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Minnesota State

The Hill

A man who served under Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) in the Army National Guard is backing the vice presidential nominee’s service record, asserting Walz decided to retire before his unit got deployment orders, not after. Al Bonnifield, who served 22 years in the Minnesota National Guard, told NewsNation’s...

Man who served under Walz says governor retired before unit had deployment news

Maine State

Portland, ME

Goranson Farm stand at the Portland Farmers Market on Aug. 10, 2024. (AnnMarie Hilton/Maine Morning Star) “I don’t know whether to laugh or cry,” said Jan Goranson, standing at her family’s farm stand at the Portland Farmers Market Saturday morning. “That’s the way it’s been. It’s been really hard.”

Maine farmers fed up with ‘royally failing’ WIC payment app

Fox News

CNN correspondent Tom Foreman fact-checked claims about Tim Walz’s military record, firmly denying the governor saw combat despite his rhetoric implying he did.

CNN fact-checks Tim Walz about ‘absolutely false’ claim he carried weapons 'in war'

Florida State

In participating states, low-income families will receive $40 each month for each eligible school-aged child, up to $120, to buy groceries, beginning in the summer of 2024. Shown is a sign at a grocery store noting the acceptance of electronic benefit transfer, or EBT, cards, on Dec. 4, 2019, in Oakland, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Florida House Dems urge DeSantis to participate in 2025 summer food assistance program for kids

Lahaina, HI

A fire engine drives past buildings destroyed by a wildfire in the historic town of Lahaina on Maui in August 2023. (Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat) A year ago, after a deadly wildfire displaced thousands of residents of Lahaina, Hawaii’s governor and lieutenant governor invoked a state law blocking most evictions and prohibiting price gouging. The emergency order soon became a tool to prevent widespread displacement of all Maui residents, including people struggling to pay rent because they had lost work due to the fire.

Maui Property Owners Are Pushing Tenants Out to House Wildfire Survivors for More Money

Business Insider

Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota served in the army, taught high school, and has decades of governing experience.

12 things to know about Tim Walz, the Midwestern dad who coined the biggest insult of 2024

South Carolina State

Columbia, SC

Flooded streets in Columbia in 2015 after a hurricane offshore dumped 2 feet of rain across South Carolina, later prompting the state's and cities' first buyouts of repeatedly flooded homes. (Provided by Gills Creek Watershed Association) The white oak Terri Straka planted as a sapling is all that still stands...

SC is buying out more than 200 repeatedly flooded homes. Here’s how the effort has gone.

Iowa State

Gov. Kim Reynolds' administration has announced it will seek a waiver to the federal food assistance program called Summer EBT to help fund a separate summer feeding program for kids. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) The Iowa Department of Health and Human Services submitted a waiver request for participation in...

Iowa seeks federal food aid waiver for pilot summer meal program

Colorado State

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A bill quietly introduced this spring in the Colorado legislature to decriminalize the possession of drug paraphernalia obtained by harm reductionists has become law. As low-key as the legislation was introduced, the bill was signed into law without fanfare June 6. It garnered little to no media attention.

Colorado legalizes needles, pipes for meth and crack if obtained by harm reduction group

Virginia State

“Patawomeck Indians’ roots under dispute.” — The Free-Lance Star. “Stoney: multiple employees in city’s finance department recently fired.” — Richmond Times-Dispatch. “Youngkin embraces Trump but still plays coy on some MAGA policies.” — Washington Post. “Weeks into the Harris honeymoon, Trump opens...

Patawomeck tribe’s push for federal recognition challenged and more Virginia headlines

Fox Business

Under the leadership of Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, Minnesota has lagged behind economically in some areas, and beat the U.S. average in others.

How Minnesota's economy has performed under Gov. Tim Walz

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Colleton County, SC

Explore Beaufort SC

Some beachgoers were in for a surprise this week when a bizarre looking prehistoric fish washed ashore in Colleton County along Edisto Beach at Edisto Beach State Park. It turned out to be an atlantic sturgeon.

Rare Atlantic sturgeon washes ashore on South Carolina beach

Minnesota State Senator Julia Coleman (R) joined Brian to discuss the negative effect Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has had on the state and how that will expand to the rest of the country if he is in the White House. Coleman highlighted his handling of the George Floyd riots in 2020 in Minneapolis, his policy on illegal immigrants and his anti-Israel and pro-Abortion stance. “The way runs things is unacceptable and I’m fearful for America with him in the White House,” says Coleman, calling Walz a “border-line socialist” and that the Harris-Walz ticket “makes Obama look like a moderate.” When...

Minnesota Senator Julia Coleman: Tim Walz is a Border-Line Socialist

New Mexico State

Albuquerque, NM

Workers paint a new market-rate apartment complex near Old Town Albuquerque in December 2022. Applications for a $125 million loan program open in September, aimed at spurring workforce housing development and affordable housing infrastructure across the state. (Photo by Patrick Lohmann / Source NM) A key part of what state...

Applications open in Sept. for first round of $125 million in state housing loans

Las Vegas, NV

Bellingham Metro News

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - A magnitude 4.4 earthquake struck areas near Las Vegas on Tuesday night, according to the United States Geological Service (USGS). The quake, which occurred at 8:06 p.m., was centered approximately 45 minutes from Las Vegas, near Indian Springs.

Magnitude 4.4 Earthquake Shakes Areas Near Las Vegas

Tennessee State

John Cole's Tennessee: Eye of the storm. Even as U.S. Rep. Andy Ogles dismisses questions about his campaign finances, the FBI has opened an investigation.

John Cole’s Tennessee: Eye of the storm

Kansas State

Kansas delegates represent their state July 17, 2024, at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom) He wouldn’t say the name. Surrounded by delegates waving “Mass Deportation Now” signs during the Republican National Convention, NBC reporter Jacob Soboroff — winner of several awards for his reporting,...

‘Mass Deportation Now’ plans fall apart under scrutiny, for Kansas and U.S. That’s not the point.

Wisconsin State

Madison, WI

Mike Hoge, senior vice president for global operations at Accuray, describes some of the firm's radiation treatment equipment to Sen. Tammy Baldwin, left, and WEDC CEO Missy Hughes, right, in a tour of the Madison company's operations Tuesday. (Erik Gunn | Wisconsin Examiner) Wisconsin’s economic development team and Sen. Tammy...

Senator, WEDC get preview of $49M investment in Wisconsin health tech hub

South Dakota Republican Governor Kristi Noem joined Brian Kilmeade to discuss the political record of Democratic nominee Vice Preisdent Kamala Harris’ running-mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. “ actually doesn’t know how to govern,” says Noem, and America needs to realize how left and how radical Harris and Walz are. Noem says that the state of South Dakota has had “thousands of people from Minnesota move to South Dakota to get away from .” Governor Walz was notably the Governor of Minnesota during the 2020 George Floyd riots in Minneapolis and has been criticized for not deploying the Minnesota National Guard sooner. “He does not uphold the law,” Noem adds and Walz had to ask his neighboring states’ governors to send their National Guard to assist in policing the riots, including South Dakota. Noem and Brian also share their thoughts on why the polling numbers for the 2024 Presidential election are so close right now. Listen to the interview here:

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem: Tim Walz is a Radical

NBC News

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was just a year into his first term when in May of 2020 a Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for nearly nine minutes, spurring protests across the state and the nation. To Philonise Floyd, Walz’s compassion and dedication to ensure...

George Floyd's brother endorses Harris-Walz, says Minnesota governor is 'built for this'

NewsBreak

Collaboration, government efficiency highlight US Senate agriculture panel hearing in North Dakota

CASSELTON, N.D. — While hosting a congressional field hearing, Greg Tehven, one of the founders of North Dakota’s Grand Farm, called on the federal government to...

Collaboration, government efficiency highlight US Senate agriculture panel hearing in North Dakota

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