(The Center Square) – Prosecutors on Monday took the jury in the corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan through nearly a decade of payments to subcontractors who they allege did little or no work for the state’s largest utility despite getting paid. Jurors watched as Madigan associate Jay Doherty’s lobbying contract with […]
(The Center Square) – Maricopa County Supervisor Thomas Galvin has proposed an election reform plan to speed up election results in the future, claiming it would be possible for Arizona to have 95% of votes counted election night. This year, it was over a week before Arizona had all precincts reporting their unofficial results for […]
(The Center Square) – President-elect Donald Trump is planning to declare a national emergency to begin mass deportation operations. Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker said he thinks that’s unconstitutional and illegal. On Truth Social, Trump said “True!!!” to a post from Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton about reports the incoming administration is “prepared to declare a national emergency […]
(The Center Square) – The Washington State University Board of Regents voted Friday to raise tuition by the maximum amount next school year as enrollment has declined roughly 20% since the pandemic. While freshmen enrollment saw slight increases systemwide for the second year in a row this fall, the overall student population decreased by roughly 3%. The regents […]
(The Center Square) – Residents of North Carolina’s most populous mountain city are no longer under a boil water notice, Asheville officials announced on Monday. Extensive rain and flooding from Hurricane Helene on seven-plus weeks ago severely damaged a bypass line at the North Fork Reservoir, supplier of 80% of the city’s water, causing the […]
President Joe Biden is using some of his last days in office to promote aggressive climate change goals, even as his successor plans to scrap them. Biden is in Brazil for the G20 summit after becoming the first president to set foot in the Amazon rainforest. He said both the United States and Brazil are […]
House Democrats are pushing caucus leaders to change a messaging game they say cost their party the election. Lawmakers made their way back to Washington, D.C., last week for the first time since Democrats saw stinging losses in the White House, Senate, and House on Election Day. As the House Democratic Caucus gathered to debrief […]
(The Center Square) – Sparks flew at a Monday afternoon meeting of the Hurricane Response and Recovery Subcommittee as committee members called for the resignation of Laura Hogshead, the chief operating officer of the state’s Office of Recovery and Resiliency, for the office’s poor response to Hurricanes Matthew and Florence. The meeting was called after Hogshead’s […]
President-elect Donald Trump’s Capitol Hill supporters are demanding that if a secret ethics report on attorney general nominee Matt Gaetz is going to be released by Democrats, all sealed reports on wayward members and past scandals should be made public. With Democrats eager to embarrass Trump and Gaetz by releasing a report on ethical charges […]
Ken Martin, chairman of the Minnesota Democratic National Committee, is running for chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Leading his state party since 2011 and serving as vice chairman of the national party since 2017, Martin has already garnered the endorsement of 83 members of the DNC — nearly one-fifth of the body. Martin is […]
