(The Center Square) – Data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture reveals fewer Indiana farmers grew flowers last year. A study by the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service found the state was responsible for $56.6 million in sales of floriculture products last year. That was down roughly $300,000 from the previous year. However, that total ...

In the final days of the 2023 Regular Session, the Oklahoma State Legislature overwhelmingly approved a proposal allocating $10 million in state American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding in rebuilding the state’s arts and cultural sector. Led by the Oklahoma Arts Council in partnership with Allied Arts Oklahoma City and Arts Alliance Tulsa, the proposal sought a once-in-a-lifetime, historic allocation (described in press release as ...

Gift this article Share this article paywall-free. GEORGE OCHENSKI Despite the ongoing propaganda and legal campaigns by oil, gas, and coal corporations and their puppet politicians, the “smart money” is now going to investments in solar energy. This is great news for the climate and those of us living on our beautiful blue planet. As ...

Softening of commodity prices, FPI flows, benign interest rates and rising consumer demand are some positives for Indian equities, says Tejas Khoday, co-founder and CEO of FYERS. In an interview with Ashley Coutinho, he says valuations for the Nifty are not overly expensive and could nudge investors to opt for equities. Edited excerpts: What is ...

ADELLA HARDING Elko Daily Correspondent Despite flooding around the Gold Bar Mine in Nevada the Gold Bar team kept costs down and prioritized placing ore on the leach pad, McEwen Mining Inc. said in announcing an adjusted net loss of $6.4 million, or 14 cents per share, for the first quarter of this year. McEwen had ...

In 1968, three years after we moved to Shannock, the Columbia Narrow Fabric Co. shut its doors. The closure ended two centuries of manufacturing near Horseshoe Falls on the Pawcatuck River. Slowly the village unraveled, like an unbound edge of the elastic webbing the company had made. A firebug came in the 1970s, taking out ...

Michael Hill International has launched a new gold recycling program as part of the ‘first phase’ of an increased focus on sustainably using precious metals. The company is encouraging consumers to exchange broken, old, and no longer worn gold jewellery pieces in return for value on a Michael Hill gift card. The ‘circularity program’ ...

ATLANTA – Supporters of Georgia’s music industry entered this year’s General Assembly session optimistic lawmakers would renew state tax incentives to lure music producers and create a state office dedicated to promoting the industry. But after a single committee hearing, nothing happened. The House Creative Arts & Entertainment Committee approved the measure to create a ...

A poster at a securities brokerage in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, promotes the STAR Market. [Photo by Su Yang/For China Daily] Foreign investors are expected to have a stronger presence in China”s securities market on the back of China’s economic rebound and steady opening up of the financial industry, said Wang Chunying, deputy head and spokeswoman ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — An Adair County company that received a $500,000 taxpayer investment from the governor’s discretionary business recruitment fund has had its Oklahoma business license suspended and is facing unrelated allegations that it defaulted on a private loan. A little over two years after entering into the economic development incentive contract with the state’s ...