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How many stocks?
Q. What's the best number of stocks to own? -- G.E., Garden City, Idaho
A. It depends. The fewer you own, the greater impact each stock may have on your portfolio -- for good or bad. The more you own, the less risk there is of having too many eggs in one basket.
For best results, you should keep up with the stocks you buy so ... (full story)
Content creation holds appeal for laid-off workers seeking flexibility
With a compact mirror in one hand and an eyelash curler in the other, Grace Xu told her roughly 300,000 TikTok followers she was likely about to be laid off.
She was right, she tells them in a subsequent clip. But she was planning to pursue a different career anyway: as a content creator.
"I guess the decision has been ... (full story)
Some states are seeking to restrict TikTok. That doesn't mean their governors aren't using it
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — POV: You're on TikTok, and so is your governor — even as your Legislature considers banning the app from state-owned devices and networks.
Efforts to ban TikTok over security concerns about China's influence through the platform have picked up steam in the past year in state legislatures, with ... (full story)
Local
Foundations are using so many confusing words that few people can figure out what they're doing
(THE CONVERSATION) The United States has the largest philanthropic sector in the world. Foundations and similar grantmakers have US$1.5 trillion in assets and disburse more than $100 billion annually to everything from hospitals and museums to making communities more walkable and improving care at the end of life.
Many foundatio ... (full story)
Marijuana tax revenues fall short of projections in many states, including Colorado
(THE CONVERSATION) Nearly half of Americans live in a state that allows legal access to recreational marijuana. Eleven more states, including Wisconsin and Florida, are considering legalization in 2024.
One of the most common rationales for legalizing marijuana is increasing state tax revenue. How much revenue comes in depends o ... (full story)
State
Bill would restrict use of AI-generated images
Republican sponsors of a bill designed to shield Ohioans from the potentially harmful uses of artificial intelligence made their case to committee members in the Ohio Senate recently.
Sens. Louis Blessing III, of Colerain Township (Hamilton County), and Terry Johnson, of McDermott, told members of the Judiciary Committee that it ... (full story)
Ohio's DeWine focuses on children in his State of the State address
COLUMBUS (AP) — Improving access to child care and kids' health care form the core elements of Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine's agenda in 2024, as the second-term Republican rolled out a slate of policy priorities focusing on children to state lawmakers.
DeWine, speaking in the House of Representatives' chamber in the Statehouse, d ... (full story)
Lawyers want East Palestine residents to wait for details of $600 million derailment settlement
The lawyers who negotiated a $600 million settlement with Norfolk Southern over that railroad's disastrous 2023 derailment in Ohio want residents to talk with them before deciding the historic deal isn't enough.
They said Wednesday that the settlement for everyone within 20 miles (32 kilometers) of the East Palestine disaster is ... (full story)