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A colossal software overhaul of the University of Rhode Island’s (URI) administrative and payroll systems on track to launch next fall may need to change course after state officials asked university officials to possibly take over a big responsibility it previously told them not to pursue. URI began its transition to a more modern infrastructure […]

The two Candidates vying to represent San Diego’s District 2 — which covers Point Loma, Ocean Beach, Pacific Beach and Clairemont — faced off Monday over how to address city spending and homelessness, two reliable parts of any city debate. But at the evening candidate forum they also  jumped in  on the recently re-ignited debate […]

Las carencias de carreteras, ferrocarril y, especialmente, del aeropuerto de Peinador dibujan un problema que ya no es solo de movilidad: afecta directamente a la competitividad, la inversión y las oportunidades de la provincia.

A citizens group wants Weld County voters to have the final say on county commissioners’ recent approval of a large data center project near Windsor — and to require voter approval of all such developments in the future. Two petitions backed by the group Protect Our Water and Energy Resources, or POWER, were approved for […]

Ohio senators got their first chance Tuesday to discuss a gas tax holiday Republican leaders announced last week. The GOP is aiming to pass its plan with an emergency clause so the measure can take effect immediately. To do that, they’ll need to pick up Democratic votes in the House. If the reaction among state […]

En la pila comunitaria de Chicoy, en la zona 4 de San Juan Comalapa, Chimaltenango, una abuela del barrio llena su tinaja y lava la ropa para abastecer su casa donde no cuenta con un chorro propio. Con la pila abastecida tras varios meses sin agua, los vecinos ven como el esfuerzo de varios meses ... Read more The post Organización comunitaria permite que vecinos de Chicoy, Comalapa, recuperen acceso al agua  appeared first on Prensa Comunitaria.

El futuro del peso ligero de la Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) se encuentra sumido en una profunda incertidumbre tras las revelaciones protagonizadas por su actual monarca. Apenas tres meses después de tocar el cielo deportivo el pasado 14...

The race for New Mexico’s 2nd Congressional District regularly constitutes one of the most competitive and closely watched in the country. This year has heightened stakes as Democrats seek to retain the seat in their push to regain control of the U.S. House of Representatives.

A disputa para o Senado no Distrito Federal mostra Michelle Bolsonaro (PL) com 26% das intenções de voto. No entanto, o cenário é de indefinição para a segunda vaga por conta de um empate técnico entre três candidatas: Leila do Vôlei (PDT), Bia Kicis (PL) e Erika Kokay (PT).  Dentro da margem de erro de […] Fonte

Her çend 30ê Îlonê wekî roja dawî ya radestkirina çekan dihat texmînkirin jî, lê dirêjkirina dema dawî ya radestkirina çekên di dest mîlîşyayên Îraqî de ji aliyê hikûmetê ve gelek senaryoyan bi xwe re tîne.

Thousands of people across Turtle Island will gather to remember, grieve, educate, mourn those who survived and are victims of Indian boarding and residential schools. The post 2026 Orange Shirt Day Event List appeared first on Underscore Native News.

La guerra continúa siendo una de las expresiones más extremas del fracaso de la razón y de la capacidad humana para resolver los conflictos mediante el diálogo. Más allá de fronteras, intereses y estrategias geopolíticas, sus consecuencias recaen especialmente sobre la población civil, con vidas destruidas, hogares arrasados y generaciones marcadas por la violencia.

Two behavioral health professionals from Iowa are currently facing disciplinary charges related to their relationships with patients. The first of the two cases involves Chad M. Elbandagji of Cedar Falls, who does business as Chad Mohammad. The Iowa Board of Behavioral Health Professionals has charged Elbandagji, an independent social worker, with violating the regulations of […]

Lee Enterprises, which owns five of Montana’s largest circulation newspapers, is acquiring one more daily paper, the Great Falls Tribune, the company announced on Monday. In Montana, Lee Enterprises owns The Billings Gazette, the Missoulian, the Helena Independent-Record, the Montana Standard, and the Ravalli Republic. With Lee’s acquisition of the Tribune, the company controls newspapers […]

دونالد ترامپ، رئيس‌جمهوری آمریکا، مقاله‌ای را روز سه‌شنبه بازنشر کرد که می‌گوید «رژیم ایران کنترل تنگه هرمز را از دست داده است.»

(The Center Square) - A recent ruling from the Washington State Supreme Court against a voter-approved initiative to protect natural gas as an energy choice could have wide reaching consequences for other initiatives and legislation, including the recently passed income tax law. On Sept. 17, the Washington Supreme Court struck down Initiative 2066, the 2024 measure protecting residents' access to natural gas. In the 6-3 decision, the majority opinion written by Chief Justice Debra Stephens, ruled that I-2066 violated the state constitution's single-subject clause. The rule bars initiatives and legislation from combining unrelated policies into a single measure. The state's single-subject rule applies to legislative enactments as well as voter initiatives. If a challenge to the income tax legislation (SB 6346) reaches the court, justices may face questions over whether lawmakers adhered to the same standard applied to the natural gas measure. I-2066 bundled natural gas access, building codes, utility rates, and Clean Air Act provisions into the initiative and the court said it could not determine if voters knew about all the different components. “This decision, by setting a new standard on what a single subject is in creating law, that standard has to be applied consistently, whether it's an initiative or legislation that's backed by the legislature,” said Greg Lane, vice president of the Building Industry Association of Washington, which backed I-2066. Lane told The Center Square the Court has opened up a can of worms for lawmakers. “If this is the new standard, there are a number of laws that the Legislature passed….that are out of compliance with this new standard for single subjects…..this is really going to hamstring the Legislature in passing legislation that's going to now have to comply with this new standard,” said Lane. The free market think tank Washington Policy Center agrees the ruling on I-2066 could have far reaching consequences, including for the recently passed income tax. “ESSB 6346 is not just an income tax bill after all. Lawmakers folded in changes to the business and occupation tax, adjustments to the sales tax, an expansion of the Working Families Tax Credit (WFTC), and a contribution to an early learning account, then sent the entire package out to a single vote,” wrote WPC’s Budget and Tax Policy Director Ryan Frost. “Under the single-subject rule the Supreme Court just reaffirmed…these policies belonged in separate bills, standing or falling on their own terms,” wrote Frost. Jim Walsh, who chairs the Washington State Republican Party, told The Center Square he’s wondering if the State Supreme Court will use the same thought process to kill the income tax repeal initiative, I-645, which will be on the Nov. 3 ballot. “The State Supreme Court has set a bad precedent for how it's going to treat initiatives, especially on anything that's even remotely controversial. Obviously, we're all thinking about the current initiative to repeal the state income tax." "Will the State Supreme Court use the same kind of lazy, legal logic to reverse the repeal?” Walsh asked. “This bad ruling, with regard to natural gas choice….it makes us concerned that the State Supreme Court will do a similar thing and play the same kind of word games, with the initiative to repeal the state income tax.” Many groups that fought against the natural gas law hailed the ruling earlier this month. “Initiative 2066 was a classic example of logrolling - packing an initiative packaging a host of different issues that confuse voters in order to ram through unpopular reforms that the public would not support ,” said Dylan Plummer, Deputy Director of the Sierra Club’s Clean Heat Campaign in a press release. “The Supreme Court’s ruling is a clear refutation of this cynical tactic by the fossil fuel industry to rollback a host of energy efficiency, clean air and climate policy with this misleading initiative.” Attorneys who challenged the natural gas initiative also praised the court for striking down the measure due to multiple provisions. “The Washington Supreme Court reaffirmed the basic constitutional requirement that a law—whether enacted by the Legislature or by initiative—cannot bundle distinct and unrelated policy changes into a single measure,” Pacifica Law Group attorneys Paul Lawrence and Kai Smith, who represented the coalition against I-2066, said in the release. WPC’s Frost speculated that backers of I-645 may have intentionally crafted the initiative to focus only on repealing the income tax alone, while leaving tax relief measures written into SB 6346 intact, to avoid any conflict with the single-subject rules. “Broadening the initiative's scope to overturn the whole bill would have created a multi-subject measure, handing opponents like the public sector unions, who stand to gain the most from additional government spending, the exact same single-subject argument the court just wielded against I-2066,” wrote Frost. Lane at BIAW said the State Supreme Court may not have realized the hornets nest they stirred with the ruling against I-2066. “The court is inserting itself, I think, inappropriately, in the lawmaking process, whether or not that law is from an initiative by the people on the ballot, or whether it's the legislature passing laws, they all have to apply now to this new standard,” Lane said.

La acampada de la Puerta del Sol vuelve a poner la vivienda en el centro del debate, con el caso de Maricarmen como símbolo de una preocupación que afecta especialmente a quienes encuentran cada vez más difícil acceder a un hogar.

A data center planned in North Dakota’s Cass County would use nearly twice the power of a data center under construction in the Fargo area.  Minnesota-based Geronimo Power has filed for a conditional use permit for a data center in Harmony Township, near the Bison Substation north of Mapleton.  The company also has created a […]

Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. Sign up for Votebeat Pennsylvania’s free newsletter here.For the first time in recent memory, a bill to open up Pennsylvania’s primary elections to unaffiliated voters has passed the state House.The bill still faces tough odds of becoming law, particularly since there are only two months left in the 2025-2026 legislative session. But the bill’s passage in the lower chamber represents a milestone for advocates.“There’s nothing more foundational to our democracy, to build institutional accountability, than ensuring everyone has a right to vote and a voice in the democratic process,” state Rep. Jared Solomon (D., Philadelphia), the bill’s prime sponsor, said. He said the bill would “open up the process, get new voices in, lower the political temperature, lower the extremism we see in our politics, and make sure that these voices have a stake and a say in the democratic process in Pennsylvania.”House Bill 280 passed 115-88, with most Democrats voting in favor as well as some Republicans.The bill would allow registered voters with no political party affiliation to select which party’s primary election they would like to vote in. However, it would not allow them to vote in a party’s internal elections, such as for committee seats, which had been one of opponents’ chief concerns.Pennsylvania has had closed primaries for nearly 100 years and is one of the last states in the nation to bar unaffiliated voters from participating in them. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, only seven other states have closed primaries. “For too long, independent Pennsylvanians have helped pay for primary elections while being denied the opportunity to participate in them,” David Thornburgh, a longtime open primaries advocate and chair of Ballot PA Action, said in a statement. “Today’s bipartisan vote moves Pennsylvania closer to a more fair and more representative election system — one where all voters matter and all votes count.”Solomon’s bill would transition the state to a “semi-open” system in which unaffiliated voters could participate in the primary of their choice, but a Democrat could not choose to vote in a Republican primary or vice versa. Unaffiliated voters are the fastest-growing segment of Pennsylvania’s electorate. Since the 2024 election, both the Democratic and Republican parties have lost voters, but the share of voters registered with no party has increased by 7 percentage points; they now make up more than 13% of the state’s electorate. Proponents of open primaries have argued that it’s unfair for unaffiliated voters to be locked out of primaries when their tax dollars pay for them. Plus, in many areas of the state, the primary election is effectively the actual election, because one-party dominance makes victory in the primary a near-certain path to victory in November.Opponents, on the other hand, have argued opening up participation to non-party members would dilute the purpose of a primary and is unnecessary. “Every voter already has an option to vote in the primary if they choose,” said state Rep. Wendy Fink (R., York), referring to the option for a voter to switch their registration to affiliate with a party. She also argued that primaries are not elections in the strictest sense, but rather nominating contests for parties.The change would also create a new administrative burden for election officials. It would require them to create multiple new ballot types for certain elections, which would take additional staff resources to proofread and could potentially increase the risk of errors. For example, in a primary in which Democratic candidates are on the ballot for local offices as well as for party committee positions, two types of ballots would be required: one for Democratic voters who can vote for the committee candidates and one for unaffiliated voters who cannot. Sean Drasher, the Lebanon County election director, said it would require more training for poll workers.“It will absolutely increase the risk of error,” he said. “We’re working so, so hard to eliminate any mistakes to begin with. … So it’s frustrating, but we’ll do our best to train around it, and I’m sure with time we’ll get it under control.” The bill faces long odds in the state Senate. Republicans, who control the upper chamber, have been adamant that any election legislation be paired with expanded voter ID requirements, preferably in the form of a constitutional amendment. They repeated that sentiment after Tuesday’s vote.“House Democrats’ continual unwillingness to include advancement of commonsense Voter ID is an impediment to the discussion of additional voting reforms,” Senate Majority Leader Joe Pittman (R., Indiana), said in an emailed statement.Solomon, however, expressed optimism that the bill could still pass the upper chamber, noting that state Senate Republicans passed a similar bill by a wide margin in 2019.A representative for Gov. Josh Shapiro declined to comment on whether he was supportive of the bill.Carter Walker is a reporter for Votebeat in partnership with Spotlight PA. Contact Carter at cwalker@votebeat.org.

Maryland school officials Tuesday celebrated a sharp drop chronic absenteeism since the pandemic, despite uneven results across school districts and not reaching their goal of cutting post-pandemic rates in half.