Nebraska State

Nebraska Examiner

LINCOLN — The Nebraska Legislature on Thursday advanced the second of two budget bills of the special session intended to offset the costs of a slimmed-down property tax relief plan. But state senators spent most of the day getting there, venting about what they wish they had included in a property tax package and hunting […]

Second budget bill advances after another filibuster

Marijuana joints and buds, also known as "flower," are viewed on May 24, 2024, in Los Angeles. (Photo Illustration by Mario Tama/Getty Images) Lawmakers voted 4-1 on Tuesday to finalize a nearly 70% hike to the price of a medical marijuana business license. Sen. Red Dawn Foster, D-Pine Ridge, was...

Lawmakers make it official: Annual fees for medical pot businesses will jump 70%

Breathitt County, KY

Growing up, J.D. Vance, the Republican nominee for vice president, visited family who lived in the Panbowl section of Breathitt County. (Kentucky Lantern photo by Kevin Nance) Sigmund Freud says we embrace mythical origin stories of leaders, warriors, and saints to disguise their true identity and to give them mystical powers or political agency.

Breathitt County, J.D. and me

Texas State

CHICAGO — Amanda Zurawski didn’t want to go into politics. She wanted a baby girl. Her name would have been Willow. But when Zurwaski was 18 weeks pregnant, her water broke. The fetus wouldn't survive, but, citing Texas' abortion laws, her doctors refused to terminate the pregnancy until she eventually developed sepsis three days later.

After being denied a medically necessary abortion, Amanda Zurawski will do whatever it takes to beat Donald Trump

Maine State

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Sagadahoc County, ME

Lewiston, ME

The Maine Monitor

Editor’s note: This story contains references to suicide. When a bill to strengthen Maine’s yellow flag law went into effect earlier this month, Sagadahoc County Sheriff Joel Merry said he felt a sense of relief.

Law enforcement officers can now get a warrant to take someone into protective custody

Indiana State

Michigan State

March for Workers’ Rights and Economic Justice in Detroit on Oct. 19, 2023 | Ken Coleman. Michigan has fallen even further into the bottom half for best states to work in, ranked in 31st place by Oxfam, a global organization focused on inequality and poverty. Michigan was ranked at 26th in 2023.

Michigan drops to 31st among states for workers’ rights in 2024 in Oxfam survey

CBS DFW

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court — and she's determined not to be the last.Jackson's new memoir, "Lovely One," which will be released Tuesday, chronicles her ascent to the nation's highest court and is titled after the meaning of her name, Ketanji Onyika. The 53-year-old justice sat down with "CBS Evening News" anchor and managing editor Norah O'Donnell for her first broadcast interview since joining the Supreme Court two years ago, candidly sharing a journey that humbles her. On being "the first" and tackling tough cases"I think there's a fair amount of...

Ketanji Brown Jackson on Supreme Court ethics and court's future

Washington, DC

A hearing on the next steps in the federal election subversion case against former President Donald Trump will take place on September 5 after a trial judge on Friday granted an extension sought by special counsel Jack Smith.

First hearing in Trump DC election case after the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling is delayed until September

California State

Reuters

(Reuters) - California lawmakers passed just one part of a three-bill package addressing reparations for slavery and racism in the waning days of their state house session, amid reports the governor had raised concerns.

California lawmakers pass just one part of reparations legislation

Montana State

Bozeman, MT

Montana Republican U.S. Senate candidate Tim Sheehy greets supporters outside of a rally in Bozeman on Aug. 9, 2024. (Photo by Blair Miller, Daily Montanan) Have you ever met someone who calls themselves a “successful businessman,” but lost his company $77 million, is being sued by former employees for allegedly stiffing them out of their pay, fraudulently certified his company as a socially disadvantaged business to try to win government contracts, prompted his biggest investor to cash out of the company and abandon their stake in it, and has had multiple board members resign from his company on his watch – all while paying himself fat multimillion-dollar bonuses?

I take on fraudsters and scammers for a living. Take it from me: Tim Sheehy is one of them.

Denver, CO

Aurora, CO

David Heitz

Aurora, Colo. -- Angry Aurorans on social media poked fun at the local news media Friday as more information came out about Venezuelan gangs on the Front Range. Mike Coffman, Aurora mayor, posted on Facebook that the city will use court orders to shut down additional apartment complexes that have been infiltrated by the gangs. It contradicted comments made by Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, who told the New York Post the gang problem was a figment of Aurora council member Danielle Jurinsky’s imagination.

Migrant gang crisis underrated? Denver media criticized

Wyoming State

WyoFile

To increase the genetic diversity of an island population of grizzly bears , Wyoming and Montana wildlife managers recently worked together to import fresh bloodlines into the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.

Two Montana grizzly bears trucked to Wyoming to bolster genetic diversity, help states’ delisting case

Wyoming’s U.S. Sen. John Barrasso and Rep. Harriet Hageman handily staved off Republican challengers in Tuesday’s primary election. The Associated Press called the race at 8 p.m.

Barrasso, Hageman handily defeat Republican challengers

POLITICO

In a brief filed Friday in federal court, the Senate minority leader says the House and Senate have total constitutional authority to determine how they conduct business.

McConnell says Congress has the power to vote by proxy

Richmond, VA

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Margaret Minnicks

WRIC 8 News reported that Richmond officials have confirmed that the city’s Greyhound Bus Service, located at 2910 N Arthur Ashe Blvd, Richmond, VA 23230, will close in October 2024.

Greyhound Bus Service is moving in October from current location in Richmond, Virginia

Georgia State

Daily Coffee Press

According to officials with the Southern District of Georgia, two recently unsealed federal indictments have charged 23 defendants in a series of broad conspiracies involving the use of drones to smuggle methamphetamine, marijuana, and cell phones into state prisons in Georgia.

23 Defendants Charged in Federal Indictments for Drone-Smuggling Drug Operation in Georgia

Maryland State

From left, Washington College professor Julie Markin, Washington College intern Kat Esposito and Penn State intern Kerrick Deardorff sort through artifacts on a screen as Washington College intern Amy Cannon approaches the site of the dig. Photo by Jeremy Cox/Chesapeake Bay Journal. From an archaeologist’s point of view, Maryland’s Eastern...

Dig yields clues into how Choptank tribe lived with water

(Illustration by Barbara Gibson for The 19th) Originally published by The 19th in partnership with Them. In Kansas, lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union have drafted a letter reminding election workers that a gender marker on a person’s identification does not need to match or correspond to a voter’s gender expression. Staff for the organization have also held clinics elsewhere to prepare trans Americans for the identification requirements they will have to navigate.

Anti-trans laws may complicate access to the ballot for trans voters

Alabama State

Rep. Ed Oliver, R-Dadeville, stands on the floor of the Alabama House of Representatives on Feb. 8, 2024. (Brian Lyman/Alabama Reflector) An Alabama lawmaker wants to increase the number of jobs a person has to apply for while receiving unemployment benefits from Alabama. HB 29, sponsored by Rep. Ed Oliver,...

Alabama bill would require people to apply for more jobs to receive unemployment

Washington State

Incarcerated women make phone calls in Connecticut, the first state to make prison phone calls free. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images) Washington is sitting on millions of dollars collected from incarcerated people for phone calls and other fees – money that is supposed to be spent to improve prisoner welfare.

WA prisoners pay millions in fees to the state. Most of it isn’t being used

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Special session needs a dose of January

The Nebraska Legislature hit the sine die button recently, ending a jumbled, awkward special session on property tax relief. Three aftereffects linger: the phrase “absolute minimum,”...

Special session needs a dose of January

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