Despite what some politicians say, crime rates are decreasing
An FBI Evidence Response Team investigator walks behind a crime scene. The FBI’s Quarterly Uniform Crime Report, which was released in early June, suggests that violent crime dropped by 15%…
Young Kentuckians desperately need more from their elected officials
Children eat lunch together on Nov. 28, 2023, at the iKids Childhood Enrichment Center in Benton. (Kentucky Lantern photo by Abbey Cutrer) The annual national KIDS COUNT Data Book includes…
Legal experts say Chevron deference decision puts Maine’s reliance on federal partners at risk
The U.S. Supreme Court, pictured, issued a decision on a case dealing with a legal precedent that gave federal agencies broad discretion to use their judgment to resolve any ambiguity…
Fewer beds and smaller earnings will hurt New Mexico hospitals as new state law goes into effect
Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center in Alamogordo, New Mexico. (Photo by Danielle Prokop / Source NM) Smaller New Mexico hospitals will soon start missing out on government funding due to…
The Supreme Court just limited federal power. Health care Is feeling the shockwaves.
The Supreme Court’s June 28 decision overturned a 1984 precedent that said courts should give deference to federal agencies in legal challenges over their regulatory or scientific decisions. Instead, courts…
Rhode Island needs more foster homes and it needs them now
Children who are unable to live with their families learn valuable life skills from trained caregivers while living in a single-family home on the Bazarsky campus of Boys Town New…
Mishandled bodies, mixed-up remains prompt tougher funeral home regulations
A hearse and van sit outside the Return to Nature Funeral Home in October 2023 in Penrose, Colo. Investigators found stacks of partially covered human remains, bodily fluids several inches…
Child care still unaffordable, inaccessible for many in Ohio
Children at day care.(Getty Images) Ohio parents are working hard, sometimes at multiple jobs, but most still can’t afford child care, that is if there are child care options at…
‘Frustrating’ partisan stalemate: the new normal for farm bills?
A farmer planting corn near Dwight, Illinois, on April 23, 2020. Partisan gridlock in Congress has led to a stalemate on the current farm bill, which provides crop subsidies and…
Did a CT advocacy group’s email violate campaign finance law? SEEC investigating
State elections enforcement officials are investigating a complaint that alleges CT169Strong, an organization that has lobbied against Democratic-sponsored housing and zoning legislation in recent years, illegally assisted one of the…