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Apr 06 2023
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Gov. Dunleavy announces Alaska child care task force but declines to support immediate funding boost
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy said Thursday he did not support a request from child care providers to add millions of dollars to the coming fiscal year’s budget to raise wages for child care providers, instead announcing the formation of a task force that will examine the issue and provide policy recommendations to the governor by the end of the year. Child care, expensive and in short supply in
Anchorage Daily News
Sep 26 2023
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Gavin Newsom Signs Law Doubling Taxes on Guns and Ammunition to Fund School Safety in California
A new law signed by California Gov. Gavin Newsom will double taxes on guns and ammunition and use the money to pay for more security at public schools and gun violence prevention programs, including those focused toward young people in gangs. The state firearms tax will add another 11 percent tax to the federal excise tax of 10 percent or 11 percent, depending on the type of gun, and makes
RollingStone.com
Sep 29 2023
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Peers suspends Ga. state senator who wants to impeach DA
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s Republican Senate Caucus is suspending a GOP state senator who attacked them for opposing his plan to impeach Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis for indicting former President Donald Trump. The caucus announced Thursday that it was indefinitely suspending state Sen. Colton Moore of Trenton, who represents a district in Georgia’s northwest corner. • None Trump
WRDW
May 28 2023
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'Cruel and shortsighted': Progressives blast Biden-McCarthy debt ceiling deal
"For no real reason at all, hungry people are set to lose food while tax cheats get a free pass." Progressive economists and advocates warned that the tentative debt ceiling agreement reached Saturday by the White House and Republican leaders would needlessly gash nutrition aid, rental assistance, education programs, and more—all while making it easier for the wealthy to avoid taxes. The deal
AlterNet
Sep 26 2023
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Sen. Bob Menendez will appear in court in his bribery case as he rejects calls to resign
NEW YORK — (AP) — U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez is due in court Wednesday to answer to charges that he used his powerful post to secretly advance Egyptian interests and do favors for New Jersey businessmen in exchange for bribes of cash and gold bars. The New Jersey Democrat will make his first appearance in a federal court in Manhattan amid growing calls from colleagues that he resign from Congress
Action News Jax
Sep 29 2023
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YAS, Queens: Texas' Anti-Drag Law Deemed Unconstitutional
LGBTQ+ advocates and civil rights groups across Texas are celebrating after a federal judge told an anti-drag law to sashay away.Earlier this week, U.S. District Judge David Hittner declared Senate Bill 12 unconstitutional. He found that the law, which puts restrictions on certain public drag performances, can’t be enforced because it is vague, overbroad and chills free speech.SB 12 was
Dallas Observer
Oct 13 2023
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US Supreme Court may make it harder to prove racial gerrymandering
The U.S. Supreme Court may be on the verge of making it even harder to win legal challenges accusing state officials of racial gerrymandering - the illegal manipulation of an electoral district's boundaries to alter its racial composition - to dilute the clout of Black and other minority voters.
The nine justices this week heard arguments in such a case involving the relocation of 30,
Reuters
Sep 06 2023
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Mexican court expands access to abortion, even as U.S. restricts it
MEXICO CITY — The Mexican Supreme Court on Wednesday widened access to abortion, decriminalizing the procedure in federal health facilities. The ruling means that more than 70 percent of women in Mexico — including everyone who uses the federal health system — will have access to legal abortion without fear of punishment, said the Information Group on Reproductive Choice, or GIRE. The
Washington Post
Sep 27 2023
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The woman who torched Wyoming's lone, full-service abortion clinic is about to be sentenced
This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A woman who says anxiety and nightmares led her to set fire to Wyoming's only full-service abortion clinic, setting back the facility's opening almost a year, is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday. Lorna Roxanne Green could be sentenced to 20 years in prison for burning the Wellspring Health Access facility in
Connecticut Post
Sep 27 2023
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The woman who torched Wyoming's lone, full-service abortion clinic is about to be sentenced
A woman who says anxiety and nightmares led her to set fire to Wyoming's only full-service abortion clinic, setting back the facility's opening almost a year, is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday. Lorna Roxanne Green could be sentenced to 20 years in prison for burning the Wellspring Health Access facility in Casper. She pleaded guilty to a federal arson charge in July. Green said at that
The Independent