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Pursuit of a tougher drunk driving law in Washington has run out of gas.  Senate Bill 5067 to lower the legal limit for driving drunk stalled in the House Community Safety Committee on Tuesday, a few weeks after the same panel backed a nearly identical House bill. Rep. Roger Goodman, D-Kirkland, the committee chair, said […]

Many new programs have removed the most transformative, curative and life-affirming parts of the psychedelic experience.

Perspectives on the first event held by the Center for Intellectual Freedom at the University of Iowa differed between a regent, faculty member and student, each shared during Wednesday’s meeting of the Iowa Board of Regents. Regent Christine Hensley, chair of the center’s advisory board, gave an update to the board of regents on the […]

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox may have signed a tentative water agreement with Idaho as part of negotiations to end a fight over a gas tax proposal. But, a social media post from Idaho Gov. Brad Little — and his missing signature from the document — suggest that the talks between the states aren’t over. Little […]

House lawmakers signed off on a plan to incrementally reduce the state’s income tax rate over concerns from Democrats who argued the perk would disproportionately benefit wealthier Georgians.  The proposal, House Bill 1001, accelerates an already planned cut to the state’s income tax rate and is part of a series of reductions to the rate […]

Di tengah karut-marut ekonomi pasca-pandemi dan bayang-bayang krisis global yang ibarat tak berujung ini, narasi bahwa “kerja keras akan membawa kesejahteraan” tampaknya telah usang bagi mayoritas kelas…

COLUMBIA — The House approved a bill Wednesday requiring all public school classrooms in South Carolina, including those at colleges, to display the Ten Commandments. Representatives made no major changes to the bill, which also allows schools to accept volunteer chaplains, before passing it in a vote of 84-31, mostly along party lines. One Democrat […]

OKLAHOMA CITY — A leading Republican candidate in Oklahoma’s 2026 state superintendent race has withdrawn. Rob Miller, the former superintendent of Bixby Public Schools, announced Wednesday he is ending his campaign following his wife’s unexpected death on Feb. 1. Rob and Anna Miller had been married 32 years. She died of an apparent heart attack, […]

Residents and others are still raising concerns over the potential use of the controversial technology. MPD says it no longer plans to use the technology, and also announced the suspension of an officer for improper use of a different tracking technology. The post Critics still wary of facial recognition technology use by law enforcement appeared first on Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service.

Multiple groups that are at risk of losing federal funding are asking Illinois lawmakers for more state money.

Advocates and partners of the Iowa Environmental Council gathered in the Iowa Capitol rotunda Wednesday to advocate for Iowa’s water, air and environmental concerns.  Sarah Green, the council’s executive director, pointed to statistics like Iowa’s rising cancer rates, increased public involvement with water quality testing and the number of impaired waterways in Iowa and said […]

Georgia’s first comprehensive needs-based college scholarship came closer to becoming reality Wednesday after the state House and Senate approved a budget plan that would fully fund the endeavor.  Gov. Brian Kemp proposed the DREAMS scholarship in his State of the State Address last month with a proposed price tag of $325 million. But last week, […]

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(The Center Square) – Members of a California Assembly budget subcommittee heard from state officials who are often the first point of contact for residents who rely on state-run food assistance programs. The federally-funded Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as CalFresh in California, provided food assistance to more than 3.2 million residents of the state in 2025, according to data from the California Department of Social Services. Those who work in positions helping CalFresh recipients are seeing the impact cuts from H.R. 1, the federal budget bill passed in July 2025 and known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The budget cuts are expected to eliminate $187 billion in federal funding for SNAP benefits nationwide through 2034, according to the Congressional Budget Office. “It is often said that a budget is a reflection of our values, and nothing could be truer,” said Assemblymember Corey Jackson, D-Moreno Valley and chair of the Assembly Budget Subcommittee for Human Services. “The conversations that shape those values begin right here within these walls, within this room, at this historic time for our social safety net," Jackson said during the committee's meeting on Wednesday afternoon at the Capitol in Sacramento. CalFresh currently serves more than 5.3 million individuals in 3.1 million households with an average monthly benefit of $333 a month, Troia testified during the hearing. “The federal changes under H.R. 1 will have very major impacts on these households,” Jennifer Troia, director of the California Department of Social Services, testified. “We estimate $2.3 [billion] to 4.3 billion in annual federal funding reductions, and the governor’s budget assumes that as many as 578,000 people could lose benefits as a result of H.R. 1.” Troia also testified that CalFresh workers are attempting to offset the worst effects of H.R. 1 by maximizing allowable exemptions, using data to help CalFresh recipients keep their benefits, reducing administrative burdens and connecting people who rely on CalFresh to organizations that can help them satisfy work and activity requirements. “Even with these efforts, it is critical to acknowledge again that we expect that many Californians may lose access to CalFresh,” Troia testified. “They would face increased food insecurity and greater difficulty meeting basic needs, with corresponding impacts on their health and well-being.” State officials who testified on Wednesday also acknowledged that many immigrants who reside in California illegally will lose their access to CalFresh, as well as foster youth and veterans, among other CalFresh recipients. Problems with funding that existed before the H.R. 1 cuts also impact the workers who provide services to those who need food assistance, officials said. “We must acknowledge the historic moment we find ourselves in,” Jackson said during the meeting. “Those who are worried about their services being cut or reduced, we are doing everything that we can to make sure that we keep you stable, that we keep you safe and that you have an opportunity to be on a path to thrive here in the state of California.”

The House passed a bill Wednesday to create and implement a statewide, 30-year resilience plan to protect state life, property and other assets in the event of a flood or other water-related disaster.  Rep. John Wills, R-Spirit Lake, said the legislation was a “visionary bill” that “redefines” how the state protects itself from “floods, droughts […]

Nebraska U.S. House Republicans want to wait for the findings of a congressional investigation into Texas Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales.

Six young journalists, scattered across three continents and connected largely by screens, recently attempted an unusual exercise: writing letters addressed to the future instead of to editors. All six were members of the 2025 cohort of the English-language Y. Eva Tan Conservation Reporting Fellowship. The results read like field notes from a generation that has […]