An aerial view shows high voltage power lines on May 16, 2024, in West Palm Beach, Florida. Twenty-one states are joining a push by President Joe Biden’s administration to modernize…
In summary California cities funnel $1 billion in online sales taxes back to wealthy corporations, but the state Senate killed a bill that would change the rules for those arrangements.…
OVERVIEW This week on The Codcast, CommonWealth Beacon‘s Jennifer Smith is joined by Moddie Turay, president and CEO of the Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation, to discuss the Equitable Developers Fund,…
Current and former Black Iron Reinforcing employees protest for union recognition outside Black Iron Reinforcing office. (Photo: Jeniffer Solis/Nevada Current) Policy, politics and progressive commentary Ellisel Artero and Oscar Castillo…
Rep. John Curtis, R-Utah, speaks during a roundtable discussion between Utah’s U.S. House delegation and business leaders on regulatory overreach at Zions Bank headquarters in Salt Lake City on Thursday,…
Sen. Merika Coleman, D-Pleasant Grove, speaks in the Alabama Senate on May 2, 2024 at the Alabama Statehouse in Montgomery, Alabama. (Brian Lyman/Alabama Reflector) Merika Coleman joined the Alabama Legislature…
Rep. Marilyn Lands, D-Huntsville, listens to debate in the Alabama House of Representations in the Alabama Statehouse on April 9, 2024 in Montgomery, Alabama. (Brian Lyman/Alabama Reflector) Low-income people can…
Volunteers collected items for the Food Bank of Northeast Arkansas’ annual food drive in November 2022. (Courtesy of the Food Bank of NEA) More than 567,000 Arkansans — 18.6% of…
Nevada Department of Corrections Medical Director Dr. Kenneth Williams. (2020 Tennessee Department of Corrections video screengrab) Policy, politics and progressive commentary The medical director of the Nevada Department of Corrections,…
JUNE 3, 1967 Film poster for the documentary about Aretha Franklin’s 1972 concert, which was released in 2018. Aretha Franklin, the “Queen of Soul,” hits No. 1 on the Billboard…