State Board of Education president Charlie Shields opens a state board meeting in December of 2023 (Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent). The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education’s system for rating…
Sen. Bob Menendez takes a selfie with his wife, Nadine, and businessman Wael Hana. The three are co-defendants in an 18-count federal corruption indictment. (Courtesy of U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern…
Iowa Capitol on Jan. 10, 2024. (Photo by Kathie Obradovich/Iowa Capital Dispatch) Iowa Capital Dispatch on Tuesday marked the fifth anniversary of its launch on Jan. 7, 2020. I never…
Capitol News Illinois CHICAGO – Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan will take the witness stand in his corruption trial – an unexpected revelation that will likely stretch the already…
Flooding in western North Carolina from Hurricane Helene. (Photo: David Davis, County Extension Director, N.C. Cooperative Extension) A new team within Gov. Josh Stein’s office will be tasked with leading…
Idaho state Rep. Heather Scott, R-Blanchard, walks to the lectern to present a piece of legislation during the House State Affairs Committee on Jan. 7, 2025, at the State Capitol…
Rocky Mountain Power’s Gadsby Plant backdrops signage promoting the coming redevelopment of parcels around the plant in the Fairpark neighborhood of Salt Lake City on April 3, 2024. (Photo by…
Rep. Pramila Jayapal and Rep. Veronica Escobar, hold each other as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol holds a primetime hearing on Capitol Hill…
A federal judge has returned a lawsuit challenging thousands of votes cast in the November election filed by Jefferson Griffin, the Republican challenger for North Carolina Supreme Court, to state…
Elizabeth Steiner, former Oregon state senator, hugs Gov. Tina Kotek after Steiner is sworn in as Oregon state treasurer at the Oregon Historical Society in Portland Jan. 6. Steiner is…