Author: Ethan Johnson

Billionaire Mark Cuban revealed the hefty change he paid in 2023 taxes this year, revealing the nine-figure figure in a post on X this week while criticizing former President Donald Trump.”I'm going to pay what I owe. Tomorrow I'm going to wire $288 million to the IRS,” Cuban says. I have written It posted on social media sites on Sunday and later revised the actual figure to $275.9 million in a follow-up. post.”This country has given me so much. I'm proud to pay my taxes every year. To tag a former president you should know,” Cuban said. added, appearing to…

The annual County Youth Service Program was held on Friday, April 5th. Pine Bush had his seven students participate in this great educational day sponsored by Orange County, OU BOCES, and the Orange County Youth Authority. Members of the Youth in Government group went after various agencies and influential people in Orange County. The day began at 8:30 a.m. and students were introduced to their agency and the people who will educate them about the agency and the job. Pine Bush students observed the following: Jacob Schuh I went to the Orange County Airport (for those who want to be…

On Tuesday, a two-day energy summit highlighted how far Montgomery County has come in cleaning up its environment and how much more it needs to do. Discussions among business and government officials focused on how to make the county more energy efficient by converting buildings, cars and buses from gas-powered to electric-powered vehicles. The summit was held Monday and Tuesday at the Silver Spring Civic Center in downtown Silver Spring. “What we are doing here in Montgomery County is not only ambitious, but achievable,” declared John Monger, director of the county Department of Environmental Protection. The county has set goals…

Dozens of Google employees began occupying the company's offices in New York City and Sunnyvale, California, on Tuesday to protest the company's $1.2 billion contract to provide cloud computing services to the Israeli government.The sit-ins, organized by the activist group No Tech for Apartheid, are being held at Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian's office in Sunnyvale and the 10th floor commons of Google's New York office. The sit-in will be accompanied by outdoor protests at Google offices in New York, Sunnyvale, San Francisco, and Seattle starting at 2 p.m. ET and 11 a.m. PT.Tuesday's action marks an escalation in a…

listen to this article 2024 has been the best start for the stock market since 2019, with the S&P 500 index topping the 5,000 level for the first time and returning 10.6% in the first quarter. Despite some cracks, the economy is recovering and consumer confidence is rising. However, the picture for bonds is less rosy as the Bloomberg Aggregate Bond Index fell -0.8% and investors continue to grapple with changes in the expected path of interest rates. The yield inversion period for U.S. Treasuries is also the longest in history, surpassing the inversion period in the late 1970s. In…

Ontario Health FederationTORONTO, April 16, 2024 (Globe Newswire) — New report released today. Illegal, illegal, unethical: A case study of patients charged for medical treatment at private clinics in Ontario.featured evidence from more than 100 patients who say they are being charged fees at private clinics in Ontario. The medical coalition released the report at a press conference for patients who were charged hundreds or even thousands of dollars for treatment at for-profit clinics. Most of the patients were elderly people on fixed incomes and were charged up to $8,000 or more for eye surgeries and tests, the health coalition…

The U.S. government could lose between $233 billion and $521 billion each year due to fraud, according to a first-of-its-kind rough federal estimate released Tuesday.But the report's authors, the bipartisan Government Accountability Office, also said that due to the lack of reliable data and the inherent challenges of uncovering sophisticated schemes to steal federal funds, It warned that the new figures were incomplete and inaccurate.The watchdog agency, known as the GAO, is looking at the federal budget from fiscal years 2018 to 2022 between the Trump and Biden administrations, as well as the new budget that Democrats and Republicans alike…

Tim Golzer and Curtis Mason have been building things together since high school, when they were co-captains of their school's robotics team. While in college, Golzer and Mason worked with Sean Doherty, whom Mason met while an undergraduate at Boston University, to develop Hang, an app for scheduling hangouts with friends. Fast forward to 2022, and Golzer and Mason, along with Doherty, felt the entrepreneurial spirit calling again. After considering several ideas, they decided to pursue a largely unaddressed market: tools that help small businesses secure U.S. government contracts. “In the federal contracting community, we've seen the small business industrial…

MSGCU Selects Blended Mortgage, Income, Closing, and Home Equity SolutionsSan Francisco, April 16, 2024–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Blend, a leading provider of cloud banking services, today announced that Michigan School Government Credit Union (MSGCU) has selected Blend to provide an enhanced user experience for its members . By choosing His Blend for its mortgage, income, closing, and home equity solutions, MSGCU simplifies and streamlines the application process, automates lender workflows, and helps all areas of the consumer real estate business. We aim to provide a consistent digital experience.”MSGCU continually evaluates the tools we use to serve our members to help them meet their…

“When civilians are robbed, honorable men are robbed of the fruits of their hard work and of their thrift. When the government is robbed, the worst thing that can happen is that some rogues and vagrants are more You have less money to play with.” — HL Mencken, from “Mencken Chrestomachy” The recent public fight and apology over proposed changes to Alabama's ethics law brought back personal memories of watching past public fights against corruption, and made me realize just how alone I felt when it came to political corruption. It reminded me of how I feel. Am I the…