(The Center Square) – In next Tuesday’s presidential primary in Wisconsin, there will be a concerted effort to make a statement on the ballot because of the war between Hamas and Israel. Rather than vote for President Joe Biden, the effort among some Democrats is to choose “uninstructed delegation” on the ballot. In an open letter to […]
(The Center Square) – A new version of cottage food legislation known as the “tamale bill” is bound once again for Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs’ desk. House Bill 2042, sponsored by Rep. Travis Grantham, R-Gilbert, is similar to last year’s bill, which would legalize the street sale of certain food prepared in home kitchens. “This […]
(The Center Square) – Saying it’s too much, too soon, numerous groups are denouncing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s recently announced emission standards, with the Illinois Corn Growers Association being one of them. On March 20, 2024, EPA announced a final rule, Multi-Pollutant Emissions Standards for Model Years 2027 and Later Light-Duty and Medium-Duty Vehicles, that […]
(The Center Square) – In response to a lawsuit by a parent activist group who placed a ballot measure to change statewide educational policies for transgender minors, California Attorney General Rob Bonta backed his office’s naming of the controversial initiative. Parent activist group Protect Kids California is currently collecting signatures for what it calls the […]
(The Center Square) — Skill games have been restricted in Philadelphia and statewide regulation still hasn’t solidified in the General Assembly. Although collecting tax revenue is the driving force behind the legalization push, lawmakers must tread lightly. Advocates of the games, which differ from traditional gambling by letting users influence the outcome, warn that setting […]
President Joe Biden is breaking out the Democratic playbook in his quest to defeat former President Donald Trump again, using many of his party’s more conventional lines of attack and hitting some of the same themes he used in the 2022 midterm elections. While Biden often warns that Trump is a leader of the extreme […]
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has his running mate, completing what has so far been the highest-polling independent presidential ticket in more than 30 years. Not since Ross Perot first ran for president in 1992 has a candidate polled as well for the White House without a major-party affiliation. Perot even led former President George H.W. […]
April’s monthly Supplemental Security Income payment, which is worth up to $943 for individual filers, will go out to millions of beneficiaries in five days. The next installment will go out on Monday, April 1, to people who struggle with a serious debilitating disability that results in a limited income, according to the Social Security […]
The last of March’s three Social Security payments, worth up to $4,873 for the highest income earners who retire at 70, went out to the final group of retirees on Wednesday. The payment went out to beneficiaries who were born on or after the 21st of the month, according to the Social Security Administration’s calendar, […]
States concerned about the unresolved border crisis have taken matters into their own hands and are following Texas’s strategy to deter illegal immigrants from their jurisdictions by allowing local police to arrest and deport them. A handful of states have begun to move or attempted unsuccessfully to move their own versions of Texas law, S.B. […]