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The proportion of the seven candidates who have applied to fill a vacancy on the Alaska Supreme Court who are...
Fearing a fishbowl political environment, too many public-sector organizations are reluctant to collect and use data on how they’re doing in hiring and retaining talent. But it’s better to know than not to know.
It’s a combination of factors ranging from corruption to unbalanced taxation to unfunded liabilities to lack of an entrepreneurial tradition. But the state also has many strengths it could build on.
Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the Facebook parent company in 2022, claiming it had used personal biometric data without permission.
Gov. Roy Cooper’s plan to leverage Medicaid funds and help relieve up to $4 billion in debt for people across the state won approval on Friday. For the order to take effect, hospitals need to sign on.
“Second look” laws allow courts or parole boards to re-evaluate a person’s long prison sentence. The bills often focus on older populations or those whose crimes might have mitigating factors.
The large oil spill was first detected on Saturday and was traced back to a leaking fuel tank at the Crescent Midstream pumping station. So far, 17 aquatic salamanders, two turtles and one crawfish have been found dead as a result.
Annie Noonan, labor relations director, for the Windham County, Vt., state's attorney's office. She was referring to the departure, midterm, of Tracy Kelly Shriver, who had served as state's attorney since 2007, after having worked in the office for nearly a decade. Kelly Shriver sent a letter to Gov. Phil Scott, calling her work "the honor of my life" but informing him that she was stepping down as of this past Sunday. (VT Digger — July 29, 2024)
The Supreme Court’s ruling in the Chevron case empowers the levels of government most trusted by Americans to have more impact on issues that directly impact their economies and communities.
State and local treasurers have been playing it safe by capturing high short-term rates. Some are wary of longer maturities, but markets spell lower short-term yields. Tricky decisions are in store.
The money flowing from Washington can go a long way toward decarbonizing the buildings we live and work in. But it’s crucial to design the implementation of these projects to benefit everyone.
Data centers are popping up across the state as they get hundreds of millions in state and local tax breaks each year. But some experts worry that the facilities may soon overburden the available power supply.
Some locals of Stone Harbor, a wealthy Jersey Shore community in Cape May County, N.J., worry that the town’s parking app, ParkMobile, doesn’t always work and, as a result, is discouraging travelers from stopping.
Between 2018 and 2022, the Sunshine State saw more than 26,000 emergency room visits and 5,000 hospitalizations for heat-related illnesses. In Miami, there were 46 days of heat index temperatures above 100 last summer.
Cyr Martin, town manager of tiny Ashland, Maine, expressing his worry that 65-year-old Lendell Tarr, the town’s recreation director who not only drives Little Leaguers to away games but also cleans the town office, takes seniors out for meals, mows the cemetery lawn, and pitches in driving ambulances and school buses, might retire. Ashland is one of many small rural towns with aging populations and limited resources where hard-to-find municipal workers multitask at several jobs. (Wall Street Journal — July 28, 2024)
Number of “base isolators” — flexible discs that act similarly to a car’s suspension — being installed beneath the...
Jonathan Daniels, an experienced crisis manager, is getting Baltimore’s port back in business.
Lawmakers are proposing hundreds of measures to micromanage and control this emergent technology. A complicated regulatory framework could devastate America’s technology businesses and global competitiveness.
Nonprofit service providers publish plenty of metrics about their activities, but too often they don’t reflect actual success in reducing homelessness. Measuring impact would help them do more good.
The state’s primary elections were originally scheduled for Aug. 6 but were moved up a week as part of a law signed earlier this year. Voters will decide seats in the state Senate, House and a couple battleground districts.
The Chicago mayor has raised $2.6 million since his election in April 2023. Nearly half of those funds come from unions. Another large check was from Grammy-winning rapper Lil Durk.
Michigan’s Homeowners’ Energy Policy Act will take effect in October and will prevent HOAs from blocking the installation of a wide range of energy-efficient measures at their homes. Residents of mobile home communities might be next.
Ohio Supreme Court Justice Michael P. Donnelly in his recent dissent, after the state Supreme Court decided that “boneless” referred to a cooking style, rather than a true guarantee, after Michael Berkheimer, a patron at Wings on Brookwood, a chicken wing restaurant in Hamilton, sued the restaurant and its suppliers after ingesting a chicken bone. The one-and-three-eighths-inch bone tore Berkheimer’s esophagus and resulted in two surgeries. Berkheimer claimed the restaurant and the supplier were negligent for failing to warn him that “boneless” wings could contain bones. The court dismissed Berkheimer’s suit with a 4-3 verdict. (NPR — July 25, 2024)
Back to back earthquakes in the presidential race are likely to have spillover effects in state and local politics. Plus, New Jersey loses a senator and total recall in the Bay Area.
There are lawmakers who want to support news coverage but the market is not kind.
In 1976, Coloradans dismantled Denver’s Olympic torch before it could be lit. With the 2024 Summer Olympic Games now underway in Paris, it seems like a top-of-mind moment to revisit a hard lesson in the complex politics of growth.
They need meaningful, continuing relationships to carry them into adulthood. But the child welfare system isn’t set up to provide that.
Mark Twain famous aphorism, “History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes,” reminds us that while exact circumstances may be unique, patterns do in fact repeat. That is true meteorologically this year as the U.S. navigates through another summer of extreme weather.
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