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After her primary race win, Finke will face Republican Trace Johnson in November. Currently there are just eight out trans lawmakers in America among the more than 7,300 state legislators across the nation.
The nonpartisan group Tax Foundation ranked the state’s tax climate as the 28th best in the nation while the Council on State Taxation found the state to have the highest tax burden on business inputs nationwide.
A bill that would have allowed prosecutors to sue social media companies for addicting their children to their online platforms died on Thursday, Aug. 11, just ahead of the Technology and Policy Summit.
Twitter spokesperson Elizabeth Busby on the social media company’s plans to roll out safeguards early in the election season, with protections for "real-time election information from state election officials, plus local news outlets and journalists." There is mounting concern about how misinformation could impact the upcoming elections. (CNET — August 11,2022)
The economy keeps adding them by the hundreds of thousands. But those big numbers don’t tell the whole story.
A play written by New Mexico state Sen. Bill O’Neill experiments with a partisan taboo in hopes of bolstering collaboration, as the nation’s political climate has become increasingly divided over the last decade.
Though roughly two dozen cities have appointed food policy directors at the local level, an estimated 53.6 million people still live outside an easy walk or drive to a full-service supermarket.
In addition to a national shortage of vaccines, a promising new antiviral medication requires hours of paperwork before prescription, significantly delaying the treatment of the quickly spreading monkeypox virus.
The federal Inflation Reduction Act includes a provision that would update the tax credit regulations for new electric vehicles to decrease or eliminate foreign-made parts in cars, which could possibly make EVs more expensive.
Senior Researcher at the Revolving Door Project Timi Iwayemi, regarding the attempt to create new banking and finance laws for cryptocurrencies and how most laws already adequately address digital assets and protect consumers compared to proposed alternatives. (CQ-Roll Call — Aug. 9, 2022)
The amount that the Federal Communications Commission is rescinding from...
Removing highways is a tricky business, a costly and time-consuming physical feat, but advocates say even a small commitment to addressing the harms of legacy highway infrastructure is a positive sign.
Tens of millions of Americans now work remotely on a full-time basis. Relocation incentives are helping to redefine the concept of “suburb.”
Nonpartisan Julie Anderson has edged out the Republican candidates and will face Democratic, appointed incumbent Steve Hobbs in the November election. Hobbs won the primary by a wide margin.
Voters face three major issues at this year’s midterms: abortion, the economy and state legislative control. Election Day is just three months away.
The number of vacant, state government positions has increased by more than 700 jobs in the last year, despite a 5.5 percent salary increase for all state workers that was approved by the Legislature and governor last year.
State officials hope to get a large chunk of the more than $65 billion that is available to improve broadband access across the nation through the infrastructure bill that was approved last year.
Tulsa, Okla., Mayor G.T. Bynum, regarding some people’s concerns about the amount of growth that Tulsa has experienced over the last several years. “It was called the ‘80s, and it did not work out well.” The city has had several programs to draw remote workers to the area in hopes of driving economic development, particularly during the pandemic. (Governing — Aug. 9, 2022)
An apology by public officials would be the first step toward acknowledgment of government’s role in the sins of our past and the effects that linger today. And it would be the start of racial healing.
The first round of payment distributions for taxpayer funds will happen on Aug. 15. But there is concern that the more than $8 million won’t be enough to pay all the candidates who qualify for public matching between now and February.
Since the state’s red flag law went into effect in 2019, just 228 firearm restraining orders have been granted across the state and 21 in Lake County, home to Highland Park. Some believe more training could increase those numbers.
LaToya Cantrell announced last week that hundreds of unfilled government positions could get permanently cut to help pay for an across-the-board pay increase for the city workforce. But many worry about understaffing issues being exacerbated.
Osage and Franklin counties haven’t supported a Democrat since Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964, and yet in the vote last week, the constitutional amendment to ban abortion failed in both localities.
Donald Trump, regarding an unprecedented FBI search of the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla., as part of a federal investigation into whether Trump illegally removed records from the White House as he left office in January 2021. Trump attempted to spin the raid in a way to gain political donations from his followers. (Reuters — Aug. 9, 2022)
The amount that Stacey Abrams has suggested that Georgia use to expand...
Tulsa has long relied on oil and gas to fuel its economy. It's created a tech and entertainment ecosystem that turned out to be a perfect fit for the era of remote work.
The U.S needs defined metrics and more data about cyber happenings across the nation, experts say. Otherwise, it’ll struggle to understand which practices and policies are most effective and where to invest more heavily.
Unprecedented influxes of applications and delays in processing due to the pandemic have caused a backlog of millions of unprocessed visas, work permits, green cards and naturalization petitions within the U.S. immigration system.
