Matt Gagnon discussed the recent budget vote in Maine, highlighting the Democrats’ push for income tax hikes despite initial hesitation within their caucus and Janet Mills’ campaign promises against broad-based tax increases. The House and Senate agreed on a $11.3 billion state budget, including a $1.30 increase in the cigarette tax and Medicaid funding. Six House Democrats joined Republicans to initially defeat the budget amendment, which later passed 75-73. Sophie Warren was the sole Democratic opponent. The budget, expected to be signed by Mills, includes a $320.6 million spending plan over five years, with a net cost of $118.1 million.
The largest monthly jump in gas prices in six decades caused a sharp spike in inflation in March, creating major challenges for the inflation-fighters at the Federal Reserve and heightening the political challenges of rising costs for the White House.
Republican Clay Fuller on Tuesday won Marjorie Taylor Greene's former U.S. House seat in Georgia, turning back a Democratic challenge with the help of President Donald Trump's endorsement despite uneasiness over the war in Iran.
A Long Island architect accused in a string of long-unsolved slayings known as the Gilgo Beach killings is expected to plead guilty on Wednesday, closing a case that bedeviled investigators, agonized victims' relatives and tantalized a true-crime obsessed public for years.
Route 66 marks its 100th anniversary this year. Despite losing its status decades ago as one of the nation's main arteries, people from around the world still flock to it to take perhaps the quintessential American road trip and soak in its neon lights, kitschy motels and attractions, and culinary offerings.
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