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School districts bear significant financial costs: Security, communications, legal work and heightened staff turnover related to conflict all come with price tags. The money could be better spent elsewhere.
The county has spent billions on homeless programs only to see problems worsen. A proposal from two county supervisors would create a new department to consolidate and oversee services.
Trump and GOP members of Congress are eager to roll back portions of the Obama-era health insurance law. Changes to Medicaid coverage and some patient protections seem likely.
Democrat Josh Shapiro is redirecting federal highway funds to Philadelphia’s transit system. Officials with the nation’s sixth-largest system had just approved a 29 percent fare increase.
Florida’s governor applauded FDA approval of the prescription drug import plan at the start of the year, saying it would cut prices. But there’s still no date for his program to begin.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced the investment and others tied to a clean hydrogen hub project in a news release on Wednesday.
New federal rules require localities to get rid of all their lead water pipes in the next 10 years. Officials say they need help – and money.
The view of the federal department as a source of malign leftist influence is backwards. Good ideas are out there, and there needs to be a central authority to disseminate best practices and insist on results.
There are an estimated 1 million people in Louisiana that have the skills and experience to qualify for higher wage jobs, but are being restricted due to not having a college degree. But the state is working to eliminate unnecessary degree requirements.
Only $599 million of the record $1.3 billion homelessness budget last year was actually spent. City Controller Kenneth Mejia blamed “a sluggish, inefficient approach” for the underspending.