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- WRN Deep Dive: Previewing Tuesday’s Midterm Election
There’s a lot on the ballot for Tuesday’s midterm election. WRN’s Sean Maloney talks with UW – La Crosse Political Science Professor Anthony Chergosky about what’s at stake in the State Legislature, and how national trends could impact Wisconsin voters… Source: WRN.com [TheTopNews] Read More.5 days ago - WRN Daily: DATCP warns of AI generated mailWatch out for AI generated ads and letters in your mail. Wisconsin Consumer Protection administrator Michelle Reinen says people are getting more and more misleading messages in their junk mail thanks to computer generated images. “We see artificial intelligence used to create images that could be related to politics, celebrity endorsements of products.” Reinen says […] Source: WRN.com [TheTopNews] Read More.5 days ago
- A Cynical Ploy to Block California’s Wealth Tax
The most important decision facing California voters this year is not which candidates to support for higher office, but whether to approve a wealth tax on the state’s approximately 250 billionaires. The ballot initiative that would impose the tax has plenty of enemies, among not only the superrich but also the many Californians, including Governor Gavin Newsom, who worry about losing the superrich to other states. But thanks to a deviously cynical electoral maneuver by the measure’s opponents, the people who ultimately doom it might include some of those who vote for it.Proposition 40 was spearheaded by Dave Regan, who leads California’s large and powerful health-care workers’ union, in response to the Medicaid cuts in Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act. If approved, the initiative would create a onetime 5 percent tax on all billionaire wealth, and the proceeds—perhaps as much as $100 billion—would be earmarked mostly for state health-care spending. To make sure the superrich don’t flee before they can be taxed, the policy would apply retroactively to anyone who lived in the state at the start of 2026.Predictably, some of the billionaires in question are seeking to defeat the initiative. The Google co-founder Sergey Brin preemptively moved his residence and businesses to Nevada in 2025 and seeded the new political organization Building a Better California with $102 million from his stash. (That might sound like a lot, but the tax would have cost him about $12 billion.) Thanks to the donations of other tech tycoons, the group has raised more than $333 million in total.[Read: If you tax them, will they leave?]Plan A is to convince voters that Proposition 40 is unwise via a barrage of TV and social-media ads. In case that doesn’t work, the opponents have come up with Plans B and C: Propositions 41 and 42. These initiatives take advantage of a feature of California law: If two conflicting ballot measures pass in the same election, the one with more votes prevails. On the surface, both look innocuous and unrelated to the wealth tax. Proposition 41 is being pitched as a fiscal-responsibility measure, and Proposition 42 is ostensibly about protecting voters’ retirement savings. But the initiatives are designed to directly conflict with the wealth-tax measure. Proposition 41 would institute audit requirements for new special taxes and void any programs that are exempt from the state’s existing spending limit, which the new wealth tax would… [TheTopNews] Read More.5 days ago - American Trucking Trends 2026 Shows Modest Freight and Revenue Growth
What does the new ATA report show? The American Trucking Associations released American Trucking Trends 2026 on October 26, 2026, reporting modest gains in freight tonnage and revenue. The publication examines trucking’s economic role, workforce, and business structure. Importantly, its headline operating figures describe 2025 activity, not full-year 2026 results. How much freight and revenue did trucking generate? Trucks hauled 11.46 billion tons in 2025, compared with 11.27 billion in 2024. Meanwhile, industry revenue reached $936.4 billion, up from $906 billion. Calculations using ATA’s totals put those increases at approximately 1.7% for tonnage and 3.4% for revenue. However, ATA Chief Economist Bob Costello cautioned that carriers continued facing rising operating costs and uneven freight volumes. He emphasized evaluating the gains alongside these financial pressures. Higher revenue does not automatically mean higher profits, because expenses also affect what carriers retain. What do the employment and fleet-size figures show? Trucking supported 8.5 million industry-related jobs, including 3.45 million professional drivers, in 2025. The employment total therefore covers more than people working behind the wheel. Additionally, the report shows that small businesses continued to make up most of the industry. 91.1% of carriers operated 10 or fewer trucks. 99.2% of carriers operated fewer than 100 power units. These percentages measure the number of carriers, rather than their share of freight or revenue. A small carrier and a large fleet each count as one company. Consequently, the figures describe the industry’s business structure, not how evenly transportation work is distributed. ATA’s previous edition listed 8.4 million industry-related jobs and 3.58 million professional drivers for 2024. The published total employment figure increased. However, the reported professional driver count declined between editions. How important was cross-border trucking? Trucks moved 68% of surface trade between the United States and Canada and 86% of goods across the Mexican border in 2025. These were higher than the 67% and 85% shares reported for 2024 in ATA’s previous edition. The percentages describe trucking’s share of trade, not the growth rate of total cross-border shipments. What other information does Trends provide? The publication covers household goods movements and the broader economy alongside its headline trucking figures. Its subject areas also include safety, diesel fuel prices, taxes, and environmental issues. ATA presents the report as a resource for business planning and transportation policy discussions. ATA Chief Advocacy and Public Affairs Officer Henry Hanscom emphasized the value of reliable data… [TheTopNews] Read More.5 days ago - Transylvania, Where Meadows Ripple and Dracula Legends Fade
On a three-day hike in Romania, a writer sidesteps the usual Bram Stoker draws and instead discovers medieval villages, ancient forests and rich living history. [TheTopNews] Read More.5 days ago - ‘I made the wrong decision,’ Hyrox athlete who soiled herself in rac...
In her first interview since the incident, Joanna Wietrzyk told the BBC she takes responsibility for it but did not deserve such a severe backlash. [TheTopNews] Read More.6 days ago
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