MARYLAND (WBFF) — The new UMBC exit polling released overnight shows how Maryland residents feel about the result of the 2024 Election and why they chose to go to the polls. According to the UMBC polling, half of the 1,119 people they surveyed, say the economy has gotten worse in the last 12 months. Just…
With the 2024 national election results now behind us, speculation turns to what the change in Presidential administration and likely Republican control of both the United States Senate and the House of Representatives may mean for community and regional banks in at least the coming two years. We briefly focus on two key areas that…
The day after Election Day, Nov. 6, 2024, the results became clear to the United States public. People woke up either already aware of the news from a late night or woke up to the announcement of Donald Trump being the projected winner of the 2024 Presidential election. A variety of emotions and reactions have…
With a 2024 presidential election that was decided more quickly than any of the leading pollsters expected, Republicans have now won a trifecta of power in Washington, D.C., flipping the White House and Senate while keeping control of the House of Representatives with another slim majority. President-elect Donald Trump will take office having won the…
PLENTY OF PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATES THREATENED TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY IF DONALD TRUMP WON A SECOND PRESIDENCY. WELL, HE HAS – AND HOW ONE ITALIAN VILLAGE IS INVITING AMERICANS TO PUT THEIR MONEY WHERE THEIR MOUTH IS… EVEN IF IT’S NOT MUCH. THE RURAL VILLAGE OF OLLOLI (OH-lo-LIE) ON THE ISLAND OF SARDINIA…
Kaylee May Law’s grandfather Fat Law moved to the United States from Hong Kong in the 1960s. Kaylee remembered seeing all the “I voted” stickers that her grandfather had placed proudly on the refrigerator in his Baldwin Park home. Fat Law passed away at 92 in October, just weeks before his granddaughter’s name appeared on…
The Ashland public library, a ballot drop-off station in Ashland. (Photo credit to Bob Palermini and Friends of Ashland Library) The City of Ashland and the United States held a historic set of elections on Tuesday, November 5th, with enormous implications for the country and world over the next four years. The first Presidential election…
Kent Nishimura/Getty Images What would you do if you just lost a presidential election? If your answer is “take a relaxing Hawaiian vacation,” be prepared for some serious backlash online. It’s been two weeks since Election Day, and many of us are still recovering from the tense election season and the events that followed. It’s…
Good news: the Senate Judiciary Committee has dropped one of the two terrible patent bills it was considering, the patent-troll-enabling Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA). Bad news: the committee is still pushing the PREVAIL Act, a bill that would hamstring the U.S.’s most effective system for invalidating bad patents. PREVAIL is a windfall for patent…
On Nov. 5, many members of the Elizabethtown College campus community voted either in-person or had already sent in their mail-in ballot weeks prior. The Center for Community and Civic Engagement (CCCE) shuttled people to the local polling location at various times throughout the day and also provided “Etown Votes” stickers for voters who may…