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The Coastal Express, a commuter bus route that each year transports thousands of passengers between Ventura and Santa Barbara counties, is proudly marking its 25th year of service. The Coastal Express Route is provided through a partnership between the Santa Barbara County Association of Governments (SBCAG) and the Ventura County Transportation Commission (VCTC). The service, […] The post VCTC, SBCAG celebrate 25 years of the Coastal Express Route appeared first on Santa Barbara News-Press.

Colorado Rep. Mandy Lindsay told lawmakers on Friday that she did not fully understand the level of financial responsibility involved when she became co-chair of the House Democratic Caucus, and that there was an unset expectation around the accounting and organization of caucus funds. “I did not interpret that role this way. I ran for […]

The area would roughly be along Virginia Avenue, East Street and McCarty Street. The post Fletcher Police considers outdoor drinking area appeared first on Mirror Indy.

La tecnología invisible que protege a los cazas de quinta generación podría enfrentarse a un nuevo desafío: un sistema de inteligencia artificial chino diseñado para leer las huellas térmicas que ningún avión puede eliminar por completo.

IOWA CITY – Morgan Newman was a 24-year-old dental assistant when she was diagnosed with cervical cancer, a disease that is more common in women ages 35-64.  “I had a metastatic recurrence to my lungs,” Newman, of Norwalk, said as she sat by her mom, Kendra, at an event Friday at Sidekick Coffee & Books […]

Travelers on Highway 192 in Carpinteria will encounter a full daytime closure Monday, August 17 through Friday, August 21. This full closure will take place Monday through Thursday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and on Friday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. between Shepard Mesa Road and Highway 150. Crews will perform installation of […] The post Full daytime closure of Highway 192 near Carpinteria set to begin Monday, August 17 appeared first on Santa Barbara News-Press.

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El reparto de dorsales revela una plantilla más definida y una apuesta por la cantera, pero también deja abierta una ventana para el mercado.

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A nonprofit working to put data center decisions in the hands of voters in Butte-Silver Bow County is suing the county after its signature-gathering deadline was changed. A district court judge then temporarily ordered Butte-Silver Bow County election officials to ensure the initiative gets on the ballot. A hearing has been set for arguments about whether that temporary measure should remain in place. The post Butte nonprofit sues county after data center ballot initiative reversal appeared first on Montana Free Press.

CommUnify and its Board of Directors are pleased to announce the acquisition of a property in Santa Maria which will house a future child care and early education campus. The nonprofit has provided Head Start across Santa Barbara County since 1967 and has purchased the former Grace Lutheran Preschool building at 420 East Fesler Street […] The post CommUnify purchases former Grace Lutheran Preschool building in Santa Maria to expand child care services in North County appeared first on Santa Barbara News-Press.

The criminal case against Vladislav Balgrabsky, a 30-year-old who fought in the war, has reached the 2nd Western District Military Court, the independent Russian outlet Mediazona reported. He is charged with voluntarily surrendering to the enemy, desertion, and treason.

(The Center Square) – A panel of three judges on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has handed Texas another win on election integrity. They also chastised U.S. District Court Judge Xavier Rodriguez in their ruling. The case dates to 2021 when the Texas legislature enacted SB 1, which expanded requirements for mail ballots, assisted voter requirements and established penalties for voter harvesting. Multiple groups sued, arguing the law is illegal. The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals again ruled that it is not. It’s the latest ruling the court has issued on SB 1 and Texas election law, each time ruling in Texas’ favor. The Texas Supreme Court and U.S. Supreme Court have also ruled several times on Texas election law, in each case, ruling in favor of Texas. A three-judge panel of the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed Rodriguez’s ruling in its entirety, saying, “the bulk of the plaintiff’s claims fail for lack of standing” and “one fails on the merits. But none justifies interference with the State Legislature’s efforts to prevent voter fraud and to protect election integrity.” Judge Andrew Oldham in an 11-page opinion said, “It has long been established that mail-in ballots are prone to fraud. That is why voting by mail jeopardizes election integrity and democracy itself.” He also chastised Rodriguez, stating, after the legislature enacted SB 1, “As so often happens in modern America, a federal district judge then countermanded the Legislature with sweeping facial injunctions. We have been staying, vacating, and reversing those injunctions ever since.” Oldham listed multiple court rulings to support his point. In a lengthy footnote, he wrote: “The above list does not tell the full story. Across the appeals from this consolidated lawsuit, we have reversed the district court on everything – from denials of motions to intervene, to denials of legislative privilege, to denials of motions to dismiss on sovereign immunity grounds. “In short, we have been playing an exhausting game of Whac-A-Mole to correct the district court’s mishandling of this case,” he said. The footnote also includes a list of reversals with citations. With this ruling’s reversal, Oldham said, “we do it again. In this case, the district court held that nine provisions of S.B. 1 were inconsistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. We disagree and reverse.” The ruling critiques each of the plaintiffs’ arguments, stating the court previously rejected them. It also repeatedly states their arguments are “foreclosed.” The bill was at the center of Texas House Democrats absconding to prevent legislative business from occurring in the summer of 2021. It eventually passed in August 2021, which Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law, The Center Square reported. SB 1, filed by Sen. Bryan Hughes, R-Mineola, created a series of reforms. Among other provisions, it requires voters to provide more information on their mail ballot application and ballot carrier envelope and for the information to match their registration record. It also requires those assisting voters who claim they are disabled and need assistance to take an oath and sign a form that no coercion occurred, the voter requesting assistance qualifies for assistance, and to disclose the assister’s relationship to the voter. It also criminalizes “vote harvesting” by prohibiting assistors from receiving compensation. SB 1, which is in effect, has not prevented voter fraud, Democrats in border communities argue. Those assisting voters are signing the forms and taking the oaths but there is nothing to stop them from assisting dozens of voters, driving them to polling locations, and requesting assistance themselves, according to several lawsuits that have been filed. In one lawsuit, Democrat Martha Morales, a Zapata ISD school board member who’s challenging the outcome of her county judge race, argues she would have won if assisted voter fraud had not occurred, The Center Square reported. In Zapata County, hundreds of voters requested assistance, including those who swore oaths to assist them. Several assistors took the oath and signed the form attesting to the requirements in the bill. They not only claimed they were disabled and needed assistance voting but that they were capable of assisting dozens of voters each. At least one assistor signed an avadavat claiming he was paid to bring assisted voters on behalf of the incumbent judge, The Center Square exclusively reported. The judge and others deny the allegations. Morales, and candidates in other races who’ve made similar allegations, filed complaints with the Secretary of State and Attorney General’s Office.

The invasive species damages boats, poses an injury risk to humans and harms native species.

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This story originally appeared in New York Focus, a nonprofit news publication investigating power in New York. Sign up for their newsletter here.Over the past two and a half years, 17-year-old Ana Ortega has visited dozens of high school classrooms across the South Bronx and Harlem, leading conversations about consent, healthy dating behaviors, and safe sex with students her own age. “A lot of teenagers don’t want to talk to adults because they don’t want to be judged,” she said. Ortega is a peer mentor with the teen pregnancy prevention initiative at Children’s Aid, which provides sexual health education to New York City youth in schools, community centers, and foster care facilities. But parts of the initiative will soon come to an end. Earlier this summer, the Trump administration launched an effort to gut and reshape an Obama-era federal program designed to prevent teen pregnancy, which Children’s Aid had relied on for over 10 years to provide sexual education in vulnerable communities.As part of that overhaul, the federal Department of Health and Human Services notified the nonprofit that it was terminating its grant effective immediately, two years before it was set to expire. “The reason provided was that the initiative no longer aligned with HHS’s priorities,” said Rhonda Braxton, a vice president at Children’s Aid. The organization is among three New York grantees that are losing over $4.3 million in annual federal funding to support evidence-based sexual health education for over 19,000 young people each year.The funding cuts come at what reproductive health advocates describe as a critical time. Although the national teen birth rate remains near a historic low, teen pregnancy rates in New York state and New York City rose between 2021 and 2023 — the first increase in two decades, according to the latest available state and city data. (A vast body of research has linked teen pregnancy and birth to difficulty completing high school, pursuing higher education, and getting well-paying jobs.)Of 67 federal Teen Pregnancy Prevention grants nationwide, all but 14 have been terminated as HHS shifts its focus to abstinence-based initiatives. Last week, members of New York’s congressional delegation sent a letter to HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. urging him to reinstate funding to the three programs that lost it.Braxton said Children’s Aid’s initiative relies on building trust with youth, and goes beyond pregnancy prevention to address positive body image, sexually transmitted infections, and healthy decision-making. Now, Braxton said, “young people are losing those trusted relationships in an era of misinformation and mistrust.”Children’s Aid is looking for more funding to make up for the loss of the $936,700 annual grant. If it can’t find it, the nonprofit will have to eliminate most of its programming, including many of its peer mentors and sex ed at the city’s Children’s Center, a temporary intake facility for children awaiting placement in foster care. (Youth in foster care experience higher rates of teen pregnancy and childbirth than their peers, research shows.) <img src="https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/29953400/thumbnail" width="100%" alt="chart visualization" />In their letter to HHS, lawmakers wrote that Children’s Aid was the only organization providing sexual health education “to a highly vulnerable population that may be at increased risk of trafficking, sexual abuse, and unplanned teen pregnancy.” HHS also canceled funding for NYC Teens Connection, a city program that partners with schools, foster care agencies, and juvenile justice programs to improve teens’ decision-making skills and connect them with local health clinics. Since 2010, the initiative has worked with over 400 organizations and served nearly 130,000 teenagers across the five boroughs.It’s now set to lose $3.9 million in funding over the next two years, putting 15 staff members at risk of losing their jobs. New York City Health Department spokesperson Rachel Vick said in a statement that the initiative and others like it have helped contribute to a 79% decrease in teen pregnancies in New York City over the last three decades. “Teenagers want truth and honesty from the adults in their lives, and programs that center the real-world experience of the young people they serve,” Vick said.There were over 20,000 fewer teen pregnancies in New York City in 2023 than in 2000. But lawmakers and advocates say that post-pandemic increases in the city’s teen pregnancy rate underscore the need for comprehensive sex ed: Between 2022 and 2023, teen pregnancy rates increased across all boroughs other than Brooklyn. It’s unclear what exactly drove the trend, but the city’s 2023 Youth Risk Behavior survey reflected an increase in the number of sexually active students not using contraception since 2021.The cuts also eliminate $1.4 million annually for the HOPE Buffalo program, run by health care nonprofit Cicatelli Associates. The program helped drive a 36 percent decline in teen pregnancy rates across high-poverty Buffalo neighborhoods from 2015 to 2020, according to the group. Cicatelli Associates did not respond to a request for comment.Meredith Ouderkirk, director of public affairs for Planned Parenthood of Central and Western New York, which partnered with Cicatelli to offer the program, said that because New York is run by Democrats, people may assume that everyone has access to comprehensive sex ed. But the state’s sex ed mandate is limited and gives school districts significant discretion, she said, making a child’s access to evidence-based sex education dependent on where they live. The state Department of Health, which does not currently receive funding through the Teen Pregnancy Prevention program, said it may be able to fill gaps left by the federal cuts through its own initiatives that fund community-based projects. Reproductive health organizations are less optimistic. “If this changes the ability to reach even one young person and that results in an unintended pregnancy, that can be life-changing and devastating,” Ouderkirk said.

Svečanom ceremonijom u Narodnom pozorištu otvoren je 32. Sarajevo Film Festival, koji do 21. avgusta donosi više od 250 filmova iz oko 70 zemalja. U takmičarskim selekcijama bit će prikazan 51 novi film iz jugoistočne Evrope, od kojih će 21 imati premijeru.

პოლიციამ 14 აგვიტოს განაცხადა, რომ რენუარის, სეზანის და მატისის 10,4 მილიონ დოლარზე მეტი ღირებულების ნახატები, რომლებიც იტალიის მუზეუმიდან მარტში მოიპარეს, ნაპოვნია.