CA Senate preserves big corporate tax breaks that benefit some cities
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.…
Community-centered equitable development
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,…
Unionized iron workers warn contractors they won’t rest until bosses negotiate contract
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…
Supreme Court could limit rulemaking power of federal agencies. What Utahns in Congress have to say
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,…
Where are the young women and mothers in Alabama state politics?
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…
Bill calling for additional prenatal care access will get filed again next year
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…
Food insecurity in Arkansas worsens, rate ranks second highest nationwide
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…
Unlicensed medical director of Nevada prison system on leave, facing termination
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,…
On this day in 1967
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…
The hollow malevolence of Jefferson Davis
Jefferson Davis was president of the Confederate States of America, a white supremacist government, from 1861 to 1865. Since 1901, Alabama has marked Jefferson Davis’ Birthday as a state holiday…