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The Los Angeles and Long Beach ports move a total of $469 billion worth of freight a year and employ 175,000 workers. But if the industry continues to favor East Coast ports, the impact on Southern California ports could be devastating.
The Ohio Mayors Alliance, a bipartisan group that represents the state’s 30 largest cities, says its top recommendations for next year include remote work that could undermine local revenue, police training and gun reform.
The White House and First Lady Jill Biden tweeted on Sunday, Dec. 18, accompanied by a video of the White House’s menorah being lit to honor the first day of Hanukkah. The president and first lady will add the menorah to the permanent White House collection, which will be the first time a Jewish artifact is added to the White House archives. (NPR — Dec. 19, 2022)
Are community colleges prepared to train the workers a technology-based economy requires? Joseph Fuller of Harvard Business School talks about findings from a multiyear research project that finds they have far to go.
The excesses of the American dream fill 50,000 storage facilities across the country. This material overflow results from crisis, indecision, laziness and selective forgetfulness.
Their votes were influential or outright decisive in several close races won by Democrats, such as Nevada’s senate election. Their turnout could signal a possible shift — or exception — in voting trends.
The massively popular platform owned by the Beijing-based company ByteDance, has already been banned on government-owned devices in several U.S. states because of security concerns.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit accusing the city commissioners of dividing the voting map along racial lines to allegedly weaken the political power of Black voters. The lawsuit asks for an entirely new map.
The Legislature’s auditing firm found “significant weaknesses in several security control areas” across the 20 government agencies that were audited, putting the state at greater risk of cyber attacks and other security incidents.
Despite the high-profile collapse of crypto trading platform FTX, the Legislature’s Work Group on Blockchain Matters has established a master plan to propel the state to the forefront of the $5 billion industry.
The WorkPlace Inc., and the Northwest Regional Workforce Investment Board have received funding from the EPA to launch environmental careers for students from underserved areas of the state known as brownfields.
Administrators of Bath Township, Ohio, aren’t sure why the 2020 Census reported a 40 percent decline in population as compared to the 2010 report. Officials suspect the loss is a data glitch; surrounding communities have been shrinking.
Claremont McKenna College political scientist Jack Pitney, regarding San Bernardino County’s November vote to consider seceding from California and forming their own state. Though the consideration received a razor-thin majority, many are skeptical that secession from the state would actually be viable. The county’s 20,000 square miles is composed of more land than nine states. (Associated Press — Dec. 16, 2022)
Investment company becomes significant backer in Governing's parent company.
A pilot program has gradually amassed more than $100 million in Federal Transit Administration grants, which are laying the groundwork for land use projects that promote mobility and affordability.
The Washington state governor’s budget proposal for the next two-year cycle will fund a variety of programs across the state, including education, construction, salaries and public safety. There would be $2.6 billion left over.
A study from the Economic Roundtable found that without the pandemic-induced eviction moratoriums, unemployment insurance boosts and stimulus payments, the county’s homelessness would have climbed to 23 percent.
A bipartisan effort to correct the shortcomings of the 1887 Electoral County Act, which enabled the Jan. 6 insurrection, is likely to pass through the U.S. Senate as long as it receives approval before the lame-duck session ends.
The City Council has unanimously approved the task force, which would research the history and the effects of slavery in Boston and then assess and advise the city on next steps. The mayor must sign off for it to become law.
Dozens of state laws that spanned issues involving paid family leave, school air quality, religious vaccine exemptions and the Juneteenth holiday took effect this past year. Here’s a look at some of the major changes.
Dr. Erica Michiels, who directs pediatric emergency medicine at Corewell Health Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital in Grand Rapids, Mich., regarding the growing wait in the ER as hospitals across the nation have been stretched beyond capacity by waves of RSV, a respiratory virus, and the flu. Typically the Devos Children’s ER sees about 140 kids a day, but recently in mid-December the visits have reached 253. (NPR — Dec. 15, 2022)
A new report from experts at NYU and Harvard law schools outlines the ways state attorneys general can protect communities and workers as the country builds a clean energy economy.
A trash truck or a streetlight has a basic function, but in a digital age they can be so much more, adding value outside of their core purposes.
When the governor-elect was serving as Montgomery County commissioner, he streamlined the county’s half-billion-dollar retirees pension plan. Some wonder if the state’s retirement plan will get a similar redo.
The Florida governor has promised to hold people accountable for committing “wrongdoing” in regard to the COVID-19 vaccinations, and has said he will ask the state Supreme Court to impanel a grand jury for the investigation.
The U.S. magistrate of New Orleans was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Dec. 13 as the first Black female judge for the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. All 31 “no” votes against Douglas were from Republicans.
Persis Yu, deputy executive director and managing counsel for the Student Borrower Protection Center, regarding an email that was sent out to some borrowers Tuesday morning from the Department of Education reversing course on a previous email about student debt relief applications. In November many borrowers received emails saying that their student loan relief application was approved and they would receive up to $20,000 in cancellation, but then a second email was sent out on Dec. 13, stating that some approvals were sent in error. (NPR — Dec. 14, 2022)
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