How Microsoft Lost the TikTok Bidding War
What is Tik Tok?
Mix in celebrities, tween and teens, and 15 seconds, and these all seem to be the recipe for creating a successful viral app, all which Tik...
Trump Approves Tik Tok Deal
Confusion arises out of the deal that Tik Tok has reached with Oracle and Walmart to satisfy Trump’s concerns over American national security.
Tik Tok reaches a deal
Confusion:...
Dialysis Patients Panic As Financial ‘Life Raft’ Becomes Unmoored
Russell Desmond received a letter a few weeks ago from the American Kidney Fund that he said felt like “a smack on the face.”
The organization informed Desmond, who has kidney failure...
De Blasio Budget Filled With Short-Term Risks and Long-Term Dangers, Fiscal Watchdogs Say
New York City is depending on federal aid from Washington to protect Mayor Bill de Blasio’s precariously balanced pandemic-shaped budget from the many risks it contains — including any...
Report shows state was double-counting permanent fund money for years
An annual audit of the state’s finances found that officials had double-counted over $750 million dollars. And that’s not the first time something like this has happened.
That’s the most...
Analysis: Texas in a state of financial uncertainty
It will be a miracle if Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar and his team of financial prognosticators are right about the arc of the state’s economy over the next few months.
The LBJ...
‘An Arm and a Leg’: Financial Self-Defense School Is Now in Session
When you need medical care, it can be a lot like entering a casino — playing for your financial life with the deck stacked against you.
But in this episode,...
Arizona earns ‘F’ for judicial financial disclosure
The Center for Public Integrity evaluated the disclosure rules for judges in the highest state courts nationwide. The level of disclosure in the 50 states and the District of Columbia was poor, with 43...
Council Watchdog Calls for Close Look at NYPD Complaint Investigation Budget Cuts
Reacting to imminent budget cuts at the agency charged with investigating police misconduct, the head of the City Council’s public safety committee is pressing for accountability.
Councilmember Donovan Richards (D-Queens)...
What the $2 trillion federal stimulus bill means for Montana
Four days after President Donald Trump signed the largest emergency spending measure in U.S. history, the $2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act, Montana-based stimulus watchers are waiting...
