New Meta protections for teen accounts not enough for Utah’s governor
Gov. Spencer Cox talks to journalists at the Capitol in Salt Lake City on the last night of the legislative session, Friday, March 1, 2024. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for…
Virginia Department of Education releases final cell phone-free school guidelines
A group of teenagers checking their cellphones. (Courtesy of SDI Productions via Getty Images) The Virginia Department of Education announced on Tuesday that it has published its final cell phone-free…
Domestic violence stakeholders reflect on 1st year of Michigan’s address confidentiality program
Address Confidentiality Program Coordinator Karen Hall speaks at a roundtable discussion in Kalamazoo, Michigan talking about the first year of Michigan’s Address Confidentiality Program on September 16, 2024 | Photo:…
Error with tracking citizenship puts nearly 100,000 Arizona voters’ eligibility in limbo
Secretary of State Adrian Fontes speaks to the press after the final meeting of Gov. Katie Hobbs’ Bipartisan Election Task Force on Oct. 24, 2023. Photo by Caitlin Sievers |…
Alabama joins challenge to California regulation on big trucks
Trucks drive down the New Jersey Turnpike in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Alabama has joined 23 other Republican-led states in asking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to block a push by…
Sen. Collins urges colleagues to back bill requiring military follow state crisis intervention laws
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine speaks on the Senate floor in favor of her bill, the Armed Forces Crisis Intervention Notification Act, introduced in response to the mass shooting…
Will there be a debate in NC governor’s race? Robinson says campaign has offered dates
Attorney General Josh Stein (left) and Lt. Governor Mark Robinson (right). (Courtesy photos) With less than 50 days until Election Day, there are no concrete plans for a televised debate…
Va. lawmakers prepare to overhaul decades-old school funding formula
Sen. Mamie Locke, D-Hampton, and Del. Sam Rasoul, D-Roanoke, at a joint subcommittee meeting on Sept. 16 in Richmond. (Nathaniel Cline/Virginia Mercury) Virginia lawmakers are carefully examining the state’s 52-year-old…
Red and blue states have big climate plans. The election could upend them.
North Carolina officials are planning to restore wetlands like these in the Croatan National Forest and are concerned the program would be in jeopardy if Donald Trump regains the White…
Donation of enough water to fill a small reservoir now headed to the Great Salt Lake
The start of the Jordan River along the north shore of Utah Lake is pictured on Sept. 16, 2024. The Utah Division of Natural Resources recently announced a 10,000 acre-foot…