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Congress is considering a flurry of proposed revisions to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, but some experts say reforms must be nuanced and carefully researched to avoid unintended consequences.
Sen. Clint Dixon said the state’s public health commissioner had approved the Unmask Georgia Students Act, but it turns out Dr. Toomey had not vetted the legislation. But this isn’t the first time an expert was left out.
There are 150 zero-energy, nonresidential buildings in the U.S., an increase of more than 350 percent since 2011. Officials expect that these high-efficiency, low carbon-emission buildings will be the norm by 2050.
Experts agree that certain issues, such as public safety, housing and inequities, must be addressed for the city’s downtown to fully recover from the economic devastations of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Star Trek: Discovery Director-producer Olatunde Osunsanmi on the moment Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams walked on set in costume. The longtime Democrat activist and Trekkie played the “President of United Earth” — in the 32nd century — in Thursday’s Season 4 finale to help patch up the Federation. (TV Line – March 17, 2022)
The proportion of Americans who felt that the experiences and viewpoints of white adults were considered when developing artificial intelligence technology, according to a recent survey. Only 44, 24 and 23 percent of respondents thought that the experiences of Asian, Black and Hispanic adults respectively were taken into development consideration. Forty-five percent of U.S. adults said they were equally concerned and excited about AI technology.
A bi-weekly tracking of the lead up to the 2022 election season.
The stimulus program that followed the Great Recession was a model for tracking projects and spending down to the ZIP code level. We don’t have that with the American Rescue Plan, dooming us to fight about what matters most.
To combat mental health disorders among teenagers, the Legislature’s Children’s Committee gave unanimous approval to a bill that would require parental consent for children less than 16 years old to engage in social media.
The California Supreme Court will decide whether the state’s ban on asking job applicants about their health applies to job-screening companies, in response to a proposed class-action lawsuit on behalf of 500,000 job applicants.
Census data revealed that 17.3 percent of residents in the state were uninsured, nearly double the national average. Texas also has eight of the 10 congressional districts with the highest uninsured populations in the nation.
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand announced the funding will be used to help city residents bounce back in their careers and education after being hit hard by COVID-19.
Rabbi Moti Rieber, executive director of Kansas Interfaith Action, a climate issue lobby group, regarding Kansas state Sen. Mike Thompson’s pushback against renewable energy in his role as chair of the Utilities Committee. Not only has Thompson’s resistance to green energy put him at odds with environmentalists, but his views also pit him against big utilities and GOP colleagues, who believe his restrictions on wind turbines and solar farms go too far. (Associated Press — March 17, 2022)
The approximate number of historically Black colleges and universities across the country that have been the target of bomb threats in the past three months.
Public engagement can have downsides. Neighborhood participation in the housing permitting process makes existing political inequalities worse, limits housing supply and contributes to the affordability crisis.
Housing costs were rising faster than income before historic inflation made things worse. The CEO of Habitat for Humanity blueprints what local governments can do to ease the current crisis.
The city’s controversial anti-crime unit will return to Staten Island’s North Shore with a new name, new uniforms complete with body cameras, and new tech that uses facial recognition technology. But some still worry about the unit’s impacts.
After receiving complaints about the quality of care provided, city officials delayed a decision on whether to replace Wellpath LLC with LSU Health New Orleans. The contract could amount to as much as $93 million.
Data collected from companies with 100 or more employees revealed that only 36 percent of the top earners were women and Hispanic and Latino people and Black people were overly represented at the lowest pay levels.
As interest in cryptocurrency mining continues to grow, Texas power utilities are left to figure out how to manage the surge in electricity demand largely on their own, making many things, like monthly costs, uncertain.
University of New Mexico’s Water Resources Program Director John Fleck, regarding Lake Powell’s drop below 3,525 feet, putting it at the lowest levels since the federal government dammed the Colorado River at Glen Canyon more than 50 years ago. While officials are confident water levels will rise again as snow melts in the Rockies, many see that as only a temporary fix that will allow the Glen Canyon Dam to continue producing hydropower for approximately 5 million customers across seven states. (Associated Press — March 16, 2022)
The amount that Amazon will be awarding in loans for affordable housing construction near two D.C. metro stops. The funds will go to two developers, Urban Atlantic and Gilbane Development Company, to create 742 new apartments near the New Carrollton and College Park Metro stations.
New econometric analysis brings statistics to bear in support of common-sense conclusions that people can’t stay in neighborhoods if they don’t have homes.
It’s not a household name, but it’s a place with a distinct culture and a raft of economic opportunities.
The state currently allows county and statewide elections that end in a tie vote to be decided using random choice, instead of by special election or second runoff. A proposed law would apply the same rule to municipal elections.
Another $85 million will be allocated toward building a new federal courthouse, replacing the current one that was built in 1933 and no longer meets safety, prisoner security or accessibility requirements.
As medicine quickly adapted to ensure that millions of Americans could still receive care during the coronavirus pandemic, some of the innovations made health-care accessibility more difficult for those with disabilities.
The Department of Veterans Affairs aims to get at least 1,500 homeless veterans in Los Angeles into permanent housing, and 38,000 nationally, by the end of the year, which would be 10 percent more veterans than in 2021.
Arizona state Sen. Sonny Borrelli, regarding a bill that would have allowed the use of deadly force to stop someone from damaging property. Critics say the legislation, which was rejected on Monday, was vague and could have allowed someone to shoot and kill another person for simply graffitiing a wall while having something that might be deemed a weapon. Had the bill passed, Arizona would have joined only Texas in allowing the use of deadly force to protect property. (Associated Press — March 15, 2022)
The annual amount paid by agents of the Russian government to air the pro-Putin programming of Radio Sputnik on two small American-owned stations, one in the Washington, D.C., area (WZHF) and the other in the Kansas City area (KCXL). The amount works out to be 154.1 billion Russian rubles at their current hyper-deflated exchange rate. The National Association of Broadcasters has called on both stations to stop airing the Russian-backed propaganda immediately.
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