(The Center Square) – A King County audit revealed that the King County Metro Department faces significant challenges regarding its goal of electrifying its entire bus fleet by 2035. King County auditors flagged risks including the loss of bus manufacturers, technology limitations, sufficient electricity supply, and lagging battery-electric bus performance. Metro’s entire bus fleet consists […]
(The Center Square) – Spokane officials are losing sleep over the city’s relationship with a regional emergency dispatch center, as member fees doubled what was anticipated this year amid a $50 million deficit. Spokane Regional Emergency Communications, or SREC, started operating in 2018 and began providing services to Washington’s second-largest municipality in 2022. The partnership took several […]
(The Center Square) – With less than two weeks to the deadline for state budget adjustments, North Carolina’s governor sent another fiscal request at closing time Friday using his veto stamp. “The Legislature should invest significantly more in our juvenile justice system to ensure resources are available to help prevent crimes and appropriately deal with […]
(The Center Square) – A new report finds public school enrollment is declining in America’s most populous cities, even as staffing levels and spending have increased. Last week, the Manhattan Institute published a report that showed between 2013 and 2022, nationwide enrollment decreased by 2%, from 49.9 million to 48.8 million. Enrollment in state Washington public […]
(The Center Square) – Tennessee Star Editor Michael Patrick Leahy was in court Monday in a records case over the Nashville Covenant School shooter’s journals but was not held in contempt for publishing excerpts received from a confidential source. Leahy left the courtroom and, in a statement, said that he loves Tennessee and would continue […]
Former President Donald Trump’s visit to Wisconsin on Tuesday will give him a chance to move past allegations he called Milwaukee a “horrible city” in a meeting with House Republicans last week. The former president will address a crowd in Racine, a city south of Milwaukee, in an event billed as attacking “Joe Biden’s failed […]
The 2024 presidential race has been frozen in place, with former President Donald Trump enjoying a slight lead nationally and in the battleground states since last fall. While a lot has happened since then, including the felony convictions of Trump and President Joe Biden’s son Hunter, the movement in the polls has been modest at […]
President Joe Biden is unveiling new actions Tuesday that will speed a pathway to legal residency for about 500,000 undocumented people living in the United States. Biden’s announcement, made days after the 12th anniversary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, comes just weeks after the president signed an executive order that will forcibly […]
EXCLUSIVE — The Democratic National Committee is trying not to let Wisconsin forget what former President Donald Trump reportedly said about Milwaukee with a billboard that also criticizes Trump for his economic record. Days after Trump allegedly described Milwaukee, the host of next month’s Republican National Convention, as “horrible” during a closed-door meeting with House […]
The state of Virginia hasn’t backed a GOP candidate for president since George W. Bush in 2004, but that isn’t stopping Republicans from pointing out what they believe are promising signs that the state could be in play this general election. Recent polling has shown former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, is cutting […]
