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The American Birkebeiner “Birkie” cross-country ski races from Cable to Hayward just concluded on Saturday, Feb. 21. It was the 52nd annual running of the marathon races. The Birkie is part of the Worldloppet Ski Federation, an international association of marathon cross-country ski races held in Europe, the Americas, New Zealand, Australia, China, and Japan. […]

After his brother’s killing, Monte Mabra decided to confront revenge culture in Milwaukee. The post Monte Mabra wants the revenge to stop appeared first on Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service.

PIERRE — A proposal to change how the state collects the fee used to finance South Dakota’s governor-controlled economic development fund failed on a 31-36 vote Monday in the state House of Representatives.  The Future Fund was created in 1987 at the request of then-Gov. George Mickelson. It was placed under the governor’s exclusive control, […]

The Northern Mariana Islands will be holding elections for governor and lieutenant governor on November 3, 2026, after unexpected events altered the territory’s political landscape. Arnold I. Palacios (R) intended to run for reelection, seeking a second term in office, following his 2023 victory over incumbent Ralph Torres (R). However, on July 23, 2025, Palacios […] The post Northern Mariana Islands 2026 gubernatorial race kicks off appeared first on Pasquines.

Netflix confirma combate profesional el 19 de septiembre en la Esfera de Las Vegas.

President Donald Trump wants to put Katie Lane, a Virginia attorney, on the United States District Court for the District of Montana. Let’s skip the polite fiction. She is not qualified. This isn’t about ideology. I practiced before conservative judges for decades. I respected them because they were prepared, disciplined, and deeply experienced. They understood […]

With a March 1 deadline looming, data from the Montana Department of Revenue indicates that landlords for as many as three-quarters of the state’s rental housing units haven’t applied for an exemption that would shield their properties from hefty tax increases as the state’s new second-home tax is fully implemented on this fall’s tax bills. The post Many Montana landlords haven’t filed to avoid second-home tax appeared first on Montana Free Press.

Budget writers in the Washington Legislature on Monday declared their intent to eventually buy more hybrid electric ferries to modernize the state ferry fleet.  But newly unveiled House and Senate transportation spending proposals left at the dock a $1 billion borrowing request from the governor to pay the tab, raising doubts about when and how […]

Learn how to dribble a basketball, swing a golf club and more with these low-cost Milwaukee Recreation sports classes. The post Registration opens this week for Milwaukee youth sports classes appeared first on Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service.

Eslovaquia anuncia el fin del suministro eléctrico de emergencia a Kiev y lo condiciona al restablecimiento del oleoducto Druzhba, mientras que Hungría mantiene bloqueada la ayuda financiera prometida por la UE y el nuevo paquete de sanciones contra Rusia.

Pelosi announced earlier this year that she won’t seek reelection to her San Francisco seat, 39 years after her first election to Congress.

The Montana Farmers Union responded to last week’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning the Trump administration’s tariffs saying the decision benefits small Montana ag producers.  In a statement issued Friday, Montana Farmers Union President Walter Schweitzer said he hoped the decision would embolden Congress to “do its job.” “The damage that was caused by the […]

The final marathon session included a reversal on postpartum Medicaid coverage and a plan to use $125 million to address PFAS pollution. The post Wisconsin Assembly is done legislating for the year. Here’s what lawmakers did and what’s unfinished. appeared first on Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service.

(The Center Square) – House and Senate Democrats released their supplemental budget proposals on Sunday, offering two plans to fill a multi-billion-dollar deficit while ultimately increasing total spending. Gov. Bob Ferguson signed a $77.9 billion operating budget last spring for the 2025-27 biennium, with $150.4 billion in spending across all budgeted funds. Despite passing the largest tax increase in state history, Olympia faces another gap that Ferguson proposed filling with a $79 billion operating budget.​ Rep. Timm Ormsby, D-Spokane, released his $79.9 billion operating budget proposal on Sunday, which totals $156.1 billion after all budgeted funds. He called it maintenance-level spending, along with Sen. June Robinson, D-Everett, who proposed a $80.1 billion budget, with $157.1 billion across every fund. “A state is primarily an employer, and cost of providing good jobs for state workers with health care benefits continues to rise,” Robinson said Monday when asked why the state is facing another deficit. “Our incoming tax revenue is relatively flat, so it's the situation we're in, where we need to find a way to balance our budget and provide the services that we're best able to provide with the limited resources.” House Democrats didn’t hold a press conference on Monday to roll out Ormsby’s proposal, and Senate Republicans didn’t attend the media availability that Robinson hosted with Sen. Noel Frame, D-Seattle. Both plans balance spending through 2027, with the House budget suggesting a $247 million surplus, and the Senate operating budget projecting a $101 million surplus. However, both also lead to deficits ranging from $917 million to $979 million in 2028, before returning to surpluses in the following year.​ House Republican Budget Leader Rep. Travis Couture blasted the Democrats' proposal in a statement on Sunday, arguing that it drains state reserves without addressing rising costs for taxpayers. He said the majority party is putting the government over vital obligations like public education and pensions.​ “You can’t fix budget problems with more spending,” Couture responded to the House proposal. “When families face a deficit, they cut back to the essentials. When Democrats face a deficit, they raise your taxes, raid savings and pensions, and ensure government keeps growing while family budgets suffer." ​ “That’s not leadership,” he continued, “it’s a spending addiction.”​ Ormsby and Robinson both proposed aspects of Ferguson’s supplemental proposal, including ending tax credits for data centers and prescription drug providers, and tapping the state’s rainy-day fund. Known as the budget stabilization account, or BSA, the rainy-day fund currently holds about $2 billion. “It’s not an easy decision to use rainy day fund dollars,” Robinson said during a press conference on Monday. “It also seemed untenable to make an additional $750 million of reductions in this budget.”​ The House operating budget proposal would take $880 million from the BSA to fill the state’s deficit, while the Senate’s plan would transfer $750 million. Both proposals also assume more than $2 billion over the next four years from the proposed millionaire’s tax. Voters have already rejected a state income tax on the ballot 10 times over the last century, and opponents argue the millionaire tax is unconstitutional.​ Ferguson recently held a press conference after the Senate passed the millionaire’s tax ahead of the House considering the proposal over the coming days and weeks. He argued that the proposed income tax wouldn’t provide enough tax relief to Washingtonians, encouraging amendments before passage. Senate and House transportation budget proposals Unlike the House and Senate operating budgets, Sen. Marko Liias, D-Edmonds, and Sen. Curtis King, R-Yakima, held a press conference on Monday to roll out what they called a “bipartisan” supplemental transportation budget. However, Curtis confirmed that he hadn’t presented it to his caucus quite yet. “I'm going to present this to them probably in about an hour,” King said Monday morning. “I'm hopeful that the fact that there are no new taxes in this bill will help garner some votes on my side of the aisle.” The Senate transportation heads proposed a $17 billion budget, increasing 2025-27 spending by $1.5 billion. Liias and Curtis also published a three-biennium “planning horizon” outlining how they plan to prioritize preservation and maintenance with $1.7 billion, including $465 million in the current budget. Due to declines in fuel tax revenues, the supplemental transportation budget proposal relies on raising existing rates and issuing $1.1 billion in new bonds to pay for the infrastructure and associated costs.​ Including existing measures, the supplemental transportation proposal assumes $3.2 billion in bond proceeds for 2025-27, $2.6 billion for 2027-29 and $875 million for 2029-31. Notably, the proposal doesn’t fund three additional ferries as Ferguson proposed in addition to the three already on order.​ Liias and King said those extra ferries were cut from the bonding proposal to focus on the three that a contractor is already building. Meanwhile, the proposal includes funding to look at whether the state should consider leasing hydrogen-powered ferries rather than electrifying Washington’s entire fleet.​ “Our nonpartisan Senate Committee Services did a survey of data and found that for every $1 billion we spend, it's up to 20,000 new jobs,” Liias said. “So the 1.7 billion in additional preservation spending in our six-year plan could translate to up to 34,000 new jobs across Washington.” The House Democrat and Republican transportation heads also released their supplemental budget proposals on Monday, shortly after King and Liias’ press conference. The House proposal totals $16.5 billion for the 2025-27 biennium, slightly under the Senate plan but without new bonding. Rep. Jake Fey, D-Tacoma, and Rep. Andrew Barkis, R-Olympia, framed their proposal as essentially restructuring last year’s appropriations. Their plan largely mirrors that of the Senate while investing slightly less across most areas to avoid “over-committing future budgets,” according to a news release. “We don’t need to authorize more bonds to invest more in preservation and maintenance; at least, not now,” Fey wrote in a statement. “By using existing bond capacity and smoothing funds across biennia, we are able to add $335M to preservation and maintenance this biennium, and $435M in 2027-29.” “Bonding can help deliver major infrastructure projects, but it must be used carefully,” Fey continued.

One of the two Detroit police officers who has been suspended for contacting Border Patrol during a stop has been a defendant in two lawsuits relating to his official conduct.  On Dec. 16, 2025, Officer James Corsi contacted Border Patrol during a traffic stop on Detroit’s west side, and in February, was suspended without pay […]

برخی گزارش‌های منتشر شده در شبکه‌های اجتماعی حاکی از آن است که مقامات حکومت در دانشگاه‌ها با ممنوع‌الورود کردن شماری از دانشجویان معترض و همزمان دادن وعده لغو شماری از این ممنوعیت‌ها، تلاش می‌کنند از گسترش دامنه اعتراضات در دانشگاه‌ها جلوگیری کنند.

O presidente da República em exercício e ministro do Desenvolvimento, Indústria, Comércio e Serviços, Geraldo Alckmin, assinou na noite desta segunda-feira (23) um acordo de cooperação com a Federação das Indústrias do Estado de São Paulo (Fiesp) para promover e fortalecer as ações de combate a práticas desleais e ilegais no comércio exterior brasileiro. No evento, o presidente da Fiesp, Paulo Skaf, aproveitou a cerimônia de assinatura dos protocolos de intenções para pedir ao presidente em exercício que a discussão sobre o fim da escala 6x1 seja adiada para o próximo ano, principalmente por este ser um ano de eleições.  Notícias relacionadas: Acabar com a escala 6x1 é prioridade do governo, afirma Boulos. Ano eleitoral não impede redução da jornada de trabalho, diz ministro. “A gente precisa que essa discussão vá para 2027. Nós estamos abertos sempre a debater tudo. Só que em ano eleitoral as emoções, os sentimentos, as motivações, muitas vezes se conflituam com os interesses do país”, disse Skaf. Em resposta, Alckmin defendeu a necessidade de mudanças na jornada de trabalho e destacou que isso vem acontecendo em todo o mundo.  “Há uma tendência mundial de você ter uma redução. Aliás, isso já vem acontecendo. Então, esse é um debate que não deve fazer corridas e deve ser aprofundado, já que você tem situações muito distintas dentro do próprio setor produtivo. Mas isso é uma tendência”, declarou o presidente em exercício.  Defesa comercial Ao lado do presidente da Fiesp, Alckmin assinou dois documentos: um protocolo de intenções sobre defesa comercial e outro sobre ambiente regulatório e que pretende combater a burocratização e promover a competitividade. “A cooperação com o setor produtivo na defesa comercial vai contribuir para fortalecer o comércio justo e promover um ambiente concorrencial mais equilibrado”, defendeu Alckmin. Segundo a Fiesp, o protocolo sobre defesa comercial tem por objeto estabelecer bases para a cooperação institucional entre o ministério e a Fiesp, com vistas à promoção do comércio justo e ao adequado uso pelo Brasil dos instrumentos de defesa comercial e de combate a práticas desleais e ilegais de comércio previstos na legislação nacional e internacional. Uma das ações previstas é a criação de uma calculadora de margem de dumping, além do compartilhamento de experiências e ferramentas técnicas. O segundo protocolo trata mais especificamente sobre ambiente regulatório e tem por objetivo estabelecer bases para a cooperação institucional entre o ministério e a Fiesp, buscando promover a desburocratização, fortalecer e promover a competitividade e a qualidade regulatória no país, reduzir custos regulatórios e administrativos para empresas e sociedade e desenvolver ações para que reduzam barreiras e custos sistêmicos para empreender e investir no Brasil. Nessa proposta está prevista, por exemplo, a ampliação da digitalização dos serviços públicos e integração dos sistemas. “Nós vamos tomar uma medida hoje formal, objetivando avançarmos e termos no Brasil, realmente, uma defesa comercial eficiente, para que a gente não possa permitir que os nossos setores e os nossos empregos sejam atacados de uma forma injusta”, disse Skaf na cerimônia de assinatura, que ocorreu durante a reunião da diretoria da Fiesp. Geraldo Alckmin, ao lado do presidente da Fiesp, Paulo Skaf, durante cerimônia de assinatura de Acordo Antiduping. Foto: Paulo Pinto/Agência Brasil Selic Em fala à diretoria da entidade, Alckmin disse ainda estar confiante que o Comitê de Política Monetária (Copom) comece, já em sua próxima reunião agendada para março, a reduzir a taxa básica de juros (Selic), atualmente estabelecida em 15% ao ano. “Estamos confiantes de que na próxima reunião do Copom comece a redução da taxa de juros”, disse ele. Segundo o presidente em exercício, isso deve ocorrer por causa da apreciação do real e da desinflação dos alimentos. “Nós devemos ter aí uma melhora”, acrescentou Alckmin, sobre sua expectativa de melhora na economia com a tendência de redução da taxa de juros. Taxação Aos empresários e industriais presentes à reunião da Fiesp, Alckmin voltou a falar hoje que considera positiva para o Brasil a nova tarifa global de 15% que foi estabelecida nesta semana pelo governo dos Estados Unidos. A medida, que foi anunciada por Trump como uma resposta à decisão da Suprema Corte de derrubar as tarifas sobre produtos importados que haviam sido impostas globalmente por ele no ano passado, foi aplicada a todos os países e representa uma mudança em relação às tarifas anteriores, que variavam por nação. “O país mais beneficiado no mundo [com essa decisão] foi o Brasil”, disse Alckmin, reforçando que o problema maior era quando os Estados Unidos haviam taxado apenas o Brasil. “O problema dos 10% + 40% [de taxas] era um problemão [para o Brasil]. Mas essa decisão de 15% não tem problema porque são 15% para nós e para o mundo inteiro. Agora, o país mais beneficiado no mundo foi o Brasil. Abre aí uma avenida em termos de voltar a ter um comércio exterior importante com os Estados Unidos”, afirmou.

Six years ago, Meda DeWitt was seeking to recall Gov. Mike Dunleavy from office. Now, she’s looking to take his position. Last week, DeWitt became the 17th person and second independent to file a letter of intent for Alaska’s gubernatorial race. Speaking by phone, she said a majority of the candidates in the race are […]

RICHMOND, Va.—The Virginia Senate’s Finance and Appropriations Committee approved budget legislation for the coming fiscal year that ends a tax exemption for data centers on January 1.  In Virginia, data centers—critical facilities in Big Tech’s race to develop artificial intelligence—have since 2008 been exempted from paying that state’s retail sales and use tax on their […]

The department’s release of Karen Budd-Falen’s ethics documents have sparked renewed calls for an investigation. The post Documents shed new light on Interior official’s growing ethics scandal appeared first on High Country News.