State board adopts new policies tying Alabama library funding to book restrictions
A row of library books. (Getty) Libraries that do not restrict access to materials deemed sexually inappropriate by the Alabama Public Library Service Board could lose state funding under rules…
Brown v. Board litigants, family mark anniversary as Biden decries ongoing school inequality
Plaintiffs and family members of plaintiffs in the Brown v. Board of Education U.S. Supreme Court case, Cheryl Brown Henderson, second from right, John Stokes, second from left, and Nathaniel…
Southern Nevada food insecurity increased last year, Three Square says
A volunteer packs food at Three Square Senior Hunger Campus. (Photo courtesy Three Square of Southern Nevada) Policy, politics and progressive commentary Food insecurity climbed across Southern Nevada last year…
On this day in 1954
MAY 17, 1954 Ella J. Rice talks to one of her pupils, all of them white, in a third grade classroom of Draper Elementary School in Washington, D.C., on September…
New CT law will prevent medical debt reporting to creditors
One of the first bills from this Connecticut legislative session to get signed into law prohibits the reporting of medical debt to credit agencies. The new state law bars health…
Brown v. Board litigants, family mark anniversary as Biden decries ongoing school inequality
Plaintiffs and family members of plaintiffs in the Brown v. Board of Education U.S. Supreme Court case, Cheryl Brown Henderson, second from right, John Stokes, second from left, and Nathaniel…
Medicare should include dental coverage, dentists tell U.S. Senate panel
Dr. Brian Jeffrey Swann, who is on the board of directors for Remote Area Medical and practices dentistry in Tennessee, told a U.S. Senate committee about low-income people who drive…
Why Amtrak looks likely to operate Colorado’s proposed Front Range rail line
Passengers prepare to board Amtrak’s California Zephyr at the Denver Union rail station during its daily 2,438-mile trip to Emeryville/San Francisco from Chicago that takes roughly 52 hours on March…
Biden administration seeks to speed some asylum cases with new immigration docket
Asylum seekers board a bus en route to a shelter in New York City on May 18, 2023. The Biden administration announced changes Thursday, May 16, 2024, meant to speed…
Every university but Delta State to increase tuition this year
Every university in Mississippi is increasing tuition in the fall except for Delta State University. The new rates were approved by the governing board of the eight universities, the Institutions…