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The Nelsonville Water Department has issued a boil order for Poplar Street from Desteiguer Street to Burr Oak Boulevard until 3 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 19. The post Nelsonville boil order through Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026 appeared first on Athens County Independent.

Città del Vaticano - Il Cardinale Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefetto del Dicastero per l’Evangelizzazione , in data 23 gennaio 2026, ha confermato nell’incarico di Direttore nazionale delle Pontificie Opere Missionarie dei Paesi Bassi per un altro quinquennio , il rev. Vincent Goulmy, della diocesi di Roermond .. .

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Traversés par un certain nombre de tensions, les lycées agricoles sont loin d’être de simples instruments des organisations professionnelles.

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La Agencia de Protección Ambiental (EPA, por sus siglas en inglés) anunció el 12 de febrero de 2026 la revocación del “dictamen de peligro” (e...

El líder del PP se ha reunido con el vicepresidente de El Salvador, Félix Ulloa, quien defendió el martes en una conferencia que el estado de excepción decretado en 2022 y la detención masiva de personas ha convertido su país en "el más seguro del Hemisferio Occidental" y en un referente para ultras como Alvise o Macarena Olona El PP dice ahora que las presas españolas están en riesgo de “reventar” en plena pugna por el discurso extremo con Vox La reunión se produjo durante el pleno de este miércoles, aunque no figuraba en la agenda oficial del líder del PP. Feijóo no ha intervenido en la sesión de control al Gobierno ante la ausencia del presidente, Pedro Sánchez, y ha estado ausente de su escaño buena parte de la mañana. elDiario.es ha intentado recabar del PP información sobre la reunión sin que ningún portavoz haya querido hacer comentario alguno. Ulloa participó el martes en una conferencia para reivindicar el modelo impuesto por Bukele en El Salvador. La charla estuvo trufada de críticas a la prensa y a las ONG que denuncian las torturas y quiebras de los Derechos Humanos cometidas por el Gobierno en su lucha contra la deliencuencia. “Han salido estos voceros de ONG y periódicos, los dos principales matutinos son 'Diario de Hoy' y 'La Prensa Gráfica'. Estos medios son los portavoces de la oposición política y se volcaron contra el presidente Bukele cuando ofreció en la campaña que iban a pagar impuestos porque ellos no pagaban”, dijo. A renglón seguido, Ulloa reconoció, por ejemplo, que “lo primero que hace la Policía cuando captura a un perfilado es ver su teléfono, sus contactos y las llamadas que hace”. Y asumió que casi un 10% de las 91.000 personas detenidos bajo el régimen de excepcion (que no tiene fecha de caducidad) fueron puestos en libertad “porque demostraron ser inocentes”. Es decir, la inversión de la carga de la prueba que impera en los países democráticos. En una entrevista en 'El Mundo', Ulloa aseguró que El Salvador “es el país más seguro de todo el Hemisferio Occidental”. “Antes ese título lo tenía Canadá. Canadá tenía 2,5 asesinados por cada 100.000 habitantes. El Salvador tiene 1,8, o sea, somos el más seguro de las Américas, de Canadá, Argentina, pasando por las Antillas”, afirmó. El régimen de Bukele ha recibido el apoyo explícito del líder de Salf, Alvise Pérez, quien ha presumido en sus redes de haber visitado El Salvador y sus centros penitenciarios. Según publicó en su canal de Telegram, se reunió con los ministros de Seguridad, Defensa, Educación y Vivienda, así como con el Presidente de la Asamblea Legislativa. “También recorrió todo el país para entender la aplicación de las políticas contra el crimen que han convertido a El Salvador en el país más seguro del continente. Alvise aplicará en España dichas medidas, con mano dura y firme”, La exdirigente de Vox Macarena Olona elogia a Bukele en sus publicaciones. Estado de excepción, amigo de Trump y militares El sesgo autoritario de Nayib Bukele se hizo patente al poco de llegar al Gobierno de El Salvador. En enero de 2020, ante las dudas de que pudiese salir adelante su plan presupuestario contra las pandillas, llenó la asamblea legislativa de militares, amenazó con disolverla y se jactó: “Ahora creo que está muy claro quién tiene el control de la situación”. Desde entonces sus sesgos dictatoriales no han hecho más que acrecentarse. El pacto que trabó secretamente con las maras para limitar la violencia en un país asolado por el crimen organizado estalló por los aires en 2022, dando paso a un estado de excepción de brocha gorda. Hoy las cárceles están llenas —el 1,6% de los 6,5 millones de habitantes del país, el mayor índice del mundo— de presos que con frecuencia no han sido objeto de investigación formal. Y si quedan celdas, las subarrienda a EEUU: la megaprisión de Tecoluca, con capacidad para 40.000 personas, alberga también a supuestos criminales expulsados sumariamente de la potencia norteamericana, algunos meros migrantes deportados ilegalmente en el marco de la cruzada contra los extranjeros de Donald Trump. Aunque goza de popularidad —en 2024 volvió a ganar las elecciones— es alérgico a la crítica y enemigo de la prensa que le planta cara. La redacción de El Faro, uno de los diarios más prestigiosos de Latinoamérica, ha tenido que exiliarse para evitar la cárcel.

Pourquoi retourne-t-on sans cesse à certains écrivains ? Entre transmission scolaire, tourisme culturel et stratégies de célébration, la fabrique de la gloire littéraire éclaire notre rapport au passé.

Une réflexion approfondie s’impose pour mieux comprendre l’influence des industries sur les politiques publiques, les savoirs et l’expertise.

Malgré un retard industriel sur BYD, l’action Tesla ne cesse de grimper. Comment expliquer cet écart entre valorisation boursière et chiffre d’affaires ?

OPINION - California is a global leader in forward-thinking climate and environmental solutions. Derailing the state’s ambitious goals by failing to allow compostable products to be clearly labeled is not an option.

South Carolina’s economy is growing, evolving, and becoming more competitive every year. As businesses expand and new industries take root, one question determines whether South Carolina continues to thrive: Do we have the skilled workforce to support that growth? A new economic impact study conducted by the University of South Carolina’s Darla Moore School of […]

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(The Center Square) – Policy experts are sounding off about proposed legislation heard by the Ohio House Children and Human Services committee recetly to address potential fraud in the child care sector. The Republican-introduced would establish rules for surveillance of child care facilities and expand state monitoring of Publicly Funded Child Care programs. “Ohio has a responsibility to ensure that children in publicly funded child care centers are safe and that taxpayer dollars are being used honestly,” said Rep. Josh Williams, R-Sylvania Township, who sponsored HB 649. In order to ensure that safety, his bill would require all child care centers to obtain camera systems. Those cameras would monitor both the entrances and exits to child care facilities as well as the areas in which children are taught and cared for, excluding bathrooms and changing rooms. The centers would, under the proposal, be required to record daily and provide that footage to the state upon request. “The state needs to possess adequate tools to fully audit these centers and to guarantee child safety in a meaningful and appropriate way,” said Williams. “This legislation closes that gap.” Policy Matters Ohio, a progressive think tank, has argued that the bill goes too far in its scope while relying on systems that aren’t secure. “This is a level of surveillance that does not exist in any other state, with no guardrails to ensure the security of sensitive content,” said Policy Matters Ohio’s Senior Project Coordinator Ali Smith. “The bill allows hundreds of hours of footage to be sent, received, and saved using systems with cybersecurity levels determined by individual programs’ internet connections.” The group added that the cost of buying and maintaining surveillance systems would be daunting for child care centers already struggling to stay afloat. “Child care providers – who operate on razor-thin margins – will be required to foot the bill for this misguided law, even as legislators ignore their advocacy for simple, concrete policies that will lower costs for families and increase access to high-quality care statewide,” said Smith. The committee heard testimony on another bill, HB 647, which would employ data analytics to monitor attendance at publicly-funded child care programs. The legislation would authorize the attorney general’s office to pursue child care fraud while allowing the Department of Children and Youth to suspend providers’ licenses for suspicion of fraud. The department showed support for the legislation at a press conference in January, where Director Kara Wente said, “Good providers will feel supported by these changes, while bad actors will continue to face consequences. And Ohio families will continue to have access to safe, high-quality child care driven by strong oversight and accountability.” “A key aspect of this bill is there are 5,200 child care centers being monitored and over 100,000 children a day,” said Rep. Tom Young, R-Washington Township. “This bill will help create a system of advanced analytics to aid in the detection and the protection of taxpayers’ dollars.” Despite Young’s assertions that the legislation would “(1) reduce eligibility for families currently receiving care, (2) eliminate transitional child care, (3) target providers who are operating safely and lawfully, or (4) reduce child care for working families,” advocates remain wary. “Instead of addressing real needs like affordable child care, adequate funding, and options for families who work nontraditional hours, lawmakers are pouring resources into untested surveillance systems that will further deepen the child care crisis.”

It takes 33 votes to advance a constitutional amendment in the Washington State Senate. In a universe where the Washington Legislature cared about the rule of law and honoring state supreme court precedent, the income tax vote on Senate Bill 6346 would have failed by six votes (it received 27 yes votes). Six prior times in the state’s history, the Washington Legislature understood that to follow the rule of law and comply with numerous state Supreme Court rulings, a constitutional amendment was required to impose a non-uniform income tax in excess of 1%. This is due to the state constitution’s protections for taxes on property. As noted by former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Gerry Alexander, former justice Phil Talmadge, and former state Attorney General Rob McKenna in their joint legal brief concerning Seattle’s failed attempt to impose an income tax: “Our Supreme Court has held unequivocally that income is ‘intangible property.’” Though overwhelmingly rejected by voters, income tax constitutional amendments were put on the ballot in 1934, 1936, 1938, 1942, 1970, and 1973. Along with rejecting these constitutional amendments, voters have also turned down four other income tax ballot measures in 1944, 1975, 1982, and 2010 (ten total income tax proposals have been rejected by voters). Here is what voters were asked to do with the prior rejected constitutional amendments: 1934: “A resolution amending section 1 of Article VII of the constitution by providing that all taxes shall be uniform upon the same class of subjects within the territorial limits of the authority levying the tax and shall be levied and collected for public purposes only; providing that there shall be such exemptions from taxation as the legislature may by general law provide; and providing that nothing contained in this section shall be construed to prevent the enactment of a graduated net income tax law.” (57% no vote) 1936: “A Proposal to repeal section 12, article XI and amend sections 1 and 9, article VII of the constitution by providing: uniform taxation upon the same class of subjects; that the legislature may provide exemptions and graduated net income tax, may vest municipalities with power to make local improvements by special assessment or taxation; cannot require counties or municipalities to tax for county or municipal purposes but may under legislative restriction, vest them with such authority.” (78% no vote) 1938: “A Proposal to amend Section 1, Article VII of the Constitution of the State of Washington relating to taxation by providing that nothing contained in said section shall be construed to prevent the enactment of a graduated net income tax law.” (67% no vote) 1942: “A Proposal to amend Article VII of the Constitution by adding a new section, section 2, providing that income shall not be construed as property for the purpose of taxation, and empowering the legislature to enact graduated net income taxes, and to provide exemptions, offsets and deductions.” (66% no vote)1970: “Shall the state constitution be amended to reduce the maximum allowable rate of taxation against property to 1 percent of true and fair value in the absence of authorized excess levies, and to permit the legislature to tax income at a single rate without regard to this limitation or, after 1975, at a graduated rate if the voters in that year or thereafter approve the removal of the single rate limitation?” (68% no vote)1973: “Shall a graduated net income tax be authorized, excess levies for school operations be prohibited, and some excise taxes limited?” (77% no vote) Why didn’t these prior legislatures do what the 2026 Senate just did and simply pass an income tax without a constitutional amendment? As the state Supreme Court noted in 1960, an income tax must be decided with a constitutional amendment: “The argument is again pressed upon us that these cases were wrongly decided. The court is unwilling, however, to recede from the position announced in its repeated decisions. Among other things, the attorney general urges that the result should now be different because the state is confronted with a financial crisis. If so, the constitution may be amended by vote of the people. Such a constitutional amendment was rejected by popular vote in 1934.” All elected officials in the Evergreen State swear this oath when they take office: “I do solemnly swear [or affirm] that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution and laws of the State of Washington, and all local ordinances, and that I will faithfully and impartially perform and discharge the duties of the office, according to the law and the best of my ability.” There are many court rulings we all disagree with. But once a supreme court has spoken on constitutional issues, the correct way to address a change is with a constitutional amendment. Lawmakers willfully defying a ruling they don’t like in hopes that different judges will change a century of legal precedents, against the backdrop of voters consistently rejecting income tax constitutional amendments, is a recipe for constitutional chaos. We'll soon know if the Washington House and governor (a former state attorney general) care about following the rule of law or will instead follow the Senate's bad example. Jason Mercier is Vice President and Director of Research of Mountain States Policy Center, an independent research organization based in Idaho, Montana, Eastern Washington and Wyoming. Online at mountainstatespolicy.org.

The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights said Wednesday he was alarmed by reports that The post UN says drone strikes kill over 50 civilians in Sudan appeared first on Radio Tamazuj.

Nigel Farage, leader du parti de Reform UK, ne cesse de progresser dans les sondages, au point qu’il est désormais plausible qu’il devienne un jour premier ministre.

Si les patients étaient informés lorsqu’on leur administre des traitements a priori sans effet sur leur maladie, cela nuirait-il à l’effet placebo recherché ?

Du cauchemar de Pascal Siakam avec les Indiana Pacers au renouveau de Joel Embiid avec les Philadelphia Sixers, les représentants du continent africain ont connu des débuts de saison contrastés en NBA.

Religions numériques, « bombes logiques » et contre-surveillance : il est difficile de savoir si les agents d’IA qui interagissent sur Moltbook le font de façon autonome ou s’ils sont manipulés par des humains.