States weigh fees by the hour as fuel taxes fall

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States are looking at ways to maintain funding for maintaining the country’s roads.

Gas taxes have been used for this purpose for more than a century.

The problem is that taxes are raking in less every year due to inflation, fuel efficiency and the proliferation of electric cars.

States are experimenting with different ideas that could eventually replace these taxes.

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Traffic on I-5 in Los Angeles, California is heavy in the afternoon. States are experimenting with different ideas that could eventually replace gas taxes. (Getty Images)

One suggestion that seems to be gaining popularity would be to charge drivers per mile instead of per gallon.

Other ideas presented include taxing electricity from public charging stations.

Another is to charge door-to-door parcel delivery fees.

States are currently considering whether to begin making the programs mandatory.

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Evan Burroughs, who is touting the merits of a pilot program in Oregon that would charge drivers based on their vehicle’s distance driven rather than gas mileage, shows a tracking device using the program. ((AP Photo/Andrew Selsky) / AP Newsroom)

In 2015, Oregon began a pilot program that would charge drivers based on the distance their vehicle traveled, rather than gas mileage.

To participate, drivers connect a device to their vehicle and create an account to collect mileage data.

The federal government is in the process of piloting its own program, funded with $125 million from President Biden’s infrastructure measure, which he signed into law in November 2021.

To date, only three states, Oregon, Utah and Virginia, generate revenue from road pricing.

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As gas tax revenues fall, one proposed plan will be to tax electricity from public vehicle charging stations. (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images / Getty Images)

Hawaii will join them next.

Last year, Colorado began levying a 27-cent home delivery tax on Amazon and other online retailers to help fund transportation projects.

Other states have tested electronic toll collection systems.

According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, US electric car sales grew from just 0.1% of total auto sales in 2011 to 4.6% in 2021.

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S&P Global Mobility predicts they will account for 40% of sales by 2030.

The National Transportation Finance Center at San Jose State University’s Mineta Transportation Institute has conducted statewide surveys every year since 2010.

According to the institute’s director, Asha Weinstein Agrawal, there is growing support for mileage-based charges, special rates for low-income drivers and rates linked to a vehicle’s pollution level.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Main Event Jey Uso Moves the Needle

Main Event Jey Uso Moves the Needle

Everyone who comes to Cageside Seats has an opinion on what’s going on in pro wrestling – in the wrestler rankings, let us know YOURS.

Cast your vote in the comments. Tell us the five artists who you think have entertained or impressed the most over the past week, and feel free to share why.

We also have the results of last week’s voting, the results of which form our annual competition for the Cageside Cupawarded to our artist of the year.

This week we’re voting on nationally televised and webcast pro wrestling shows that took place June 18-24 – Raw, NXT, Powerrr, dynamite, impact, merger, knock down, Rampage, level up, collisionand I’ll undoubtedly forget everything else.

But first, here are the results of last week’s voting and how those results have transformed our annual Cageside Cup competition.

A lot has changed in the last nine and a half years, but these guys are still at the top…

  • Roman Reign’s (for now at least) Right Hand Man scored 2.5 points more than One Bill Phil to secure first place.
  • Dynamite’s Eliminator draw earned its contestants two spots in the top six.
  • In between were the new TNT champion and the breakout star of the AEW women’s division.
  • Collision’s other two returns ended up in the back half of the top ten.
  • Rounding out our latest standings are NXT’s new Heritage Cup champion and the man looking to reclaim the IWGP title in the United States from New Japan in Toronto tonight.

The CCWR: 2023-24, Week 11

1. Jey Uso
2.CM Punk
3. Adam Cole
4. Luchasaurus
5. Skye Blue
6.MJF
7. (Draw) Andrade El Idolo
7. (Draw) Nathan Frazer
9. Will Ospreay
10. Miro

Points in our weekly leaderboard determine the ongoing annual leaderboard – which decides who wins Cageside Cup next April. Detailed information on rules and scoring HERE.

Where ten people have more than ten points, we no longer need to list everyone who only won a week in the top ten…

The Cageside Cup Performers of the Year rankings – up to the week ending June 17th

1. Orange Cassidy – 56
2. Seth Rollins – 21.5
3. Solo Sikoa – 21
4th (tie) IYO SKY – 16th
4th (tie) Roderick Strong – 16th
4th (tie) Mercedes Moné – 16th
7. Jey Uso – 15.5
8. MJF – 13
9. Gunther – 12
10. Skye Blue – 11

Ready to do it again? You can read the “Instructions” at any time. Here If you need it or ask a question in the comments. The most important things to know is that you have five places on your ballot. You can’t put the same person on two of them, but you can split a single spot or multiple spots between multiple wrestlers. Now…

Let’s have these ballots! We’ll move on and see you back here in a week for the results and another vote!

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Celtics legend slams Marcus Smart’s game with Boston – NESN

Bob Cousy didn’t hold back his feelings for Smart

by Greg Dudek 13 hours ago

Boston Celtics fans might have a love-hate relationship when it comes to Marcus Smart. It seems a Celtics legend had the same opinion of the veteran guard.

The Celtics’ stunning move from Smart to Kristaps Porzingis earlier this week sparked great emotion after Smart spent all nine seasons of his NBA career with Boston. But Bob Cousy certainly didn’t hold back his feelings about Smart’s tenure with the Celtics.

The 94-year-old Cousy, who won six NBA titles with the Celtics, was a master at playing the point guard position and felt Smart fell short in trying to fill that role.

“I liked Smart,” Cousy told Dan Shaughnessy of the Boston Globe. “I didn’t like some of the things he did. He thought he was a point guard when he wasn’t. His mind was more focused on creating possibilities for himself. In my opinion, midfield point guards need to be faced with the thought, “How am I going to field one of the other guys?” That was never his thing. You’d think he’d wake up one morning and say, ‘I wonder why I’m always open at crucial times?’”

Smart was named the team’s point guard after the Celtics replaced Kemba Walker – his best two seasons came as a passer. But despite Smart’s offensive shortcomings, he has made an impact in areas that are difficult to quantify. The 2021-22 NBA Defensive Player of the Year had a knack for delivering the rush plays needed, which Cousy didn’t overlook.

“But still I would always have him in the game because he can do so much more. He does intangible things,” Cousy said. “With people who have played with his intensity, you just can’t measure the effect it has on the other four people. So I could have hesitated to let him go.”

Celtics basketball president Brad Stevens admitted sending Smart to the Memphis Grizzlies in a three-team deal was a difficult decision.

And now, Grizzlies fans get their chance to ride the roller coaster ride of the Smart experience.

Thumbnail photo via Nell Redmond/USA TODAY Sports Images

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Mayote: "For the first time, we will take back control of Mayotte’s demographics"boasts Gérald Darmanin

During a visit to Mayotte, the Minister of the Interior and Overseas Departments announced that 275 slums had been destroyed since the beginning of the year. The goal is to destroy “by the end of the millennium.”

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The Minister of Interior and Overseas, Gérald Darmanin, in Mamoudzou (Mayotte), June 24, 2023. (CHAFION MADI / AFP)

The Minister of Interior and Overseas, Gérald Darmanin, in Mamoudzou (Mayotte), June 24, 2023. (CHAFION MADI / AFP)

“For the first time, we will regain control of Mayotte’s demographics,” boasted Gérald Darmanin on franceinfo on Sunday 25 June. The Interior and Overseas Minister has been visiting the Indian Ocean archipelago since Saturday to take stock of the “Wuambushu” operation (“Recovery” in Mahorais). Gérald Darmanin considers “the situation in the French department to be very satisfactory” and speaks of a renewed increase in “the rate of deportations to the Comoros and other African countries”.

“Break the eviction record” in 2023

The Home Secretary claims that “25,000 people” were expelled from Mayotte last year. He promises that “this year there will be more and we will break the record of deportations”. Gérald Darmanin specifies that, in parallel, “Thanks to the coordinated action with the Comoros, there are three times less cash on Mahora soil.” These fishing boats are often used by smugglers to transport Comorian migrants to the French island. “We will have expelled more this year, three times fewer people will come and for the first time we will get Mayotte’s demographics under control again,” he said.

>>> Mayotte: “We have to be much stronger in the judiciary” and that we “have to be smarter to fight the spiral of irregular immigration”, says Gérald Darmanin

The foreign minister calls for “an improvement in the development of the Comoros and an improvement in visas”. He assures that France “agrees that Comoros come to Mayotte and mainland France with visas and papers, but let’s put an end to the hypocrisy of irregular immigration.”

“Not all Mahoran society is exemplary.”

Gerald Darmanin

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Gérald Darmanin reiterates that “a part of Mayotte society is involved in this irregular immigration”. In particular, the minister mentions “false paternity certificates, people hired illegally, sleep dealers”.

The resident of Place Beauvau assures that the state “has used many resources of the criminal police to arrest them”. He assures that the police recently “arrested people, in particular elected officials from the Mamoudzou town hall, who issued false paternity certificates”.

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Prigozhin The riot has stopped No trial he will go

Prigozhin: The riot has stopped. No trial, he will go into exile in Belarus Euronews English

The decisive factor was the mediation of the Belarusian President Lukashenko: Belarus will start exiling Prigozhin, who – according to the agreement mentioned by the Kremlin spokesman – will not be tried in Russia

The attempt to seduce the people is over.

Yevgeny Prigozhin and his Wagner group’s mercenaries halted their march on Moscow on Saturday night when they were just 200 kilometers from the capital to avoid shedding “Russian blood,” Prigozhin said.

Wagner’s men have been ordered back to their camps in Ukraine, where they have previously fought alongside regular Russian soldiers.

The mediation of the Belarusian President was crucial in ending the revolt Alexander Lukashenko: Belarus will take in the exiled Prigozhin, who – according to the agreement quoted by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov – will not be tried in Russia.

Peskov himself described this as the “highest goal” of the Russian president Wladimir Putin it was about “avoiding bloodshed and internal disputes with unforeseeable consequences”.

On Saturday, the peaceful advance (even though 15 Russian soldiers died in the end) of the Wagner group was welcomed by the population, especially in Germany Rostov-on-Donthe headquarters of Russian operations in Ukraine.

When they passed, the militiamen received long applause, as evidenced by numerous videos published by Gray Zone, a Telegram channel affiliated with the Wagner Group.

Prigozhin’s enemies

While he slammed Vladimir Putin for calling him a “traitor” and accusing him of “armed rebellion” in his live TV speech on Saturday morning, Prigozhin’s real target was the defense minister Sergei Shoigu and the chief of staff Valery Gerasimovwho wanted to incorporate Wagner into the Russian army as of July 1 and strip Prigozhin of control over them himself.

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Social Media Reactions to New Featherweight Album Metro World News

Social Media Reactions to New Featherweight Album Metro World News

Amid the success you have featherweight started “Génesis”, his new record production, This is the “focal point” to see if he can continue on the path he has been taking and conquer the public.

Here we tell you what you need to know about this album and the reactions it caused.

The new featherweight record

The production is already available on platforms such as Spotify and on his YouTube channel; It consists of 14 songs. Here is the complete list:

  • “pastel pink”
  • “Bye”
  • “Shoe”
  • “lagoons”
  • “New life”
  • “Lady Gaga”
  • “Gavilan II”
  • “Moon”
  • “VVS”
  • Rubicon
  • “His house”
  • “The human”

Featherweight is positioned on the main platforms

After the start, All the songs and the album itself were positioned on the first places of the digital platforms.

This is how the Mexican demonstrates its range, match and surpass the success of other artists like Bad Bunny and Karol G.

Reactions in social networks

After the material has been published, Various comments from the singer’s fans surfaced.

Even the artist’s name became trending after audiences heard the production’s songs and shared their first impressions.

Some believe that all the songs managed to surprise them, in the spirit of the Corridos Tumbados.

Featherweight success

He is originally from Zapopan, Jalisco, is 23 years old, and his real name is Hassan Emilio Kabande Laija.

His international fame began in 2022as he worked with singers like Luis R. Conriquez and Natanael Cano.

His achievements include “PRC”, “Siempre pending”, “At night”, “AMG”, “El Belicón”, “Ella Baila Sola” and “La Bebé (Remix)”, to name a few.

What is striking is that despite everything he has experienced in such a short time, the artist remains down to earth.

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Palestine accuses Netanyahu of escalating violence in the West Bank

Palestine accuses Netanyahu of escalating violence in the West Bank

Ramallah, June 25 (Pressa Latina) The Palestinian government today blamed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the increase in attacks by settlers in the occupied territories and for inciting several members of his cabinet to commit these crimes.

These violations confirm “the policies pursued by Netanyahu’s far-right executive branch and are also a direct reflection of campaigns to incite the assassination of Palestinians, particularly by racist extremists,” the State Department denounced in a statement.

The Israeli ruling coalition is systematically undermining all regional and international efforts to resume dialogue to resolve the conflict, he said.

The Foreign Ministry also criticized the statements made by far-right ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir.

In another statement yesterday, the portfolio called outlandish and genocidal remarks by National Security Chief Ben Gvir, who called for the launch of a full-scale military operation in the West Bank to “kill thousands of terrorists.”

Ben Gvir made these statements during a visit to a West Bank colonial outpost.

By being there, the extremist politician provided renewed support and encouraged Israeli settlers to commit more war crimes and confiscate more Palestinian land through settlement expansion, the text said.

The State Department said that “these comments reflect Israel’s deep contempt for Palestinian life and the pervasive culture of impunity for Palestinian life and rights.”

This impunity and criminal trend is fueled and fueled by the international community’s failure to hold this country accountable for its systematic and widespread violations of international law, he stressed.

Ben Gvir has been charged more than 50 times and convicted eight times of rioting, vandalism and incitement to racism. He is known for for years keeping in his living room a photo of Baruch Goldstein murdering 29 Palestinians in the Cave of the Patriarchs in 1994. .

The minister was a student of the assassinated ultra-nationalist Rabbi Meir Kahane, who was questioned for his radical and extremist ideas and even rejected by other right-wing Israeli politicians.

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NASA shows video of massive explosion on the sun

NASA shows video of massive explosion on the sun

A NASA satellite recorded strong solar flares on Tuesday. The images are fascinating.

These are extraordinary images that a satellite on NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory mission took this week. They show how a coronal mass ejection occurs. That’s what solar flares are called in technical jargon. The sun launches plasma into space. This consists of charged particles moving through space at unimaginable speeds – several million kilometers per hour are possible.

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These geomagnetic storms can hit Earth in just 12 to 18 hours. However, the radiation emitted in the process does not represent a danger to human beings, as it is blocked by the Earth’s atmosphere, as announced by the US space agency. This can lead to the Northern Lights, but also disruptions to navigation systems and power grids.

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This is because particles from the sun affect the ionosphere, which is part of the Earth’s atmosphere. As radio waves use this ionosphere as a kind of mirror, reflecting signals back to Earth, communication systems can be disrupted. When particularly strong solar storms hit Earth, the navigation of ships and small planes that rely on GPS can be affected.

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In extreme cases, solar storms even lead to blackouts on Earth. Because charged particles can induce very strong currents in power lines. The result is that transformers are disrupted and power fails. Northern Europe, Canada and Russia are the most affected by these consequences.

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The DAGGER model is an AI computer model that can track and predict solar activity. DAGGER can predict the arrival of a solar flare less than a second before it hits our planet, giving us 30 minutes of notice to shut down systems or relocate satellites – watch the video to find out more.

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