Today, Showers and Storms ending this morning..60 / 49, Winds L&V Saturday, Cloudy, Breezy, Rain and Tstorms increasing by afternoon, 70 / 60, Winds SE10-20 Sunday, More Showers and Storms, 67 / 45, Winds N15-25G Monday, Cloudy, Cooler, Widely Scattered showers, 57 / 45 Tuesday…Rain Ending…62 / 47 … MORE
COVID-19 Relief Bill Won’t Contain Minimum Wage Hike
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Senate parliamentarian has dealt a potentially lethal blow to Democrats’ drive to hike the minimum wage, deciding that the cherished progressive goal must fall from a massive COVID-19 relief bill the party is trying to speed through Congress. The finding by Elizabeth MacDonough, the chamber’s nonpartisan arbiter of its rules, comes…… MORE
Chris Krok Show: A DFW Real Estate Market Update
Chris’s friend and realtor Todd Tramonte (who also hosts Texas Real Estate Saturdays at 3 on WBAP) joined the program to give an update on how the real estate market is looking in DFW, and two things Todd is seeing that is not normal to see at the same time. On NewsTalk 820, WBAP!… MORE
Chris Krok Show: THIS Is What I Would Cut, Joe!
In the ongoing efforts to get the COVID relief bill passed through Congress, President Biden asked a ‘rhetorical question’, trying to keep everything in the bill and get it passed, including increasing the federal minimum wage and putting more money in his cronies’ pockets. Biden asked, “What would you have me cut? What would you…… MORE
Covid Hospitalizations Down
MISSION, Kan. (AP) – The number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 in the U.S. has plummeted by 80,000 in six weeks, and 17% of the nation’s adult population has gotten at least one dose of vaccine. The improvements offer some relief to front-line workers. St. Louis respiratory therapist Joe Kowalczyk recalled that when COVID-19 patients…… MORE