Your weekend long reads🗞️
Good morning, friends of The Short List! Are you feeling the Madness yet? It's John, and I hope your NCAA bracket hasn't been completely busted yet.
🏀Quick NCAA update: The men's NCAA Tournament continues Saturday with second-round games. The women's tournament features 16 first-round games beginning with No. 8 Washington State vs. No. 9 Kansas State (11:30 a.m., ESPN2). Follow all the action at Paste BN Sports.
And now, on to the news:
🔌Charged up about EVs: Readers really responded to our stories this week about sales of electric vehicles.
- Climate worries, sinking prices put spotlight on EV surging sales
- High gas prices boost buyer interest in EVs amid Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Is Ford sold out of EVs for years? It depends on chips
☀️Spring forward? Maybe not much longer: The Senate passed a bill Tuesday that would make daylight saving time (DST) permanent – no more turning back the clock for roughly half the year. Is the USA ready?
- Daylight saving time: A century of clock changing could soon run out
- Permanent daylight saving time? America tried it before ... and it didn't go well
💰Borrowing costs headed higher: The Federal Reserve raised its key short-term interest rate by a quarter percentage point this week and forecast six more rate hikes this year. What does that mean in dollars and cents?
- How Fed's first rate hike in more than 3 years will affect credit card, mortgage, savings rates
There! That should get you started. There are more great reads below. 👇 See you next weekend!