(The Center Square) – With the legislative session days away, budget leads on both sides of the aisle wrestled on Friday with the idea of using carbon tax revenue to address aging infrastructure and the potentially slippery slope of passing a millionaire tax after residents rejected an income tax 10 times. Washington state lawmakers held multiple media availabilities […]

(The Center Square) – A federal court is allowing a lawsuit to move forward for an Arizona woman who says she was denied her freedom of speech at a city council meeting. Rebekah Massie was arrested in front of her 10-year-old daughter on Aug. 20, 2024, during a council meeting in Surprise, Arizona, where Massie […]

(The Center Square) – A bipartisan crime law, which took effect Jan. 1, is designed to enact stricter punishments on homeless people hanging around the tourism-driven Las Vegas Strip. Gov. Joe Lombardo (R), in November, signed Assembly Bill 4, which is the cornerstone of his agenda and was passed during the special legislative session that the […]

(The Center Square) – Colorado must pay back legal fees after it was sued for a law banning abortion pill reversals, a federal court ruled this week. The state will pay $5.4 million in attorneys’ fees to Becket, a nonprofit legal advocacy group, which represented a Denver-area Catholic crisis pregnancy center in the lawsuit against the state. […]