Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-MI) will not mount a campaign for Michigan’s open battleground Senate seat in 2026, allowing the GOP to avoid what would have been a bitter primary fight with the national party’s preferred candidate, Mike Rogers. Huizenga, who has teased a possible run for months, said in a statement Wednesday that after speaking with […]

More than 100 criminal cases have been dismissed in Massachusetts during a strike by some defense attorneys.  For the past eight weeks, the majority of Massachusetts bar advocates, private attorneys who take court-appointed work paid for by the Commonwealth outside their typical private responsibilities, have stopped their work in protest of low pay and a […]

The seven-member California Catastrophe Response Council is expected to meet Thursday to discuss damage claims from the devastating Eaton fire and the growing concern that those claims could wipe out the $21 billion fund created by the state to shield utilities from the cost of wildfires sparked by electric lines.  If South California Edison’s equipment is found […]

Pritzker to announce quantum park tenants   Gov. J.B. Pritzker is scheduled to announce the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park’s latest tenant Wednesday afternoon. The governor plans to deliver the news at the 2025 Global Quantum Forum in Chicago. State and local taxpayers are slated to provide hundreds of millions of dollars in tax incentives to […]