Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board opens investigation into Melissa Vine campaign
The Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board enforces Iowa’s government-ethics laws. (Image by Canva, with board logo from State of Iowa) The Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board decided Thursday…
Senate panel, led by Wyden, focuses on rural hospital finances and closures
U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, speaks on Thursday, May 16, 2024, at a Senate Finance Committee hearing on rural health care. (Screenshot) Rural hospitals and clinics across the U.S., including…
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…
U.S. House rebukes Biden administration over pause in heavy bomb shipments to Israel
A bill passed Thursday, May 16, 2024 by the U.S. House says military assistance withheld from Israel “shall be delivered to Israel not later than 15 days after” the bill…
Status of primary care system keeps slipping
BY ALMOST EVERY almost every significant metric, primary care in Massachusetts is moving in the wrong direction, according to a new report. The system is now bleeding primary care doctors…
Colorado awards affordable housing, down payment grants across the state
Multifamily residences are seen on 11th Avenue in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Denver on June 9, 2023. (Quentin Young/Colorado Newsline) State housing officials announced over $16 million in funding…
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…
Wyoming’s Title IX lawsuit highlights governor’s complicated stance on transgender youth
Wyoming is taking the Biden administration to court over new Title IX rules intended to strengthen protections for LGBTQ+ students. Gov. Mark Gordon touted Wyoming’s involvement in the suit, though…
Advocates press U.S. House to act soon on compensation for nuclear testing victims
New Mexico Democrats Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez, at the lectern, and Sen. Ben Ray Luján, and Guam’s Republican House delegate, James Moylan, along with advocates, on May 16, 2024, urged…
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 Supreme Court case Cheryl Brown Henderson (2nd R), John Stokes (2nd L) and Nathaniel Briggs (R) speaks…