The Council of the District of Columbia unanimously passed a $21 billion budget for fiscal 2025 despite some back-and-forth with Mayor Muriel Bowser. The budget includes tax increases and cuts to some critical city programs, although some were saved despite Bowser’s wish to have other programs cut. The $700 million budget gap the city faced […]
(The Center Square) – Conservatives on the Wisconsin Supreme Court say the order that bans Racine County’s mobile voting van but keeps the city’s Democrat-heavy other polling locations is nonsensical. The liberal-majority court unanimously ruled that Racine, and other cities in Wisconsin, cannot use vans to collect ballots. A Racine County judge said the same thing […]
(The Center Square) As homicides and robberies continue to rise, Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon has created a backlog of 15,000 unfiled criminal cases, leading to concerns that unprosecuted criminals in the zero-bail county are able to stay on the streets and keep committing new crimes without any consequences. While LAPD did not respond […]
(The Center Square) – King County Executive Dow Constantine is continuing to fault Washington’s tax cap as the county prepares for a $35 million general fund shortfall in 2025. Constantine delivered his 2024 state of the county address during a King County Council meeting on Tuesday. The county executive touched on topics including behavioral health, […]
(The Center Square) – California Democrats are adding “poison pills” to block their package of anti-crime bills from taking effect if the newly ballot-qualified reform measure for Proposition 47 passes in November. Prominent Democrats have withdrawn their support for the anti-crime bills for the forceful addition of the poison pills, claiming the clauses are “political posturing.” The measure, […]
(The Center Square) — Gov. Josh Shapiro has proposed another $30 million to boost fire companies and emergency medical services, but legislators are concerned about how state leaders want to divvy up the money. During a Wednesday House hearing of the Veterans Affairs and Emergency Preparedness Committee, Deputy State Fire Commissioner J.C. Tedorski laid out […]
(The Center Square) – A new study claims that lawsuit abuse is threatening the Illinois economy and making life more expensive for every Illinois resident. The group Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse reports in 2023, excessive tort litigation cost over 215,000 jobs in Illinois, and cost state and local governments more than $2 million in lost revenue. “When the state […]
Ahead of the Republican National Convention, House Republicans are preparing for presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump to win back the White House in November. GOP lawmakers are set to meet with the former president on Thursday to discuss summer plans on the campaign trail as well as a 2025 agenda, preparing ahead of time in […]
There will be notable absences on Thursday when presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump meets with Senate Republicans in Washington, D.C., for the first time since leaving the White House. Some centrist Republican senators who oppose the former president told the Washington Examiner they plan to skip the meeting due to unspecified scheduling conflicts, much […]
The future of the administrative state hangs in the balance. Supreme Court justices will soon decide in a pair of cases whether to reverse a decades-old precedent known as the Chevron deference that would curb federal agencies’ power to regulate everything from Wall Street to the stove in your kitchen. This Washington Examiner series will look at how a […]
