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This Conn.-based owner-operator figures he could see $4K-$5K in added taxes if lawmakers' envelope-pushing miles tax gets all the way across the finish line.

Long Island school elections, 2021-22 Print Email School district residents go to the polls on May 18 to vote on budgets and members of their local boards for the coming school year. Below are the details on the ballots in 124 districts. Results will be posted here as they become available. Read our full coverage of the results here. The Great Neck, Lawrence, Hewlett-Woodmere and West Hempstead districts received permission from the state to hold voting on May 11, before the statewide date of May 18, which is also the date of the Jewish holiday Shavuot. Get more information on school distri...

Merrill Foto News Preliminary Apr. 6 election results State Superintendent of Public Instruction In the only contested statewide race, Jill Underly emerged the winner and will become the next Superintendent of Public Instruction for the State of Wisconsin, with 526,286 votes (57.66 percent of the votes cast). Deborah Kerr received 386,392 votes, or 42.34 percent. [Statistical source: Wisconsinvote.org] Underly also led the race in Lincoln County but only had an 84 vote lead over Kerr locally when the polls closed here. Wisconsin Court of Appeals fo...

A bill making its way through the U.S. House would follow in the footsteps of California’s A.B. 5 law, passed in late 2019 and codifying a prior court decision, by severely curtailing the ability of leased owner-operators to haul freight for larger motor carriers. The Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act of 2021, in addition to other broad reforms to the nation’s labor laws, would institute the so-called ABC test for determining whether a business can contract work to an independent contractor. In the case of trucking, that means a motor carrier contracting loads to a truck driver...

This bill would follow in the footsteps of California’s A.B. 5 law by diminishing the ability of owner-operators to haul freight for larger motor carriers.