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From Merced to The Big Money Show

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  PROFILE · SEPTEMBER 12, 2026 A deep dive on Taylor Riggs, CFA — the Fox Business co-anchor who treats a balance sheet like a beat and a marathon like a career plan. By Henry McClure · MCRE Media Most business-television anchors can read a ticker. A smaller number can read a 10-K without blinking. A still smaller number can do both live, two hours a day, with a Chartered Financial Analyst charter on the résumé, a master’s in finance from Johns Hopkins, a law-school night shift in progress, seventeen finished marathons, and two young daughters at home. That is the stack Taylor Riggs brings to Fox Business Network’s The Big Money Show . The show airs weekdays from noon to 2 p.m. Eastern. Riggs co-hosts with Jackie DeAngelis, Brian Brenberg, and Dagen McDowell. The format is a roundtable: markets, the Fed, earnings, inflation, housing, and the household consequences of all of it. Her public case for the job is not that Wall Street needs another talking head. It is that ordinary v...

No respect

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Rodney Dangerfield spent decades telling America that he got “no respect.” At 72, after a lifetime of turning rejection and failed relationships into punchlines, he married Joan Child, the Santa Monica florist who had spent ten years seeing the tender man behind the red tie. Their love story began in 1983, when Rodney wandered into her flower shop and delivered an opening line strange enough to sound like one of his routines. Joan recognized him immediately. She had first watched him on television as a teenager, and now the comedian she remembered from “The Tonight Show” was standing at her counter. Rodney asked what kind of drugs she liked. Joan, raised in a conservative Utah Mormon family, innocently answered, “Antibiotics, I guess.” Rodney was charmed. He kept coming back, often while she arranged flowers, until those visits became something both of them expected. Years later, Joan remembered the first sight of him with extraordinary warmth. “For me, it was love at first...

Karma

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A guest sued after claiming an Airbnb host sent a security-camera image of him with another woman to his wife. Shawn Mackey rented a home in Memphis, Tennessee, in September 2022 for a weekend with friends. During the stay, host Pamela Fohler accused him of breaking house rules involving additional guests. After checking out, Mackey was charged an additional $502.46. He disputed the charge and left an unfavorable review. According to his lawsuit, Fohler later texted him a security-camera image showing him entering the property with another woman. She allegedly asked whether she should send the photos to his wife or whether he would. Days later, Mackey claimed his wife received the image at her work email from an unfamiliar account. He alleged the incident damaged his marriage and caused emotional distress. Fohler denied creating the email account or sending the image to his wife. Mackey sued Fohler and Airbnb in federal court in 2023. ...

Subject: You exploded over a hot dog. The banquet checks did not even raise your pulse.

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Commissioner Cook: You are a lawyer. You are an officer of the court. You sit on JEDO with a vote. That is not a hobby. That is a higher duty than the rest of the room, and you have spent years reminding people that you know the rules better than they do. So let’s talk about the rule you applied to me. You came at me personally over a hot dog. Electioneering, you said. A frank in a bun. Mustard. Onions. You treated that like I had stuffed the ballot box. Fine. You set the temperature. Live at that temperature. Now apply it. On May 6, 2024, Molly Howey sent me GO Topeka’s own list of “grants/contributions/sponsorships/scholarships” for 2022 and 2023. I published it. The line includes church dinners, ministry retreats, Juneteenth festivals, an NAACP Freedom Fund banquet, YWCA awards tables, Peace and Justice sponsorships, and a $10,000 night called For the Culture KS. The civic/banquet/church/festival slice that no honest person can call a factory is $93,235. The whole d...

Subject: Sales-tax charity is not economic development — JEDO should stop pretending it is

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Commissioner Cook Councilmember Hiller You both vote on JEDO. One of you is my county commissioner. One of you is my city councilmember. That is why this is going to both of you and not into another staff graveyard. On May 6, 2024, Molly Howey sent me GO Topeka’s own list of what they booked as “grants/contributions/sponsorships/scholarships” for 2022 and 2023. I published it. It is still sitting there. Read it as JEDO voting members, not as guests at their podium. What they called economic development included Juneteenth celebrations, church dinners and back-to-school events, an NAACP banquet, YWCA banquets and scholarships, peace-and-justice sponsorships, Alvin Ailey camp, a Brown Foundation anniversary, “For the Culture KS,” Mana De Topeka, New Mount Zion, Bring Back the Blvd, Oakland Garden, Living the Dream, Women of Excellence, Kansas Chamber conference tickets, Discovery Center kindergarten, and pitch-contest prize checks dressed up as development. That is not a...

Subject: Sales-tax charity is not economic development — JEDO should stop pretending it is

Commissioner Cook Councilmember Hiller You both vote on JEDO. One of you is my county commissioner. One of you is my city councilmember. That is why this is going to both of you and not into another staff graveyard. On May 6, 2024, Molly Howey sent me GO Topeka’s own list of what they booked as “grants/contributions/sponsorships/scholarships” for 2022 and 2023. I published it. It is still sitting there. Read it as JEDO voting members, not as guests at their podium. What they called economic development included Juneteenth celebrations, church dinners and back-to-school events, an NAACP banquet, YWCA banquets and scholarships, peace-and-justice sponsorships, Alvin Ailey camp, a Brown Foundation anniversary, “For the Culture KS,” Mana De Topeka, New Mount Zion, Bring Back the Blvd, Oakland Garden, Living the Dream, Women of Excellence, Kansas Chamber conference tickets, Discovery Center kindergarten, and pitch-contest prize checks dressed up as development. That is not a jobs program. T...

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  The URL is a WP Engine staging site for ARCO Construction Company , not a separate firm. The live brand is arcoconstruction.com , with the national affiliate ARCO National Construction at arconational.com . Same company family, same pitch, same project library. Who they are ARCO is a St. Louis–based design-build general contractor founded in 1992 by Dick Arnoldy and Jeff Cook . Cook is still listed as co-founder and CEO. Year one was about $9.5 million in revenue. Today the enterprise is a national affiliate network: local offices plus a national delivery machine. Published scale (numbers vary slightly by page and year): Claim Source on site / filings Founded 1992, St. Louis Offices ~47 nationwide (some ARCO pages say 45+ / 51 incl. Canada) Projects completed ~7,500 design-build jobs Cities built in ~500 U.S. cities Annual revenue ~$5.2B–$6.5B (Forbes / company pages) Headcount ~1,300–1,800 Repeat-customer revenue ~75% Employees (...