The Los Angeles Unified School District is in a fiscal mess and the county just put a bright red warning flag on the playbook. A formal “Lack of Going Concern” finding from the Los Angeles County Office of Education says LAUSD’s adopted budget, swollen by costly labor deals, could push the district into a negative More

The Justice Department has quietly nudged the door open for parts of the marijuana business to walk through. A recent DOJ order moved narrow categories of cannabis into Schedule III and kicked off an expedited DEA hearing to consider broader rescheduling. That sounds like a small bureaucratic tweak. In reality, it could ripple through banking, More

Louisiana just posted a headline number that will make politicians smile: roughly 36,000 net new payroll jobs over the past year, with construction supplying more than half of that gain. That’s what the state’s Louisiana Works preliminary September employment figures — echoed in federal payroll data — are showing. Good news, but it comes with More

The debate over who knows better — pollsters with their expensive samples or traders with skin in the game — is back in the headlines. A new interview piece this week spotlighted Kalshi and the growing role of prediction markets in election forecasting as we head toward the 2026 midterms. If you still trust polling More

President Donald Trump walked onto a stage in Georgia and announced a big win: Audi will build a new factory near Macon. The German automaker confirmed the plan the same day. If it all goes as promised, this is a major jobs and manufacturing story for Georgia and for the United States. What President Donald More