Archive for October 2024

The sign briefly tells visitors about the cemetery’s history, explaining that many of the hundreds of unmarked graves belong to people who died at “Sunnyside Lunatic Asylum where people with mental illnesses and intellectual disabilities were treated”.

In fact, in aggregate, the recent surge in immigrants will reduce the federal deficit, the Congressional Budget Office found; it indicated this was more so for higher- than lower-skilled migrants, although it said an increase in less-educated workers would also trigger stronger wage growth for the more educated people needed to work with them.

Vermont’s Roman Catholic Diocese has filed for bankruptcy protection in the wake of more costly lawsuits alleging priest misconduct as far back as 1950….The church, ultimately spending more than $30 million, thought it was done with such payoffs with the arrival of a 2012 state deadline for filing any related actions. But the Vermont Legislature adopted laws in 2019 and 2021 repealing the statute of limitations for submitting civil claims, leading to a new wave of cases that now number at least 16, according to lawyers.

New figures released to TFN through freedom of information legislation found widespread mishandling of homelessness cases in Edinburgh during August’s Fringe and in the days surrounding Taylor Swift’s record-breaking concerts at Murrayfield.