by Leslie Bonilla | Jan 22, 2019 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON – Forty-three of the 50 states have failed to meet optimal traffic safety laws, according to a report released Tuesday by a highway safety group. The Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, an alliance between insurance companies and consumer, medical and...
by Henry Erlandson | Jan 16, 2019 | Living
WASHINGTON — Thomas and Elfriede Flavin lost over $80,000 to someone claiming on Facebook to represent their grandson, leaving them with barely enough money from Social Security and pensions to cover daily living expenses, their daughter told the Senate Special...
by Leslie Bonilla | Jan 16, 2019 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON — The 26-day partial government shutdown is hurting financial markets as well as low-income renters, the head of the House Financial Services Committee said Wednesday. The Financial Services Committee oversees the securities, insurance, banking and housing...
by Gabrielle Bienasz | Jan 10, 2019 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON – Federal Communications Commission employee Ronald Cunningham wants to keep his Ford truck. He’s only owned it for three months. But he has been furloughed for nearly three weeks as part of the partial federal government shutdown and says if he is not paid...
by Leslie Bonilla | Jan 10, 2019 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON – Wearing purple shirts, federal aviation workers joined by aviation industry employees and organizations rallied Thursday for an end to the three-week partial federal government shutdown Air traffic controllers have been working without pay since the...
by Stavros Agorakis, Mila Jasper & Anna Laffrey | Mar 20, 2018 | Featured, Living
TAMPA, Fla. — The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has extended temporary housing set to expire this week by more than two months for Puerto Rican citizens who relocated to the United States after Hurricane Maria, a FEMA representative said. Puerto Ricans...
by Stavros Agorakis, Mila Jasper & Anna Laffrey | Mar 20, 2018 | Featured, Living
TAMPA, Fla. — The Baymont Inn & Suites sits on the edge of the University of South Florida campus outside Tampa. A ceiling fan blows humid air around the lobby, where an array of giant stuffed animals observe tourists coming and going in the early spring warmth....
by Paola de Varona | Mar 13, 2018 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON – Less than a week after Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson defended his push to remove anti-discrimination language from the HUD mission statement, the National Low Income House Coalition released a report Tuesday showing the shortage of...
by Jakob Lazzaro | Mar 9, 2018 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON — Transportation policy expert Sarah Kline has done a lot of research on selling government assets to the private sector. But President Donald Trump’s proposal to sell the George Washington Memorial Parkway took her by surprise. “You...
by Caroline Vakil | Mar 7, 2018 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON — The Highway Trust Fund, which provides federal funding to highway and transit programs, is expected to run out of money by 2020, but experts disagreed on whether to raise gas taxes or try alternative means to generate more revenue during a House highways...
by Kristina Karisch & Anna Laffrey | Mar 1, 2018 | Environment, Featured, Living
WASHINGTON – Puerto Rico needs a new “Marshall plan” — a massive U.S. effort to help Europe rebuild after World War II — to recover from the massive devastation caused by Hurricane Maria, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said Thursday. Warren and two other...
by Caroline Vakil | Mar 1, 2018 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON — One Amtrak passenger train collided with a CSX freight train while traveling in South Carolina on Feb. 4 resulting in two deaths and over 100 people injured. On Jan. 31, another train carrying passengers to a GOP retreat hit a garbage truck in...