The Chicago Board of Education approved a small increase to its property tax levy on Monday that will allow the district to collect about $40 million more than originally planned. For taxpayers, that ...

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Two decades of ballooning debt for the San Diego County pension system is cooling, with the fund lopping off $462 million from its multibillion-dollar unfunded liability over the last year. The ...

In recent years, Merchant Cash Advances—commonly known as MCAs—have exploded in popularity among small business owners seeking fast access to capital. On the surface, MCAs look simple: a lender ...

ABSTRACT: In this paper, we investigate a meshless approximation, the interpolating element-free Galerkin method, for an optimal control problem governed by fourth-order parabolic partial differential ...

This video shows a day full of challenges on the road — heavy rain, traffic delays, a rerouted load, and delivery hold-ups. It highlights how drivers adapt to constant changes and still find solutions ...

New Orleans’ municipal government may not be able to make payroll for the rest of the year, as the city’s cash flow, already precarious in the face of a $160 million deficit, is apparently worse than ...

Failures at the Oregon State Hospital have spread to mental health treatment across the state. The impact includes the unraveling of the agreement for the state grant that pays for mental health ...

Smaller companies are as diverse in their structure and ownership as they are in their focus on retail, repair, tech, real estate, and other business sectors—whether as brick-and-mortar or digital ...