Internet Explorer 11 is not supported

For optimal browsing, we recommend Chrome, Firefox or Safari browsers.

News

Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected on Friday to suspend Broward Sheriff Scott Israel and replace him with a former Coral Springs police sergeant with a background in active shooter training.
Unemployment, poverty rates for black and white populations residing in metro areas.
Measures of segregation for different demographic groups, including whites, blacks, Hispanics and Asians.
Educators in the nation's second-largest school district are set to strike on Monday. The dispute could impact education policy across the country.
To address sexual harassment, it needs to be reported. State employees have been hesitant to do that.
Job openings in the U.S. in October, which was about 1 million more than the number of unemployed workers. The Midwest, Northeast, South and West all had more jobs available than jobless.
Tweet from Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin, who apparently is not a fan of rapper Lil Wayne who performed at the college football national championship game.
Gov. Gavin Newsom and Mayor Bill de Blasio initiated ambitious plans this week to cover drastically more residents, including undocumented immigrants who are not currently eligible for subsidized insurance.
Stefan Ritter, who has been the commission's executive director since 2015, called allegations first reported Monday by the The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Channel 2 Action News "untrue," adding that he had not seen the complaints against him.
Mike Miller, 76, is scheduled to discuss his cancer diagnosis with members of the Senate at 10 a.m. Thursday when the chamber next meets.
Connecticut tops the list of states whose taxpayers receive the least bang for their buck from the feds.
The settlement included $280,000 in lost wages and damages, $50,000 to cover law school debt and $20,000 for medical assistance and career counseling, according to the Times.
Mayor de Blasio said Wednesday that he would back legislation to require private employers in New York City to offer at least two weeks of paid vacation annually to their workers, a law he said would be the first of its kind in the nation.
Trump's threat alarmed California officeholders. Politicians from both parties criticized the tweet, though Republicans stopped short of condemning the author and expressed sympathy with his complaints about the state's Democratic governance.
Transportation officials in Oklahoma this week announced plans to delay bids on 45 highway projects worth about $137 million.
The volume of openings first topped the number of jobless people in Midwestern states in early 2017. But in recent months that phenomenon has spread to other regions, particularly the South.
Even as calls for “Medicare for All” grow louder among Democrats in Washington, D.C., at least 10 states are exploring whether to allow residents to pay premiums to “buy in” to Medicaid, the federal-state health care program for the poor.
With signs pointing to a weakening economy, we need to get ready now, and we need to do it right.
As new leaders from the private sector take over state agencies, they are going to find that their new jobs require a unique dual competence.
Measures of school segregation between black and white students.
How levels of school segregation in Illinois metro areas compare to others.
Kristen Marshall, who runs a drug testing program for the Harm Reduction Coalition, conveying the thinking of someone who intentionally uses fentanyl, which is responsible for many deadly opioid overdoses.
Last day for states to request emergency food stamps funding from the federal government. The Trump administration announced that it can fund the program through February, if the government shutdown continues that long, but the money has to be distributed within 30 days of the shutdown's start.
Bipartisan support for reducing recidivism is driving most states to relax or lift the federal ban on drug felons receiving food stamps or cash assistance. Pennsylvania went the other way.
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said the so-called Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program would receive funding for February thanks to a legal provision that allows money to be allocated within 30 days of a shutdown.
The legislation, which Gov. Phil Murphy signed Tuesday at a yeshiva in Passaic, adds $11.3 million for security at nonpublic schools 2019-- doubling their level of state security funding from $75 to $150 per student.
The National Science Foundation next year plans to remove more than 150 seismic sensors it installed in Alaska in recent years, closing out a $50 million project that vastly improved the state's limited seismic network, said Mike West, state seismologist.
The goal is to issue at least 30 awards of up to $20,000 each year of the program, which will be funded at $600,000 annually.
The ban "will protect LGBTQ+ youth from dangerous and discredited practices aimed at changing their sexual orientation or gender identity or expression," a city news release says.
The program, dubbed NYC Care, is aimed at providing either insurance or health services to the 600,000 New Yorkers who are uninsured, 300,000 of whom are undocumented immigrants who cannot be insured.