Analysis | Roundabouts are (slowly!) eating the suburbs
A quiet roundabout revolution is sweeping America's suburbs.And it may have continued, unmeasured and unremarked, if not for Lee Rodegerdts.It turns out the fine folks at the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics don't track the nation's roundabouts, rotaries or traffic circles.Indeed, no federal agency does.
Man gets more than 3 years in prison for COVID-19 fraud
BOSTON (AP) - A Massachusetts businessman convicted of fraudulently seeking more than $13 million in federal coronavirus pandemic relief loans has been sentenced to more than three years in prison.
Texas actor who played Red Power Ranger among 19 charged in COVID loan fraud scheme
PLANO, Texas - Jason Lawrence Geiger, a.k.a. Austin St. John, the Texas actor known for playing the Red Power Ranger in the 1990s, is one of 19 people charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
City preps $1.5M in assistance for creative spaces facing displacement - Austin Monitor
Wednesday, January 11, 2023 by Chad Swiatecki The city is preparing to open the application for the latest iteration of the Creative Space Assistance Program, which provides up to $50,000 to organizations, artists or for-profit venues facing financial hardships that could lead to their displacement.
'Pandemic, Inc.' author says financial predators made more than $1 billion off COVID
When the COVID crisis hit in 2020, the federal government needed far more N95 masks and other protective equipment than it had so it began awarding contracts to companies promising to provide them, often at a steep mark-up.
The owner of Arinell Pizza on Valencia Street remembers when customers used to pour out of BART at 16th Street, and end up at his place for a slice while bar-hopping in the Mission.