Backlash against DEI spreads to more states
A student walks on the University of Utah campus in Salt Lake City in April. Utah has enacted a new law that prohibits schools from using diversity, equity and inclusion…
The Download: Political Notebook: State Police problems | Transit beer summit? | Ranking Boston’s choices
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Washington man sentenced for trespassing near dangerous geyser in Yellowstone National Park
Steamboat Geyser erupts in Yellowstone National Park on September 17, 2018. (Photo by Jacob W. Frank/National Park Service) A Washington man was sentenced to seven days in jail for trespassing…
Trump claims ‘great unity’ after talks with congressional GOP
Former President Donald Trump is applauded by U.S. Senate Republicans before giving remarks to the press at the National Republican Senatorial Committee headquarters on June 13, 2024. Trump, the presumptive…
Political Notebook: Never-ending State Police problems | Transit beer summit? | Ranking Boston’s choices
A CONSTANT on TV and in some corners of the Internet in recent weeks has been the livestreamed unspooling of a trial inside a Dedham courthouse. The fairly run-of-the-mill case,…
Trump claims ‘great unity’ after talks with congressional GOP
Former President Donald Trump is applauded by U.S. Senate Republicans before giving remarks to the press at the National Republican Senatorial Committee headquarters on June 13, 2024. Trump, the presumptive…
‘Time for a reckoning.’ Kansas farmers brace for water cuts to save Ogallala Aquifer
Sprinklers irrigate a field in Hamilton County, Kansas, where some farmers have petitioned to be removed from a local groundwater management district. State lawmakers are pressuring the district to do…
Trump claims ‘great unity’ after talks with congressional GOP
Former President Donald Trump is applauded by U.S. Senate Republicans before giving remarks to the press at the National Republican Senatorial Committee headquarters on June 13, 2024. Trump, the presumptive…
Top Wisconsin lawmaker has new plan to find non-citizens on voter rolls
The Wisconsin Capitol on spring election day, April 7, 2020. (Photo by Henry Redman/Wisconsin Examiner) Speaking to a group founded by a leading election denier, a top Wisconsin lawmaker on…
States struggle to help patients navigate insurance hurdle known as ‘step therapy’
Pharmacist George Tadross takes care of a customer at MAC Pharmacy in Cleveland in May 2024. Insurance companies, and the pharmacy benefit management companies that handle prescriptions for them, often…