Goodbye, Amfleet. Hello, Airo
Don’t you just love that “new car smell?” Well, that’s coming… slowly… to Amtrak, as the nation’s passenger railroad replaces its old fleet of cars. GOODBYE AMFLEET: Amtrak’s remaining fleet…
Uber and Lyft agree to deal with state lawmakers on minimum pay rates for drivers
Sen. Omar Fateh, DFL-Minneapolis, and Rep. Hodan Hassan, DFL-Minneapolis, celebrate a deal on minimum pay and labor standards for Uber and Lyft drivers at a news conference with Democratic lawmakers…
Trump, Abbott paint gun rights as imperiled at NRA convention
Former President Donald Trump speaks at the NRA Leadership Forum at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas on May 18, 2024. (Azul Sordo for the Texas Tribune) DALLAS—…
Minnesota Legislature takes little action on Saturday, sets up frenzied final day of session
Minnesota Capitol. Photo courtesy House Information Services. The Minnesota Senate met for less than one hour as of Saturday afternoon despite having about 30 hours left to take up more…
ACLU Montana: Stop health department, DOJ from harm to transgender people
(Photo illustration by Getty Images) People who are transgender need to be able to amend their birth certificates and driver’s licenses without interference from the state of Montana, plaintiffs in…
Missed care, fewer patients: Rural families and clinics feel Medicaid cuts
Children’s Defense Fund program director Graciela Camarena assists Lucia Salazar with filling out Medicaid and SNAP application forms for her family in Pharr, Texas, Monday, Nov. 13, 2023. As the…
Navajo leaders outraged after an Indigenous student’s tribal regalia was removed at graduation
A school official at Farmington High School speaks with graduate Genesis White Bull, a Hunkpapa Lakota of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, before taking away her personalized graduation cap and…
Missed care, fewer patients: Rural families and clinics feel Medicaid cuts
Children’s Defense Fund program director Graciela Camarena assists Lucia Salazar with filling out Medicaid and SNAP application forms for her family in Pharr, Texas, in November 2023. States with the…
Troubling signs at Healey’s transportation funding task force
EARLIER THIS YEAR, a Massachusetts governor finally decided to stop kicking the transportation funding question into the long grass. Many of us cheered on the creation of a task force…
Biden celebrates ‘the power of an education’ on Brown v. Board 70th anniversary
A section of the Brown v. Board mural is seen on April 2, 2024, at the Kansas Statehouse. The mural appears outside the former Kansas Supreme Court room where 11…