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Amanda Winkelmann held up a baby bottle filled with tap water as she spoke at the Iowa Capitol Thursday about the need for greater attention to Iowa’s water quality. “If we could see it,” Winkelmann said and used a paintbrush to put a drop of pink paint into the water. “Would we solve it?”  Winkelmann, […]

A lawmaker got split results Thursday with two attempts to reform aspects of state-funded economic development in South Dakota. A bill from Canton Republican Rep. Karla Lems to tighten conflict-of-interest restrictions on members of the state Board of Economic Development failed in the state House, but she won a committee’s endorsement of her bill that […]

Following a season of rave reviews at Edinburgh Fringe, Jade Franks brings her one-person show about suffocating (and sometimes suffocatingly funny) British class divides to Adelaide. ★★★½

Vera Shrimp announces that there’s going to be bits about science and bits about her. The combination is both fascinating and heartbreaking. ★★★★★

Fearing her daughter won’t make captain of the school debating team an overzealous mother turns to drastic tactics to win the argument. ★★★★

LINCOLN — A parade of wildlife groups and conservationists urged state senators Thursday to prevent “death by a thousand cuts” of the Nebraska Environmental Trust by advancing a proposal to protect the Trust against cash fund raids to help the state budget. Gov. Jim Pillen has proposed to sweep out more than $40 million in […]

ROME, Ga. – In a freewheeling hour-long speech at a northwest Georgia steel plant, President Donald Trump sought to boost his second-term economic agenda ahead of November’s pivotal midterm elections. “We have the most people working in history, and just recently, we crossed two milestones,” he said Thursday. “They thought it was totally impossible when […]

(The Center Square) - The Arizona state House Government Committee passed a bill mandating the Arizona Department of Child Safety and the state court system prioritize kinship placements when a child is taken into the state’s custody. On Thursday afternoon, committee members voted 4-2 for House Bill 2035, with one representative voting "present." HB 2035 adds extended family members to the list of people whom children may be placed with in DCS's cases. The bill would also require the DCS to assume that placing children with an extended family member or a person with a significant relationship is in their best interests. HB 2035 mandates that at preliminary protective hearings, the state family court system must presume placing children with extended family or with people with whom they have significant relationships is in the children's best interest. The bill defines an extended family member as “an adult person who has a connection to a child by marriage to a biological family member of the child.” Rep. Lisa Fink, R-Peoria, who is HB 2035’s sponsor, said children do better when placed in kinship care. Fink said her bill is “seeking to codify into law what’s already DCS policy.” Children deal with less trauma when placed with “familiar caregivers,” as well as have reduced anxiety and behavioral problems due to maintaining “existing attachment bonds,” she noted. Compared to non-relative foster care, children in kinship care have lower rates of depression, anxiety and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Fink noted, adding that they have better academic outcomes, too. The state senator explained when kids go missing from state care, the lowest percentage comes from kinship care. Even though this is the current DCS policy, Fink said the policy was not being followed as well as it should be. Dianne Post, an Arizona attorney, spoke in favor of the bill because of the “overrepresentation of African Americans in the DCS system.” A study from the Common Sense Institute Arizona showed African Americans represent 20.2% of all children in DCS care, which is behind Hispanics (32.8%) and whites (32.4%). She claimed African American culture, like Native American culture, “has an extended system, which is not recognized by the agency or by the courts.” A child is “better off in foster care with a family member or a kin than with an unknown foster family,” she told the House committee.

Rumores de fichaje rodean al futbolista, pero el Atleti respira: su contrato sigue vigente hasta 2030 en medio del ruido mediático.

Andrés nunca logró construir una identidad pública desligada del privilegio ni consolidarse como una figura especialmente querida. Pero el punto de inflexión definitivo llegó con el escándalo de Jeffrey Epstein, que transformó el desgaste en una crisis sin precedentes.

Members of the Michigan Public Service Commission on Thursday gave their unanimous approval to DTE Energy’s request to collect an additional $242.4 million from its customers to support upgrades to its energy grid. As one of the largest energy companies in the state, DTE provides energy to 2.3 million customers across southeast Michigan. On average, […]

Evelyn Matthei respondió a una comentada escena de la teleserie Reunión de Superados, de Mega, donde la actriz Elisa Zulueta, que interpreta a Teresita Astaburuaga, alude explícitamente a algunos políticos del país. En la ficción, todo ocurre cuando se llevan detenido a su padre, Jaime Astaburuaga (Francisco Reyes), debido a delitos económicos. Es entonces que … Continua leyendo "Evelyn Matthei se defiende de comentada escena de "Reunión de Superados" que critica a los políticos" The post Evelyn Matthei se defiende de comentada escena de "Reunión de Superados" que critica a los políticos appeared first on BioBioChile.

ཉིན་ལྟར་ཐོན་བཞིན་པའི་བོད་དང་ཨ་རིའི་གསར་འགྱུར་ཁག་དང་། འཛམ་གླིང་གསར་འགྱུར་ཁག་རྒྱང་སྲིང་ཞུས་པ་ཕུད། དེ་མིན་དམིགས་བསལ་ལེ་ཚན་ཁག་ཅིག་རྒྱང་སྲིང་ཞུ་བཞིན་ཡོད།

La Asamblea Nacional (AN, Parlamento) de Venezuela aprobó este jueves, de manera unánime, una histórica ley de amnistía para presos políticos condenados en episodios de crisis política entre 2002 y 2025 y que . En el artículo 9 de la nueva legislación se excluyen de la aplicación de la amnistía los delitos sobre violaciones graves … Continua leyendo "Venezuela aprueba por unanimidad ley de amnistía: excluye a quienes promovieron acciones armadas" The post Venezuela aprueba por unanimidad ley de amnistía: excluye a quienes promovieron acciones armadas appeared first on BioBioChile.

سازمان یونیسف با انتشار بیانیه‌ای رسمی نسبت به وضعیت کودکان بازداشت‌شده در جریان خیزش سراسری ایران ابراز نگرانی کرد و خواستار آزادی فوری آن‌ها شد.

(The Center Square) – The Seattle City Council has unanimously passed a bill prohibiting city employees and departments from sharing nonpublic personal information with federal immigration authorities for civil enforcement purposes without a warrant. Council Bill 121158 is meant to protect immigrant communities, align city policy with the state’s Keep Washington Working Act, and remove outdated code that directed cooperation. The legislation is also meant to clarify that immigration enforcement is a federal, not local, matter. Councilmember Maritza Rivera is the bill’s sponsor. “I believe, colleagues, as I think we all believe, ICE officials are acting unconstitutionally, and what they are doing in our city and in other cities is simply unacceptable,” she said at Tuesday’s city council meeting. “Whatever actions we can take, we should be taking.” In January, two U.S. citizens, Renée Good and Alex Pretti, were fatally shot by federal agents in Minneapolis during intensified immigration enforcement efforts. Both shootings occurred amid rising tensions over federal efforts to deport illegal immigrants. Passage of the legislation comes after previous steps taken by city and King County officials to prepare for and limit any possible federal immigration enforcement efforts in Washington. Last week, King County Executive Director Girmay Zahilay signed an executive order prohibiting federal immigration authorities from accessing non-public, county-owned or controlled spaces. The executive order also allocates $2 million to bolster protections for immigrant and refugee communities. Late last month, Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson announced a series of initial steps to prepare the city for a potential surge in federal immigration enforcement, including directing the police department to verify the identification of federal agents and document reports of immigration enforcement activity, prohibiting federal immigration officials from using city-owned or controlled property for enforcement activities, and allocating $4 million to local immigrant support organizations. Seattle is considered a sanctuary city and is recognized as a sanctuary jurisdiction by the U.S. Department of Justice. The city restricts local law enforcement and city employees from inquiring about immigration status and prohibits the Seattle Police Department from participating in civil immigration enforcement. “What I, and we, can do today is ensure that Seattle’s policies around information sharing are clear, that they reflect our values, and that they align with state law,” Rivera said. “This legislation provides that much-needed clarity and alignment with state law.” CB 121158 bans the release of "nonpublicly available personal information” – home addresses, phone numbers, social media handles – for use in the enforcement of civil immigration law. The legislation applies across all city departments, not just the police department, and information can only be shared if a judicial warrant is provided. It repeals the pro-cooperation language in Section 4.18.010 of the Seattle Municipal Code. The bill passed on an 8-0 vote.

During its final planned day of legislative business this year, the Wisconsin Assembly passed a bill to ensure health care coverage of screenings for women at high risk of breast cancer and a bill to extend postpartum Medicaid coverage to a year. Republican lawmakers announced Wednesday evening that they would vote on the bills, breaking […]

⚡ Coal plant survival? Consumer’s Energy planned to close the J.H. Campbell coal-fired power plant in West Olive, Michigan by May 31, 2025, yet it remains open due to emergency 90-day orders from the Trump administration. The latest was issued Feb. 17. The cost to keep Campbell open will be shared among customers in the Midwest electric […]

San Joaquin Delta College lost heating to a majority of its Stockton campus buildings Wednesday and will remain closed through Thursday, according to an alert on the college website Delta College campus closed again due to heating issues; freezing temperatures and rain expected in area is a story from Stocktonia News, a rigorous and factual newsroom covering Greater Stockton, California. Please consider making a charitable contribution to support our journalism.

For two years now, animal advocates have urged Utah lawmakers to do something to help cats and dogs saved from abusive situations only to spend months or years stuck in animal shelters as their owners’ criminal cases wind slowly through the courts, with taxpayers footing the bill. They may go another year without a solution.  […]