North Carolinians push back against anti-protest, campaign finance legislation
Dawn Blagrove, Executive Director of Emancipate NC, says HB 237 actually weakens democracy. (Photo: Ahmed Jallow) Advocates from various organizations held a press conference Tuesday morning outside the North Carolina…
Kentucky congressmen react to Hunter Biden conviction
President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden talks to reporters outside the U.S. Capitol on Dec. 13, 2023 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) Some of Kentucky’s Republican congressional…
Federal judge blocks ban and restrictions on health care treatments for trans people
Two Florida medical oversight boards held a meeting about proposed rules for treating gender dysphoria for minors in the state on Feb. 10, 2023. (Photo by Issac Morgan/Florida Phoenix) Quality…
Patrice Milos picked as interim president for R.I. life science agency
Automated blood sample testing in laboratory for healthcare screening. (Tek Image/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) An early leader in Rhode Island’s nascent life sciences industry and driving force behind the creation…
Commission recommends space for Arkansas Capitol’s upcoming ‘monument to the unborn’
From left: Artist Lakey Goff of Hot Springs Village, Capitol Arts and Grounds Commissioner Michael Harry and state Sen. Kim Hammer, R-Benton, discuss the upcoming “monument to the unborn” on…
Oregon to receive $15 million in settlement over baby powder lawsuit
Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum announced an agreement with Johnson & Johnson to settle a lawsuit about its marketing tactics. (Courtesy of Ellen Rosenblum) Oregon will receive $15 million from Johnson…
Social equity: Critics say Arizona’s cannabis program did ‘exact opposite’ of voter intent
Alicia Deals poses for a portrait inside the Cookies dispensary she owns, on June 3, 2024, in Tempe. Deals is a social equity license holder and retains 100% equity in…
Biden campaign kicks off senior-citizen outreach in Michigan
State Rep. Stephanie Young (D-Detroit) addresses volunteers at Seniors for Biden-Harris campaign kickoff in Lansing. June 11, 2024. Photo by Lucy Valeski Senior citizens, an important demographic in the campaign…
The University of Arizona’s Institutionalized Border Violence
courtesy Taylor Miller It was dusk for kilometers and bats in the lavender sky, like spiders when a fly is caught, began to appear. And there, not the promised land,…
Conservationists amp up the intensity in calling on DeSantis to veto bear-shooting bill
Florida black bear: Credit: Tim Donovan, FWC Quality Journalism for Critical Times Among the bills that Gov. Ron DeSantis will soon have to act on is a measure that would…