As States Add Money to Fix Roads, U.S. Is Urged to Ante Up
States’ voters approved $7.7 billion in transportation spending last year, but the federal government needs to do more to fix the nation’s ragged roadways, highway and engineering experts say.
View ArticleIt May Be the Biggest Tax Heist Ever. And Europe Wants Justice.
Stock traders are accused of siphoning $60 billion from state coffers, in a scheme that one called “the devil’s machine.” Germany is the first country to try to get its money back.
View ArticleShe’s Taking on Elon Musk on Solar. And Winning.
As the head of Sunrun, Lynn Jurich won’t rest until the photovoltaic cell module is as common as the fireplace.
View ArticleJim Lehrer, Longtime PBS News Anchor, Is Dead at 85
For 36 years, mostly teaming with Robert MacNeil, he offered an alternative to network evening news programs with in-depth reporting, interviews and news analysis.
View ArticleBig Business Says It Will Tackle Climate Change, but Not How or When
In Davos, business leaders were newly vocal about the danger, though they gave few details about how they would reform their practices.
View ArticleInsys Founder Gets 5½ Years in Prison in Opioid Kickback Scheme
The company executive, John Kapoor, was accused of bribing doctors and misleading insurers to increase sales of a highly addictive painkiller.
View ArticleEditor Who Sharpened Daily News Is Picked to Revive Deadspin
Jim Rich, who presided over a Pulitzer, will take over at a freewheeling sports site that has posted almost nothing since its staff quit last fall.
View ArticleAfternoon of a Pawnbroker
A visit to the flagship location of a company with 26 New York shops and 70,000 loans on the street.
View ArticleGot a Raise? It’s Time to Bump Up Your Savings, Too
A new analysis finds that people who don’t increase their savings rate when their pay goes up will have a harder time in retirement.
View ArticleGoldman’s Playbook for More Diverse Corporate Boards
The bank said that it would only work on an I.P.O. if the client had at least one “diverse” board candidate, an attempt to increase women and minority directors.
View ArticleStronger Growth, With Caveats, Is Predicted for Global Economy
Top policymakers said easing trade tensions had raised prospects, but low interest rates leave central banks few options if problems develop.
View ArticlePapyrus Is Shutting All Its Stores
Schurman Fine Papers, which also owns American Greetings and Carlton Card stores, filed for bankruptcy on Thursday.
View ArticleRoxane Gay Revisits ‘Darkness’ as a Graphic Novel
The author’s latest comic book endeavor adapts a short story, “The Sacrifice of Darkness,” from her 2017 collection “Difficult Women.”
View ArticleOregon Shakespeare Festival Hires a Resident Intimacy Director
Sarah Lozoff is joining one of the nation’s leading regional theaters for all 11 of its productions in its 2020 season.
View ArticleFrieda Caplan, Who Enlivened the Produce Aisle, Dies at 96
She helped introduce kiwi, jicama and countless other unfamiliar fruits and vegetables to American consumers.
View ArticleStocks Fall as Second Virus Case in U.S. Spooks Investors
Airline stocks, exposed to the impact of travel restrictions related to China’s coronavirus outbreak, were hard hit.
View ArticleTougher Huawei Restrictions Stall After Defense Department Objects
Proposed changes to further limit American shipments to Huawei have been delayed amid arguments they could backfire.
View ArticleHave a Search Warrant for Data? Google Wants You to Pay
The tech giant has begun charging U.S. law enforcement for responses to search warrants and subpoenas.
View ArticleClayton Christensen, Guru of ‘Disruptive Innovation,’ Dies at 67
He broke ground with his assertion that the factors that helped the best companies succeed were also the reasons some of those same companies failed.
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