All but two states have so-called “pay-to-stay” laws that make prisoners pay for their time behind bars, though not every state actually pursues people for the money. Supporters say the collections are a legitimate way for states to recoup millions of taxpayer dollars spent on prisons and jails.
The two exceptions are New Hampshire and Illinois.
Attendance remains below prepandemic levels, but Disneyland and Disney World are making more money than ever. The company has raised some prices and eliminated or started charging for other services and features that used to be free.
The outcome is a bonanza for Disney: Even as the company limits the number of visitors and keeps attendance at its U.S. theme parks below prepandemic levels, they are generating record sales and profits.
Actually, that's not even close to a peck (but they are verifiably purple, and taste that way too).
From Wikipedia:
A peck is an imperial and United States customary unit of dry volume,[1] equivalent to 2 dry gallons or 8 dry quarts or 16 dry pints.…Two pecks make a kenning (obsolete), and four pecks make a bushel.
My Grandmother used to say you've got to eat a peck of dirt before you die. Which is a lot of dirt. And excused a lot of childhood hygienic sins on all our parts.
The plan rips a new fissure in the Democratic Party, as nonsuicidal members run for cover. Maine Rep. Jared Golden called loan forgiveness “out of touch.” New Hampshire Rep. Chris Pappas said this is “no way to make policy.” Nevada Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto and Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet noted that the plan doesn’t address the underlying problem of rising tuition. Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan, running for the Senate, said the forgiveness “sends the wrong message to the millions of Ohioans without a degree working just as hard to make ends meet.”
[Op-ed from the Wall Street Journal.]
For the cost of the F-35 jet fighter over its lifetime, Joe Biden could cancel all student debt in America. Instead, he chose to nibble at the edges, canceling about 10% of it, while fully funding the F-35, new nuclear weapons, and announcing yet more military “aid” for Ukraine.
This guy pretty much hits the mark with his comments on the student debt uproar (is that too strong a word?) in my opinion, but not he nor any other thoughtful commentator I've found so far touches on the real issue here—the runaway inflation of tuition prices at our institutions of learning. Until that matter is addressed, all of this furor is like taking an aspirin for a fractured skull.
The company said it made the change following consultations with its "industry partners".
In reality, no one involved actually expected trade to drag to a halt after the invasion. Banning imports of certain items would likely do more harm to those sectors in the U.S. than in Russia.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
“I did nothing illegal,” she told reporters…
Just because it's not illegal doesn't mean, of course…well, you know.
But in this case I say party on.
Later that evening, he boarded Marine One for the short trip to his home in Wilmington, Del.
Cost him $400 to do it.
The company promises the chip will also work with any future Tesla.
Not with Studebakers, though.
Or anything else.
We could all get decaffeinated and then where will we be?
