State of the States ARKANSi AS
BITCOIN MINE BLASTED Residents and of icials
of Vilonia have come out in opposition to a planned cryptocurrency mining operation near a residential area in their rural town. One issue is noise that would be
emitted by the facility’s high-powered
computers; another is Chinese government ownership. Vilonia Mayor Preston
Scroggins is upset over the ownership. Green Digital LLC lists Gang Hu as director and/or of icer, among other positions. Hu also appears to be listed as CEO of Greenland USA, a multibillion-dollar real estate company with ties to the Chinese government. “I think foreign ownership
of farmland and stuff is . . . at least the federal government and I understand the state government did something good, they passed a bill banning that,” Scroggins said. “I wish we could do more here in our country.”
WYOMING MAINE
POWER STRUGGLE Maine residents are set to
vote on a November initiative to form a nonprofit public distribution utility through a hostile takeover of the state’s two privately owned power companies. Our Power, a citizen
initiative, says it created the referendum in response to concerns about climate change and frustration over power outages and rate hikes. The proposed public utility company would gain control over transmission and distribution facilities. Maine power companies
only distribute power; they do not create it themselves. If successful, experts believe that other states might try similar initiatives.
LOUISIANA
CLASS ACT As students head back
MOONDANCE STEPS UP New York City’s Moondance Diner, a SoHo favorite featured in movies and TV shows such as Spider-Man, Sex and the City, and Friends, fell into disrepair since being sold and moved to the small town of LaBarge, Wyoming. But a new owner hopes to put the waning Moondance
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to school this fall, they will see something new in every classroom: “In God We Trust,” the of icial motto of the United States. Gov. Jon Bel Edwards,
a Democrat, signed the legislation into law over the summer that applies to all public K-12 schools, colleges, and universities. The law previously required only
MASCOT ROW SIZZLES A group of doctors who
promote plant-based eating
back in service. As rents rose in
SoHo, the diner, essentially a trailer, was sold to private owners in 2007 and set up in LaBarge, where it served as a tourist attraction. But it closed in 2012 after several misfortunes, including a snowstorm that collapsed the roof.
The new owner hopes to
keep the diner where it is and lease it out to new operators.
building. The motto can be any
size, and can even be a paper sign donated to the school. The law also does not specify where in the classroom the motto must be displayed.
GEORGIA
that the motto be displayed
somewhere in the
and animal rights is urging a Georgia baseball team to change its name. The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine wrote to the Georgia summer collegiate team asking for a name change. “Macon Bacon’s
glorification of bacon, a processed meat that raises the risk of colorectal cancer and other diseases, sends the wrong message to fans,” Anna Herby, the group’s nutrition education program manager, said in a letter to the team’s president, Brandon Raphael. Raphael said the Macon
Bacon name is a fan favorite, and a plant-based alternative is sold among the many bacon-themed concessions.
How Much We Earn Median Household Annual Income
United States Alabama Alaska Arizona
Arkansas California Colorado
Connecticut Delaware
Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky Louisiana Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi
$70,784 Missouri $56,929 Montana $81,133 Nebraska $70,821 Nevada
$50,784 New Hampshire $81,575 New Jersey $84,954 New Mexico $80,958 New York
$68,687 North Carolina
District of Columbia $90,640 North Dakota $59,734 Ohio
$61,497 Oklahoma $82,199 Oregon
$76,918 Pennsylvania $79,253 Rhode Island $70,190 South Carolina $72,429 South Dakota $75,979 Tennessee $55,629 Texas $57,206 Utah
$71,139 Vermont $97,332 Virginia
$86,566 Washington $64,488 West Virginia $80,441 Wisconsin $46,637 Wyoming
$63,594 $64,999 $78,109 $64,340 $88,841 $88,559 $53,463 $72,920 $62,891 $68,882 $62,689 $60,096 $81,855 $72,627 $74,982 $56,929 $73,893 $62,166 $67,404 $87,649 $76,079 $80,268 $87,648 $46,836 $69,943 $71,052
BITCOIN/TIR3DEER / MACON BACON/FACEBOOK / CHART SOURCE: FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF ST. LOUIS
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