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UPI
3 days ago
- Business
- UPI
Virginia woman wins a second lottery jackpot after four decades
Oletha Etheridge won a lottery prize of $100,000 a year for 10 years about four decades after winning $25,000 from the Virginia Lottery. Photo courtesy of the Virginia Lottery Aug. 13 (UPI) -- A Virginia woman scored a prize of $100,000 a year for 10 years from a scratch-off lottery ticket about four decades after collecting a $25,000 prize. Gloucester resident Oletha Etheridge told Virginia Lottery officials she stopped at the Food Lion store on Hargett Boulevard in Gloucester and selected a $100,000 a Year ticket. The ticket earned Etheridge a top prize of $100,000 a year for 10 years. She said the first person she told was her daughter. "Are you sitting down? 'Cause I have something to tell you,'" she recalled saying. Etheridge, who is in her 60s, previously visited lottery headquarters in her 20s to collect a $25,000 prize. She said her latest winnings will go toward buying a new Corvette and adding new rooms onto her house. The winner is also sharing her prize money with her daughters, Taletha and Takema, who said their portions will go toward buying homes.
Los Angeles Times
01-08-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
How to have the best Sunday in L.A., according to Melissa Etheridge
Melissa Etheridge has always written what she feels, and what she's feeling right now, at this moment in her life, is liberated. The folk-rock legend, best known for her raspy '90s anthems (cue 'Come to my window …'), just finished recording a new album due out next year. A theme that permeates throughout her lyrics? Setting herself free. 'It's a lot about letting go of trying to make everything perfect,' Etheridge says. 'Letting go of trying to change other people to make me happy because it doesn't work that way.' She chats with us from her Yes We Are Tour with the Indigo Girls, an occasion she describes as the ultimate girls' night out. 'It's brought a lot of women out — grandmothers, mothers, daughters,' Etheridge says. 'It's music that you remember and it feels really amazing.' The tour makes a stop next week at the Greek Theatre, which will feel like a homecoming of sorts for the artist who has lived in L.A. for the past 43 years. Etheridge and her wife Linda Wallem, along with Etheridge's young adult children, have settled in the Calabasas area and find comfort in the many neighborhood charms. Today Etheridge, who says she has had 'many incredible Sundays' around town, describes a perfect one. It starts with a stroll close to home and then ventures downtown for brunch and art, and into Studio City for a heavenly deep-fried Fluffernutter. This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity. 7 a.m.: Wake up and walk We love to get right up, and the first thing we do is go for a walk. We go for about a mile and a half, and it's just really lovely. And we love all our neighbors, and it's a really fantastic place. 8 a.m.: Coffee with extra love Then we would go to La La Land Kind Cafe at the Commons in Calabasas. What's special about it is that it [employs] foster kids. The owner is a really special guy that puts a lot of love into the place. And it's so L.A. — you can ask for 'extra love' and they'll say, 'Oh, we love you!' when we leave. They have a butterfly matcha latte — you know, blue and green. Really crazy, beautiful drinks. So we'll pick up coffee and then go to Hank's Bagels and get some bagels for the kids. 9 a.m.: Crank up the car tunes After we drop everything off at home, we're leaving to go downtown. On Sunday at nine o'clock, you can get downtown in a reasonable amount of time. I've got the music cranked up in our car. We love to listen to the Chris Stapleton channel on Sirius XM. And we're listening to my new album that I just recorded that won't be out until 2026. 10 a.m.: A leisurely brunchWe'll go to the Girl & the Goat. Chef Stephanie Izard has these biscuits and chicken. Incredible. It's not too foofy because you just don't want to get too foofy for brunch. You want to, oh, feel it when you're done. So that's what we'll do. That's from, like, 10 to 11 a.m. No, 10 to 12. I'm not rushing. It's a beautiful restaurant. Noon: See what's on display in downtown we're going to go see whatever exhibits or installations they have downtown. The last time we went, it was 'Luna Luna.' Really great. One time, it was the King Tut exhibit. 3 p.m.: A quick stop at Atrium Then we'll get the kids. On the way back, we stop at one of our favorite cannabis stores, Atrium on Topanga [Canyon Boulevard] — our other favorite is Coast to Coast in Canoga Park — and get some because we're going to our favorite movie theater later tonight. 3:30 p.m.: Spend time at my favorite musical playground We swing by Norman's Rare Guitars, which is in Tarzana. It's not open on Sundays, but if this was a dream, it would be. [Owner Norman Harris] has an exquisite collection that everyone has bought from, from Tom Petty to George Harrison to Bob Dylan to me. Sometimes I'll trade a guitar with [Norman], and sometimes I'll have him show me a ridiculously expensive guitar just to look at it, and then I'll tell him I can never buy it. There's always something happening in there. I've sat in the middle of the store with my friend Ashley McBryde and sang songs. It's just a really cool place. Only in L.A. 5 p.m.: A night at the moviesWe'll get to our favorite movie theater, Cinépolis, where we're going to watch the latest movie. They serve dinner and drinks in the theater, and it's just a really fun night. The last movie we saw was 'Thunderbolts.' It's freaking great. God, I love Florence Pugh. My kids were skeptical about Marvel, but they really liked it. It's nice not having to cook or clean on a Sunday. So far, we've eaten 10,000 calories today. 8 p.m.: The dessert of all dessertsThen if we could pack in all the fun, we would go down the 101 to Studio City, where Chef Antonia Lofaso has the Black Market Liquor Bar. She has a dessert called the Fluffernutter. Oh, my God. It's a deep-fried Fluffernutter. It's so good. So we would go get dessert there. Then we would drive home. 10 p.m.: End the night under the stars We have a little fire pit outside in our backyard. And we love to sit and look at the stars and use some of that stuff that we got at the Atrium. I constantly think, oh, I'm going to move out of L.A. And we travel all around the world. And I swear, every time I come back, I'm like, this feels like home. This is home.
South Wales Argus
24-07-2025
- Politics
- South Wales Argus
Councillor on Caerphilly asylum seeker spend being unknown
Caerphilly Council is unable to state the amount currently spent, and I am flabbergasted at this especially when Caerphilly CBC state we have 63 housed so far in the borough. Newport City Council is unable to confirm how many are residing within the authority. Submitting an FOI, Cllr Etheridge said: 'I find it unacceptable they have not given me the number of asylum seekers in the county borough of Newport and referred me to the Home Office. "Does each authority interpret the FOI legislation differently, even though they are next door? 'Perhaps they need to be more joined up as Newport and Islwyn are one constituency come the Senedd election ' I think it's disgusting we have hundreds and hundreds of people on the housing register in both boroughs and others seem to take priority over our own residents. This is unacceptable. Cllr George Etheridge, Blackwood
NDTV
03-07-2025
- Business
- NDTV
Trump's Big Bill Cuts Clean Energy Tax, Residential Solar To Get Hit Fast
As Republicans in Congress rushed forward with a massive tax and spending cut bill, a North Carolina renewable energy executive wrote to his 190 employees with a warning: Deep cuts to clean energy tax credits were going to hurt. '(The changes) would almost certainly include the loss of jobs on our team,' wrote Will Etheridge, CEO of Southern Energy Management in Raleigh. 'I'm telling you that because you deserve transparency and the truth — even if that truth is uncomfortable.' The bill now in the House takes an ax to clean energy incentives, including killing a 30% tax credit for rooftop residential solar by the end of the year that the Biden administration's Inflation Reduction Act had extended into the next decade. Trump has called the clean energy tax credits in the climate law part of a 'green new scam' that improperly shifts taxpayer subsidies to help the 'globalist climate agenda' and energy sources like wind and solar. Businesses and analysts say the GOP-backed bill will likely reverse the sector's growth and eliminate jobs. 'The residential solar industry is going to be absolutely creamed by this,' said Bob Keefe, executive director of E2, a business group that advocates for pro-environment policies. President Donald Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' takes aim at renewables broadly, including phasing out tax credits enjoyed by utility-scale solar and wind. But cutting the residential solar credit will happen sooner. Companies have announced more than $20 billion in clean-energy investments in North Carolina in recent years. Etheridge, whose company installs solar panels and helps ensure buildings are energy efficient, was among many in the sector to lobby Republican U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina for changes in the bill. Tillis ultimately was one of three Republicans to vote against the measure, but in a sign of Trump's power over legislators to pass it, Tillis said he wouldn't seek reelection after Trump said he'd likely support a primary challenger. Now, Etheridge says losing the tax credit will likely mean laying off 50 to 55 of his workers. He called the elimination of residential tax credits a 'bait and switch.' 'I made a decision from being an employee to taking out a loan from my grandmother to buy into my business and put my house on the line' in part because of the stability of the tax credits, he said. He said he'll scramble now to figure out ways to diversify his business. 'If you require a money-spigot from Washington to make your business viable, it probably shouldn't have been in business in the first place,' said Adam Michel, director of tax policy studies at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank. Michel said he doubted many clean energy companies would go out of business, but 'I think that they will be right sized for the market and that the people that are employed with them will find better jobs and more stable jobs in industries that are actually viable and don't require billions of dollars of federal subsidies.' Even ahead of debate over the bill, experts at E2 said in May that $14 billion in clean energy investments across the country had been postponed or cancelled this year. The bill the Senate passed Tuesday removes a tax on some wind and solar projects that was proposed in a previous version and gives utility-scale projects some time to begin construction before phasing out those tax credits. Karl Stupka, president of Raleigh-based NC Solar Now that employs about 100 people, said the Senate's bill eased the impact on commercial projects 'while destroying the residential portion of the tax credits.' Roughly 85% of his business is residential work. 'They took it away from every average American normal person and gave it to the wealthier business owners,' he said. Stupka said if the bill becomes law, companies will rush to finish as many solar jobs as they can before the credit ends. He expected to lay off half his employees, with 'trickle-down' job losses elsewhere. 'It would cause a pretty severe shock wave,' he said.
Chicago Tribune
02-07-2025
- Business
- Chicago Tribune
In a big bill that hurts clean energy, residential solar likely to get hit fast
WASHINGTON — As Republicans in Congress rushed forward with a massive tax and spending cut bill, a North Carolina renewable energy executive wrote to his 190 employees with a warning: Deep cuts to clean energy tax credits were going to hurt. '(The changes) would almost certainly include the loss of jobs on our team,' wrote Will Etheridge, CEO of Southern Energy Management in Raleigh. 'I'm telling you that because you deserve transparency and the truth — even if that truth is uncomfortable.' The bill now in the House takes an ax to clean energy incentives, including killing a 30% tax credit for rooftop residential solar by the end of the year that the Biden administration's Inflation Reduction Act had extended into the next decade. Trump has called the clean energy tax credits in the climate law part of a 'green new scam' that improperly shifts taxpayer subsidies to help the 'globalist climate agenda' and energy sources like wind and solar. Businesses and analysts say the GOP-backed bill will likely reverse the sector's growth and eliminate jobs. 'The residential solar industry is going to be absolutely creamed by this,' said Bob Keefe, executive director of E2, a business group that advocates for pro-environment policies. President Donald Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' takes aim at renewables broadly, including phasing out tax credits enjoyed by utility-scale solar and wind. But cutting the residential solar credit will happen sooner. Companies have announced more than $20 billion in clean-energy investments in North Carolina in recent years. Etheridge, whose company installs solar panels and helps ensure buildings are energy efficient, was among many in the sector to lobby Republican U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina for changes in the bill. Tillis ultimately was one of three Republicans to vote against the measure, but in a sign of Trump's power over legislators to pass it, Tillis said he wouldn't seek reelection after Trump said he'd likely support a primary challenger. Now, Etheridge says losing the tax credit will likely mean laying off 50 to 55 of his workers. He called the elimination of residential tax credits a 'bait and switch.' 'I made a decision from being an employee to taking out a loan from my grandmother to buy into my business and put my house on the line' in part because of the stability of the tax credits, he said. He said he'll scramble now to figure out ways to diversify his business. 'If you require a money-spigot from Washington to make your business viable, it probably shouldn't have been in business in the first place,' said Adam Michel, director of tax policy studies at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank. Michel said he doubted many clean energy companies would go out of business, but 'I think that they will be right sized for the market and that the people that are employed with them will find better jobs and more stable jobs in industries that are actually viable and don't require billions of dollars of federal subsidies.' Even ahead of debate over the bill, experts at E2 said in May that $14 billion in clean energy investments across the country had been postponed or cancelled this year. The bill the Senate passed Tuesday removes a tax on some wind and solar projects that was proposed in a previous version and gives utility-scale projects some time to begin construction before phasing out those tax credits. Karl Stupka, president of Raleigh-based NC Solar Now that employs about 100 people, said the Senate's bill eased the impact on commercial projects 'while destroying the residential portion of the tax credits.' Roughly 85% of his business is residential work. 'They took it away from every average American normal person and gave it to the wealthier business owners,' he said. Stupka said if the bill becomes law, companies will rush to finish as many solar jobs as they can before the credit ends. He expected to lay off half his employees, with 'trickle-down' job losses elsewhere. 'It would cause a pretty severe shock wave,' he said.
