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As electric-powered bicycles continue to gain popularity, not everyone agrees on whether e-bikes should have the same access to trails and parks as non-motorized bicycles. Many worry that e-bikes will cause extra damage to nature trails.
Several have earmarked fiscal year 2023 funding for various infrastructure projects, including a new fire station, a child-care center, hydrologic stations, improvements to rural roads and more.
Utah state Sen. Derek Kitchen, arguing that states should codify LGBTQ+ rights in preparation for a worst-case scenario situation in which the U.S. Supreme Court decides to overturn its 2015 same-sex marriage ruling. (Associated Press — June 7, 2022)
The year by which the U.S. Interior Department will phase out single-use plastic products on 480 million...
Single-room occupancy units have largely disappeared from American cities. But a Philadelphia councilmember has introduced legislation to legalize one of the most affordable forms of housing for low-income people.
It takes entrepreneurial skill to win high office, but timing may be even more important.
The Maine city’s budget increased 27 percent from last year’s $212 million budget, but this year it includes a 5.5 percent tax rate increase. The City Council also approved a code of ethics and appointed a new city clerk.
Currently, there are 600 patients with COVID in hospitals, a 10 percent increase from the previous week, and state leaders are concerned by the rising numbers, fearing a new COVID surge could be imminent.
While the unemployment rates are close to pre-pandemic levels, employers are still struggling to fill positions. Statewide, businesses reported about 30,000 fewer workers than in February 2020.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, as she signed 10 gun control bills into law, one of which raises the state’s age to buy a semi-automatic rifle from 18 to 21. Hochul is a native of Buffalo, where just more than three weeks ago a racist mass shooting killed 10 African Americans in a Tops market. (WXXI News — June 6, 2022)
The number of states in which the average price of a gallon of regular gasoline is more than...
A proponent of data and performance analytics, the three-term mayor is equally invested in compassionate government.
Mass shootings are costing governments, schools and families billions. Those who sell, buy and harbor AR-15-style firearms and other pseudo-military killing machines should bear the financial burden.
The partisans make a lot of noise because it drives voters. But solid majorities have reasonable views about how and what we should teach kids about our history and the need for equality of opportunity.
A report from the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency found the devices have security vulnerabilities that put them at risk for cyber attacks. Other voting equipment may be similarly at-risk.
The bill would provide large businesses with up to $10 billion in tax credits over 20 years to promote green semiconductor manufacturing. But watchdog groups have questioned how the bill was hastily pushed by Gov. Hochul.
The regulation is a result of the environmental justice law that Gov. Phil Murphy signed in 2021 to protect low-income, Black and brown communities from further pollution.
Oregon’s Clackamas County Clerk did not react quickly to the news of a printing error on thousands of ballots just a week before the primary election. But this year’s error is just one of many for the clerk.
A statement from nine members of Axon’s ethics board, regarding their resignation due to their loss of faith in the company’s ability to be a responsible partner in policing technology after the company, which is best known for developing the Taser, announced that it was developing a Taser drone. Axon halted its drone plans on Monday, June 6, in response to the ethics board’s rebuke. (Associated Press — June 6, 2022)
The amount that Delaware-based blockchain software development company Regen Network Development bought in carbon credits that were generated by...
Competing political narratives about gun violence have not satisfied the yearning for justice after the Uvalde tragedy. Our resident humanities scholar offers four propositions to help us think through a uniquely American and polarizing problem.
The Biden administration has taken its first steps toward releasing $45 billion of federal funding for broadband and digital equity, with the money going first to state governments tasked with executing the vision.
Traffic crashes kill and injure millions worldwide every year and are a major drain on economic development. Improving road safety would produce huge payoffs, especially in lower-income countries.
Harini Logan, a 14-year-old from Texas, after winning the 2022 Scripps National Spelling Bee Thursday night in a dramatic, unprecedented spell-off. Harini, who was competing in the bee for the fourth time, correctly spelled 21 words in a rapid-fire 90-second burst, outlasting runner-up Vikram Raju, 12, of Colorado, who correctly spelled 15. The spell-off followed several heart-stopping rounds during which neither contestant was able to prevail. Some of the words she had to spell included: “ikebana,” “meunière,” “wiliwili” and “obvertend.” (Washington Post — June 3, 2022)
The length in miles of the New Orleans storm shield just completed by the Army Corps of Engineers, 17 years after...
MARTA spent more than half of its sales tax proceeds on bus service and other operations, a rate that critics fear will imperil future plans for 29 miles of light rail, 13 miles of bus rapid transit and other improvements.
New admissions rose 38 percent, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, which reported 225 people were hospitalized this week, a significant increase compared to mid-April.
Forty-eight recreation centers in Philadelphia have just one full-time worker. Labor leaders and supporters of the city's parks and libraries are calling for more than $15 million in new funding to address staffing problems.
A report found water and sewer bills for the state’s poorest residents have skyrocketed since the mid-1980s, rising twice as fast as wages for low-income workers and faster than any other basic need except health care.
The state Legislature also passed a package of bills aimed at reducing the likelihood of mass shootings by tightening rules to purchase firearms and other military equipment. Gov. Kathy Hochul is expected to sign the bills into law.
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