Tag: State governments
GOP ready to block elections bill in Senate showdown
WASHINGTON — The Democrats’ expansive elections and voting bill is all but certain to be rejected in a key test vote in the...
Amid clamor to increase prescribed burns, obstacles await
SALEM, Ore. — In the 1950s, when University of California forestry professor Harold Biswell experimented with prescribed burns in the state's pine forests, many...
GOP ready to block elections bill in Senate showdown
WASHINGTON — The Democrats’ expansive elections and voting bill is all but certain to be rejected in a key test vote in the...
Amid clamor to increase prescribed burns, obstacles await
SALEM, Ore. — In the 1950s, when University of California forestry professor Harold Biswell experimented with prescribed burns in the state's pine forests, many...
Connecticut lawmaker resigns state Senate, citing divorce
Connecticut state Sen. Alex Kasser, the first Democrat elected by her Fairfield County district since 1930, announced Tuesday she is resigning from office. She...
Connecticut governor signs recreational marijuana into law
HARTFORD, Conn. — Gov. Ned Lamont on Tuesday signed a bill making Connecticut the 19th state to legalize recreational use of marijuana, which remains...
Migrant youth describe desperation to leave large shelters
A 13-year-old Honduran girl who spent two months at the government's largest emergency shelter for migrant children said she was put on suicide watch...
Iowa court blocks mandatory waiting period for abortion
An Iowa judge blocked a state law that would have imposed a 24-hour waiting period before women could get abortions, likely setting up a...
Florida governor: Students will be taught communism is evil
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Civics education will be expanded in Florida, including instruction about communist and totalitarian governments, and state universities will be prevented from...
15 GOP governors urge release of Census redistricting data
Fifteen Republican governors sent a letter Tuesday to the U.S. Department of Commerce urging that the U.S. Census Bureau release redistricting data as soon...
