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Showing posts with label commerce. Show all posts
Showing posts with label commerce. Show all posts
Friday, June 27, 2025

House panel has a ‘near-universal consensus’ on pausing the U.S. Postal Service’s planned changes

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The USPS will have new leadership who may rethink  recent plans. (Photo by Clay Leconey, Unsplash) Over the past few decades, the United St...
Friday, March 28, 2025

Canadian travelers boycott visits to U.S., and the loss of Canadian dollars could 'upend local economies.'

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Fearful of problems at the U.S.-Canada border, many Canadians have canceled U.S. travel.  (Adobe Stock photo) In a response to U.S. annexati...
Tuesday, February 20, 2024

A plan to restore and protect the Mississippi River is getting another chance in Congress

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The Mississippi River basin, its major tributaries and the hypoxic "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico. (EPA map via WJS) After cent...
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Double, double toil and trouble; haunting Kentucky tales and tourist dollars bubble

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Part of Kentucky's After Dark campaign highlights rural areas with chilling legends and haunts to share. (KY After Dark photo via DY) If...
Thursday, October 19, 2023

90% of U.S. iron ore travels through the Soo Locks, and the system needs expensive upgrades

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Map by Marine Cadastre, Army Corps of Engineers via  The Wall Street Journal It isn't just the mighty Mississippi River that moves U.S....
Tuesday, October 17, 2023

Help your community 'know their risk and protect their money' by raising public awareness with this media kit

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To increase the public's awareness of deposit insurance and how it can protect people's money in the event of a bank's failure, ...
Thursday, October 05, 2023

Is the U.S. inching toward recession? Ag economists weigh in on warning signs

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Graphic by Lindsey Pound, Farm Journal Over the past two years, many economists and business leaders have warned that an economic downturn i...
Wednesday, September 27, 2023

A group of 10 states wants to create a compact to protect the Mississippi River

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Aerial view of the Mississippi River near Guttenberg, Iowa. (Photo by Drake White-Bergey, Wisconsin Watch via WWNO) The Mississippi River, ...
Thursday, August 10, 2023

Low-high, high-low: Mississippi flooded in spring, but now levels are falling and barge traffic could be slowed again

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Just below the confluence with the Ohio River, a barge loaded with coal and gravel found the channel close to the Kentucky shore of the low ...
Monday, May 09, 2022

Probe of Chinese solar-panel makers all but halts imports, slowing clean-energy projects and giving coal a reprieve

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" Auxin Solar Inc. , a tiny, struggling maker of solar panels, has thrown the entire American renewable-energy industry into chaos,...
Thursday, December 03, 2020

Policy paper shows how local strategies are helping revitalize three small cities: Wheeling, Emporia and Laramie

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Part of the historic district of Laramie, Wyoming (Photo via Wikimedia Commons) A five-part policy paper aims to cut through stereotypes to ...
Tuesday, November 03, 2020

Amazon reportedly planning new service for rural deliveries, cutting out U.S. Postal Service, which needs its money

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Amazon may be looking to handle its own deliveries to rural areas rather than relying on the U.S. Postal Service , Kim Lyons reports for T...
Thursday, January 30, 2020

UPS to add 1,500 access locations, mainly rural, in 2020

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Package delivery giant United Parcel Service  is moving further into rural areas that are under-served in the era of e-commerce," Anne...
Tuesday, August 20, 2019

Trump administration delays ban on Huawei Technologies because of concerns about disruptions in rural service

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"The Trump administration is extending a reprieve for Huawei Technologies and U.S. companies working with the telecom giant by 90 day...
Tuesday, June 18, 2019

Great Lakes near or at record high levels; scientists say climate change driving extreme swings in water levels

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A pier on Lake Ontario is partially inundated by rising water and wind-driven waves. ( Buffalo News photo) Water levels in the Great ...
Friday, June 07, 2019

FedEx to hire 700 part-time rural and residential drivers

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FedEx Corp. is planning to hire about 700 part-time drivers in 160 U.S. residential and rural markets. They'll use company vehicles, w...
Tuesday, January 08, 2019

Supreme Court rejects fast-track challenges to livestock-confinement laws in California and Massachusetts

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"Two groups of state attorneys general were blocked Monday from bringing a challenge in the U.S. Supreme Court against California and...
Thursday, September 27, 2018

Seven-decade old vision for America by 'philosopher of the New Deal' remains relevant today, ag columnists write

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As negotiators wrangle over reconciling the Farm Bill, which Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kansas, says won't be...
Monday, September 18, 2017

Memo reveals Interior's recommended changes to monuments, three new ones for people of color

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Petroglyphs at Gold Butte National Monument in Nevada. (AP photo by Christian Lee) A copy has been leaked of the memorandum that Depa...
Thursday, July 27, 2017

In an unprecedented move, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross overrules a fish-catch limit

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Summer flounder (Boston Globe illustration) Earlier this month, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross dismissed a report from the Atlantic St...