If you’re used to your Social Security check landing like clockwork on a specific day each month, it’s time to take a closer look at your calendar. Starting this May, the Social Security Administration (SSA) is updating its payment schedule, and millions of Americans are going to notice the difference.
While the amount you receive isn’t changing, the day you get it might — and for people on tight budgets, that’s no small shift.
What’s changing in May?
The SSA has used a staggered payment schedule for years, but starting in May, the administration is applying its birthdate-based payment system more broadly and more strictly. That means your birth date now officially decides when your check shows up.
No, this isn’t a new benefit or a government error. It’s part of a larger effort to streamline payments and reduce processing congestion — but if you weren’t aware of it, you could be in for a surprise.
The new payment schedule: how it works
Here’s the updated breakdown of when Social Security payments will be deposited based on your birth date:
If you were born on the 1st through the 10th, your payment will arrive on the second Wednesdayof the month.
Born on the 11th through the 20th? Expect it on the third Wednesday.
And if your birthday falls on the 21st through the 31st, your payment will land on the fourth Wednesday.
Still with me? Good, because it gets just a little more complicated (like bureaucracy always does).
If you started receiving Social Security before May 1997, you’re not affected by the birthdate rule. You’ll keep getting paid on the third of each month. And if you receive both Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI), your payment will still arrive on the first.
In short: if you’ve been getting benefits for a while or you’re part of a special payment group, your calendar stays the same. Everyone else? Time to double-check those dates.
While the SSA might release your payment on time, that doesn’t guarantee your bank will process it instantly. Some direct deposits appear at midnight; others may not post until the next business day, especially around holidays or weekends.
For those on fixed incomes, planning ahead isn’t optional — it’s essential. And in May, that planning starts with knowing your new payment date.
What you can do to stay on track
If this is the first you’re hearing about the change, don’t panic. Here’s how to stay one step ahead:
Look up your birth date category and mark your new payment date on the calendar.
Sign up for a My Social Security Account to view your payment history and future deposits.
If you bank online, set up notifications for deposits so you’ll know the moment the money hits your account.
Ask your bank how long it typically takes to process SSA direct deposits.
A little prep now can save you a lot of scrambling later — especially when the rent’s due or the fridge is looking empty.
Common confusion: who still gets paid on the old dates?
If your neighbor or sibling insists they’re still getting their check on the third, they might be right. Here’s a quick recap:
SSI recipients still get paid on the first of each month.
Those who began receiving Social Security before May 1997 stick with the third of the month.
Everyone else follows the new birthdate-based Wednesday schedule.
So yes, some folks are keeping their old payday — but don’t assume you’re one of them without checking.
Once you know your new date, you can build your monthly routine around it. The SSA isn’t changing the amount you receive, and they’re not reducing benefits. They’re just making the calendar a little more organized — and a little less traditional.
So go ahead, flip that calendar page and circle your new payday. It might not come with streamers or party hats, but at least you’ll know exactly when to expect your Social Security check.
Because while the dates are changing, the check is still coming. Just maybe a little later than you’re used to — and now, thanks to your birthday.
Tim Bontemps is a senior NBA writer for ESPN.com who covers the league and what’s impacting it on and off the court, including trade deadline intel, expansion and his MVP Straw Polls. You can find Tim alongside Brian Windhorst and Tim MacMahon on The Hoop Collective podcast.
Tuesday afternoon, I opened my official NBA awards ballot and voted for my selections for all of the league’s top individual honors: the seven major end-of-season awards (Most Valuable Player, Defensive Player of the Year, Coach of the Year, Rookie of the Year, Sixth Man of the Year, Most Improved Player and Clutch Player of the Year), plus the All-NBA, All-Defense and All-Rookie teams.
Here’s what that ballot looked like and how each pick was made (with a shoutout to the great Matt “Stats” Williams for all of the information we could want for our ballots).
Most Valuable Player
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Ivica Zubac gets up for the rejection
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Oklahoma City Thunder
Nikola Jokic, Denver Nuggets
Giannis Antetokounmpo, Milwaukee Bucks
Jayson Tatum, Boston Celtics
Jalen Brunson, New York Knicks
Just about every season, there are several deserving MVP candidates. And this year’s race truly went down to the final day between Gilgeous-Alexander and Jokic, the league’s two best players, both of whom have put together unbelievable seasons.
The Thunder, behind Gilgeous-Alexander’s league-leading 32.7 points per game while shooting 51.9% from the field, became the seventh team in NBA history to win at least 68 games. Jokic, of course, had a historic statistical season, finishing in the top three in points (29.6), rebounds (12.7) and assists (10.2) while shooting 57.6% overall and 41.7% from 3-point range. Truly video game stuff.
Ironically, while going back-and-forth between Gilgeous-Alexander and Jokic over the past several weeks, this quote from since-fired Nuggets coach Michael Malone has been weighing on my mind. “If you didn’t know Nikola had won three MVPs, and I put Player A and Player B on paper … he wins 10 times out of 10,” Malone said last month.
“And if you don’t think so, you guys are full of s—.”
Malone’s position was totally defensible. But to win a fourth MVP award in five years — something only LeBron James and Bill Russell have done — Jokic was going to have to do something extraordinary. And he has.
But if the race is a toss-up, like virtually every person I’ve talked to in the media and among players, coaches and executives believes it is, the edge should go to the leader of arguably the most dominant regular-season team in NBA history.
The Thunder set the record for point differential, outscoring opponents by over 1,000 points, and by 12.7 points per 100 possessions. They stacked 68 wins in a season in which Chet Holmgren missed 50 games and summer acquisitions Isaiah Hartenstein and Alex Caruso both missed significant chunks.
The Nuggets were nearly 20 points better with Jokic on the court. But while Oklahoma City obviously has more talent than Denver does around Jokic, the Thunder were still 11.5 points per 100 possessions worse when Gilgeous-Alexander sat. And without its engine, the NBA’s No. 1 offense turns into one that would rank 22nd leaguewide.
As for the rest of the ballot, Antetokounmpo was an easy pick in the third spot, and this will be a seventh straight season he has been inside the top four. There was a time when you could argue Tatum should be third, but Antetokounmpo’s closing kick over the past couple months — particularly after Milwaukee lost Damian Lillard to a blood clot issue in his calf — pushed him ahead of Tatum.
There was a massive gap between Tatum and a host of players who merited consideration for the fifth spot, with the choice ultimately coming down to Brunson and Donovan Mitchell. In the end, Brunson gets the fifth spot for his clutch-time heroics, which may lead to some other hardware for the Knicks captain.
Defensive Player of the Year
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Zaccharie Risacher scorches the Brooklyn Nets for a career-high 38 points.
Ivica Zubac, LA Clippers
Evan Mobley, Cleveland Cavaliers
Jaren Jackson Jr., Memphis Grizzlies
Through the All-Star break, the only debate about DPOY was who would finish second to Victor Wembanyama. But once the San Antonio Spurs phenom was lost for the season because of his deep vein thrombosis diagnosis, it broke open the race, with several players — the three listed, plus Rudy Gobert, Draymond Green, Dyson Daniels, Amen Thompson and Luguentz Dort — all likely to get votes and perhaps all of them getting at least one first-place selection.
It ended up being a discussion between Zubac and Mobley. The Clippers have been one of the best defensive teams in the league, ranking third in defensive rating. Zubac has been in the middle of all of it, allowing the lowest shot quality as the contesting defender among players contesting at least 700 shots this season, per GenuisIQ tracking data. Mobley, on the other hand, might be the league’s most versatile defender. He’s the only player to defend guards, forwards and centers for at least 900 half-court matchups this season, providing the kind of Swiss Army knife teams covet in today’s pace-and-space dominated game.
Ultimately, the edge went to Zubac. He played nine more games and an extra 500 minutes than Mobley. And his massive presence in the paint powered the Clippers to that top-five defensive rating, which was just enough to surpass the Cavs’ All-Star big man.
Like Mobley, Jackson’s versatility is his biggest calling card, with Memphis’ defense being more than four points per 100 worse with him on the bench. Jackson is the only player besides Mobley to defend guards, forwards and centers each for at least 800 possessions this season while being the only player to have at least 75 steals and 100 blocks.
Coach of the Year
Kenny Atkinson, Cleveland Cavaliers
J.B. Bickerstaff, Detroit Pistons
Ime Udoka, Houston Rockets
The top two names have been in place for weeks, but I flip-flopped on them repeatedly since mid-March. The Pistons more than tripling their win total since last season is a remarkable accomplishment, and Bickerstaff has done a fantastic job getting defensive buy-in from his young roster.
But the hardest jump to make in the NBA — for both player and team — is not going from awful to good; it’s going from good to great. The Cavaliers went from a team that was expected to be in the mix for home-court advantage in the first round to having home court throughout the Eastern Conference playoffs, winning 64 games and seeing massive improvement from players across the roster.
The other two coaches who merit first-place votes are Udoka — he guided a team I thought would be fighting for a play-in spot to the second seed in the Western Conference — and LA Clippers coach Tyronn Lue. The Clippers have flown under the radar all season, but Lue has done a remarkable job with this group while once again dealing with uncertainty surrounding Kawhi Leonard’s availability. Lue should get votes for this award, and it was painful leaving him off the ballot.
Rookie of the Year
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Zaccharie Risacher, Atlanta Hawks
Stephon Castle, San Antonio Spurs
Jaylen Wells, Memphis Grizzlies
Let’s just say this year’s race isn’t like last year’s, when Wembanyama and Holmgren were both hugely impactful as rookies and would have both been runaway winners for the award in just about any season over the past 20 years.
This season’s choice boiled down to Castle, who has taken on a bigger individual role in San Antonio, or Risacher, who has carved an effective role on a team competing for a playoff spot. I went with the latter, as Risacher — the top pick in last year’s draft — has averaged 14 points and shot 50% from the field and 40% from 3-point range since Jan. 1.
Wells, a second-round pick who became a starter for another playoff hopeful in the Memphis Grizzlies, checked in third. (Speaking of Wells, it was good to see he was OK after an incredibly scary fall that saw him suffer a season-ending broken wrist last week against the Charlotte Hornets.)
Most Improved Player
Evan Mobley, Cleveland Cavaliers
Ivica Zubac, LA Clippers
Austin Reaves, Los Angeles Lakers
Frankly, I wish this award didn’t exist. Back in 1986, when the NBA retired the Comeback Player of the Year award, then-deputy commissioner Russ Granik said, “We phased it out because it became very difficult to determine with any kind of clarity exactly what the requirements were.”
I would argue the same applies to this award. What constitutes the most improvement? What matters the most? It’s always an award that a dozen players can make a case for, and it has tended to default, as Lakers coach JJ Redick said recently, to young, highly drafted players who make a leap.
That is how the top of my ballot has played out this season, with Mobley getting the top spot. Going from little to no All-Star buzz last year to an All-NBA pick this season makes him worthy of the honor.
Zubac has had a remarkable season at both ends for the Clippers, seeing massive jumps in virtually every category — including, most importantly, minutes per game, as he’s been asked to take on a significantly bigger load and has done so with aplomb. Reaves, meanwhile, has not only shined after Luka Doncic arrived with the Lakers, but he has been a massive reason for the Lakers’ second-half surge to the West’s third seed.
Sixth Man of the Year
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Jokic makes history as the first player to post a 30-point, 20-rebound, 20-assist triple-double.
Payton Pritchard, Boston Celtics
Nickeil Alexander-Walker, Minnesota Timberwolves
Malik Beasley, Detroit Pistons
This was one of the easiest decisions on the ballot. Pritchard has been, at worst, the third-most consistent player on the Celtics (behind Tatum and Derrick White), giving this team terrific energy and production off the bench. As a 40% 3-point shooter on nearly eight attempts per game, he has repeatedly sparked Boston wins throughout the year and has been my clear Sixth Man leader for months.
The last two spots could go in a few directions, with Alexander-Walker, Beasley and two Cavaliers — De’Andre Hunter and Ty Jerome — being the final contenders. Hunter has arguably had his best season, first with the Atlanta Hawks and now the Cavaliers after a midseason trade. Hunter has cleaned up his shot profile and scored a career-high 17 points per game.
Jerome, on the other hand, is one of the best stories across the entire league, going from missing virtually all of last season because of injuries to averaging 12.5 points on 51.6% shooting overall and 43.6% from 3.
But my votes for second and third went elsewhere. Alexander-Walker has been an unsung hero for Minnesota as a two-way weapon able to operate on and off the ball as the Timberwolves dealt with injuries to Donte DiVincenzo and Mike Conley during the year. Alexander-Walker shot 38.1% from deep and has been a good defender who can close games.
My third spot went to Beasley, who is seventh in the league with more than nine attempts per game, and at 41.6% he’s the only player inside the top 20 in attempts to also shoot 40% for the season. Beasley’s career year has played a major role in Detroit’s surge.
Clutch Player of the Year
Jalen Brunson, New York Knicks
Nikola Jokic, Denver Nuggets
Trae Young, Atlanta Hawks
While I considered putting LeBron James on here, these three guys were the pretty clear choices for me, and in this order. Brunson’s 5.6 points per game in the clutch this season are the third most in a season in the past 25 years for players who played in at least 20 clutch games, and he consistently was pulling out close games for New York while sporting the league’s highest usage rate in the clutch.
Jokic, like in just about any other situation, excelled here, ranking inside the top five in clutch points and assists, while Young led in total points and assists in the fourth quarter and was the first player in almost 30 years (since John Stockton in 1997) to have at least 200 fourth-quarter assists in a season.
All-NBA, All-Defense and All-Rookie teams
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Dyson Daniels jumps the passing lane and takes it coast-to-coast for an easy Hawks bucket.
All-NBA First Team
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Oklahoma City Thunder
Nikola Jokic, Denver Nuggets
Giannis Antetokounmpo, Milwaukee Bucks
Jayson Tatum, Boston Celtics
Jalen Brunson, New York Knicks
All-NBA Second Team
All-NBA Third Team
I gave my reasoning behind my first-team All-NBA ballot at the top of this piece when I filled out my MVP ballot, so we’ll move on to the rest of the ballot here.
We’ve spent enough time talking about Mobley, too, whose terrific season made him an easy choice alongside Mitchell. The fact we are talking about LeBron, as the league’s oldest player, and Stephen Curry, as one of 13 players in the league over 37, as top-10 players in the league at this stage of their careers is remarkable.
The final second-team spot, after some deliberation, went to Edwards, a two-way force whose remarkable improvement as a 3-point shooter — he made a league-high 320 triples on more than 39% shooting — could be a game-breaking development as his young career progresses.
If there was any doubt about whether Harden deserves to be an All-NBA selection this season, his performance Sunday — 39 points and 10 assists on 13-for-23 shooting, including scoring 12 of LA’s 13 overtime points in the playoff-clinching win over Golden State — showed how essential he’s been to the Clippers. Cunningham’s breakthrough season in Detroit made him an easy pick for a spot here, with the same being said for Towns in his first season as a Knick and Williams for the league-leading Thunder.
That left one final spot, for which I debated four players: Haliburton, Jackson, Zubac and Darius Garland. The latter two both had great seasons, but the choice came down to a Haliburton and Jackson. The Pacers had a slow start with a second-half surge; Memphis was the opposite. In the end, Jackson’s two-way play — and being more consistent during the season — made him the choice over Haliburton.
All-Defense First Team
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Dyson Daniels, Atlanta Hawks
Amen Thompson, Houston Rockets
Ivica Zubac, LA Clippers
Evan Mobley, Cleveland Cavaliers
Jaren Jackson Jr., Memphis Grizzlies
Three of these names here were on my DPOY ballot. As for the other two spots, I included two backcourt-type players and three frontcourt-type players, as was the format before the league made All-Defensive selections positionless in 2023-24.
Daniels had the most steals in a season in a generation, while Thompson, an incredible defensive weapon who can guard just about any position, showed his on-ball prowess by helping Houston hold Stephen Curry to just three points in a matchup last week.
All-Defense Second Team
Derrick White, Boston Celtics
Jalen Williams, Oklahoma City Thunder
Luguentz Dort, Oklahoma City Thunder
Rudy Gobert, Minnesota Timberwolves
Draymond Green, Golden State Warriors
Gobert and Green were easy choices, as they both remain excellent defenders into their mid-30s. Dort, meanwhile, consistently takes the top assignments for Oklahoma City and should earn his first All-Defense selection.
That left three players for two spots: White, Williams and Portland Trail Blazers wing Toumani Camara, who has become an elite stopper in his second NBA season. I opted to reward Williams and White, two versatile two-way players for teams with the best chances to reach the Finals.
All-Rookie First Team
After my Rookie of the Year top three, Ware and Edey round out my top five.
Ware nearly averaged a double-double on almost 55% shooting over the final 2½ months, while Edey provided a solid presence in the paint for Memphis all season long, despite playing just 21.5 minutes per game.
All-Rookie Second Team
Missi has been one of the more consistent players on the Pelicans all season, while Clingan was an impactful rookie center for Portland and averaged 10 rebounds and more than two blocks per game as a starter. Sarr still has a long way to go as a shooter but improved as the season went along and showed flashes of the player the Wizards hope he can be.
Dunn was a solid wing defender for the Suns whose long-term ceiling will be determined by his 3-point shot, which started off hot and waned considerably as the year progressed. With the final spot, I went with Buzelis, who is starting for Chicago and has shown flashes of elite two-way play during the Bulls’ 10-3 close to the season.
In a pivotal matchup with their season on the line, the Detroit Pistons will be without their key defensive cog for a fourth straight game.
According to the latest injury report, Pistons center/forward Isaiah Stewart (right knee inflammation) will miss Game 5 of their first-round series against the New York Knicks, which tips off Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at Madison Square Garden.
Although the Pistons were able to pick up a Game 2 victory in New York without him, the absence of Stewart’s defensive presence has been glaring over the past three games.
“It would be really difficult to put him in the situation,” Pistons coach J.B. Bickerstaff said on Sunday regarding Stewart’s return to the series.
In addition to Jalen Duren in stretches, the Pistons have thrown multiple bodies at Knicks All-Star Karl-Anthony Towns, including Paul Reed and even cross-matching Tobias Harris on him. The strategy appeared to have some success in their Game 2 win, as Towns was held to 10 points and didn’t attempt a single shot in the final quarter.
However, over the last two games, Towns is averaging 29 points on 48.8% shooting from the field and a staggering 60% from 3-point range.
In the final seconds of Game 4 at Little Caesars Arena, Towns nailed what ended up being a dagger 3-pointer with 47 seconds left in the controversial finish to give the Knicks a 94-93 win and a commanding 3-1 lead in the series.
If Detroit is able to overcome New York on Tuesday, Game 6 of the Eastern Conference first-round series will take place Thursday, May 1, at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit.
Biden-signed law triggers Social Security increases for retirees
Many are seeing an increase in their Social Security payments, thanks to a law aimed at correcting long-standing benefit reductions for public sector workers.
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This is one of those months when some Social Security recipients may have three checks hit their bank accounts.
About 7.4 million Americans who may be disabled or have limited resources get monthly SSI benefit payments. About one-third of those SSI recipients also get a benefit from Social Security. Those folks will wind up with three benefits payments hitting their account during the calendar month of May.
Traditional Social Security payments – for those who are older or retired – are issued on Wednesdays throughout the month for most recipients. If your birthdate falls between the first and 10th of the month, that mean you are paid on the second Wednesday of the month, which this month is May 14; between the 11th and 20th, you’re paid on the third Wednesday (May 21), and if you were born after the 20th of the month, you get paid on the fourth Wednesday of the month (May 28), according to the SSA calendar.
Social Security recipients who began getting benefits before May 1997 are paid on the 3rd of the month – if they also get SSI, that benefit comes on the 1st.
SSI payment calendar: Months with two checks ahead
As it was in February, SSI recipients will get two checks in the month of May. The May SSI payment is scheduled to be issued on May 1, according to the SSA calendar, and the June SSI payment is scheduled for May 30. The June payment is issued early because June 1 falls on a weekend.
That means in June, as it was in March, SSI beneficiaries will not get a payment in that calendar month.
This recurring calendar quirk crops up again in August when SSI recipients will get two checks – the August payment on Aug. 1 and the September payment on Aug. 29 – but no payment in the calendar month of September.
SSI recipients will also get two checks in October, but not one in the calendar month of November, according to the SSA calendar.
When are SSI payments sent out for May? See full 2025 payment schedule
Supplemental Security Income checks will be sent out on the following dates in 2025, according to the SSA calendar.
Thursday, May 1, 2025 (Check for May 2025)
Friday, May 30, 2025 (Check for June 2025)
Tuesday, July 1, 2025 (Check for July 2025)
Friday, Aug. 1, 2025 (Check for August 2025)
Friday, Aug. 29, 2025 (Check for September 2025)
Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025 (Check for October 2025)
Friday, Oct. 31, 2025 (Check for November 2025)
Monday, Dec. 1, 2025 (Check for December 2025)
Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2025 (Check for January 2026)
What is SSI?
Supplemental Security Income is a benefit payment for those with limited income or resources aged 65 or older, who are blind or have a qualifying disability. Children with a qualifying disability can also get SSI, according to the SSA’s website.
Adults who earn more than $2,019 from work monthly, typically do not qualify for SSI.
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MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Hundreds of arrests of illegal immigrants were made in just a matter of days across the state of Florida.
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It was part of a massive multi-agency mission in Florida called Operation Tidal Wave.
“Operation Tidal Wave is the first of its kind joint operation where the Feds are leading, but all of our state agencies and relevant local agencies are assisting,” said Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. “So it’s been a huge force multiplier.”
Local 10 News has embedded with federal agents in South Florida amid the crackdown on people in the country illegally, with orders to be removed and with criminal records.
Partnerships with state and local agencies are nothing new, but Operation Tidal Wave is the first of its kind, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, using the authority of 287G, which allows state agencies to be deputized to make immigration arrests.
Among those now in custody from South Florida, say the feds, are a Russian fugitive wanted for suspected manslaughter, a documented MS-13 member and a man U.S. Border Patrol says was previously deported, convicted of smuggling.
Authorities said they made nearly 800 arrests in a four-day span, a number that is expected to go up.
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SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — The Salt Lake County Council voted to approve the sale of 6.5 acres of the Salt Palace Convention Center to Ryan Smith and the Smith Entertainment Group for the development of a new sports and entertainment district.
The resolution, which passed unanimously on Tuesday, creates a property tax zone for the area, and with the sale, it was expected that SEG would demolish that part of the convention center and expand their footprint east from the Delta Center.
The county said the sale has been negotiated at fair market value.
The approval also green lights modernizing the convention center downtown. The space will shrink by nearly 1/3 after the sale. Then, 50-percent of the Salt Lake Convention Center will be redesigned, leaving half open during construction. Completion of the construction was expected to be complete in 2031.
“We’re looking at the 6.5 acres that the county owns and how best to utilize those acres for the public benefit going forward,” explained Council Member Arlyn Bradshaw who oversees District 1 where the Salt Palace sits.
The sale will help fund the nearly $1.8 billion dollar project which will renovate the rest of the Salt Palace along with infrastructure upgrades in the area. The Convention Center Reinvestment Zone was created by Utah Lawmakers and combines tax revenue from the city and county to make the plan possible. Salt Lake City also recently approved a .5 percent citywide sales tax to help repay $900 million in bonds that Smith is seeking towards construction costs on the land. The Smith Entertainment group wants to develop a new Sports, Entertainment, Culture and Convention District on the site.
“We’ve actually overbuilt our exhibit hall space and what we desperately need is a new ballroom and that is what we’re getting from what we accomplished today,” explained Mayor Jenny Wilson of Salt Lake County on Tuesday.
The county projects all of this should generate about $11 million in new tax revenue ever year and they allocated $5 million for Japantown. During public comment many residents expressed concern about protecting Japantown.
“It’s all so enormously complex just trying to understand it. There is so much public tax money going into this project it’s all very exciting, but I think it is very important for the public to understand how their tax dollars are being spent,” explained Lori Wike, a resident at Tuesday’s meeting. She’s concerned about Abravanel Hall which will get some upgrades in this plan.
Businesses owners like Matteo Sogne, who owns Matteo Ristorante Italiano downtown, hopes the short-term pain will drive more foot traffic in the long term. “I’m just excited for how the 10-20 years of Salt Lake City will look and I just think it will be good for downtown,” he said.
This comes after tax incentives were given for a 26-story Hyatt hotel that was built and opened in 2022 that is attached to the convention center. Which offers 60-thousand square feet of meeting space and a ballroom and junior ballroom.
The County hopes to complete renovations and have everything done by the 2034 Olympics here in Salt Lake City.
Russell Wilson has turned into a kind of once-great baseball pitcher from the 1970s and 1980s. Those players, just like Wilson, spent many successful years with one team but eventually finished by bouncing around the league, looking for any team that would take a chance on them. Wilson was once a cornerstone of the Seattle Seahawks. That seems like a decade ago.
After going to Seahawks owner Jody Allen following the 2022 season and reportedly trying to get general manager John Schneider and then-head coach Pete Carroll fired, the Seahawks essentially fired Wilson and shipped him to the Denver Broncos. The deal turned out to be great for Seattle.
With some of the draft picks Seattle got back from the Broncos, Seattle has chosen cornerback Devon Witherspoon (a two-time Pro Bowler), left tackle Charles Cross, and edge rusher Boye Mafe. The Seahawks fleeced Denver.
Former Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson is finishing his career in a sad way
This is especially true as Wilson was told to leave the Broncos after two years. The team was willing to eat nearly $100 million in dead cap not to have Wilson on the team. When he arrived in Denver in 2022, he acted as if he were bigger than the team, even asking for his own office. After the 2023 season, he was brought back to reality.
This meant Wilson had just been relieved of his duties by two teams that, at one time, he seemingly thought he could run as the quarterback. Life can be hard sometimes.
A humbled Wilson joined the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2024, and after beginning the year banged up, became the starter and led Pittsburgh to several wins. Then the proverbial wheels fell off, and Wilson and the Steelers lost their last five games. The quarterback was not welcomed back this offseason, so he eventually signed with the New York Giants.
There was a time when Wilson was seemingly headed toward a potential Hall of Fame career. Now, he cannot find a long-term home as teams appear to have no faith in him being anything but a bridge quarterback to the team’s true long-term QB1. This trend has been cemented in New York.
In the first round of the 2025 NFL draft, the Giants chose quarterback Jaxson Dart after trading back into the first round. Dart is going to be seen as the future QB1 of the Giants, and he might not have to wait long to do that. This is what happens when a quarterback is chosen in the first round.
This means Wilson’s time with New York is likely going to be short, unless he is happy to be a backup to Dart for the rest of his career. His ego probably won’t let him be happy doing so, though, which means 2025 could be Russell Wilson’s final season in the NFL.
One might wonder how things might have turned out for him had he stayed with the Seattle Seahawks. Instead, his last four seasons have been nomadic failures.
The Cincinnati Reds are reportedly promoting their sixth-ranked prospect, Chase Petty, on Wednesday to make his Major League debut against the St. Louis Cardinals.
Petty shared a story that was posted on Instagram about him being called up and said “Go time.” He also shared a story from his agent that tagged him and had the hourglass emoji.
The 22-year-old has a 3.52 ERA over five starts with Triple-A Louisville this season. He has struck out 27 over 23 innings.
The post also mentioned that Tyler Callihan will be promoted on Wednesday.
The 24-year-old can play both infield and outfield and is hitting .304 with an OPS of .938 in 24 games this season for Triple-A Louisville.
Petty was scratched from his start tonight and Callihan was not in the lineup.
It’s worth noting that we have not seen this report confirmed yet.
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There wasn’t much Knicks representation in the favorable portions of the anonymous poll of 158 players across the Association. The biggest metropolitan takeaways may be the Knicks’ curious placement on a list of the league’s “worst organizations.”
With 113 player responding to that question, the Knicks garnered 2.7 percent of that vote, tied for seventh-most with the Chicago Bulls. New York was the highest-rated playoff team on that list, which was topped by the hapless Charlotte Hornets at 38.1 percent.
Apr 21, 2025; New York, New York, USA; New York Knicks head coach Tom Thibodeau coaches against the Detroit Pistons during the third quarter of game two of the first round of the 2024 NBA Playoffs at Madison Square Garden. Mandatory Credit: Brad Penner-Imagn Images / Brad Penner-Imagn Images
While there was no justification for the Knicks’ inclusion in the accompanying analysis from Sam Amick and Josh Robbins, it’s hard see why the modern Knicks would face such a fate: while some may find their lack of extended postseason success (no conference final appearances since 2000) disturbing, pairing them with the likes of eternal rebuilders (Charlotte, Washington) and over-the-top disappointments (New Orleans, Philadelphia, Dallas) seems unnecessarily harsh.
The Knicks are one of three teams (next to defending champions Denver and Boston) to win at least one playoff series in each of the last two seasons. They’re currently locked in a 1-1, best-of-seven, opening round set with the Detroit Pistons.
Knicks head coach Tom Thibodeau was also one of the popular additions in another notorious category: in a poll of 73 respondents to the “worst coach in the league” question (by far the least popular of the queries), Thibodeau was tied for fifth with Nick Nurse of Philadelphia,
Both obtained 6.8 percent of the vote, which was “won” by Washington Wizards boss (and former Knicks assistant) Brian Keefe. who topped the list at 24.7 percent. Keefe beat out Mike Budenholzer, who has since been fired from Phoenix.
Feb 10, 2024; New York, New York, USA; New York Knicks guard Jalen Brunson (11) dribbles while being defended by Indiana Pacers forward Aaron Nesmith (23) and Indiana Pacers guard Tyrese Haliburton (0) during the third quarter at Madison Square Garden. Mandatory Credit: John Jones-Imagn Images / John Jones-Imagn Images
Polls such as these are often unkind to Thibodeau, who has become notorious for his massive workloads on his headliners. Despite such supposed woes, the Knicks have returned to relevancy and contention, though Thibodeau’s future fate likely will rely upon postseason progress.
Elsewhere on the list, both Mikal Bridges and Jalen Brunson each landed in the “also received votes” department for the “most underrated player” conversation won by their current playoff foe Cade Cunningham of Detroit.
Knicks fans will also no doubt enjoy the fact that franchise rival Tyrese Haliburton was at the top of the “most overrated player” tally, as the Indiana Pacers star was over four percentage points ahead of runner-up Rudy Gobert.
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US Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced Saturday the agency and state law enforcement in Florida have arrested nearly 800 people over four days in a “massive, multi-agency immigration enforcement crackdown.”
ICE’s office in Miami calls the “highly successful” operation “a first-of-its-kind partnership between state and federal partners.”
CNN has reached out to ICE for more details about who was arrested, their legal status and the scope of the operation.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis hailed the operation as “an example of FL and (the Department of Homeland Security) partnering to deliver big results on immigration enforcement and deportations,” according to a statement on X.
“Florida is leading the nation in active cooperation with the Trump administration for immigration enforcement and deportation operations!” DeSantis wrote in a separate post Saturday.
The Department of Homeland Security highlighted the collaboration between federal and local law enforcement, dubbed “Operation Tidal Wave,” in a news release Monday.
This kind of collaboration is “a preview of what is to come around the country: large scale operations that employ our state and local law enforcement partners to get criminal illegal aliens off our streets,” DHS said.
The massive number of reported arrests comes amid President Donald Trump’s ongoing crackdown on illegal immigration and as the Department of Justice moves to prosecute state and local officials accused of impeding that effort.
DeSantis and other Republican leaders in Florida have pushed local officials in the state to sign agreements with ICE under the 287(g) Program, which allows local authorities to be trained by and partner with ICE to enforce aspects of US immigration law. Florida leaders have warned that state law allows for the removal of officials who refuse to cooperate with the federal government’s immigration efforts.
Statewide agencies, including the Florida Highway Patrol, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, the Florida State Guard, the Florida Department of Agricultural Law Enforcement and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, all signed collaboration agreements with ICE, according to an announcement by DeSantis in February.
In all, more than 200 state, county and municipal law enforcement agencies across Florida have entered into collaboration agreements with ICE, and more than 70 others have agreements pending, according to data from the Department of Homeland Security.
Earlier this month, multiple universities in Florida announced their campus police also signed the ICE agreements, further stoking fears among international students amid the Trump administration’s revocation of hundreds of student visas at colleges across the US.
Local leaders in several parts of Florida approved cooperation agreements with ICE while expressing opposition to it.
The city council in the Miami suburb of Doral – which has the largest Venezuelan immigrant population in the country – voted unanimously to approve an ICE collaboration agreement earlier this month, but council members made clear they were required to do so under state law.
“We’re being mandated by the state to take certain actions and if we don’t, we’re being threatened with criminal penalties,” City Attorney Lorenzo Cobiella said. “Passing this is painful for all of us. We’re all immigrants … we all have families that derive from different places where, right now, there’s great suffering.”
Thomas Kennedy, spokesperson for the Florida Immigrant Coalition, characterized the operation as “part of this longstanding effort by state government to basically force local police departments to conduct immigration enforcement.”
“These police officers became police officers to be police officers, not immigration agents,” he told CNN Sunday. “They should be out there policing the highways, not terrorizing undocumented people that are just trying to live in the state of Florida, pay taxes and work.”
He added he thinks the flurry of arrests is part of an effort to “create fear” so that undocumented immigrants self-deport.
The immigration crackdown will “create a less friendly, less welcoming, more prosecutory state,” Kennedy said, “where worker shortages increase, where communities are less safe because they’re afraid to report crime, where police departments are overburdened, doing work that they shouldn’t be doing.”
Last month, Fort Myers City Council members voted against the ICE collaboration, only to backtrack and approve it after Florida’s attorney general sent them a letter warning that the governor could remove them from office. Attorney General James Uthmeier called the initial refusal a “serious and direct violation” of Florida law that bans “sanctuary cities.”
The US Justice Department has repeatedly asserted that it will investigate any local officials who do not assist federal authorities on immigration matters.
Last week, Hannah Dugan, a Milwaukee County Circuit judge, was arrested by the FBI and charged in federal court for allegedly helping an undocumented immigrant avoid arrest. She made an initial appearance in court and was later released.
In court Friday, Dugan’s attorney said, “Judge Dugan wholeheartedly regrets and protests her arrest. It was not made in the interest of public safety,” according to the AP.
Also last week, former New Mexico magistrate judge Joel Cano and his wife, Nancy Cano, were accused of tampering with evidence linked to the arrest of an undocumented migrant suspected of being a member of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, according to two criminal complaints.
The migrant, Cristhian Ortega-Lopez, is a Venezuelan who was charged earlier this year for unlawful possession of a firearm or ammunition, court documents show.
