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South Sudan is currently bogged down over the definition of the state. There is a The post Opinion| From liberation to domination: The rise of the Dinka State in South Sudan appeared first on Radio Tamazuj.

At a regular meeting on May 4, the City of Amarillo Planning and Zoning Commission discussed potential code amendments for accessory dwelling units, sometimes referred to colloquially as in-law suites. ADUs are a secondary living unit on the same lot as an existing single-family home.  Senior Planner Brady Kendrick said the current code doesn’t allow […] The post Planning and zoning commission discusses potential code amendment to allow accessory dwelling units appeared first on Amarillo Tribune.

The authorities of the Torit Municipal Council in Eastern Equatoria State successfully auctioned six prime The post Torit municipality earns $393,312 from auctioning 6 commercial plots appeared first on Radio Tamazuj.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma’s school cellphone ban will become permanent beginning next school year.  Gov. Kevin Stitt has signed House Bill 1276 into law, making the state’s previously established yearlong ban permanent.  Lawmakers said they decided to make the bell-to-bell ban permanent after hearing positive feedback from teachers and parents.  The law, which takes effect […]

Four Democrats and three Republicans are running to represent Senate District 29. The post Senate District 29 primary includes crowded field appeared first on Mirror Indy.

The two Democrats are vying for a role that manages the jail and warrants. The post Marion County sheriff race: Kelvis Williams faces Gregory Patrick appeared first on Mirror Indy.

The three Democrats on the ballot to represent parts of Indianapolis are Allissa Impink, Clif Marsiglio and Sam Glynn. The post Senate District 46: 3 Democrats seek party’s nomination appeared first on Mirror Indy.

District 94 Rep. Cherrish Pryor and District 97 Rep. Justin Moed also face challengers in the Democratic primary election. The post Rep. John Bartlett faces 2 challengers in House District 95 primary appeared first on Mirror Indy.

Lawrence, Pike and Warren townships had at least one competitive primary race for trustee. The post Indiana Elections 2026: Indianapolis township trustees, constables appeared first on Mirror Indy.

Republican Rep. Jefferson Shreve is facing a challenger for his 6th District seat. The post Indiana 7th District: Democrat André Carson faces 3 challengers appeared first on Mirror Indy.

Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. Sign up for Votebeat Michigan’s free newsletter here.Wayne County has responded to the U.S. Department of Justice’s demand for records from the 2024 election by explaining that the county does not have the ballots, receipts, and envelopes the DOJ is looking for. But local clerks expect this will not be the end of the Trump administration’s interest in the strongly Democratic county.In a letter dated April 27, Wayne County Clerk Cathy Garrett wrote to Assistant U.S. Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon that the county “is not the legal custodian of any records responsive to your request.”In Michigan, it is municipal clerks who do most of the work of administering elections. Thus, Garrett explained, election records such as ballots are maintained by cities and townships, not the county. Garrett also wrote that Michigan law doesn’t give the county any power to compel municipal clerks to hand over the records. “Accordingly, any further inquiries regarding ballot materials should be directed to the city and township clerks of the records you seek,” Garrett wrote.The DOJ doesn’t appear to have contacted any cities or townships as of yet. Michael Siegrist, the clerk of Canton Township and president of the Association of Wayne County Clerks, told Votebeat on Tuesday that he was unaware of any Wayne County municipality receiving a request for their 2024 ballots. He has had conversations with other communities, though, about what the response will be if the request does come.“At this point, we’re preparing for the 2026 election,” he said. “The legitimate requests we get, we’re going to honor, with regards to what our legal duty is under federal and state law.”The Association of Wayne County Clerks, which represents the county’s 43 city and township clerks, also put out a statement on Tuesday criticizing the DOJ’s county-level inquiry and defending Michigan’s election system.The DOJ’s letter to Wayne County “reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of how elections are administered in Michigan,” the statement said. “Effective oversight or inquiry begins with an accurate understanding of that structure.”The DOJ’s letter to Wayne County is just one example of the Trump administration taking an unusual interest in past elections in key swing states. In January, the FBI seized ballots from the 2020 election in Fulton County, Georgia, a major Democratic stronghold where the DOJ also recently demanded the names of all poll workers from the 2020 election. In March, the FBI subpoenaed records from a partisan review of the 2020 election in Maricopa County, Arizona.It’s not clear what the administration’s next move in Michigan will be. The DOJ has not responded to multiple requests for comment from Votebeat, but on April 23 — before Wayne County’s response — Dhillon went on Newsmax and said officials “intend to get these records.” President Donald Trump, meanwhile, has repeatedly named Detroit as one of the places whose election conduct he is most suspicious of. In its original letter to Wayne County, the DOJ cited three cases from 2020 in which Wayne County voters were accused of fraud. It also cited a 2020 lawsuit that accused the county and the city of Detroit of allowing election workers to commit fraud. That suit was quickly dismissed, with a judge writing that the “plaintiffs’ interpretation of events is incorrect and not credible.”Garrett wrote that she hoped the DOJ’s action against the three alleged fraudsters “deters others from such actions in the future” but pointed out that the allegations against Wayne County from the 2020 suit were not the job of the county clerk. Hayley Harding is a reporter for Votebeat based in Michigan. Contact Hayley at hharding@votebeat.org.

El dato lo arroja el informe Código 505, publicado este martes por el Centro Reina Sofía de Fad Juventud.

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Sign up for Chalkbeat Detroit’s free newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system and Michigan education policy.A new lawsuit makes some familiar and some new claims that the state of Michigan has shortchanged students in the Detroit school district.The lawsuit, filed in April in state court, seeks to require the state to increase funding to the Detroit Public Schools Community District and to eliminate debt incurred by the city’s school system while it was under state control.Troy attorney Gerard Mantese filed the lawsuit on behalf of a parent of two DPSCD students and other “similarly situated students.” The lawsuit, which seeks class-action status, names as defendants Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, State Superintendent Glenn Maleyko, and members of the State Board of Education.The State Board met in closed session Tuesday morning to receive legal guidance about the lawsuit. When members returned to open session, the board voted to direct Pamela Pugh, the board chair, to seek guidance and advice from the Michigan Attorney General’s office. Some of the claims in the lawsuit are similar to a “right to read” lawsuit filed against the state in 2016 that alleged the state denied Detroit district students an education because of poor building conditions, poor academic conditions, lack of materials, and use of uncertified teachers. The lawsuit was settled with the state in 2020, and the district eventually received $94.4 million from the state to support literacy efforts.The new lawsuit makes similar claims about building and academic conditions in the district. But it also makes newer arguments that funding for DPSCD is inequitable compared to other districts in the state. “The State holds out public education as the great equalizer, a mandatory contract between the government and its youngest citizens: attend, and you will be given the tools to succeed,” the lawsuit says. “Yet, for DPSCD students, this is a broken promise. They are forced to rely on a system that the State itself helped to break, that it supervised during the running up of a huge debt, and that it now maintains as a source of ongoing constitutional injury.”The Detroit district receives $10,050 per student from the state as its base amount of pupil funding. A majority of school districts, as well as charter schools, also receive that amount. But some districts — many of them in wealthier communities — receive more. When the current funding system was created in the mid-1990s those districts were allowed to continue spending at a higher level, with voter approval.DPSCD’s total revenues do increase substantially with federal funding, but those dollars have less flexibility in how they can be spent. “DPSCD needs more funding to even have a chance at providing an equal education to students in Detroit public schools,” the lawsuit says.The state has been targeted in the lawsuits because it had some form of control over Detroit Public Schools — which was the district that educated students until 2016 — from 1999 to 2006 and again from 2006 through 2016. In 2016, because of crushing debt in DPS, a legislative initiative led to the creation of DPSCD to educate students. DPS remains to collect tax revenue to pay off legacy debt.Mantese’s legal specialty is corporate law, but he has handled civil rights cases. He told Chalkbeat Tuesday that over the years, while providing volunteer legal work in Detroit, he’s heard from many parents who’ve complained about poor school building conditions.“There’s unacceptably hot conditions, sometimes freezing temperatures, mold issues, bathrooms that don’t work — a whole host of facility issues that just makes it very difficult to have an environment that provides for a good education,” Mantese said.DPSCD has invested heavily in its facilities in the last decade, dedicating about $700 million of its federal pandemic relief funding as part of its facility master plan. But that only addresses a fraction of the district’s $2.1 billion infrastructure needs.DPSCD Superintendent Nikolai Vitti has for years pushed for equitable funding and made similar arguments as those cited in the current lawsuit. A spokesperson said Vitti “does support the underlying argument made in the lawsuit.”“Michigan’s K-12 funding formula continues to fund students unequally,” Chrystal Wilson, spokesperson for the district, said in a statement. “Governor Whitmer and recent legislatures have narrowed the gap over the years to address the inequality, but it still exists. At the same time, little has been done to support lower income districts to address facility issues. This is not fair to our students or staff.” The lawsuit includes an affidavit from Jeremy Vidito, DPSCD’s chief financial officer, in which he says the inequities in funding “have a direct and substantial impact on the ability of DPSCD to provide safe, modern, and equitable learning environments for its students.”“They also create long-term structural disadvantages that impair the District’s operational capacity and financial stability,” he wrote.School districts are barred in state law from using state funding to sue the state. Mantese said district officials played no role in the crafting of the lawsuit, and he reached out to Vitti when a draft of the lawsuit was done. He is not being paid by anyone for his legal services.LaMar Lemmons, who served on the boards for Detroit Public Schools and DPSCD, has long pushed for the district itself to sue the state. He had not read the lawsuit but described it as “not only necessary but long overdue.”Lori Higgins is the bureau chief for Chalkbeat Detroit. You can reach her at lhiggins@chalkbeat.org.

A Rankin County Circuit Court judge in 2022 dismissed a lawsuit from Damien Cameron's family that blames deputies for his death. The Mississippi Court of Appeals has revived that lawsuit.

La primera directora de El País deja un legado de independencia, rigor y una convicción innegociable: el derecho —y el deber— de decir “no”.

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