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Job's will be coming to Mckinney, Texas.  California company looks towards October for McKinney HQ move.  Idaho, Ohio, Utah, West Virginia, and Nevada round out the top 10 states showing the largest drop in average weekly unemployment claims.  Windows 10 has an update today that will fix all other problems the latest update may have caused. Dealers are stuck with a huge backlog of unsold vehicles that they’re desperate to get off the lot, and they’re offering some aggressive financing incentives to entice buyers.  

Many investors buy stock online, through an investment account at an online broker. You can also buy stock through a full-service broker, and some companies allow investors to buy stock directly.  Buying a stock — especially the very first time you become a bona fide part owner of a business — deserves a celebratory ritual.

But before you pick out a shareholder party hat and rent a ticker tape confetti cannon, you need to know the basic process for making this investment. Below is a five-step guide to how to buy stocks, from opening a brokerage account to placing your first stock order.  Steps

Despite its numerous growing pains over the past year and change, marijuana remains one of the fastest expanding industries on the planet. After logging $10.9 billion in legal worldwide sales in 2018, Wall Street has global pot sales hitting anywhere from $50 billion to $200 billion by 2030.

Although cannabis is a global growth story, there's no question that the U.S. is at the center of this expansion. The United States is already responsible for the lion's share of legal weed sales, in spite of the fact that marijuana remains a Schedule I (i.e., illicit) substance at the federal level. Even with presidential candidates Joe Biden (D) and Donald Trump (R) unlikely to alter this classification, that's not going to stop legalization momentum at the state level.

With less than five months left before Americans hit the polls, a dozen states have proposed various marijuana initiatives, 10 of which are looking to legalize medical marijuana, recreational cannabis, or both at the same time. While many of these proposals are still in the signature gathering stage or pending official review, the following four states look to have the best chance to "go green" come November.  Here's The Marijuana Stock You've Been Waiting For

A little-known Canadian company just unlocked what some experts think could be the key to profiting off the coming marijuana boom.

And make no mistake – it is coming.

Cannabis legalization is sweeping over North America – 11 states plus Washington, D.C., have all legalized recreational marijuana over the last few years, and full legalization came to Canada in October 2018.

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York state lawmakers repealed a decades-old law Tuesday that has kept law enforcement officers’ disciplinary records secret, spurred by the national uproar over the death of George Floyd.

The measure to make officers’ records and misconduct complaints public is among several police accountability bills racing through the state legislature. Lawmakers passed other bills that would provide all state troopers with body cameras and ensure that police officers provide medical and mental health attention to people in custody.

Many of those bills were first proposed years ago, but got new momentum after huge protests nationwide condemned police brutality.  

After three months of near total blackout of cinemas nationwide, movie theaters are preparing to reopen — even if it means only a few titles on the marquee and showings limited to as little as 25% capacity. The larger issue may be whether moviegoers feel safe to return to theaters amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

AMC Theaters, the world's largest theater operator, said Tuesday that it expects to have 97-98% of its theaters worldwide reopened by mid-July. The National Association of Theater Owners, the trade group that represents exhibitors, expects some 90-95% of cinemas around the world will be opened by mid-July.  

And you can expect to see one major change.

See, now that dine-in restaurants are starting to reopen, it's going to be a different experience as you'll most likely have to wait longer for a table that is six feet apart from other tables, and everyone will be wearing masks. At truck stop restaurants though, you're most likely going to have fewer menu options.

The reopening of schools around the world following the coronavirus crisis has been the subject of much debate. In England, for instance, some pupils returned to the classroom last week, but many parents opted not to send their children back over safety concerns.

In fact, more than two-fifths of primary schools — the U.K. equivalent of kindergarten and elementary school — did not open for reception, year 1, and year 6 classes on June 1, as recommended by the U.K. government. This was according to a poll of 10,953 U.K. schools by the National Education Union published last week.

The U.K. government is now expected to drop plans to send all primary school children back before the summer holiday, according to reports.

Indeed, research has suggested that certain conditions must be met in order for schools to reopen without causing a second wave of coronavirus cases.  When you recycle an old mobile phone, there’s a growing chance that the precious metals inside could be turned into jewelry. Pandora, the world’s largest jewelry brand by volume, is moving completely away from newly mined silver and gold in its products—and to reach a goal of 100% recycled silver and gold by 2025, one of the sources it turns to will be old electronics.  The McKinney Chamber of Commerce, Leadership McKinney Alumni Network and the City of McKinney are seeking residents in the city who want to get more involved.  There are currently 20 boards and commissions in the city, ranging from the Historic Preservation Advisory Board to the Planning & Zoning Commission. Other groups include the McKinney Arts Commission, the McKinney Housing Authority, the Board of Adjustment, the Parks & Recreation Advisory Board.  Two-thirds of Americans are receiving more money from unemployment benefits than they did from their jobs, largely because of a supplemental $600 weekly benefit that’s part of the $2.2 trillion CARES Act.  The weekly supplemental $600 benefit is set to expire at the end of July if the U.S. Senate and President Donald Trump don’t pass the $3 trillion HEROES Act stimulus package, which would extend the $600 weekly add-on unemployment benefit into January 2021.

The right to vote is a state issue. States were free to exclude anyone they wanted to from voting and they did. It was not until after the Civil War that the federal government stepped in to force states to guarantee voting rights regardless of race, color, or sex — and eventually the right of eighteen-year-olds to vote — by amending the Constitution.

There are no such guarantees in the U.S. Constitution for persons convicted of crimes. In fact, prior to the 1974 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Richardson v. Ramierz, the courts had not determined the constitutionality of states restricting voting rights. The Richardson court held that the Fourteenth Amendment allowed states to restrict voting rights to persons for "participation in rebellion, or other crime."

Whether a person with a felony conviction is permanently barred from voting is determined on a state-by-state basis. Restoring the voting rights of felons has had an uneven history. Over the years, states have loosened the restrictions only to reinstate them later.

Almost all states prohibit felons from voting, but most reinstate the voting privileges at some point. States vary in how they handle restoring a felon's voting rights and typically fall into three categories:

Never lose the right to vote: There are two states (Maine and Vermont) where felons never lose their voting rights. They are able to vote even from a prison cell.