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Focus on affordability
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Focus on affordability

  • Jon Mays Daily Journal staff

A couple weeks back I wrote about the similarities between President Trump and incoming New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani as it relates to po…

Fed's favored inflation gauge accelerates slightly in August
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Fed's favored inflation gauge accelerates slightly in August

  • By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer

The Federal Reserve's favored inflation gauge accelerated slightly in August from a year earlier. The Commerce Department reported Friday that its personal consumption expenditures price index was up 2.7% in August from a year earlier, up from a 2.6% year-over-year increase in July and most since February. Excluding volatile food and energy prices, so-called core PCE inflation showed a 2.9% increase in prices from August 2024, same as in July. The increases were what forecasters had expected.

It takes all kinds
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It takes all kinds

  • By Greg Wilson
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Writing last week’s column, I imagined what it might be like to live in the 21-story senior housing project proposed for 910 Marshall St. in d…

It’s affordable
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It’s affordable

  • By Greg Wilson

I walked down Middlefield Road last week with the aim of checking in on the Middlefield Junction project. Middlefield Junction is the affordab…