Columbus, OH

California State

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The HD Post

CALIFORNIA – Starting July 1, landlords will only be allowed to collect one month’s rent for the security deposit on a rental property. Assembly Bill 12, signed into law last October, says regardless of whether the residential property is unfurnished or furnished, only one month’s rent can be charged in addition to any rent for the first month paid on or before initial occupancy.

Law limiting security deposits goes into effect July 1

Kentucky State

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Northern Kentucky Tribune

Kentucky’s Community Actions Partnerships have announced the starts date for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) Summer Subsidy, aimed at helping Kentucky households offset summer cooling costs.

LIHEAP Summer Subsidy program to help with summer cooling costs to begin enrollment July 16

Bucks County Beacon

Conservatives have done the United States a huge favor by explaining in detail what they’ll try to do if Donald Trump is reelected. Project 2025 , a “presidential transition project” of the Heritage Foundation, helpfully lays out how a group of former Trump officials would like to transform the country into a right-wing dystopia where the rich thrive and the rest of us die aspiring to be rich.

Project 2025’s Plan to Gut Medicare and Medicaid

Denver, CO

David Heitz

Denver Mayor Mike Johnston has become nationally known for moving more than 1,600 homeless people indoors since he has become mayor. Now he wants to place 200 people struggling with mental illness and/or addiction into treatment, according to an upcoming City Council committee agenda.

Denver mayor to send 200 people experiencing homeless to treatment

Pennsylvania State

Bucks County, PA

Pennsylvania State Representatives K.C. Tomlinson and Craig Staats voted against a bill providing children free lunch in schools on Monday. HB 2180 bill was introduced by Rep. Emily Kinkead , who said the legislation “would not only provide free meals to students in grades K-12, but it would also eliminate the school meal debt.” The bill passed 118-84, with 16 Republicans joining every Democrat in saying yes.

Bucks County Republican State Representatives K.C. Tomlinson and Craig Staats Vote Against Free Lunch for K-12 Students

New Jersey State

Jersey City, NJ

Morristown Minute

NEWARK, N.J. – Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights (DCR) have issued Findings of Probable Cause against six property management companies and owners in various counties for failing to comply with requests for emotional support animals. These actions stem from alleged violations of the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (LAD).

Housing Discrimination Against Emotional Support Animals Targeted

Colorado State

The Denver City Council voted Monday to ask the voters whether the city should remove the requirement that police officers and firefighters be U.S. citizens. If voters OK a ballot question in November, the jobs would be opened to permanent resident aliens and DACA recipients. Colorado recently changed state law to allow non-citizens to be POST-certified to carry a police weapon. California and Illinois also have allowed non-citizens to become police officers and firefighters.

Denver will ask voters if citizenship requirement for police, firefighters should be dropped

Kentucky’s medical cannabis program has taken significant steps toward ensuring those with qualifying conditions have access to medical cannabis as soon as possible, said Gov. Andy Beshear this week.

State to open licensing applications for medical cannabis businesses beginning July 1

The Denver City Council voted Monday to spend $5 million to shuffle 250 homeless people from the street directly into leased housing. The contract goes to Housing Connector, which has experience in such matters, according to a memo from city staff to the City Council. Extra money is included in the contract for things such as unexpected repairs, said Midori Higa of the Department of Housing Stability. She said if someone has a bad day and breaks a window, a replacement will be covered.

$5 million will move 250 Denver homeless people into apartments, city says

Bedminster Township, PA

Something stinks in Pipersville and many local residents say the pungent smell is coming from Kingdom Provisions, LLC, a slaughterhouse located at 5960 Durham Road, where turkey buzzards are constantly perched in trees and an abundance of flies is considered commonplace.

Pipersville Residents Held Hostage By Slaughterhouse Horrors

Alameda Post

California regulators just stopped AT&T from pulling the plug. California’s Public Utilities Commission on June 20 rejected AT&T’s application to stop providing landlines and other services in areas where there is no other option.

Still Need Your Landline?

“[I]nvoking the favor and guidance of Almighty God,” the Constitution of the Confederate States of America composed by southern slaveholders in 1861 sought to “establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.” The authors of Project 2025, the latest playbook for restructuring the federal government in order to accomplish the policy goals of Christian Nationalists, similarly declare their manifesto will “decide America’s future” by securing their “God-given individual rights to live freely” and exercise dominion over others.

Legislating Inequality: The Christian Confederate Roots of Project 2025

A bill guaranteeing Pennsylvanians access to zero cost contraception has passed overwhelmingly in the commonwealth’s House of Representatives. The bill, in one form or another, waited seven years to pass through committee and to the floor for a vote. And now advocates for the legislation are steeling themselves as they send it to the Republican-controlled senate.

Pennsylvania House Bill Guaranteeing Women Access to Contraception Actually Passed with Some GOP Support. We’ll See About the State Senate

Palm Springs, CA

Palm Springs Tribune

Tuesday night, Palm Springs City Council passed a much tougher ordinance on homelessness. The new ordinance bans homeless encampments. It also allows the Palm Springs Police Department to potentially arrest people who sleep on public property but only, if there is shelter space available.

Palm Springs Takes A Tougher Approach On Homelessness

Whenever I author an article about the goings-on at Fusion Studios, the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless property where I live, the reports do very well. Readers are thirsty for information about the way former people experiencing homelessness live.

Opinion: Denver homeless hotel diary: The good, the bad and the ugly

Wyoming State

WyoFile

A legislative working group on Tuesday drafted fortifications that tweak and clarify penalties regarding treatment of the state’s predators. The actions come in the aftermath of worldwide outrage over a Wyoming man who only received a citation after he ran down, muzzled and paraded a live wolf in a Daniel bar.

Prompted by Wyoming wolf incident, lawmakers tackle predator policy changes

Georgia State

Savannah, GA

The Current GA

In the fall of 2022, the Georgia State Ethics Commission opened a file against Savannah civil-rights veteran and state lawmaker Carl Gilliard. The man with a reputation for social activism and feeding the poor had not submitted more than nine mandatory campaign and personal finance reports between 2020 and 2023.

State ethics board: Rep. Gilliard made ‘egregious’ campaign spending violations

MORRISTOWN, NJ – New Jersey's Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin, backed by the Division on Civil Rights (DCR), has issued a Finding of Probable Cause against Prince Telecom LLC, alleging disability discrimination. This action follows a complaint where Prince Telecom is accused of denying employment to an applicant using medical marijuana legally to manage a disability.

Cable Company Faces Discrimination Lawsuit Over Medical Marijuana Use

The group that gives Denver homeless people no-strings-attached cash wants more money from the city. The Denver Basic Income Project gave a presentation Wednesday to the Safety, Housing, Education and Homelessness Committee of the Denver City Council. Speakers echoed findings from research released that month that showed the project’s plan to give homeless people thousands of dollars, no strings attached, is saving the city money.

Denver program that gives homeless cash asks city for more money

Washington State

Timothy A Gruver

The Washington State Board of Nursing has suspended the registered nurse and advanced registered nurse practitioner licenses of Percy Lynchard III, the Washington Department of Health reported on Friday.

Nurse's Licenses Suspended for Improper Rx: Investigation Reveals Substandard Care

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Age, the Issue That Won’t Go Away

When I was covering the Legislature and watching our elected officials at work, I would sometimes say...

Age, the Issue That Won’t Go Away

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