economic news. u.s. employers added 261,000 jobs in october. that is more than many economists expected. the report is also showing that the unemployment rate ticked up to 3.7%. and most importantly, this is the last read on the economy, that voters will get before votes start being counted on tuesday. what the numbers mean for the midterms, we ll get to it in a momentch. and we re also staring down the final weekend of the midterms. and major political players are hitting the trail alongside the candidates. including the three last presidents. tomorrow president biden and former president obama and former president trump will all be if pennsylvania for campaign events, all trying to push their candidates across the finish line in one of the cycle s tightest races. and another big name is jumping in. oprah now endorsing john fetterman which is most noteworthy because oprah winfrey gave mehmet oz, gave him his first start in television. let get to it all starting with rahel
26% of americans want standard time so essentially you have a split where most don t like the current system but can t agree on what system we should go to, so, you know, we re basically a divided nation on politics and divided nation when to comes to how we should tell time. that is like the perfect encapsulation of what we live in right now. what is the real history around daylight savings. i think a lot hear this myth benjamin franklin started it. it was a joke for him. daylight saving time at least in this country really started around world war i, this idea to save energy, but dst doesn t actually do that. states went back and forth with some states having it, some states not until 1966 then the uniform time act of 1966 which basically standardized the current system across the country where, of course, we have daylight saving time in the summer and we have standard time in the fall, late fall and winter. so trying to save energy but now we all just expend a bunch of energy
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✅ HB 437 - the wine shipment bill
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The bill received nearly complete support among state legislators. It passed through the Alabama Senate in a unanimous 29-0 vote before passing in the Alabama House last week 93-1.
“You go from March to November, one sort of time and switching to another time, it’s hard for folks to get used to the change,” State Rep. Ritchie Whorton (R), one of the bill’s sponsors, said last week. “A lot of people not used to getting up to the morning, running late and having an accident.”
The practice of changing clocks to take advantage of sunlight began nearly a century ago as an energy-saving measure in Germany during World War I. The United States began adopting the practice shortly after but there was no national standard until Congress passed the Uniform Time Act of 1966.
Editorial: To spring forward is to set back our well-being
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It’s that time of year again: You know, when we spring forward and lose an hour of sleep and become total grumps. Why do we do this?Associated Press file photo
It disrupts our sleep and our lives and it takes days, if not weeks, to set things straight.
The dreaded spring forward.
Daylight saving time.
It may extend daylight, but it does nothing to ease the upheaval it creates every year.
The time change comes at 2 a.m. Sunday, so be prepared, again, to lose an hour of sleep, and be prepared, furthermore, to lose it forever, unless you count the fall back next autumn as restitution.