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Sep 24 2020
Analysis
State-By-State Guide To Coronavirus Reopenings: Pennsylvania Restrictions Struck Down, Texas Keeps Bars Closed
As the Covid-19 pandemic continues across the country, this is a guide to each state’s strategy to reopen—or shut down—businesses and gatherings in response to its case counts and health metrics each state’s reopening guidelines stand—whether Partially Shut Down, meaning that at least one major industry remains closed statewide; Mostly Open, meaning all or most businesses are open with social
ForbesApr 09 2022
News
Idaho Supreme Court puts restrictive abortion law on hold amid Planned Parenthood lawsuit
The Idaho Supreme Court on Friday put a stay on the state’s controversial new abortion law, set to go into effect later this month, pending a lawsuit filed last week by Planned Parenthood.
Idaho’s law, inspired by Texas legislation, would ban most abortions after about six weeks and allow certain family members to sue abortion providers for at least $20,000. Republican lawmakers argued
Idaho StatesmanSep 15 2020
News
Bipartisan Senate Push To Extend Census Begins Weeks Before Count Is Set To End
A bipartisan group of senators is offering a potential solution to a scheduling conundrum plaguing the 2020 census, with just over two weeks before counting is set to end.
Their bill — introduced Tuesday by Sen. Brian Schatz, a Democrat from Hawaii, and Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, both Republicans from Alaska — would require the Census Bureau to continue tallying the country'
NPR (Online News)Feb 05 2022
Analysis
Do Democrats or Republicans control the West?
This is how the West is run: In the 13 westernmost U.S. states, one party controls both the executive and legislative branches.
Flush with federal cash, the region — the fastest-growing in the country — is rebuilding from the disruptions of the still ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and states’ political leanings will play a role in how they budget for their future.
Republicans run
Deseret NewsSep 27 2021
News
Texas Attorney General Leads 10-State Coalition Supporting Florida Ban on Big Tech Censorship
Texas Attorney General Paxton announced on Sept. 20 that he is leading a coalition of 10 states in filing an amicus brief with the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in support of Florida’s law that attempts to regulate censorship on Big Tech social media platforms.
Paxton signed on behalf of Texas, joining the states of Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri,
The Epoch TimesMar 30 2019
News
U.S. judge scraps Trump order opening Arctic, Atlantic areas to oil leasing
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - A federal judge in Alaska has overturned U.S. President Donald Trump’s attempt to open vast areas of the Arctic and Atlantic oceans to oil and gas leasing.
The decision issued late Friday by U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason leaves intact President Barack Obama’s policies putting the Arctic’s Chukchi Sea, part of the Arctic’s Beaufort Sea and a large
ReutersAug 22 2021
Opinion
Counterfeit vaccine cards will lead to total government surveillance
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol announced its officers at a port in Alaska recently seized thousands of fake COVID-19 vaccination cards that came from China.
The seizure opens the door for government to go forward with the technological tracking of U.S. citizens. How so?
It strengthens the arguments of pro-vaccine passport types who say Americans must be vaccinated, or else risk
Washington TimesMar 16 2021
News
Haaland confirmed by Senate as first Native American to lead Interior
As thousands of Native Americans watched online, Rep. Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) was confirmed as secretary of the Interior Department by a 51-to-40 vote in the Senate, making her the first American Indian to lead an agency that manages a vast portfolio of federal land and the oil and mineral wealth that lies beneath it.
Haaland, a member of the Laguna Pueblo Nation in New Mexico and whose
Washington PostAug 23 2022
Perspectives Blog
Why Andrew Yang’s Forward Party Might be our Best Option
Editor's Note: The author of this article is a registered volunteer for the Forward Party. She does not represent the official views of the Forward Party. Get all sides of this topic by reading another view: To Give a Voice to the Political Center, Andrew Yang’s Forward Party Must Prove It Can Win
A new political party, the Forward Party, has emerged on the political scene.
Clare AshcraftMar 22 2021
News
US-China Talks
“Top U.S. and Chinese officials offered sharply different views of each other and the world [last] Thursday as the two sides met face-to-face for the first time since President Joe Biden took office… In unusually pointed public remarks for a staid diplomatic meeting, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Chinese Communist Party foreign affairs chief Yang Jiechi took aim at each other’s country
The Flip Side