Gwen Dilworth joins health team at Mississippi Today
Gwen Dilworth is a Community Health reporter at Mississippi Today. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today Mississippi Today is pleased to announce that Gwen Dilworth has joined the community health team…
Week before Christmas had record-high weed sales in CT
Since the sale of recreational weed became legal in Connecticut, sales have consistently been on the rise, from $1.5 million shortly after it was legalized in January 2023 to $3.78…
Supreme Court sides with Starbucks in case over fired union organizers — and other labor news
A Starbucks store at 5351 Lyndale Ave. in Minneapolis. Photo by Max Nesterak/Minnesota Reformer. Take a seat in the Break Room, our weekly round-up of labor news in Minnesota and…
Biden administration tries to address generations of USDA racism against Black farmers and others
(USDA photo by R. Anson Eaglin) I was at a meeting early last week organized by a private company for farmers to learn how to receive tax credits and other…
Industry, clean power groups breath a sigh of relief as Senate approves energy regulators
High voltage power lines run along the electrical power grid on May 16, 2024, in West Palm Beach, Florida. The U.S. Senate approved three of President Joe Biden’s nominees to…
Major cuts to road projects, adult education, but not ESAs in proposed Arizona budget
Photo via Getty Images The proposed Arizona budget, crafted after months of negotiations between Republican leadership and Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs, faces an uphill battle as members of both parties…
McKee signs safe firearms storage bill into law
Gov. Dan McKee, center, hands a ceremonial pen to South Kingstown town councilor Patti Alley after he signed into law new gun storage requirements on June 13, 2024. Alley’s sister…
Industry, clean power groups breath a sigh of relief as Senate approves energy regulators
High voltage power lines run along the electrical power grid on May 16, 2024, in West Palm Beach, Florida. The U.S. Senate approved three of President Joe Biden’s nominees to…
Top Wisconsin lawmaker has new plan to find noncitizens on voter rolls
The Wisconsin Capitol on spring election day, April 7, 2020. (Photo by Henry Redman/Wisconsin Examiner) A top Wisconsin lawmaker is proposing an ambitious plan to identify noncitizens on the voter…
NC lawmakers seek to crack down on predatory vehicle towing and booting
House Bill 1024 would create a regulatory framework for nonconsensual towing in North Carolina for vehicle towing — a business that bill sponsors say is effectively unregulated. (Photo: iStock/Getty photo)…