‘Dual class’ shares are a fraud on the public market.

Justice Samuel Alito decided Monday to sit out one of the most consequential climate change cases to reach the Supreme Court, but legal experts expected continuing ramifications due to his ownership o...

I’m an oncology nurse in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley. My patients and I breathe the same polluted air, and we can’t afford the toxic exposure from the gas-fired plants set to power the state’s proposed A...

The state was the first to pass a law banning Kalshi and Polymarket. A lawsuit filed by a federal agency may set a precedent on who gets to regulate them.

The first law of holes states that if you find yourself in one, stop digging. The US is in a $3 trillion home-insurance hole, but instead of putting down its shovels, it’s handing out shiny new ones t...

State-run last-resort insurance plans push rates up for everyone, and they reduce incentives for fire-resistant homes and development. The plans can’t substitute for long-term solutions.

As traditional insurers retreat from areas most vulnerable to extreme weather, more Americans struggling to find coverage are seeking out surplus line plans.

History is calling. Sorry!

The poll found that voters in Democratic primaries view crypto less favorably than oil companies; Wall Street; or data centers.

As the catastrophic Los Angeles wildfires raged last year, people placed bets on how how many acres the fires would consume, which locations they would reach and when they would be contained.

The downgrade comes as Oracle challenges state regulators’ decision to require companies with lower credit ratings to post millions in collateral for new data centers.

Records show reps for insurance broker Ryan Specialty drafted key parts of the new law and gave lawmakers scripts to read during hearings. The company also made $750,000 in campaign contributions.

Emails obtained show a developer solicited letters of support to give Gov. Janet Mills “cover” for her veto of a statewide data center ban.

“Climate hushing” is all the rage among Democrats. That’s a big mistake.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration has nearly tripled its prediction for new gas plant capacity over the next few years.

A data center buildout Q+A for the Twin Ports region

First, though, voters get to weigh in next month

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The utility says new financial security requirements for large data centers could discourage major investments in the state. Consumer advocates say the standards protect existing customers from financ...

Risk, models and markets

Former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters on Monday used the new freedom granted to her by Colorado Gov. Jared Polis to promptly renew her baseless allegations of widespread election fraud, casting doubt o...

The Republican plan to defund everything.

Another 5,000 Louisiana homeowners will gain access to a state fund to strengthen their roofs to a standard that will withstand hurricanes and eventually bring down their insurance costs.

Ebola, statistics, and what pandemic science can teach markets.

​Researchers concluded that one future climate scenario is unlikely to happen. Right-wingers went wild.

Call it a mix of collectivism and entrepreneurialism or just an overarching vibe, but the mayor’s philosophy could be on the way to Westminster, says Guardian columnist John Harris

With our winner-take-all elections, the ideal of a ‘fair’ map is impossible. Proportional representation is the only answer.

As students boo commencement speakers touting AI, and communities reject data centers, billionaires are getting nervous and angry. It's going to get worse.

Across the country, working-class communities are rising up against Big Tech’s data center boom. A moratorium isn’t the end goal — it’s the only leverage we have to force real democratic control over ...

These aren’t your 2024 deepfakes. Bad actors will go for broke using state-of-the-art AI tools to blunt voters’ confidence in elections.

Fed chair nominee Kevin Warsh will lack ‘credibility’ in arguing rates should fall, says former Treasury secretary

Hosted by Josh Turek with Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a Des Moines roundtable spotlighted climate impacts on rising insurance costs.

New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI.

With developers buying up large swathes of land in the Salt River Project service area, its governance is less certain than ever.

Society of American Archivists

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The two are running for the seat representing central Duluth on the St. Louis County Board.

A house gives its owner at least two big things: wealth and the ability to sleep indoors. A roof makes both possible. When the roof goes, the home’s value evaporates and it becomes a campsite with wal...

Democrats could flip Mar-a-Lago blue tomorrow in a must-watch special election in Florida’s 87th House District.

Differences in state regulations play a major role in the growing crisis over home insurance, which is closely linked to the climate emergency propelled by fossil fuels.

Building fossil-fuel infrastructure to power data centers is a poor bet. Renewables are by far the cheaper, faster choice.