“Otero County Commission is flaunting that process by appeasing unfounded conspiracy theories and potentially nullifying the votes of every Otero County voter who participated in the primary.”

Gloria Caulfield, vice president of strategic alliances at Orlando-based Tavistock, pausing in surprise after her commencement address to the University of Central Florida's College of Arts and Humanities was met with immediate boos when she told graduates that "the rise of artificial intelligence is the next industrial revolution." The incident was one of at least three this spring in which commencement speakers were booed for mentioning AI, including former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who pressed on over sustained crowd noise at the University of Arizona, acknowledging the response: "I can hear you. There is a fear." (Fast Company)

Jimmie Lee, a Jersey City transit advocate and member of Hudson County Complete Streets, addressing NJ TRANSIT's board this week about the agency's notoriously unreliable bus tracking app, which is currently only 75 percent to 80 percent accurate. NJ Transit's board responded by approving a $6.4 million contract to upgrade its GPS bus tracking technology, part of an $18 million effort that also includes new locomotive modems for real-time train tracking, moves required under an executive order from Gov. Mikie Sherrill aimed at improving rider information across the system. (NJ.com)

Carolyn Kust, an American Red Cross account manager who oversees blood drives across Oregon, describing why Latino donors, who are more likely than white donors to have Type O blood, the type doctors reach for first in emergencies, have been staying away from donation sites amid fears that giving blood could expose them to immigration enforcement. Kust said Oregon's blood supply is running dangerously thin as a result, noting that the Red Cross typically keeps only about a two-day supply on its shelves and that a single trauma patient can require 50 or more units of blood, while a typical regional blood drive brings in just 30. (OregonLive)

Larry Hogan, the two-term former Republican governor of Maryland who sought an open U.S. Senate seat in 2024 and lost to Democrat Angela Alsobrooks by nearly 12 percentage points. Vowing to never run for office again, Hogan is instead launching the nonpartisan Hogan Institute at a small liberal arts college on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, saying he’s focused on teaching leadership skills to undergraduates who he hopes can fix a “broken” two-party system. (Washington Post)