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In a confirmation hearing for President Donald Trump’s controversial nominee to lead the Bureau of Land Management, Montana Sen. Steve Daines said he “secured commitments for Montana priorities,” but offered a rosy view of Stevan Pearce’s record, ignoring key votes against conservation funding measures.  The BLM oversees 245 million acres of federal land — including […]

New Hampshire Secretary of State David Scanlan, the state’s chief election official, said that a virtual meeting he had with federal officials was “a routine meeting.” In an email obtained by the Bulletin earlier this month, the FBI invited Scanlan and other election officials from across the United States to a Feb. 25 phone call […]

CT lawmakers were to pass an emergency bill to crack down on illegal can and bottle redemptions through increased fines and other actions.

To cut the Idaho Medicaid budget, state lawmakers are drafting bills to cut funds for home care services for people with disabilities and to repeal Medicaid expansion. This year, the Idaho Legislature is pursuing steep spending cuts after years of tax cuts. The chairs of the Legislature’s Health and Welfare committees shared the plans for […]

La desclasificación de documentos sobre lo acontecido el 23-F apenas variará las expectativas de saber algo más después de 45 años.

An Idaho House of Representatives committee on Thursday unanimously approved a bill to overhaul oversight of children’s residential treatment facilities to address a state report finding widespread abuse and gaps in safeguards.  Idaho Falls Republican Rep. Marco Erickson sponsored House Bill 723, which would create requirements for the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare to […]

Las apuestas de la UFC crecen en Europa y Latinoamérica. Estrellas locales, tecnología móvil y nuevas leyes impulsan este mercado global en expansión.

The party is advancing reams of fraud legislation, while holding the line on ICE and guns. The post Protecting police, pursuing ‘agitators’ and fraud, fraud, fraud: What Republican legislators are up to in St. Paul.  appeared first on MinnPost.

Eight front loaders and 10 dump trucks began work 5 a.m. Thursday after arriving from Pennsylvania on Wednesday,

Також «Укренерго» запровадило додаткові графіки обмежень по всій «дефіцитній» частині енергосистеми, повідомив Шмигаль

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday unanimously denied a private prison company’s request to dismiss a class-action lawsuit challenging its work requirements for people detained at an Aurora immigration detention center.  A 2014 lawsuit led by Alejandro Menocal alleges private prison operator GEO Group unlawfully required people in custody at its Aurora U.S. Immigration and […]

The event from 5-7 p.m. March 5 will focus on fun ways to nurture the body and mind. The post John Boner Neighborhood Centers to host a free wellness fair appeared first on Mirror Indy.

William "Billy" Bushey, 61, shot June Bushey almost two years ago. She survived the attack, but her daughter and grandson did not.

The district has agreed to pay $18 million to more than 1,450 part-time professors to settle a class-action lawsuit.

A new lawsuit filed by four conservation groups alleges that the United States Forest Service approved a large logging project in southern Montana by ignoring habitat critical to Canada lynx and grizzly bears, disregarding scientific input and either disregarding or shortening public input. The suit, filed in federal court in Missoula, alleges that the Beaverhead-Deerlodge […]

(The Center Square) - An Illinois megaproject bill about a new Chicago Bears stadium project passed through a House committee Thursday, but it did so with a warning from several legislators and an advocacy group that the bill could lead to a meteoric rise in property tax bills in multiple communities in the state. The bill will next go to the House for a vote with sponsor Kam Buckner, D-Chicago, saying he didn’t know how quickly it would be taken up for a vote. The bill would allow the Bears’ proposed $5 billion stadium project and any $500 million project in the state to pay a negotiated lower rate instead of the same property tax that other companies and residents pay and it would allow the construction of the facility to be done sales tax free for 10 years. University of Colorado Denver Associate Professor Geoffrey Propheter, who studies these projects across the country, estimated that the tax break will be a benefit worth $2 billion to the Bears over 30 years, or $67 million a year on average. The cost for other property taxpayers in a community with a megaproject could be large. The issue for other property taxpayers comes in a technical clause in the bill that allows local governments to count the cash value of the megaproject toward its tax base even though the entity is receiving a lower negotiated payment. Illinois has a 5% cap on property tax increases, called the Property Tax Extension Law Limit, but by counting the value of a megaproject in the tax base without receiving the corresponding property tax payment, other taxpayers could see property tax bill increases that far exceed the 5% cap. And the bill doesn’t just apply to a new Chicago Bears stadium. It applies to any project worth $500 million or ones worth $100 million with 100 net new employees or $250 million with 50 net new employees. Several lawmakers pointed out that large data center projects or battery farms exceed the megaproject threshold and would be able to negotiate lower property taxes and not pay sales tax on construction, while Rep. Steve Reick, R-Woodstock, pointed out the bill could apply to a proposed 600-watt battery farm in Prairie Grove in McHenry County. Americans for Prosperity Illinois Deputy State Director Brian Costin called it the “riskiest economic development program not just in Illinois history but U.S. history” and said his group could not find any other state in the country that had done anything similar to property tax bills. “This is much bigger than the Bears,” said Sen. Andrew Chesney, R-Freeport. “This is about the toxic tax climate in Illinois that is squeezing everyone.” The bill stipulates that the negotiated payment in lieu of property taxes must be worth 10% of the assessed value of the property but the threshold does not apply to projects worth more than $2 billion, like a new Bears stadium. “That seems dangerous to me,” said Rep. Joe Sosnowski, R-Machesney Park. “[The negotiated rate] could be zero.” Costin estimated that local taxing bodies could double or triple the bills for taxpayers under the bills current format and warned that local taxing bodies then would not have a strong incentive to negotiate large tax payments from entities like the Bears if they knew they could get the tax funds from other taxpayers anyway. “We’re not confident that any of those local boards will look out for any of the considerations for the local taxpayer because they are going to see it as a way that we’re going to get a lot more money into our local tax unit and the taxpayers are the ones that are holding all the risk,” Costin said. Buckner responded to the PTELL questions by repeating that he believes that the PILOT payments are best determined by the local taxing entities, not the state. "That decision is best laid with the people who live there," Buckner said.

Le procès de l'influenceur d'extrême-droite Papacito pour cyberharcèlement à l'encontre de la boxeuse Imane Khelif est renvoyé au début de l'année 2027. Le tribunal correctionnel de Paris en a décidé ainsi, jeudi 26 février 2026. Le mis en cause était bien présent avec son avocat, mais la championne olympique lors des Jeux de Paris ne s'est pas présentée.

rabble is asking each of the candidates for the NDP leadership seven questions on party strategy, Indigenous issues, dealing with Donald Trump and more. Here are the answers from Heather McPherson. The post Heather McPherson answers rabble’s NDP leadership questionnaire appeared first on rabble.ca.

为报复上周末发生的致命爆炸事件，阿富汗军队周四袭击了巴基斯坦边境的军事设施，巴基斯坦军队随即展开“迅速而有力的”反击。塔利班政府发言人扎比胡拉·穆贾希德（ Zabihullah Mujahid）表示：“数十名巴基斯坦士兵被打死（……）。另有数人受伤，还有一些被俘。”

為報復上周末發生的致命爆炸事件，阿富汗軍隊周四襲擊了巴基斯坦邊境的軍事設施，巴基斯坦軍隊隨即展開“迅速而有力的”反擊。塔利班政府發言人紮比胡拉·穆賈希德（ Zabihullah Mujahid）表示：“數十名巴基斯坦士兵被打死（……）。另有數人受傷，還有一些被俘。”