(The Center Square) – Some 44 percent of Americans say they cannot afford another year like 2020, according to a recent survey by WalletHub, as the country enters a second year of dealing with the coronavirus pandemic.

“Financially, 2020 was such a difficult year that roughly 145 million Americans cannot afford another year like it,” according to Jill Gonzalez, a WalletHub financial analyst. “Luckily, the U.S. is rolling out the COVID-19 vaccine, which will help conditions in the country approach normalcy more and more in the coming months.”

Thousands of Texans and 50 partners and sponsors will be participating in an annual Texas Energy Day at the Capitol on March 24.

Springtime in the U.S. is frequently a season for thunderstorms, which can spawn tornadoes.

Top news, information, and entertainment from the Kiowa County Press in Eads, Colorado, for the week ending March 20, 2021.

After a year of canceled concerts, closed-door sporting events and restricted air travel, vaccine passports are being touted as a way to quicken the route back to normalcy.

Immigration reform is back on the agenda, with Congress taking up major legislation that could usher in a pathway to citizenship for millions of people living in the U.S. without legal status.

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Pearls of faith from Pastor Richard Zabriskie.

Questions about whether the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine is morally acceptable to observant Catholics due to concerns over use of fetal stem cells in its development have brought the deep divisions within the Catholic Church into public view.

Rural life and humor, with characters from the mind of Slim Randles.