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A Kidney Disease Awareness event aimed at educating the public about the condition will take place on Wednesday, March. 25 at Concordia 27. The post Community event to spotlight the “silent crisis” of kidney disease appeared first on Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service.

Armed federal agents decked out in tactical gear patrolled the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Monday as a continuing partial government shutdown creates long delays at major airports nationwide. The agents were not involved with security screenings or immigration enforcement but were intended to provide security in an effort to bolster Transportation Security Administration employees […]

Monday saw federal immigration agents deployed to more than a dozen U.S. airports as TSA staffing falters. Waco Regional Airport was not one of them. The post Officials: No ICE expected at Waco airport appeared first on The Waco Bridge.

Ato abrupto no fim de semana choca artistas e órgãos federais, que criticam falta de diálogo e desinteresse pela cultura. Fonte

Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to get essential news about NYC’s public schools delivered to your inbox.During a City Council hearing about Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s proposed budget for New York City’s public schools, one question came up again and again: Will school budgets take a hit next year?It’s a question Education Department officials repeatedly sidestepped — but the answer may influence the fate of Mamdani’s first budget plan.“There are not many individual issues that we will discuss at any of these hearings that impact our collective vote on the entire $127 billion dollar budget — that’s how important this is,” Brooklyn City Council member Lincoln Restler said during the budget hearing on Monday. “I really want to make sure we’re not in a situation where we’re seeing school budgets a day before the vote.”As K-12 enrollment in the nation’s largest school system plunged nearly 10% over the past six years, dropping below 800,000, city officials spent $1.6 billion propping up budgets. That money staved off cuts that would typically have been automatic since school funding is typically tied to student headcount. But officials were reluctant to slash budgets while schools were scrambling to catch up students in the wake of the pandemic and the system had billions in one-time federal relief money at its disposal. As the pandemic receded and federal funding dried up, however, it became difficult to change course. The Education Department kept school budgets relatively stable even as enrollment ticked down. This year, schools received over $388 million in various forms of relief to offset lower enrollment, the largest single-year sum since the pandemic hit.Whether to keep school budgets steady and hold them “harmless” for enrollment declines is a politically tricky decision as the Mamdani administration has tasked city agencies to find savings to help fill a multi-billion dollar budget gap. When former Mayor Eric Adams initially began winding down the program, the blowback was so intense that City Council members later apologized for approving the city’s spending plan, and families made T-shirts declaring that Adams defunded their schools. Subsequently, Adams decided to keep propping up budgets. Some school funding experts and budget watchdog groups say that it makes little sense to keep allowing school budgets to drift away from enrollment, disproportionately benefiting schools that have lost the most students. It’s a problem that was top of mind for multiple city lawmakers. “Are we funding empty seats?” asked Queens City Council member Phil Wong. “And is there a long term plan to phase this out — or this is now a permanent policy?”But educators and parent leaders have pointed out that many schools have come to rely on the money, and abruptly cutting it could force painful cuts to programs such as after-school, art, and music. Plus, cuts are likely to invite backlash, especially as Mamdani vowed to prioritize funding for public schools on the campaign trail.At the City Council hearing on Monday, schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels stressed that “no decision has been made on hold harmless.”“When we think about declining enrollment, we see the impact of that across our schools and specifically many of our schools who serve the most vulnerable populations,” Samuels added. The city should be “making sure those schools are sustainable and can withstand the impact of the declining enrollment.”The “hold harmless” funding is a small share of the more than $16 billion the Education Department spent on K-12 schools and instruction this year. But on dozens of campuses, the money represents more than 10% of their initial allocations.Officials said preliminary school budgets would be available later this spring, potentially leaving little time for lawmakers to negotiate the issue before the June 30 deadline to pass the city budget. Alex Zimmerman is a reporter for Chalkbeat New York, covering NYC public schools. Contact Alex at azimmerman@chalkbeat.org.

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星期一 (3月23日)是台湾首次总统、副总统全民直选30周年的日子。美国国会议员这一天纷纷发表声明，祝贺台湾民主制度确立30周年。有议员称，台湾已成为“印太地区乃至全世界民主价值观、人权和法治的灯塔”。与此同时，台湾总统赖清德呼吁台湾立法院通过特别国防预算条列，以“守住”台湾的民主和自由。

Hoy, lunes en San Telmo con más de 30 poetas y el cierre musical de juan Falú, el encuentro artístico contará con una entrada voluntaria que será donada a las Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo. Por Mariana Singer Hoy, lunes 23 de marzo a las 20:00 h, el bar Je suis Lacan, ubicado en Balcarce […]

A contractor is preparing to install wildlife-friendly shoreline structures in San Diego Bay after receiving approval earlier this month from the San Diego Board of Port Commissioners.

These health workers, based in five Indianapolis neighborhoods, connect people to resources like food and transportation. The post How Eskenazi’s community weavers help with more than health care appeared first on Mirror Indy.

(The Center Square) – Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick on Monday created a new state Senate Select Committee on Religious Liberty. The committee will hold hearings and propose legislation about religious liberty topics, which he says Americans and Texans “don’t understand.” He launched the committee after a national Religious Liberty Commission he chairs is being sued, alleging bias, a lack of religious freedom for members, and multiple federal law violations. After chairing the national commission for the past year, Patrick said, “I have learned that many Americans, and Texans alike, do not fully understand their God-given religious liberty rights secured under the First Amendment. Today, I am appointing the Senate Select Committee on Religious Liberty to find ways to educate Texans on their religious liberty rights and to make sure Texans do not have those rights infringed upon.” All but one of the members he appointed to the state committee are Republican. All are Protestant Christians with the exception of two Roman Catholics. Patrick nominated state Sens. Phil King, R-Weatherford, and Angela Paxton, R-McKinney, as chair and vice chair, respectively. Other Republican members are Sens. Brent Hagenbuch of Denton, Adam Hinojosa of Corpus Christi, Bryan Hughes of Tyler and Charles Perry of Lubbock. Only one Democrat is on the committee: César Blanco of El Paso. Hagenbuch says he is “a committed Christian” and is a member of a nondenominational church, Crossridge Church, in Little Elm. Hughes, a Protestant Christian, is a member of the National Association of Christian Lawmakers. The NACL is focused on proposing pro-Christian model legislation to be implemented in state legislatures nationwide. Perry is a member of Southcrest Baptist Church. Weatherford is member of Trinity Bible Church. Paxton was a founding member of Stonebriar Community Church in Frisco. Patrick is a member of Second Baptist Church in Houston. Both Blanco and Hinojosa are practicing Roman Catholics. Patrick launched the state commission after being accused of not protecting the religious liberty of the national commission’s members or freedom of conscious. He removed one member, a Roman Catholic, after she raised questions about the definition of antisemitism and foreign policy as it relates to Israel and Iran. After that, another member, a Muslim, resigned. They and others argue the commission does not allow members to disagree or hold different views than those of Patrick and another member of the commission, Paula White, The Center Square reported. Both hold a Christian dispensational end times view taught by many evangelical seminaries and bible colleges in America. The view is not held by the Roman Catholic Church, most Protestant denominations, Mormons, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, atheists among others. There are four established Christian views of the end times. Other views exist, including those of Shi’a Muslims, Jewish Talmudic followers, Buddhists, among others. In February, the Interfaith Alliance and multiple faith groups sued the president, attorney general, Department of Justice and Religious Liberty Commission alleging the commission’s membership is unlawfully balanced. All members except for two are self-identifying Protestant Christians or Roman Catholics. One is a Jewish rabbi. One former member was a Muslim. No other faith groups are represented. The lawsuit also alleges the DOJ’s creation of the commission violated the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the Administrative Procedures Act and the Mandamus Act. “Religious freedom for some is religious freedom for none,” Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, president and CEO of Interfaith Alliance, said when filling the lawsuit. “The government has no right to pick and choose which religious beliefs to promote, and which to marginalize. The Trump administration has failed to uphold our country's proud religious freedom tradition, and we will hold them accountable. Today's lawsuit is our recommitment to fight for religious liberty for all with every tool available to us.” When asked to respond to criticisms by former members and allegations that the national commission does not represent religious liberty or all faiths, Patrick did not respond.

North Dakota is seeking applications for two spots on the State Board of Higher Education.  The four-year terms of board members Danita Bye of Stanley and Kevin Black of Minot will end June 30. Black, the board chair, is eligible for a second term but Bye is not. NDSU president search narrowed to 3 finalists  […]

(The Center Square) – The proposed California billionaires tax would cost the state more money than it would bring in if the Golden State’s “golden goose” flocks to other states, according to one Stanford economist. Joshua Rahu, a finance professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, predicted the billionaires' departures would cost California $25 billion. As work progresses on the one-time 5% wealth tax on California’s billionaires, opponents have voiced their concerns about the economic damage that could come to the state if the billionaires tax makes it to the Nov. 3 ballot and passes. “Since this tax is earmarked to a special fund, the state will still have the $93 billion structural deficit even if the wealth tax passes and manages to collect a few billion dollars,” Rauh said in a recent presentation about the 2026 Billionaire Tax Act. “So this tax is not a solution to California’s financial problems.” According to previous reporting from The Center Square, California faces structural deficits despite growing revenues from high income tax from Big Tech companies, many of which are headquartered in California. Enthusiasm related to artificial intelligence technology and high stock valuations from those companies are central to the state’s high level of income tax collection. Despite increasing revenues to the state, spending is outpacing revenues, which Rauh acknowledged during his presentation. “This is not a revenue problem,” Rauh said. “Since 2019, revenues are up by 55%, but for what it’s worth, spending is up by 68%. It’s hard to look at that and say California faces a major revenue problem.” Rauh also said during the presentation at Stanford University that the revenue estimates the billionaires tax projected are too optimistic and that the tax would make challenges related to economic inequality worse in California. One of the main arguments against the billionaires tax, Rauh added, included that many of California’s most well-known billionaires already left the state, taking with them the money they could have continued to pay in income taxes to California. According to a report from the National Taxpayers Union Foundation, the proposed billionaires tax already cost the state money before even heading to the ballot. The state’s billionaires, anticipating the Jan. 1, 2026 retroactive effectiveness date for the tax, left the state before the first of the year or shortly thereafter, presumably to avoid having to pay the billionaires tax. Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel and venture capitalist David Sacks have all left the state, according to previous reporting by The Center Square. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg also decided to leave California, moving to Florida. A loss of state income tax revenue could actually offset any revenue gains from the billionaires tax, Rauh said during the presentation. “This measure would cost the state $25 billion." The loss of just a small number billionaires would mean long-term negative consequences for California, according to Wayne Winegarden, a senior fellow in business and economics at Pacific Research Institute in Pasadena. “By discouraging entrepreneurship and discouraging innovation, we’re reducing the vibrancy of the economy, which means opportunity across the scale is less,” Winegarden told The Center Square on Monday. “So there’s going to be fewer jobs, not just for high-paid AI engineers, but construction, just across the board there will be a worse economy.” Inequality - one of the main challenges the billionaires tax aims to address - would actually get worse because of the tax, Winegarden added. “It worsens inequality because if incomes fall at the bottom end, that is a bigger problem,” Winegarden said. “You’re not changing inequality. You’re just changing where that inequality lives. Surely that’s not the intention of the proponents of this. They want the government to expropriate this wealth, not for this wealth to be existing in the country elsewhere.” Also on Monday, officials with the union backing the measure told The Center Square that the billionaires tax is a quarter of the way to getting on the Nov. 3 ballot. Representatives from the Service Employees International Union – United Healthcare Workers West said Monday that the petition to get the billionaires tax on the November 2026 ballot recently passed 25% of the required number of signatures. According to the California Secretary of State’s Office, 874,641 have to be collected to get on the ballot. The billionaires’ tax, which Service Employees International Union – Healthcare Workers West started campaigning for in late 2025, aims to generate enough revenue to help offset federal budget cuts to public service programs like Medi-Cal, which offers no-cost or low-cost health care to low-income individuals in California. “We need to put humanity first over greed,” Debru Carthan, a radiologic technologist for Kaiser, told The Center Square on Monday. “This is about being our brothers’ keeper. Those who leave California - they are showing their greed; they’re showing their selfishness. And the very patients who will die are the ones who helped them make the billions that they have now.” An estimated 200 rich Californians, according to the union, have a combined wealth of more than $2 trillion. The tax would only apply to residents who are worth more than $1 billion, which would be measured in the monetary value of assets such as stocks, bonds and artwork.

Alaska is once again riding high on the strength of oil revenues, with an additional $545 million flowing into state coffers. This is welcome news for policymakers and residents alike. But it also presents a familiar and uncomfortable paradox: the very forces boosting state revenue are poised to inflict serious economic pain on many Alaskans, […]

COLUMBIA — Imagine needing to save for a major expense — a new car or a family vacation — but you’re not allowed to keep more than $2,000 in your bank account at any given time. That’s a reality for some 95,760 South Carolinians who rely on long-term federal disability benefits. For them, exceeding that […]

Approximately 950 non-tenure track faculty at New York University walked off the job on Monday, after their union and the university failed to reach agreement on raises and better job security. Contract Faculty United-UAW began their strike at 11 a.m. Monday, as students were just returning from spring break. The union had agreed to extend […] The post NYU Faculty Strike as Union and University Reach Impasse on Wages appeared first on THE CITY - NYC News.

Sem consulta a órgãos técnicos, conselhos municipais e desrespeitando o atual Plano Diretor, com protestos dos moradores, mas com autorização obtida na Prefeitura Municipal de Porto Alegre, a incorporadora Melnick pretende construir um prédio de 20 andares, pouco mais de 60 metros de altura. Também quer levantar um menor ao lado para área gastrônomica no […] Fonte

On Monday, Judge Derek Meinecke of Royal Oak’s 44th District Court continued to hear arguments on whether testimony from two men hired to investigate voting machines can be admitted in the case against 2022 Republican Attorney General Candidate Matt DePerno.  DePerno, alongside former state Rep. Daire Rendon (R-Lake City) and attorney Stefanie Lambert Junttila, was […]

The North Carolina State Council for the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children met in Onslow County on March 19 to discuss policy priorities and military friendliness in schools. The Military Interstate Children’s Compact Commission (MIC3) is the... The post NC Military Interstate Children’s Compact Commission highlights Onslow County appeared first on EdNC.

A Louisiana state representative has withdrawn his bill to allow guns on college campuses, killing the proposal for the year.  House Bill 99 by Rep. Danny McCormick, R-Oil City, would have allowed anyone 18 or older to carry a firearm on public or private college and university campuses.  McCormick said he withdrew his bill because […]