Category: US News

A new study from the Public Affairs Research Council of Alabama (PARCA) shows that Alabama still collects less tax money per person than most other states in the U.S. If you don’t count the state lotto, Alabama is only behind Tennessee in terms of how much it collects per person. When the money from the…

The Maryland Cannabis Administration (MCA) says that sales at the state’s cannabis shops reached more than $91.4 million in August, which was the second month of legal adult-use sales. According to MCA, sales for adult use made up $53 million of the total in August, which is about 58% of the market as a whole.…

NW Indiana had a busy time last months. In downtown Michigan City, work began on a $280 million mixed-use development, and in downtown Valparaiso, work began on a $55 million project. Crews are working toward finishing the South Shore Double Track project in the spring of 2024. This will add a second line of train…

The Department of Health and Human Services (CDC) says that Mississippi has the highest number of gun deaths in the country. Mississippi had the highest rate of gun deaths per person in the U.S. in 2021, with 962 deaths. This was 33.9 deaths per 100,000 people. Mississippi’s rate is more than twice as high as…

Crimes like murder and serious attack happen more often in Portsmouth than anywhere else in Ohio. The shocking numbers come from a report that the office of Portsmouth Police Chief Debby Brewer sent after the City Council and City Manager Sam Sutherland asked for it. The number of people working for the police and fire…

The worst ice storm in Texas that no one told you aboutMillions of people were affected by one of the worst and most widespread winter storms in Texas’s history, which cost billions of dollars to fix. The storm caused record-low temperatures, snow, ice, and power cuts across the whole state. This showed how weak the…

A new study discovered that states that do not allow cannabis use saw more unregulated compounds made from hemp. These compounds included cannabinoids that make people feel high, such as delta-8 THC. The 2018 Farm Bill made hemp and goods made from hemp legal in the U.S. For the past five years, the market for…

Scientists used SARIMA to guess how weed prices in the U.S. would change in the future. “It combines the autoregressive, integrated, and moving average models with seasonal components to capture the trend, seasonality, and random fluctuations in a time series,” the study says. The time-series forecasting model looks at both the trend and the seasonality…

Even though New York’s adult-use cannabis program isn’t fully up and running yet, people are still smoking. There’s study to back it up! A new study says that at 62.3 metric tons (about 137,000 pounds) per year, New York City smokes more weed than any other city in the world. The study, called the “2023…

A California city has passed a law that protects elephants’ legal right to be free to move around. The important law was the first law to protect the rights of animals other than humans. At a meeting on Tuesday, September 26, the Ojai City Council passed the law. For years, people who care about animal…