Gov. Kay Ivey makes Juneteenth Alabama state holiday for 2024
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey delivers the State of the State address on Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024 in Montgomery, Ala. (Stew Milne for Alabama Reflector) State employees will be given Juneteenth…
Health department renews previously blocked vaccine requirements for school children
CDC photo Children entering seventh grade or 12th grade will require meningitis vaccines under newly updated school and child care center vaccine requirements from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services…
SC seeks to relieve traffic, begins widening rural stretches of I-26
The next step in an accelerated plan to widen rural sections of Interstate 26 between Columbia and Charleston is underway. The project is part of a larger plan to widen…
Fewer Canadians are crossing the border to visit Point Roberts
Canadian boat owners are returning to the marina in Point Roberts, Washington, where the pandemic recovery is being held back by labor shortages. (Tom Banse) This article was first published…
Two-thirds of Maryland teachers are still white, MSDE data shows
Maryland’s teacher workforce still remains majority white, according to data recently released by the state Department of Education, but advocates are hopeful that new laws could help turn that around.…
‘We’ve got enough kindness to go around’: Rhode Island’s 988 success story
Richard Leclerc, director of the Rhode Island Department of Behavioral Health, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals, highlights a statewide campaign promoting 988 that will run from June through September 2024. (Alexander…
Scott vetoes bill that would ban some uses of pollinator-harming pesticides
The yellow-banded bumble bee (Bombus terricola) nectars joe pye weed. Photo courtesy/copyright K.P. McFarland/Vermont Center for Ecostudies Gov. Phil Scott has vetoed a bill which would ban the use of…
Marshall Ramsey: End of School
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Md. Senate primary proves that Black women are electable – if we elect them
By Jessica Mackler and Fatima Goss Graves Jessica Mackler, a resident of Bethesda, is president of EMILYs List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics dedicated to electing Democratic…
Judge fines former SK School Committee candidate $4,700 for missing financial reports
Outside the Frank Licht Judicial Complex and Providence Superior Court. (Nancy Lavin/Rhode Island Current) A former South Kingstown School Committee candidate must pay a $4,700 penalty to the state elections…