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3 weeks ago | insightnews.com | Rob Hubbard

Tax increment financing is kind of like borrowing from the future. Cities can create “TIF districts” to help finance the redevelopment of a blighted section of town, diverting funds raised by expected future property tax increases. But if those municipalities want to veer from the parameters of TIF law in statute, they go to the Capitol and ask for permission. And Tuesday was such a day in the House Taxes Committee.

3 weeks ago | insightnews.com | Haley Taylor Schlitz |Esq. Columnists

There’s something haunting about how truth reveals itself, sometimes quietly, sometimes by accident. That’s what happened when key figures within the Trump administration used the encrypted messaging app Signal to communicate in real time about top-secret U.S. military strikes in Yemen. In an astonishing breach, they accidentally included The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg in the chat.

3 weeks ago | insightnews.com | Carla K. Johnson

Employees across the massive U.S. Health and Human Services Department received notices Tuesday that their jobs were being eliminated, part of a sweeping overhaul designed to vastly shrink the agencies responsible for protecting and promoting Americans' health. The cuts include researchers, scientists, doctors, support staff and senior leaders, leaving the federal government without many of the key experts who have long guided U.S. decisions on medical research, drug approvals and other issues.

3 weeks ago | insightnews.com | Matthew Brown |April Ryan

Democratic Sen. Cory Booker ended his record-setting speech the same way he began it, more than 25 hours earlier: by invoking the words of his mentor, the late congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis. "He endured beatings savagely on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, at lunch counters, on freedom rides. He said he had to do something. He would not normalize a moment like this," Booker said of Lewis' work as a young activist during the Civil Rights movement.

1 month ago | insightnews.com | Chuck Hobbs

“If the federal government can do it to ‘them,’ they can do it to ‘you’...” Chuck Hobbs, Facebook post regarding the arrest of Palestinian student activist Mahmoud Khalil, March 2025 When it comes to suppressing the right to speak freely per the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, the Trump administration is consistently employing Gestapo-like tactics to crack down on those offering dissenting views about the indiscriminate killing of Palestinian civilian men, women, and...