(The Center Square) – For the first time since taking office in January, Spokane Mayor Lisa Brown stood before constituents to deliver her inaugural State of the City Address. Her message centered around the importance of approving a $40 million annual tax levy coming before voters in August. Brown, a veteran politician who served as a state […]
(The Center Square) – Voters will once again decide on a constitutional amendment to increase minimum funding for Kansas City’s police department after the Missouri Supreme Court set aside a previous result from the 2022 election. Last September, the state’s highest court heard arguments from Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas stating the exact cost of the ballot […]
(The Center Square) – Pennsylvania remains one of a few states where poll workers don’t process ballots before Election Day. Supporters of pre-canvassing, as it’s called, believe giving counties more time to open envelopes and prepare ballots for counting will deliver faster results. As it stands, poll workers can’t begin the pre-canvassing process until 7 […]
After unrest at Columbia University reached its peak earlier this week, police in New York City are remaining on campus — but it has several students upset about the increased presence in the waning days of the school year. Final exams begin for the university on Friday and continue for the next week. Columbia University […]
(The Center Square) – A child welfare bill was gutted just moments before going to the Illinois House floor and replaced with an omnibus election bill. House sponsor of Senate Bill 2412, State Rep. Jay Hoffman, D-Swansea, said the bill does three things. “It places three non-binding referendums on the General Election ballot, eliminates the slating process […]
EXCLUSIVE — House Republicans are set to introduce a bill seeking to prohibit former government employees of health agencies from profiting off medical research or products, specifically targeting former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci. Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-AZ) filed the Fixing Administrations Unethical Corrupt Influence Act, or the FAUCI Act, […]
(The Center Square) – Last year was a record year for domestic natural gas consumption, and its supply wouldn’t have been possible without record U.S. production, led by Texas, according to several reports. Texas produced the equivalent of one-third of the natural gas consumed last year, with Texas producers breaking multiple records last year, The Center […]
(The Center Square) – The Biden administration’s move to reclassify marijuana as a lower-risk substance has broad implications for the cannabis industry at large, including in Washington state, a pioneer in the legal cannabis industry. On Dec. 6, 2012, Washington became the first state in the nation to legalize recreational use of marijuana and the […]
EXCLUSIVE — In the summer of 2021, the White House convened a meeting over Zoom with outside groups to plan on implementing an executive order from the president granting them historic new tools to register voters. The Biden administration has insisted attendees and the operation at large are “nonpartisan,” though internal documents provide a glimpse […]
Prosecutors are limited in how they may reference Michael Cohen’s past guilty pleas during former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial, but these restrictions have not stopped them from finding ways to tie Trump to Cohen’s crimes in front of the jury. Judge Juan Merchan expressly ruled that prosecutors are not permitted to use Cohen’s […]
