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After months of searching for a policy, the Durango, Colo., Fire Department was able to find a company that would write an affordable policy to cover the construction of its new firehouse.
The last time the federal minimum wage was increased, to its current rate of $7.25 an hour, was 2007. Since then, cumulative inflation has increased 46.6 percent. Nevada’s state minimum wage reached $12 hourly on July 1.
Since the state has adopted its ban on single-use plastic bags at grocery stores, grocery stores just adopted thicker, multi-use plastic bags and the waste worsened. Now, lawmakers are proposing to block large grocery stores from offering plastic bags at all.
Ryan Craddock, the father of a 13-year-old football player in West Virginia who died over the weekend after receiving a head injury at practice. Craddock says he plans to work toward getting other players soft-shelled helmet covers known as Guardian Caps to prevent future injuries and deaths. (Associated Press — Aug. 27, 2024)
A bipartisan group of more than 350 mayors has committed to ambitious targets for fleet electrification and charging infrastructure.
The U.S. is currently building dense housing at the highest rate since the mid-1980s. Former President Barack Obama noted in his convention speech that “we need to build more units and clear away some of the outdated laws and regulations.”
As officers’ salaries increased, so did police killings of Black Americans. Job protections from collective bargaining can make some officers less worried about consequences. We need to rethink union contracts.
The new policy says universities should remain neutral on “issues of the day” while allowing students, faculty and staff to express their ideas.
The city’s pilot program gives unhoused meth users packs that consist of four doses of the antipsychotic medication Olanzapine. A 2021 study found the drug helped to reduce the frequency and severity of meth-induced psychosis.
The city of Kalamazoo, Mich., on X, regarding how some residents have been opening fire hydrants across the city in hopes of gaining some relief from the second day of a heatwave that is scorching the Midwest. Temperatures were expected to reach 95 degrees Fahrenheit in the state’s southwestern city. (Associated Press — Aug. 27, 2024)
A boost in federal highway money has helped states break ground on new projects, some of which have languished due to a shortage of funding.
He hasn’t done as well as other Midwestern Democrats in rural America. It’ll be hard for the Minnesota governor and vice presidential candidate to overcome Donald Trump’s appeal to rural sentiments of discontent.
Pandemic money from Washington stimulated the economy but arguably ended up feeding inflation. Before the next downturn, governors, mayors and public financers need to be part of the conversation about how to open the countercyclical aid spigot quicker — and when to shut it off.
The state has expanded its school vouchers to cover nearly every student with at least a partial scholarship, increasing Ohio’s spending on private school funds to nearly $1 billion.
The Biden administration’s Keeping Families Together program will now allow eligible noncitizen spouses and stepchildren of U.S. citizens to apply for lawful permanent residence without leaving the country.
The new policy went into effect on Aug. 20 and blocks Texans from changing the listed sex on state IDs even if presented with a court order or amended birth certificate. Critics say the policy will endanger transgender individuals.
As many as 6 percent of all college students have a gambling problem, which is nearly double the rate of average U.S. adults. Now, seven colleges and universities across Connecticut are working to combat the issue.
Lynn Castle, manager of The Meadows frozen custard shop in Hollidaysburg, Pa., regarding a groundhog that was found inside of a mechanical claw arcade game two weeks ago. The groundhog, named Colonel Custard, was eventually released by the Pennsylvania Game Commission into a nearby field. (Associated Press — Aug. 14, 2024)
The humiliation and ridicule that Fulton County’s prosecutor, Fani Willis, has been subject to after indicting Donald Trump are known all too well by African Americans, as a new report documents.
This nonprofit model for increasing affordable housing supply is seeing success in convincing socially motivated investors to accept lower rates of return on rental units.
For more than a century, a Confederate obelisk stood in front of the DeKalb County, Ga., courthouse. On Saturday, the county dedicated a statue of Lewis, a local member of Congress and civil rights pioneer.
The state Supreme Court affirmed a lower court’s decision allowing an initiative on RCV to appear on the November ballot. Critics say the system is too confusing and disadvantages partisan candidates.
California officials have warned students for years that for-profit schools may make misleading career claims, leaving them with “a mountain of debt” but no job. Still, many for-profit schools remain on the state’s list of recommended job training programs.
If Eversource Energy, a New England energy provider, follows through with its plan to replace 49 miles of transmission lines in New Hampshire, Maine ratepayers may see changes to their monthly bills throughout the duration of the project.
Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Watley, regarding the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to allow Arizona to enforce, for now, a voting law that requires election officials to reject state voter registration forms that are submitted without an applicant’s proof of citizenship. The ruling will remain in effect while an appeal proceeds. (NPR — Aug. 23, 2024)
At a historic low for divided government, thousands of state lawmakers are on the ballot, and control of some statehouses hangs in the balance.
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