alleging that their defeat was the result of […]
When it comes to his favorite mode of transportation, President Joe Biden apparently has a very active imagination. “What we’re really doing is raising the bar on what we can imagine,” Biden said in remarks at the White House on Wednesday afternoon. “Imagine a world where you and your family can travel coast to coast […]
More than 100 million Americans have already received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine—but if the country was waiting for the federal government’s handpicked vaccine manufacturer to deliver those shots, the pandemic’s end would be nowhere in sight. Emergent BioSolutions, a Maryland-based biotech firm, has received a series of government contracts since 2012 […]
In pitching his $2.25 trillion infrastructure spending proposal, President Joe Biden said last week that if the plan was passed, “the economy will create 19 million jobs—good jobs, blue collar jobs, jobs that pay well” over the next 10 years. That’s a technically accurate description of an analysis of the American Jobs Plan published by […]
President Joe Biden will outline plans for $2.25 trillion in new spending on infrastructure, financed by massive tax hikes on businesses and individuals, during a speech scheduled to be delivered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, later today. Yes, “Infrastructure Week” has finally arrived. Citing congressional sources briefed on the plan Tuesday, The New York Times reports that […]
Lawmakers in Kentucky successfully overrode Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto of a school choice bill, opening several avenues for families in the state to pursue a better education for their children. The new law, originally House Bill 563, allows students in Kentucky public schools to switch school districts, and it creates a new tax-advantaged education savings […]
