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A memorial will be announced at a future date.
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A memorial will be announced at a future date.
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דער ייִדישער מוזיי „פּולין“ אין וואַרשע האָט לעצטנס דורכגעפֿירט אַ קאָנפֿערענץ וועגן ייִדישע שפּראַכן, אין שײַכות מיט דער צײַטווײַליקער אויסשטעלונג אויף דער זעלביקער טעמע, „דער כּוח פֿון ווערטער“. כאָטש די קאָנפֿערענץ, וואָס איז פֿאָרגעקומען פֿונעם ערשטן ביזן דריטן יוני, האָט אין פּרינציפּ באַהאַנדלט אַלע ייִדישע לשונות, האָט דער מוזיי אין וואַרשע — די אַמאָליקע הויפּטשטאָט... The post A conference in Warsaw focuses on Jewish languages appeared first on The Forward.
דער ייִדישער מוזיי „פּולין“ אין וואַרשע האָט לעצטנס דורכגעפֿירט אַ קאָנפֿערענץ וועגן ייִדישע שפּראַכן, אין שײַכות מיט דער צײַטווײַליקער אויסשטעלונג אויף דער זעלביקער טעמע, „דער כּוח פֿון ווערטער“. כאָטש די קאָנפֿערענץ, וואָס איז פֿאָרגעקומען פֿונעם ערשטן ביזן דריטן יוני, האָט אין פּרינציפּ באַהאַנדלט אַלע ייִדישע לשונות, האָט דער מוזיי אין וואַרשע — די אַמאָליקע הויפּטשטאָט... The post A conference in Warsaw focuses on Jewish languages appeared first on The Forward.
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דער ייִדישער מוזיי „פּולין“ אין וואַרשע האָט לעצטנס דורכגעפֿירט אַ קאָנפֿערענץ וועגן ייִדישע שפּראַכן, אין שײַכות מיט דער צײַטווײַליקער אויסשטעלונג אויף דער זעלביקער טעמע, „דער כּוח פֿון ווערטער“. כאָטש די קאָנפֿערענץ, וואָס איז פֿאָרגעקומען פֿונעם ערשטן ביזן דריטן יוני, האָט אין פּרינציפּ באַהאַנדלט אַלע ייִדישע לשונות, האָט דער מוזיי אין וואַרשע — די אַמאָליקע הויפּטשטאָט... The post A conference in Warsaw focuses on Jewish languages appeared first on The Forward.
דער ייִדישער מוזיי „פּולין“ אין וואַרשע האָט לעצטנס דורכגעפֿירט אַ קאָנפֿערענץ וועגן ייִדישע שפּראַכן, אין שײַכות מיט דער צײַטווײַליקער אויסשטעלונג אויף דער זעלביקער טעמע, „דער כּוח פֿון ווערטער“. כאָטש די קאָנפֿערענץ, וואָס איז פֿאָרגעקומען פֿונעם ערשטן ביזן דריטן יוני, האָט אין פּרינציפּ באַהאַנדלט אַלע ייִדישע לשונות, האָט דער מוזיי אין וואַרשע — די אַמאָליקע הויפּטשטאָט... The post A conference in Warsaw focuses on Jewish languages appeared first on The Forward.
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Strong Republican opposition and apathy to repeated shootings makes legislative action challenging.
Strong Republican opposition and apathy to repeated shootings makes legislative action challenging.
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Por Jonnathan Pulla, Wendy Selene Pérez y Rafael Olavarría de Factchequeado El Departamento de Agricultura de Estados Unidos (USDA, por sus sig...
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Por Jonnathan Pulla, Wendy Selene Pérez y Rafael Olavarría de Factchequeado El Departamento de Agricultura de Estados Unidos (USDA, por sus sig...
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Владимир Зеленский опубликовал открытое письмо Владимиру Путину. Президент Украины предложил президенту России встретиться лично, чтобы договориться о завершении войны. Глава МИД Украины Андрей Сибига заявил, что послание официально передадут Путину по дипломатическим каналам. Пресс-секретарь президента РФ Дмитрий Песков сказал, что в Кремле «видели» письмо и доложат о нем Путину — а также отметил, что Зеленский «может приехать в Москву в любой момент, если хочет поговорить». На официальном сайте президента Украины письмо опубликовано на украинском и английском языках. Вот его полный перевод на русский.
Владимир Зеленский опубликовал открытое письмо Владимиру Путину. Президент Украины предложил президенту России встретиться лично, чтобы договориться о завершении войны. Глава МИД Украины Андрей Сибига заявил, что послание официально передадут Путину по дипломатическим каналам. Пресс-секретарь президента РФ Дмитрий Песков сказал, что в Кремле «видели» письмо и доложат о нем Путину — а также отметил, что Зеленский «может приехать в Москву в любой момент, если хочет поговорить». На официальном сайте президента Украины письмо опубликовано на украинском и английском языках. Вот его полный перевод на русский.
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A teacher abused boys for years while working in school and camp programs. Settlements remained hidden from public view until recently.
A teacher abused boys for years while working in school and camp programs. Settlements remained hidden from public view until recently.
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Claim: A Facebook page of Oyo State claimed that the abducted students and teachers in Oyo State had
Claim: A Facebook page of Oyo State claimed that the abducted students and teachers in Oyo State had
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Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to get essential news about NYC’s public schools delivered to your inbox.The waitlist for New York City’s enormously popular childcare voucher program for low-income families has ballooned to 25,000 kids and isn’t likely to shrink, according to officials and experts — even as its budget keeps growing.Officials from the city’s Administration of Children’s Services, which administers the state and federally funded Child Care Assistance Program, haven’t let any new families in since last May, citing financial limitations.And city officials haven’t made any commitments to enrolling families on the waitlist this year. Yet, state funding for the city’s childcare vouchers grew from about $1.45 billion last year to $2 billion in the recently passed state budget. This year, $475 million of that state funding is only available if the city contributes a matching amount.Advocates and experts say the city could be doing more to chip away at the waitlist, pointing out that city officials have left hundreds of millions of dollars in potential state funding for the voucher program on the table. They argue city officials are being overly cautious in their financial planning.The stakes are high for thousands of city families and scores of childcare providers. For many parents of young kids, the voucher program, which gives families a weekly subsidy they can use at any licensed childcare program, is the most direct and flexible way of defraying the often unaffordable costs of childcare. And for providers, particularly home-based childcare operators, the subsidies are a key tool for increasing enrollment and ensuring income to pay their staff and cover their bills.Adding to some advocates’ concern is a curious detail in last week’s state budget. State officials quietly adopted language allowing the city to spend up to $100 million that was previously earmarked for childcare vouchers on any cost “in support of children,” according to budget documents. That could theoretically give the city license to spend that $100 million on any number of programs from after-school programs to K-12 education.“The big takeaway for me is that the city does have resources available to it to be serving more families than it currently is with the waitlist,” said Pete Nabozny, policy director at The Children’s Agenda, a nonprofit childcare advocacy organization, of the new state budget.Lauren Melodia, the director of economic and fiscal policy at the New School’s Center for New York City Affairs, estimated the city would have to spend about $500 million this coming fiscal year to clear half of the voucher waitlist.Nicolette Simmonds, a spokesperson for Gov. Kathy Hochul, said the governor has invested a “record amount” in childcare vouchers. State officials noted enrollment has tripled in New York City since 2022, but did not respond to a question about the rationale for the $100 million budget carveout.The city plans to claim the remaining $245 million in state funds for the city’s voucher program by the deadline in September, said Sneha Choudhary, a spokesperson for Mayor Zohran Mamdani.Here’s what you need to know about the voucher program, its waitlist, and its budget situation.What is the voucher program and why is it so popular?The Child Care Assistance Program has been around for years, but exploded in popularity following the COVID pandemic, when Gov. Kathy Hochul significantly expanded both who was eligible for the program and the value of the voucher. Families now qualify for a low-income childcare voucher if they make under 85% of the state median income, or about $114,000 a year for a family of four. The vouchers can be used at any licensed childcare facility for kids from birth to age 12, and pay out an average of about $300 a week.The model differs from the city’s prekindergarten, 3-K, and 2-K programs, which directly contract with childcare providers. That system gives the city more oversight of programs, and can offer parents a fully free option in some cases. Some families, however, prefer the voucher model’s flexibility, because it allows parents to use any provider with open seats. Some of those providers operate outside the standard daytime hours available in the city’s programs.The program’s model is “what people actually envision of universal child care: I have a kid, I need care for specific hours, and regardless of the kid’s age, I can go to any licensed program and get care,” said Melodia. “There is a real demand for universal child care that is flexible, that meets parent’s demands now.”Since state officials expanded eligibility and funding, enrollment in the low-income vouchers program has shot up to roughly 70,000 from less than 9,000 in 2022.Why is the program facing a budget crunch?To understand the voucher program’s precarious finances, it helps to know that there are actually two separate voucher programs. The low-income program with the growing waitlist is often referred to as “non-mandated” vouchers.But there is a separate, “mandated” voucher program only open to families receiving federal cash assistance. City and state officials are obligated under federal rules to offer a childcare voucher to any family receiving cash assistance that requests one.Enrollment in the city’s mandated voucher program has fluctuated wildly in recent years, making it difficult for the city to make firm financial predictions.During the pandemic, officials relaxed work requirements for federal cash assistance, keeping more families home and reducing their need for child care. Enrollment in the mandated voucher program cratered. Last year, when officials reinstated work requirements, many expected mandated voucher enrollment to surge back to pre-pandemic levels. But that hasn’t yet happened: Enrollment only ticked up by about 3,000 from February 2025 to a year later, according to the most recent data.Nabozny said the “big issue” preventing the city from beginning to enroll families from the low-income voucher waitlist is that they want to have enough funding available in case mandated voucher enrollment does surge, although some question whether that’s the best approach.“It’s a problem, because they could be serving other families who are on a waitlist now,” Nabozny said. How much money does the city have to give out more vouchers?Last budget season, as officials were preparing for a boom in mandated voucher enrollment and one-time federal funding from the pandemic dried up, the state offered a stopgap solution to keep the voucher program solvent.In order to prevent the city from having to kick families out of the program, the state offered an extra $350 million, but with a catch: The state would only pay out as much from that supplemental pot as the city put forward from its own coffers.A year later, the city has only tapped $105 million of the $350 pot, city officials confirmed. City officials say they plan to claim the remaining $245 million by the September deadline.But due to the late change to the state budget, the city has the option of using $100 million of those unclaimed state funds for an entirely different purpose. A Mamdani spokesperson said the administration “intends to claim all available funding for child voucher related expenditures,” but did not specify how the city was planning to use the newly available $100 million.For the coming year, the supplemental pot from the state is even larger. The city can claim up to $475 million for vouchers from the state, provided it matches with its own funds.But city officials are still being cautious about making any commitments on if and when they will begin enrolling from the waitlist. Officials noted that some families on the waitlist may have enrolled in other city-funded childcare programs like 3-K and Pre-K, but couldn’t provide exact numbers.Brooklyn Council Member Lincoln Restler urged officials to adopt a stopgap solution of offering a slew of new temporary, one-year vouchers.“We don’t make an in perpetuity commitment that this child is going to have a voucher until they’re 13,” he said at a budget hearing last week. “But we add child care capacity for the coming fiscal year with the resources we know we have today.”Michael Elsen-Rooney is a reporter for Chalkbeat New York, covering NYC public schools. Contact Michael at melsen-rooney@chalkbeat.org.
Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to get essential news about NYC’s public schools delivered to your inbox.The waitlist for New York City’s enormously popular childcare voucher program for low-income families has ballooned to 25,000 kids and isn’t likely to shrink, according to officials and experts — even as its budget keeps growing.Officials from the city’s Administration of Children’s Services, which administers the state and federally funded Child Care Assistance Program, haven’t let any new families in since last May, citing financial limitations.And city officials haven’t made any commitments to enrolling families on the waitlist this year. Yet, state funding for the city’s childcare vouchers grew from about $1.45 billion last year to $2 billion in the recently passed state budget. This year, $475 million of that state funding is only available if the city contributes a matching amount.Advocates and experts say the city could be doing more to chip away at the waitlist, pointing out that city officials have left hundreds of millions of dollars in potential state funding for the voucher program on the table. They argue city officials are being overly cautious in their financial planning.The stakes are high for thousands of city families and scores of childcare providers. For many parents of young kids, the voucher program, which gives families a weekly subsidy they can use at any licensed childcare program, is the most direct and flexible way of defraying the often unaffordable costs of childcare. And for providers, particularly home-based childcare operators, the subsidies are a key tool for increasing enrollment and ensuring income to pay their staff and cover their bills.Adding to some advocates’ concern is a curious detail in last week’s state budget. State officials quietly adopted language allowing the city to spend up to $100 million that was previously earmarked for childcare vouchers on any cost “in support of children,” according to budget documents. That could theoretically give the city license to spend that $100 million on any number of programs from after-school programs to K-12 education.“The big takeaway for me is that the city does have resources available to it to be serving more families than it currently is with the waitlist,” said Pete Nabozny, policy director at The Children’s Agenda, a nonprofit childcare advocacy organization, of the new state budget.Lauren Melodia, the director of economic and fiscal policy at the New School’s Center for New York City Affairs, estimated the city would have to spend about $500 million this coming fiscal year to clear half of the voucher waitlist.Nicolette Simmonds, a spokesperson for Gov. Kathy Hochul, said the governor has invested a “record amount” in childcare vouchers. State officials noted enrollment has tripled in New York City since 2022, but did not respond to a question about the rationale for the $100 million budget carveout.The city plans to claim the remaining $245 million in state funds for the city’s voucher program by the deadline in September, said Sneha Choudhary, a spokesperson for Mayor Zohran Mamdani.Here’s what you need to know about the voucher program, its waitlist, and its budget situation.What is the voucher program and why is it so popular?The Child Care Assistance Program has been around for years, but exploded in popularity following the COVID pandemic, when Gov. Kathy Hochul significantly expanded both who was eligible for the program and the value of the voucher. Families now qualify for a low-income childcare voucher if they make under 85% of the state median income, or about $114,000 a year for a family of four. The vouchers can be used at any licensed childcare facility for kids from birth to age 12, and pay out an average of about $300 a week.The model differs from the city’s prekindergarten, 3-K, and 2-K programs, which directly contract with childcare providers. That system gives the city more oversight of programs, and can offer parents a fully free option in some cases. Some families, however, prefer the voucher model’s flexibility, because it allows parents to use any provider with open seats. Some of those providers operate outside the standard daytime hours available in the city’s programs.The program’s model is “what people actually envision of universal child care: I have a kid, I need care for specific hours, and regardless of the kid’s age, I can go to any licensed program and get care,” said Melodia. “There is a real demand for universal child care that is flexible, that meets parent’s demands now.”Since state officials expanded eligibility and funding, enrollment in the low-income vouchers program has shot up to roughly 70,000 from less than 9,000 in 2022.Why is the program facing a budget crunch?To understand the voucher program’s precarious finances, it helps to know that there are actually two separate voucher programs. The low-income program with the growing waitlist is often referred to as “non-mandated” vouchers.But there is a separate, “mandated” voucher program only open to families receiving federal cash assistance. City and state officials are obligated under federal rules to offer a childcare voucher to any family receiving cash assistance that requests one.Enrollment in the city’s mandated voucher program has fluctuated wildly in recent years, making it difficult for the city to make firm financial predictions.During the pandemic, officials relaxed work requirements for federal cash assistance, keeping more families home and reducing their need for child care. Enrollment in the mandated voucher program cratered. Last year, when officials reinstated work requirements, many expected mandated voucher enrollment to surge back to pre-pandemic levels. But that hasn’t yet happened: Enrollment only ticked up by about 3,000 from February 2025 to a year later, according to the most recent data.Nabozny said the “big issue” preventing the city from beginning to enroll families from the low-income voucher waitlist is that they want to have enough funding available in case mandated voucher enrollment does surge, although some question whether that’s the best approach.“It’s a problem, because they could be serving other families who are on a waitlist now,” Nabozny said. How much money does the city have to give out more vouchers?Last budget season, as officials were preparing for a boom in mandated voucher enrollment and one-time federal funding from the pandemic dried up, the state offered a stopgap solution to keep the voucher program solvent.In order to prevent the city from having to kick families out of the program, the state offered an extra $350 million, but with a catch: The state would only pay out as much from that supplemental pot as the city put forward from its own coffers.A year later, the city has only tapped $105 million of the $350 pot, city officials confirmed. City officials say they plan to claim the remaining $245 million by the September deadline.But due to the late change to the state budget, the city has the option of using $100 million of those unclaimed state funds for an entirely different purpose. A Mamdani spokesperson said the administration “intends to claim all available funding for child voucher related expenditures,” but did not specify how the city was planning to use the newly available $100 million.For the coming year, the supplemental pot from the state is even larger. The city can claim up to $475 million for vouchers from the state, provided it matches with its own funds.But city officials are still being cautious about making any commitments on if and when they will begin enrolling from the waitlist. Officials noted that some families on the waitlist may have enrolled in other city-funded childcare programs like 3-K and Pre-K, but couldn’t provide exact numbers.Brooklyn Council Member Lincoln Restler urged officials to adopt a stopgap solution of offering a slew of new temporary, one-year vouchers.“We don’t make an in perpetuity commitment that this child is going to have a voucher until they’re 13,” he said at a budget hearing last week. “But we add child care capacity for the coming fiscal year with the resources we know we have today.”Michael Elsen-Rooney is a reporter for Chalkbeat New York, covering NYC public schools. Contact Michael at melsen-rooney@chalkbeat.org.
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ཁེ་ཎ་ཌའི་གྲོས་ཚོགས་ནང་བྱམས་བརྩེའི་ལོ་དང་བསྟུན་བོད་ཀྱི་ཉིན་མོ་སྲུང་བརྩི་ཞུས་འདུག
ཁེ་ཎ་ཌའི་གྲོས་ཚོགས་ནང་བྱམས་བརྩེའི་ལོ་དང་བསྟུན་བོད་ཀྱི་ཉིན་མོ་སྲུང་བརྩི་ཞུས་འདུག
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In a new Development Policy Centre discussion paper, we examine how institutional design shapes patterns of cooperation, competition and conflict in developing countries, focusing on civil service administration in Afghanistan (2001-2021) and Papua New Guinea since independence in 1975. A central message of our research is that institutions are not neutral containers of governance. They ... Read moreDisclosureThis research was undertaken with the support of the ANU-UPNG Partnership, an initiative of the PNG-Australia Partnership, funded by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. The views expressed are those of the authors only. About the author/sNemat BizhanNematullah Bizhan is a senior lecturer at the Development Policy Centre. He leds the Centre's partnership with the University of Papua New Guinea.William MaleyEmeritus Professor William Maley served as Professor of Diplomacy at the Australian National University from 2003-2021, and was Foundation Director of the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy from 2003-2014.
In a new Development Policy Centre discussion paper, we examine how institutional design shapes patterns of cooperation, competition and conflict in developing countries, focusing on civil service administration in Afghanistan (2001-2021) and Papua New Guinea since independence in 1975. A central message of our research is that institutions are not neutral containers of governance. They ... Read moreDisclosureThis research was undertaken with the support of the ANU-UPNG Partnership, an initiative of the PNG-Australia Partnership, funded by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. The views expressed are those of the authors only. About the author/sNemat BizhanNematullah Bizhan is a senior lecturer at the Development Policy Centre. He leds the Centre's partnership with the University of Papua New Guinea.William MaleyEmeritus Professor William Maley served as Professor of Diplomacy at the Australian National University from 2003-2021, and was Foundation Director of the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy from 2003-2014.
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(The Center Square) - Senate Republican Budget Leader Chris Gildon is again calling on Gov. Bob Ferguson to suspend the Climate Commitment Act to provide some financial relief at the pump. A gallon of gas averaged $5.66 in Washington on Thursday, a full $1.42 over the U.S. average, according to AAA. Diesel averaged $6.62 per gallon Thursday, down 20 cents from a month ago, but nearly $2 higher per gallon than a year ago. The CCA adds an estimated 52 cents per gallon to the cost of gasoline. In 2025, Democrats also increased the state gas tax to 55.4 cents per gallon, the third highest in the nation, with automatic 2% annual increases. “The reason that we have all of these high gas prices, at least about 50 cents per gallon, is because of the CCA and all of the compliance costs associated with that,” said Gildon in a Wednesday interview with The Center Square. Gildon's initial letter to Ferguson, sent May 20 asked him not to do away with CCA taxes, but to temporarily suspend them. “You’ve got to balance your climate goals with people's ability to just live in your state,” Gildon said. The Puyallup Republican told The Center Square he did not receive a direct response from Ferguson. “One of his staff members responded, and I think it was a very unfortunate response. It showed a complete lack of empathy for people in our state. They basically just decided to say, ‘this is all Trump's fault, and the war in Iran and that's who you should go talk to.'" Gildon said he acknowledges that the war in Iran and federal policies have an impact. “But we at the state level can't control that. We can control the things that happen within our own borders," he said. "And that's why I'm still holding out hope that the governor will actually respond himself, and not through a staff member.” TCS reached out to Ferguson’s office and received a response from staff member Brionna Aho. "Since March, gas prices have gone up $1.36 per gallon for one reason only: President Trump's decision to go to war against Iran. The high gas prices caused by President Trump's war in Iran does not constitute an emergency that allows the governor to exercise his extraordinary emergency powers." "While the governor appreciates Sen. Gildon’s extremely broad interpretation of the governor’s authority, a more constructive way to address the dramatic recent increase in gas prices would be to contact the man responsible for that increase: President Trump." Aho added that recent independent analysis projects the costs of both the CCA and Clean Fuel Standard well below what Gildon is suggesting. Gildon said the lack of a direct response from the governor is frustrating. “I sent out another press release [Tuesday] just encouraging the governor to respond to this,” said Gildon characterizing the staff response from Ferguson’s office as “dismissive and non-empathetic.” “I think the people of our state deserve to know where the governor is on this issue. So, if he believes that the Climate Commitment Act is so important that people need to suffer and continue to suffer, then he should come out and defend his policy and say, ‘hey, look, I know that you're hurting. but this is more important because X, Y, and Z. Just be honest.” Congressman Michael Baumgartner (WA-05) has also called on Washington state leaders to provide immediate relief for families and small businesses through the temporary suspension of the CCA. “Washingtonians are not just paying the price for Iran’s rogue behavior; they are paying a heavy premium driven by state policy,” said Congressman Baumgartner. “This climate change surcharge is little more than a vanity project designed to make people in downtown Seattle feel good about themselves, while severely penalizing working people across the rest of the state,” wrote Baumgartner in a March 9 press release.
(The Center Square) - Senate Republican Budget Leader Chris Gildon is again calling on Gov. Bob Ferguson to suspend the Climate Commitment Act to provide some financial relief at the pump. A gallon of gas averaged $5.66 in Washington on Thursday, a full $1.42 over the U.S. average, according to AAA. Diesel averaged $6.62 per gallon Thursday, down 20 cents from a month ago, but nearly $2 higher per gallon than a year ago. The CCA adds an estimated 52 cents per gallon to the cost of gasoline. In 2025, Democrats also increased the state gas tax to 55.4 cents per gallon, the third highest in the nation, with automatic 2% annual increases. “The reason that we have all of these high gas prices, at least about 50 cents per gallon, is because of the CCA and all of the compliance costs associated with that,” said Gildon in a Wednesday interview with The Center Square. Gildon's initial letter to Ferguson, sent May 20 asked him not to do away with CCA taxes, but to temporarily suspend them. “You’ve got to balance your climate goals with people's ability to just live in your state,” Gildon said. The Puyallup Republican told The Center Square he did not receive a direct response from Ferguson. “One of his staff members responded, and I think it was a very unfortunate response. It showed a complete lack of empathy for people in our state. They basically just decided to say, ‘this is all Trump's fault, and the war in Iran and that's who you should go talk to.'" Gildon said he acknowledges that the war in Iran and federal policies have an impact. “But we at the state level can't control that. We can control the things that happen within our own borders," he said. "And that's why I'm still holding out hope that the governor will actually respond himself, and not through a staff member.” TCS reached out to Ferguson’s office and received a response from staff member Brionna Aho. "Since March, gas prices have gone up $1.36 per gallon for one reason only: President Trump's decision to go to war against Iran. The high gas prices caused by President Trump's war in Iran does not constitute an emergency that allows the governor to exercise his extraordinary emergency powers." "While the governor appreciates Sen. Gildon’s extremely broad interpretation of the governor’s authority, a more constructive way to address the dramatic recent increase in gas prices would be to contact the man responsible for that increase: President Trump." Aho added that recent independent analysis projects the costs of both the CCA and Clean Fuel Standard well below what Gildon is suggesting. Gildon said the lack of a direct response from the governor is frustrating. “I sent out another press release [Tuesday] just encouraging the governor to respond to this,” said Gildon characterizing the staff response from Ferguson’s office as “dismissive and non-empathetic.” “I think the people of our state deserve to know where the governor is on this issue. So, if he believes that the Climate Commitment Act is so important that people need to suffer and continue to suffer, then he should come out and defend his policy and say, ‘hey, look, I know that you're hurting. but this is more important because X, Y, and Z. Just be honest.” Congressman Michael Baumgartner (WA-05) has also called on Washington state leaders to provide immediate relief for families and small businesses through the temporary suspension of the CCA. “Washingtonians are not just paying the price for Iran’s rogue behavior; they are paying a heavy premium driven by state policy,” said Congressman Baumgartner. “This climate change surcharge is little more than a vanity project designed to make people in downtown Seattle feel good about themselves, while severely penalizing working people across the rest of the state,” wrote Baumgartner in a March 9 press release.
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Multiple Adirondack region organizations welcome new leaders and the Lake George Association is hiring
Multiple Adirondack region organizations welcome new leaders and the Lake George Association is hiring
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La Asamblea General de Carolina del Norte anuló el veto del gobernador y convirtió en ley una medida que permite al estado participar en un programa federal de Crédito Fiscal para la Libertad Educativa (EFTC, en inglés). La entrada Carolina del Norte se une a programa federal de créditos fiscales para becas escolares tras anulación de veto se publicó primero en Enlace Latino NC. Carolina del Norte se une a programa federal de créditos fiscales para becas escolares tras anulación de veto was first posted on junio 4, 2026 at 4:00 pm.©2024 "Enlace Latino NC". Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact me at paola@enlacelatinonc.org
La Asamblea General de Carolina del Norte anuló el veto del gobernador y convirtió en ley una medida que permite al estado participar en un programa federal de Crédito Fiscal para la Libertad Educativa (EFTC, en inglés). La entrada Carolina del Norte se une a programa federal de créditos fiscales para becas escolares tras anulación de veto se publicó primero en Enlace Latino NC. Carolina del Norte se une a programa federal de créditos fiscales para becas escolares tras anulación de veto was first posted on junio 4, 2026 at 4:00 pm.©2024 "Enlace Latino NC". Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact me at paola@enlacelatinonc.org
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The first weekend of June will see not just more events around town, but also some preludes to a bigger occasion.
The first weekend of June will see not just more events around town, but also some preludes to a bigger occasion.
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A sugestão do ex-deputado Eduardo Bolsonaro de substituir o Pix pelo Zelle, sistema de pagamentos instantâneos controlado por um consórcio de bancos dos Estados Unidos, representa uma ameaça à soberania financeira e digital do Brasil. A avaliação é da cientista política Isabela Rocha, presidente do Fórum para Tecnologia Estratégica dos Brics+. Segundo a pesquisadora, a […] Fonte
A sugestão do ex-deputado Eduardo Bolsonaro de substituir o Pix pelo Zelle, sistema de pagamentos instantâneos controlado por um consórcio de bancos dos Estados Unidos, representa uma ameaça à soberania financeira e digital do Brasil. A avaliação é da cientista política Isabela Rocha, presidente do Fórum para Tecnologia Estratégica dos Brics+. Segundo a pesquisadora, a […] Fonte
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Sign up for Chalkbeat Philadelphia’s free newsletter to keep up with news on the city’s public school system.School District of Philadelphia leaders say $50 million in one-time funding approved by the City Council will not restore hundreds of staff positions the district is cutting, according to a memo obtained by Chalkbeat.The City Council gave initial approval on Thursday to a $7.1 billion budget deal for the 2027 fiscal year, but rejected Mayor Cherelle Parker’s proposed rideshare tax that her administration said would generate $48 million in its first year and would stop the elimination of 340 staff positions at Philly schools. Instead, the council sent $48 million from other budget sources in a one-time allocation to the school district to stop the cuts.But later on Thursday, the City Council received a memo from Superintendent Tony Watlington saying that the funding was insufficient because it did not address the “underlying drivers of staff reductions.” “The District cannot restore the 340 school based positions without a commitment to recurring and predictable funding over multiple years,” Watlington wrote in the memo. He also wrote that the district’s finance team believes relying on a one-time funding to support recurring expenditures like salaries “may be viewed as a structural budget imbalance and could negatively affect the District’s long-term financial outlook, borrowing costs, and future capacity to invest in school facilities.”Watlington’s memo does not address how the district could use or plans to use the $48 million instead. Councilmembers quickly denounced the letter.Education Chair Isaiah Thomas called Watlington’s memo “offensive and disrespectful” in a speech from the City Council floor on Thursday.“For me that’s very, very shortsighted and doesn’t show leadership,” Council President Kenyatta Johnson said of the letter. He said district leaders should welcome the $50 million and reverse the cuts.Standing alongside Watlington and Board of Education President Reginald Streater at City Hall Thursday, Parker called the $48 million a “band-aid” solution that would not solve the district’s persistent financial challenges: “It doesn’t get to the heart of the matter which is a $300 million structural deficit.”Johnson said councilmembers remain committed “to work for long-term recurring revenue for the school district.” Carly Sitrin is the bureau chief for Chalkbeat Philadelphia. Contact Carly at csitrin@chalkbeat.org.
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Sign up for Chalkbeat Philadelphia’s free newsletter to keep up with news on the city’s public school system.School District of Philadelphia leaders say $50 million in one-time funding approved by the City Council will not restore hundreds of staff positions the district is cutting, according to a memo obtained by Chalkbeat.The City Council gave initial approval on Thursday to a $7.1 billion budget deal for the 2027 fiscal year, but rejected Mayor Cherelle Parker’s proposed rideshare tax that her administration said would generate $48 million in its first year and would stop the elimination of 340 staff positions at Philly schools. Instead, the council sent $48 million from other budget sources in a one-time allocation to the school district to stop the cuts.But later on Thursday, the City Council received a memo from Superintendent Tony Watlington saying that the funding was insufficient because it did not address the “underlying drivers of staff reductions.” “The District cannot restore the 340 school based positions without a commitment to recurring and predictable funding over multiple years,” Watlington wrote in the memo. He also wrote that the district’s finance team believes relying on a one-time funding to support recurring expenditures like salaries “may be viewed as a structural budget imbalance and could negatively affect the District’s long-term financial outlook, borrowing costs, and future capacity to invest in school facilities.”Watlington’s memo does not address how the district could use or plans to use the $48 million instead. Councilmembers quickly denounced the letter.Education Chair Isaiah Thomas called Watlington’s memo “offensive and disrespectful” in a speech from the City Council floor on Thursday.“For me that’s very, very shortsighted and doesn’t show leadership,” Council President Kenyatta Johnson said of the letter. He said district leaders should welcome the $50 million and reverse the cuts.Standing alongside Watlington and Board of Education President Reginald Streater at City Hall Thursday, Parker called the $48 million a “band-aid” solution that would not solve the district’s persistent financial challenges: “It doesn’t get to the heart of the matter which is a $300 million structural deficit.”Johnson said councilmembers remain committed “to work for long-term recurring revenue for the school district.” Carly Sitrin is the bureau chief for Chalkbeat Philadelphia. Contact Carly at csitrin@chalkbeat.org.
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Programação começa nesta quinta-feira (5) e segue até o dia 14, com competições, mostras, palestras e outras atividades Fonte
Programação começa nesta quinta-feira (5) e segue até o dia 14, com competições, mostras, palestras e outras atividades Fonte
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The 23-member panel will work to interrogate the entirety of CT's complex 'education cost share' school funding system and propose reforms.
The 23-member panel will work to interrogate the entirety of CT's complex 'education cost share' school funding system and propose reforms.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has written an open letter to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, urging him to attend a meeting between the two leaders at a neutral location to agree an end to the war.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has written an open letter to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, urging him to attend a meeting between the two leaders at a neutral location to agree an end to the war.