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BART, the region's rapid transit rail system, is investing significant time, money and staff into social services. It’s a big departure from the agency's core mission — running the trains on time.
Martin Horn, who was the New York City's correction commissioner from 2002 to 2009, commenting on the city's notorious jail complex. Horn's comment is part of an oral history on Rikers. (New York Times — Feb. 13, 2023)
Suicide, overdoses and intake of anxiety medications have all gone up during the pandemic. Counties are having to deal with those challenges and many others, at a time when many of them are losing population and face constrained resources.
More of them are quitting over student behavior than for any other reason. Levels of student misbehavior are rising, but time-tested practices can help teachers minimize classroom chaos.
Tuesday’s speech was in keeping with a tradition dating back to the republic’s founding, including an increasing element of ‘bread and circuses,’ a mix of political policies and entertainment, ceremony and spectacle, in service of endless campaigning by both parties.
The declines were concentrated among kindergarten students and in schools that offered only remote instruction. An expert explains where they went and why it matters.
In Massachusetts, the latest piece of technology to take the Internet by storm — ChatGPT— helped craft a bill aimed at regulating AI. But, the lawmaker behind the bill says the tech isn't ready to write laws without help.
The settlement agreement will pay four former staffers who alleged retaliation after they accused Paxton of corruption in 2020. Paxton has broadly denied any wrongdoing and has not been charged with a federal crime.
The metro area had 408,700 jobs in December which is 300 more than the area had in March 2020. The health-care industry has added 4,400 jobs since the start of the pandemic, followed next by leisure and hospitality.
The state gave the isolated community of Cantua Creek a transportation lifeline: a fleet of four electric vehicles. The program worked for a few months, but then the cars disappeared and the infrastructure wasn't maintained.
BIPOC entrepreneurs, veteran- and women-owned businesses and small businesses in underserved regions of Washington state, including Walla Walla County, may be eligible to receive an impact grant of up to $100,000.
Lindsay Nichols, policy director with the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, regarding the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ expansive federal report on guns used in crimes in two decades, using data from 2017 to 2021. The report found that 54 percent of traced crime guns were recovered by law enforcement more than three years after their purchase, more than 1 million firearms were stolen from private citizens in that time and the involvement of “ghost guns” in crime is increasing. (NPR — Feb. 10, 2023)
The amount of funding from the Environmental Protection Agency that will...
The budget totals $50.5 billion for the two-year cycle and would add 6,400 housing units, allocate $100 million for first-time homeowners and additional millions for local schools. The proposal has been called “a good start.”
Despite the Federal Communications Commission’s map of available consumer broadband at 100 percent across the state, the state’s broadband office argues that rural areas are still left out, challenging 2 million addresses.
Though annual installations of solar panels increased by nearly 60 percent between 2016 and 2021, the solar energy industry employed 11 percent fewer people in 2021 than it did five years earlier.
A proposed bill would allow state and local agencies to close certain meetings to the public for various security reasons and it would allow officials to deny citizens from viewing or accessing certain records.
Two state representatives have introduced a bill that would allow 16- and 17-year-olds to register as voters starting next year. A similar bill was introduced last year, but ultimately died on the session’s last day.
Kevin Ring, president of the criminal justice reform advocacy group Families Against Mandatory Minimums, regarding a Massachusetts bill that would let state prisoners donate organs and bone marrow to shave time off of their prison sentence. The bill, which has raised major ethical and legal questions, may go against federal law that bars the sale of human organs. (Associated Press — Feb. 8, 2023)
The vote from the Florida High School Athletic Association’s board of directors to...
South Carolina will hold the first primary election but it isn't yet clear when the first five states' primaries will take place. Meanwhile, no one wants to run Seattle and redistricting never ends.
Jim Kenney went all in on a $400 million plan to fix neighborhood parks, rec centers and libraries. Now entering his last year in office, what is there to show for it?
A few governors have moved to open up thousands of state jobs to people without a college degree. It's commonsense policy and an economic win for states. It’s also a political opportunity for governors eyeing the White House.
The legislation would limit use of facial recognition to investigations of certain violent crimes, human trafficking offenses or ongoing threats to public safety. If passed, it would be the state’s first limitation on the tech.
Fast-food companies have collected enough signatures to force a referendum on a state law intended to boost wages for restaurant workers and an effort to overturn an environmental safety law has qualified for the ballot.
Republican state lawmakers dissolved a nonpartisan group that ensured tax dollars were properly spent in February 2021. But with tax revenues flush, it may be time to bring back the division.
The General Assembly will study the two-year budget that includes about 25 percent more spending annually than the current year’s budget, including $2.3 billion on roads and $717 million on bridges.
U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney, regarding his displeasure at Rep. George Santos’ behavior at the State of the Union on Tuesday night, given the fact that Santos is under an ethics investigation concerning questions about the freshman lawmaker’s biography and campaign finances. (NPR — Feb. 8, 2023)
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