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Three public education advocates who were challenging Gov. Jeff Landry’s plan to pay for teacher pay stipends by cutting money from public schools’ general operations withdrew their lawsuit Tuesday.

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Three public education advocates who were challenging Gov. Jeff Landry’s plan to pay for teacher pay stipends by cutting money from public schools’ general operations withdrew their lawsuit Tuesday.

A HUD official told NM lawmakers the department is encouraging local officals to impose work requirements on tenants in subsidized housing.

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A HUD official told NM lawmakers the department is encouraging local officals to impose work requirements on tenants in subsidized housing.

The ballot proposal for November would have allowed the council to authorize non-citizens to vote in council and school board elections.

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The ballot proposal for November would have allowed the council to authorize non-citizens to vote in council and school board elections.

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Montana residents are seeking oversight of data center construction by putting voter initiatives on the ballot this year.  In Yellowstone and Butte-Silver Bow counties, groups are gathering signatures for initiatives that would require approval from two-thirds of registered voters before construction or expansion of data centers.  Last week, Broadview resident Kassi Solberg told the Daily […]

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Montana residents are seeking oversight of data center construction by putting voter initiatives on the ballot this year.  In Yellowstone and Butte-Silver Bow counties, groups are gathering signatures for initiatives that would require approval from two-thirds of registered voters before construction or expansion of data centers.  Last week, Broadview resident Kassi Solberg told the Daily […]

Both chambers anticipate voting on the budget this Wednesday and Thursday, according to House Speaker Destin Hall.

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Both chambers anticipate voting on the budget this Wednesday and Thursday, according to House Speaker Destin Hall.

A Custer County judge on Friday dismissed a defamation lawsuit brought by U.S. Department of Agriculture Under Secretary and Idaho businessman Michael Boren against critics of Boren’s private airstrip near Stanley.  Seventh Judicial District Judge Darren Simpson dismissed the case due to inactivity, but he said it could be brought back. Per Idaho civil court […]

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A Custer County judge on Friday dismissed a defamation lawsuit brought by U.S. Department of Agriculture Under Secretary and Idaho businessman Michael Boren against critics of Boren’s private airstrip near Stanley.  Seventh Judicial District Judge Darren Simpson dismissed the case due to inactivity, but he said it could be brought back. Per Idaho civil court […]

A bipartisan group of 11 Western governors signed a letter endorsing the establishment of a multi-state task force to develop a study and action plan to update the region’s energy grid.  The effort was announced Tuesday in Park City during the last days of Utah Republican Gov. Spencer Cox’s tenure as chair of the Western […]

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A bipartisan group of 11 Western governors signed a letter endorsing the establishment of a multi-state task force to develop a study and action plan to update the region’s energy grid.  The effort was announced Tuesday in Park City during the last days of Utah Republican Gov. Spencer Cox’s tenure as chair of the Western […]

شوک بزرگ جام، آلمان به خانه برگشت؛ گفت‌وگو با فرید اشرفیان خبرنگار ورزشی

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شوک بزرگ جام، آلمان به خانه برگشت؛ گفت‌وگو با فرید اشرفیان خبرنگار ورزشی

The forum gave Josh Elliott the chance to pitch some big ideas, like abolishing local property taxes, while Gov. Lamont defended his record.

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The forum gave Josh Elliott the chance to pitch some big ideas, like abolishing local property taxes, while Gov. Lamont defended his record.

A new Medicare program offers some beneficiaries GLP-1 drugs at just $50 a month for weight loss, but the program is temporary, and eligibility rules could shut out many patients.

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A new Medicare program offers some beneficiaries GLP-1 drugs at just $50 a month for weight loss, but the program is temporary, and eligibility rules could shut out many patients.

ယင်းမာပင်ခရိုင် ကွပ်ကဲရေးမှူးအပါအဝင် ခရိုင်စစ်ဌာန တာဝန်ရှိသူအားလုံးကို တာဝန်ကနေ ယာယီရပ်ဆိုင်းပြီး လက်နက်ဖြုတ်သိမ်း။

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ယင်းမာပင်ခရိုင် ကွပ်ကဲရေးမှူးအပါအဝင် ခရိုင်စစ်ဌာန တာဝန်ရှိသူအားလုံးကို တာဝန်ကနေ ယာယီရပ်ဆိုင်းပြီး လက်နက်ဖြုတ်သိမ်း။

Hunters are at high risk of contracting Lyme disease, and a new vaccine candidate is being developed by Pfizer and Valneva to protect against it, although vaccine hesitancy remains a concern. The Current is an inclusive nonprofit, non-partisan news organization providing in-depth watchdog journalism for Savannah and Coastal Georgia’s communities.

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Hunters are at high risk of contracting Lyme disease, and a new vaccine candidate is being developed by Pfizer and Valneva to protect against it, although vaccine hesitancy remains a concern. The Current is an inclusive nonprofit, non-partisan news organization providing in-depth watchdog journalism for Savannah and Coastal Georgia’s communities.

مذاکرات با جمهوری اسلامی در سایه تنش؛ نظرات قانون‌گذاران در کنگره آمریکا

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مذاکرات با جمهوری اسلامی در سایه تنش؛ نظرات قانون‌گذاران در کنگره آمریکا

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تب جام جهانی در لس آنجلس

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تب جام جهانی در لس آنجلس

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For the fifth year in a row, Pennsylvania will not have an on-time state budget as negotiations continue past the holiday weekend.

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For the fifth year in a row, Pennsylvania will not have an on-time state budget as negotiations continue past the holiday weekend.

افغانستان تحت حکومت طالبان در فهرست پرخطرترین کشورها از نظر شکنجه

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افغانستان تحت حکومت طالبان در فهرست پرخطرترین کشورها از نظر شکنجه

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Flora House, which replaces the Rock Springs Cafe, is expected to open in the fall following renovations.

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Flora House, which replaces the Rock Springs Cafe, is expected to open in the fall following renovations.

Durante mucho tiempo se asumió que el hemisferio izquierdo era el gran protagonista del lenguaje. Pero esto no es siempre del todo así.

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Durante mucho tiempo se asumió que el hemisferio izquierdo era el gran protagonista del lenguaje. Pero esto no es siempre del todo así.

Sign up for Chalkbeat Chicago’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the latest news on Chicago Public Schools.A decision Tuesday by the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners prevents dozens of school board candidates from being removed from the ballot.In a 3-0 motion, the board ruled against multiple objectors who said the candidates collected signatures improperly by working with petition circulators who had also circulated petitions for partisan candidates in Illinois’ March primary — known as “dual-circulation.” Chicago’s school board races are nonpartisan. Adam Lasker, general counsel for the board, said this ruling is not technically final, but the board members do not intend to change their opinion.For the first time, all 21 seats on Chicago’s Board of Education are on the ballot in November’s general election. In May, 51 people filed nominating petitions, but 28 now face challenges that argue they don’t have enough valid signatures to have their name printed on the ballot. Many of those challenges made the “dual-circulation” argument. The Electoral Board met at 10 a.m. on Tuesday to hear arguments on the dual-circulation objections questioning the legality of 22 school board candidates’ petitions. What is the “dual-circulation” argument?By Illinois election code, a circulator cannot petition for candidates from two different parties in the same election cycle. Another section states that unless it creates some inconsistency, nonpartisan candidates are treated as independent candidates, which counts as a party affiliation.Ed Mullen, an election lawyer representing multiple candidates, argued that the dual-circulation law should be judged on its intentions, which were to prevent a candidate from switching party affiliation during a single election cycle. He also noted that candidates had no choice but to run as nonpartisan in the school board election.Candidate lawyer Ed Mullen delivers an argument against sustaining the dual-circulation objections.“You’re not switching party affiliation,” Mullen said. “Democrats run against independents, New Party, and Republicans. Nonpartisan runs against nonpartisan. They are not adverse to each other.”Mullen also addressed voter confusion, saying that since the circulations were months apart and for different offices, it would not be confusing to voters to have the same circulator distributing a partisan petition in the primary and a nonpartisan petition for the school board.Michael Kasper, lawyer for the petition objectors, argued that an Illinois Supreme Court ruling, McCaskill v. Municipal Officers Electoral Board for the City of Harvey, that held dual-circulation prohibition does not apply to nonpartisan elections applied only to consolidated elections in odd-numbered years. It doesn’t apply to the general election on which the school board ticket will be run, and thus nonpartisan candidates should be treated as independents, Kasper argued. Kasper also argued that having petitioners circulate for nonpartisan candidates was confusing to voters, since petitioners would be asking for signatures for nonpartisan candidates when they’d previously been doing so for partisan candidates.“The voters are confused when this circulator shows up at the doorstep with an independent petition,” Kasper asked. “But they’re not confused when that same person shows up at the same door on the same day with a nonpartisan petition? Come on.”Objector lawyer Michael Kasper diagrams his argument that petitioners need to maintain party alignment throughout an election cycle.What did the board decide?After hearing the statements, the electoral board’s general counsel Lasker said that even if the objectors’ arguments stood, they were bound by legal precedent established by cases like McCaskill. Lasker also said asking candidates to keep track of whether circulators were previously affiliated would have placed a tremendous burden on their campaigns. After the statements were made, all three members of the board voted in favor of dismissing the dual-circulation challenges. The Board of Election Commissioners will resolve the other objections on a case-by-case basis. Hearings are scheduled per-candidate with hearing officers, with the last on July 8. The final decisions are made by the Board of Election Commissioners after those hearings are complete.Lasker says those hearings won’t change the board’s ruling on this decision.The final decisions may still be appealed after they are made, in which case the objection would be retried in an appellate court.Most candidates who have received the dual-circulation objection will have signatures above the threshold required to earn a place on the ballot, even if all other petition objections stick. Candidates who are facing other objections that could place them below the threshold still may not have enough, but will no longer face the dual-circulation objection.“I think this is really an objection that was created to sow chaos in the election,” Mullen said in an interview with Chalkbeat. “And in that respect it worked, but on the legal perspective it didn’t.”The board also moved to drop objections against three candidates after two objections were withdrawn and another was overruled.This means Aaron “Jitu” Brown (5a) and Katherine Dunneback (9b) will appear on the ballot this fall. Rosita Chatonda (10b) still has one objection case pending, but another objection against her petition was dropped.

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Sign up for Chalkbeat Chicago’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the latest news on Chicago Public Schools.A decision Tuesday by the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners prevents dozens of school board candidates from being removed from the ballot.In a 3-0 motion, the board ruled against multiple objectors who said the candidates collected signatures improperly by working with petition circulators who had also circulated petitions for partisan candidates in Illinois’ March primary — known as “dual-circulation.” Chicago’s school board races are nonpartisan. Adam Lasker, general counsel for the board, said this ruling is not technically final, but the board members do not intend to change their opinion.For the first time, all 21 seats on Chicago’s Board of Education are on the ballot in November’s general election. In May, 51 people filed nominating petitions, but 28 now face challenges that argue they don’t have enough valid signatures to have their name printed on the ballot. Many of those challenges made the “dual-circulation” argument. The Electoral Board met at 10 a.m. on Tuesday to hear arguments on the dual-circulation objections questioning the legality of 22 school board candidates’ petitions. What is the “dual-circulation” argument?By Illinois election code, a circulator cannot petition for candidates from two different parties in the same election cycle. Another section states that unless it creates some inconsistency, nonpartisan candidates are treated as independent candidates, which counts as a party affiliation.Ed Mullen, an election lawyer representing multiple candidates, argued that the dual-circulation law should be judged on its intentions, which were to prevent a candidate from switching party affiliation during a single election cycle. He also noted that candidates had no choice but to run as nonpartisan in the school board election.Candidate lawyer Ed Mullen delivers an argument against sustaining the dual-circulation objections.“You’re not switching party affiliation,” Mullen said. “Democrats run against independents, New Party, and Republicans. Nonpartisan runs against nonpartisan. They are not adverse to each other.”Mullen also addressed voter confusion, saying that since the circulations were months apart and for different offices, it would not be confusing to voters to have the same circulator distributing a partisan petition in the primary and a nonpartisan petition for the school board.Michael Kasper, lawyer for the petition objectors, argued that an Illinois Supreme Court ruling, McCaskill v. Municipal Officers Electoral Board for the City of Harvey, that held dual-circulation prohibition does not apply to nonpartisan elections applied only to consolidated elections in odd-numbered years. It doesn’t apply to the general election on which the school board ticket will be run, and thus nonpartisan candidates should be treated as independents, Kasper argued. Kasper also argued that having petitioners circulate for nonpartisan candidates was confusing to voters, since petitioners would be asking for signatures for nonpartisan candidates when they’d previously been doing so for partisan candidates.“The voters are confused when this circulator shows up at the doorstep with an independent petition,” Kasper asked. “But they’re not confused when that same person shows up at the same door on the same day with a nonpartisan petition? Come on.”Objector lawyer Michael Kasper diagrams his argument that petitioners need to maintain party alignment throughout an election cycle.What did the board decide?After hearing the statements, the electoral board’s general counsel Lasker said that even if the objectors’ arguments stood, they were bound by legal precedent established by cases like McCaskill. Lasker also said asking candidates to keep track of whether circulators were previously affiliated would have placed a tremendous burden on their campaigns. After the statements were made, all three members of the board voted in favor of dismissing the dual-circulation challenges. The Board of Election Commissioners will resolve the other objections on a case-by-case basis. Hearings are scheduled per-candidate with hearing officers, with the last on July 8. The final decisions are made by the Board of Election Commissioners after those hearings are complete.Lasker says those hearings won’t change the board’s ruling on this decision.The final decisions may still be appealed after they are made, in which case the objection would be retried in an appellate court.Most candidates who have received the dual-circulation objection will have signatures above the threshold required to earn a place on the ballot, even if all other petition objections stick. Candidates who are facing other objections that could place them below the threshold still may not have enough, but will no longer face the dual-circulation objection.“I think this is really an objection that was created to sow chaos in the election,” Mullen said in an interview with Chalkbeat. “And in that respect it worked, but on the legal perspective it didn’t.”The board also moved to drop objections against three candidates after two objections were withdrawn and another was overruled.This means Aaron “Jitu” Brown (5a) and Katherine Dunneback (9b) will appear on the ballot this fall. Rosita Chatonda (10b) still has one objection case pending, but another objection against her petition was dropped.

La Corte bloqueó el intento del presidente Donald Trump de eliminar la ciudadanía por nacimiento para hijos de inmigrantes indocumentados y de personas con visas temporales. El fallo protege a más de 300 mil niños al año que quedarían excluidos de ese reconocimiento constitucional. Por Rony Ríos  La Corte Suprema de Estados Unidos declaró inconstitucional ... Read more The post Corte Suprema de Estados Unidos frena el intento de Trump de limitar la ciudadanía por nacimiento appeared first on Prensa Comunitaria.

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La Corte bloqueó el intento del presidente Donald Trump de eliminar la ciudadanía por nacimiento para hijos de inmigrantes indocumentados y de personas con visas temporales. El fallo protege a más de 300 mil niños al año que quedarían excluidos de ese reconocimiento constitucional. Por Rony Ríos  La Corte Suprema de Estados Unidos declaró inconstitucional ... Read more The post Corte Suprema de Estados Unidos frena el intento de Trump de limitar la ciudadanía por nacimiento appeared first on Prensa Comunitaria.