(The Center Square) — Pennsylvania will receive hundreds of millions of dollars to plug defunct oil and gas wells that may pose health and environmental threats. And now, the state’s existing program is getting more scrutiny for how it prioritizes projects and uses that money. The money, more than $300 million from the Infrastructure Investment […]
(The Center Square) – West Virginia inflation-adjusted education funding per student grew from $12,351 in 2002 to $14,163 per student in 2020, according to a new report from Reason Foundation. Over that same period, employee benefits grew by 16.9% from $2,900 per student to $3,390 per student, the report showed. In 2020, West Virginia had $282.4 […]
(The Center Square) – An educational nonprofit is highly critical of a report on Illinois tax credit scholarship recipients’ test scores. In the report conducted for the Illinois State Board of Education by WestEd, Empower Illinois said researchers compared low-income Invest in Kids scholarship recipients to all Illinois public school students, rendering the results meaningless because they lack […]
(The Center Square) – The Washington State Legislature has passed a bill creating a “bias incident hotline” within the State Attorney General’s Office allowing residents to report incidents they consider to be “hateful.” The bill will be sent to Gov. Jay Inslee’s desk for signature after it cleared the House on Wednesday in a 56-39 vote. “Frankly, I […]
(The Center Square) – The King County Regional Homelessness Authority’s recent setbacks have coincided with Seattle announcing it will soon pull back some annual funding from the authority, but some cities are still locked in on fund efforts to combat homelessness through the organization. Seattle informed the King County Regional Homelessness Authority that it was pulling $11.7 […]
(The Center Square) — The right to serve as law enforcement shouldn’t belong solely to U.S. citizens, but also to individuals who have been granted Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, according to Senate Bill 69. The legislation passed the Virginia House of Delegates and Senate. DACA was passed under President Barack Obama and allows people between […]
Democrats are being forced to reckon with the uncomfortable reality that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) decision to step down has placed them in. No one in the Democratic Party would claim to be a great fan of McConnell, but his departure as the top Senate Republican puts them in a bind. Democrats have […]
Former President Donald Trump was handed a gift this week with the delay in his 2020 election subversion case after the Supreme Court agreed to hear his argument that he is immune from prosecution, raising the possibility of delay in his other federal criminal case. Trump’s lawyers have argued he should be shielded from prosecution […]
With Super Tuesday approaching next week, several states recently affected by redistricting will witness the first test of the new congressional maps that have effectively ousted some members and set districts up for their first competitive primary fight in years. Alabama, Wisconsin, New York, and North Carolina are some of the many states that faced […]
The next monthly Supplemental Security Income payment, worth up to $943 for individual filers, went out to millions of beneficiaries on Friday. The payment went out March 1 to people who struggle with a serious debilitating disability, and have a limited income, according to the Social Security Administration. April’s monthly installment will go out in […]
