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Sun Communities, Inc. ( NYSE:SUI – Get Free Report ) announced a quarterly dividend on Monday, December 2nd, RTT News reports. Investors of record on Tuesday, December 31st will be paid a dividend of 0.94 per share by the real estate investment trust on Wednesday, January 15th. This represents a $3.76 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 3.04%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, December 31st. Sun Communities has raised its dividend payment by an average of 5.6% annually over the last three years. Sun Communities has a payout ratio of 241.0% meaning the company cannot currently cover its dividend with earnings alone and is relying on its balance sheet to cover its dividend payments. Equities analysts expect Sun Communities to earn $7.03 per share next year, which means the company should continue to be able to cover its $3.76 annual dividend with an expected future payout ratio of 53.5%. Sun Communities Price Performance SUI opened at $123.66 on Friday. The firm has a market capitalization of $15.75 billion, a PE ratio of 66.48, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.51 and a beta of 0.88. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.93, a current ratio of 1.61 and a quick ratio of 1.61. The business’s 50-day moving average is $127.23 and its two-hundred day moving average is $128.65. Sun Communities has a 1 year low of $110.98 and a 1 year high of $147.83. Analyst Ratings Changes Several analysts have recently commented on SUI shares. Robert W. Baird lowered Sun Communities from an “outperform” rating to a “neutral” rating and decreased their price objective for the company from $145.00 to $126.00 in a report on Thursday, November 7th. Royal Bank of Canada decreased their price target on Sun Communities from $147.00 to $135.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a research note on Thursday, November 7th. BMO Capital Markets dropped their price target on Sun Communities from $145.00 to $138.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a research note on Thursday, November 7th. UBS Group lowered shares of Sun Communities from a “buy” rating to a “neutral” rating and decreased their price objective for the company from $155.00 to $134.00 in a research report on Thursday, November 14th. Finally, Jefferies Financial Group started coverage on shares of Sun Communities in a research report on Thursday, October 17th. They set a “buy” rating and a $160.00 target price on the stock. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, eight have assigned a hold rating and five have given a buy rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat, Sun Communities currently has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $137.08. View Our Latest Stock Analysis on Sun Communities About Sun Communities ( Get Free Report ) Established in 1975, Sun Communities, Inc became a publicly owned corporation in December 1993. The Company is a fully integrated REIT listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol: SUI. As of December 31, 2023, the Company owned, operated, or had an interest in a portfolio of 667 developed MH, RV and Marina properties comprising 179,310 developed sites and approximately 48,030 wet slips and dry storage spaces in the U.S., the UK and Canada. Featured Stories Receive News & Ratings for Sun Communities Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Sun Communities and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .Iceland votes for a new parliament amid disagreements on immigration, energy policy and the economy
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Article content The man known as “Canadian Dave” has been missing in Kabul for more than three weeks. Recommended Videos There is no confirmation if he is alive, a captive, jailed or in hospital? All his friends, family and peers can do is hope for the best after Dave Lavery vanished in Kabul on Nov. 11, Remembrance Day. They hope he’s still with us. They believe he is. But there is nothing confirmed from either Canada or Afghanistan. The Taliban hold all the cards. Canada holds none. The whereabouts and status of this Canadian hero to so many who escaped from Afghanistan remains a mystery. “We have nothing to add to our previous statement,” said Global Affairs Canadan (GAC). Keeping their cards close, Canadian government officials have previously only acknowledged the former Canadian special operations soldier — now a civilian exfiltration expert — disappeared near the same Kabul airport where he helped more than 100 Afghans escape to Canada during the 2021 fall of Afghanistan. He also assisted hundreds of others from other countries. “The Government of Canada’s first priority is always the safety and security of its citizens,” said GAC spokesperson Charlotte MacLeod. “For this reason, in addition to privacy considerations, we will not comment on or release any information on specific cases. Doing so may compromise ongoing efforts or endanger the safety of Canadians.” There has been no sign of the Canadian some call the “Angel of Afghanistan” since the day he vanished. If anybody in authority has any information on him, they are not sharing it. Recommended video But sources told The Toronto Sun they believe Lavery is alive, and being held by the Taliban somewhere in Kabul. “I was given assurances that he is alive and well and being taken care of,” said, Chris Ecklunda, a philanthropist and president of Canadian Process Serving Inc. “We can only hope that is true.” If this a kidnapping and ransom situation, no one is saying. The whereabouts of Lavery’s wife and son are also not known. The question is what happens next? And what to do next? “We need to pressure Global Affairs Canada and the rest of the government into action or this will linger,” said a friend who worked with Lavery in Afghanistan and is a noted expert on the Taliban. “Winter is coming to Kabul — the people are starving. But realistically, the Taliban could care less about Canada and what we have to offer. My suspicion is that they’re rounding up foreigners as a reaction to the recent election (in the U.S.) — in order to build up stock to trade once Trump comes into office.” The good news in that is that Lavery should be kept alive. However, it’s unclear who would negotiate his release and what the Taliban would want in exchange. And Ecklunda said there is also more bad news for Afghan people because the project he has been working on — to build a new school and send over supplies — is on hold until the Lavery situation is resolved. Sometimes these things work out well, and sometimes they don’t. I have covered numerous Canadians who have been detained abroad, including the two Michaels — Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor — who were released after spending more than 1,000 days in Chinese custody. In the case of the Michaels, we had a happy homecoming story. But they all don’t end up that way. For example, Robert Hall and John Ridsdel were kidnapped in 2016 by Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines and later murdered. It’s a reminder of what a dangerous game this is. Patience is key. “There are good people working on it,” said retired general Dean Milner. “It’s important that we do because Dave Lavery has served this country with distinction for a long time.” While it’s true, no one is quite sure of Canadian Dave’s whereabouts or offered any proof that he is alive. Another truth: He is not forgotten.
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Social media’s youthful glow is going up in smokeJimmy Carter was a president, a peacemaker, a public health champion — and my friend. When he left the White House, Carter used the power of his name, character and influence to work on challenges that were too obscure or daunting for others to deal with. I believe he did it because he felt it was the right thing to do. His humble beginnings as a farm boy in southern Georgia helped him relate to the challenges and aspirations of everyday people, respectfully partnering with them to improve their own lives. I worked closely with Carter as vice president for health programs at the Carter Center and later as special adviser to the center’s Guinea Worm Eradication Program. I traveled with him to various places, mostly in Africa, an average of once a year from 1988 to 2010. Those trips involved long flights and sometimes lengthy rides to remote villages, giving us ample opportunity to talk about everything from birding to boatbuilding to genealogy. In 2007, we flew separately — he from Atlanta and I from Chicago, where I live — to start a visit to four countries. My flight ran into trouble early and had to return to O’Hare International Airport. It was unnerving. When my wife, Ernie, and I finally arrived in Ghana a day late, Carter greeted me with a big hug. I suffered a near-fatal heart attack in early 2015. Later that year, I was sitting outside a Carter Center conference room, waiting for a meeting to begin, when Carter and his Secret Service detail strode by on their way to his office. I expected only a wave, but he diverted his course and came over to give me another warm embrace. The last time I saw Cater and his wife, Rosalynn, was at their 75 th wedding anniversary celebration in 2021 in Plains, Georgia. He was frail after a recent hospital stay, but he soldiered on. He didn’t just shake my hand; he kissed it. Carter’s kindness belied his physical and mental toughness. During our final trip together, to South Sudan in 2010, he and his wife had contracted a stomach ailment in Khartoum, but he pushed through it and attended a series of political meetings in Juba. The next day, we took a very long drive in brutal heat to survey the Guinea worm situation in Terekeka, and he confessed to me, “I would not have been able to do this trip yesterday.” Carter used his toughness strategically. In 1995, during the Sudanese civil war, I was on the trip when he persuaded John Garang, leader of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army/Movement, to agree to a humanitarian ceasefire. Accompanied by CNN’s bureau chief from Nairobi, Carter presented his truce proposal to a reluctant President Omar al-Bashir. He warned al-Bashir that he was going to announce that Garang agreed to the truce; he gave al-Bashir the option of showing the world that he either agreed to a humanitarian ceasefire or insisted on war. Al-Bashir caved, and together they announced the famed “Guinea worm ceasefire” that night. Carter and his wife witnessed their first Guinea worm cases during a visit to two villages in Ghana in 1988. “We really need to do more to help these people,” he said. The Carter Center, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and UNICEF acted immediately, and a year later, there were almost no cases in those villages. However, by 2006, the Ghana program was struggling. A pumping station in Savelugu had broken down, leaving people exposed to potentially contaminated drinking water, and officials had failed to repair it. Carter was very angry, as was I. In August 2006, we invited Ghanaian health officials to Atlanta, where Carter questioned them sharply. He warned them that he planned to visit in six months. That lit a fire under them to get the pumping station fixed and reform the program. Unfortunately, the complacency of 2006 led to a large outbreak in January 2007, with more than 1,000 cases in Savelugu, including many children. Carter witnessed the disaster firsthand the following month. At a news conference, he threatened to rename the disease “Ghana worm.” In 2008, Ghana reduced its cases by 85%. Ghana is now Guinea worm-free. Hawah Alhassan, 5, in Tingoli Village near Tamale, Ghana, in 2007. She was her village’s last Guinea worm victim because of the eradication program. (Wes Pope/Chicago Tribune) In 2015, Carter said he wanted to see the last Guinea worm die before he did. That’s not likely to happen, but he’s gotten very close: There were just 14 human cases last year. I am sorry I won’t get to see his pleasure when we make Guinea worm the second human disease to be eradicated. We’ll keep working and praying to make it happen soon, knowing of his confidence that we will see it through. Dr. Donald R. Hopkins is a special adviser for Guinea worm eradication and former vice president for health programs with the Carter Center. Submit a letter, of no more than 400 words, to the editor here or email letters@chicagotribune.com .
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Russell Vought, one of the chief architects of Project 2025 — a conservative blueprint for the next presidency — is no fan of the federal government that President-elect Donald Trump will soon lead. He believes “woke” civil servants and “so-called expert authorities” wield illegitimate power to block conservative White House directives from deep within federal agencies, and wants Trump to “bend or break” that bureaucracy to his will, he wrote in the second chapter of the Project 2025 playbook. Vought is a vocal proponent of a plan known as Schedule F, under which Trump would fire thousands of career civil servants with extensive experience in their fields and replace them with his own political loyalists, and of Christian nationalism, which would see American governance aligned with Christian teachings. Both are core tenets of Project 2025. Throughout his campaign, Trump adamantly disavowed Project 2025, even though its policies overlapped with his and some of its authors worked in his first administration. He castigated anyone who suggested the blueprint, which polls showed was deeply unpopular among voters, represented his aims for the presidency. But last week, the president-elect nominated Vought to lead the Office of Management and Budget, which oversees the White House budget and its policy agenda across the federal government. Trump called Vought, who held the same role during his first term, an “aggressive cost cutter and deregulator” who “knows exactly how to dismantle the Deep State and end Weaponized Government.” The nomination was one of several Trump has made since his election that have called into question his claims on the campaign trail that Project 2025 was not his playbook and held no sway over him or his plans for a second term. He selected Tom Homan, a Project 2025 contributor and former visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation, the conservative organization behind the blueprint, as his “border czar.” Trump named Stephen Miller, an immigration hard-liner also linked to Project 2025, as his deputy chief of staff for policy. Both also served in the first Trump administration. He also named Brendan Carr to serve on the Federal Communications Commission. Carr wrote a chapter of Project 2025 on the FCC, which regulates U.S. internet access and TV and radio networks, and has echoed Trump’s claims that news broadcasters have engaged in political bias against Trump. Trump named John Ratcliffe as his pick for CIA director and Pete Hoekstra as ambassador to Canada. Both are Project 2025 contributors. It has also been reported that the Trump transition team is filling lower-level government spots using a Project 2025 database of conservative candidates. During the campaign Trump said that he knew “nothing about” Project 2025 and that he found some of its ideas “absolutely ridiculous and abysmal.” In response to news in July that Project 2025’s director, Paul Dans, was leaving his post, Trump campaign managers Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles — whom the president-elect has since named his chief of staff — issued a statement saying that “reports of Project 2025’s demise would be greatly welcomed.” Asked about Trump’s selection of several people with Project 2025 connections to serve in his administration, Trump transition spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt responded with a statement, saying Trump “never had anything to do with Project 2025.” “This has always been a lie pushed by the Democrats and the legacy media, but clearly the American people did not buy it because they overwhelmingly voted for President Trump to implement the promises that he made on the campaign trail,” Leavitt wrote. “All of President Trump’s cabinet nominees and appointments are whole-heartedly committed to President Trump’s agenda, not the agenda of outside groups.” Leavitt too has ties to Project 2025, having appeared in a training video for it. In addition to calling for much greater power in the hands of the president, Project 2025 calls for less federal intervention in certain areas — including through the elimination of the Department of Education. It calls for much stricter immigration enforcement and mass deportations — a policy priority of Trump’s as well — and rails against environmental protections, calling for the demolition of key environmental agencies such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Weather Service. It calls for tougher restrictions on abortion and for the federal government to collect data on women who seek an abortion, and backs a slew of measures that would strip rights from LGBTQ+ people. For Trump’s critics, his selections make it clear that his disavowal of the conservative playbook was nothing more than a campaign ploy to pacify voters who viewed the plan as too far to the right. It’s an argument many were making before the election as well. “There are many of us who tried to sound the alarm bell before the election,” when voters still had the power to keep such a plan from coming to fruition, said Ben Olinsky, senior vice president of structural reform and governance at the liberal Center for American Progress. Now, he said, he expects many of the more “draconian pieces” of Project 2025 to start being implemented given the nominees Trump has put forward. That includes Vought’s plan to eviscerate the career civil service, the core of American government, by doing away with merit-based staffing in favor of loyalty-based appointments, Olinsky said. “We know what happened before there was a merit-based civil service. There was cronyism in American government, and we can look back through history and see that kind of graft and cronyism,” Olinsky said. Filling the government with Trump loyalists will clear the way for more policies of Project 2025 to be implemented without resistance, Olinsky said. Olinsky said the Supreme Court and the Republican-controlled House have already proved they are not willing to stand up to Trump. There are “still some institutionalists” in the Senate — soon to be controlled by Republicans, as well — who could leverage their power to push back, he said, but it is not clear that they will. Incoming Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., has signaled that he may be willing to do so: According to reports from his home state, he said at a local Chamber of Commerce event Tuesday that all presidents try to push policy through executive action, and that Congress “sometimes will have to put the brakes on.” In the end, Olinsky said, real resistance might come only once Americans start realizing that Trump’s new government, stripped of all of its experts, is failing them in serious ways. “They do care about their Social Security checks being delivered. They do care about the nation being defended properly. They care that, when they turn on the faucet, they will drink water that won’t sicken them and their kids,” Olinsky said. “And that’s what requires expertise.” ©2024 Los Angeles Times. Visit latimes.com. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
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Adobe Stock Drops On Disappointing 2025 OutlookPresident-elect Donald Trump said Saturday that Brooke L. Rollins, the CEO of the America First Policy Institute and a senior aide during his first administration, was his choice to become Agriculture secretary. Rollins was director of the Domestic Policy Council in Trump’s first term, director of the Office of American Innovation, and a presidential assistant for strategic initiatives. She founded the pro-Trump America First Policy Institute think tank and America First Works, an advocacy group, four years ago. She’s a native of Texas and was a policy director for GOP Gov. Rick Perry, who was Trump’s first Energy secretary. “Brooke will spearhead the effort to protect American Farmers, who are truly the backbone of our country,” Trump said in a statement posted to his Truth Social account. He said she is committed to “the restoration of Agriculture-dependent American Small Towns.” Trump’s pledge to slap tariffs on goods imports, particularly from China, are expected to bring retaliation that could cost U.S. agriculture billions of dollars in lost foreign sales — as happened in his first term. The Agriculture Department spent nearly $30 billion to compensate farmers for the losses until the U.S. reached a trade deal with China. Zippy Duvall, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, praised Rollins’ selection, saying that she has a good relationship with the Texas state farm bureau. “We’re encouraged by her statement that she’d ‘fight for America’s farmers and our nation’s agricultural communities,'” Duvall said in a statement. “Effective leadership at USDA is more important than ever as farmers and ranchers face a struggling agricultural economy.” Rollins was one of several leaders of think tanks and other groups who wrote to congressional leaders in September 2023 urging Congress to reject a supplemental funding request from President Joe Biden to aid Ukraine, provide disaster relief in the U.S., and to manage the Southwest border. Rollins and the others said Congress should deal with them through regular appropriations bills. If confirmed, Rollins would become the second woman to lead USDA; the first, Ann Veneman, served under President George W. Bush. Rollins would manage a sprawling agency that oversees over $200 billion a year in federal spending, with around 70 percent dedicated to nutrition programs, largely food stamps. Next year will be a pivotal one for USDA programs as lawmakers and the Trump administration attempt to hammer out a new multiyear farm bill; lawmakers ran out of time in the 118th Congress and are now prepping a one-year extension. On Friday night, Trump named Russ Vought as his prospective nominee for another stint as budget director . Vought has called for deep cuts in farm price supports and nutrition programs, including through Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program work requirements for adults without disabilities.
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