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The governor has now signed 48 of the 74 bills the Legislature approved during the 30-day legislative session that ended Feb. 19.

The fourth-term congressman, who lost decisively to state Rep. Steve Toth, said baseless attacks about his alleged insider trading and gun stances fueled the upset.

With a 50% favorability rating, President Donald Trump ranks as the most popular elected official in Montana. Many eastern Montana respondents also indicated they don’t know enough to have an opinion of their congressman, U.S. Rep. Troy Downing. The post Voters lukewarm on personal appeal of Montana electeds appeared first on Montana Free Press.

A major tech group suggests Michigan would be sued if it tries to regulate minors’ access to social media. State lawmakers are undeterred.

Led by the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, a coalition of countries are introducing a resolution at the United Nations General Assembly that could reinforce countries’ legal obligations under international climate laws and treaties. The resolution would back a July 2025 climate advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice that frames climate commitments […]

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The complaint was filed via a state tip line alleging an Austin High School student used a bathroom not aligned with their sex at birth, according to the attorney general.

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The county registrar released its latest candidates list, showing that Desmond — who had been running for another seat — pulled papers for the 48th District.

The Chicago Board of Education has identified multiple finalists for the next CEO of Chicago Public Schools, according to three sources familiar with the situation. The board picked finalists during its Wednesday meeting in its closed session, the sources said. One of the sources said the board is advancing three people; the other sources declined to specify a number. A second source said there’s a small chance that the board may decide to add applicants to the finalist list.In a previous interview with Chalkbeat, appointed board member Norma Rios-Sierra said the board had a goal of identifying at least three finalists.All sources, who requested anonymity to share private discussions, declined to reveal finalist names. One source described the finalists as “very strong,” and another said they have experience leading large urban districts. The board passed a resolution last year saying the next CEO must have a superintendent’s license.“What seems to be moving forward is keeping with the timeline and by this spring, being able to name someone and give them an offer,” said one of the sources, adding that an eventual pick likely wouldn’t start until the summer.The next round of interviews and an eventual pick for CEO could happen as soon as within the next month, but an exact timeline isn’t yet clear, two of the sources said. The district has been without a permanent leader since former CPS CEO Pedro Martinez left last June. Macquline King has been serving as interim since and applied for the CEO job but didn’t advance to a finalist round.The process has so far been bumpy. The search appeared to be coming to a close last winter before multiple news outlets revealed finalist names kept under wraps — New York City schools chancellor Meisha Porter and current Denver superintendent Alex Marrero. After Marrero appeared to drop out, the board began interviewing more candidates. But last month, the board’s search firm Alma Advisory Group parted ways with the district.In late February, a small group of elected members — including elected board member Jessica Biggs, who chairs the search committee — accused the mayor’s office and its allies of derailing the search, which the mayor’s office has denied. Those board members have advocated for keeping King in place until a new fully elected school board is sworn in next January. Some of the candidates earned a majority of support to be advanced as finalists but did not get unanimous backing, which some board members also raised concerns about, one source said.In a statement, the Chicago Board of Education office said “there are no updates to provide at this time.”Sources said Harden and board office staff did not outline or present specific next steps on the search during the Wednesday meeting, but their understanding is that finalists will interview with board members and the mayor. Originally, the board had created a community panel that would also interview finalists, but it wasn’t clear among the sources if such a panel will still conduct interviews. The mayor’s office did not respond to a request for comment. Reema Amin is a reporter covering Chicago Public Schools. Contact Reema at ramin@chalkbeat.org.

(The Center Square) – Qualifying for Georgia's May 19 primaries ended Friday, setting up contests for some of the state's top offices. Elections will be held for governor, lieutenant governor, U.S. Senate and four U.S. House seats vacated by resignations. Qualifying did not yield any major surprises, since most candidates announced their intentions long before paying the qualifying fee. Rick Jackson waited until the last day of qualifying to make his candidacy for governor official after entering an already crowded primary last month. Lt. Gov. Burt Jones, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, Attorney General Chris Carr, Clark Howard Dean, Gregg Kirkpatrick, Ken Yasger and Thomas Williams round out the field. Jones has the endorsement from President Donald Trump, but Jackson is actively courting the president in his campaign blitz, calling himself a "Trump-supporting conservative outsider" in a social media post. Seven Democrats are in the May 19 primary. Former Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan switched from the Republican Party and is running for the state's top job. Also in the race are former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, former state senator Jason Esteves, former state representative Derrick Jackson, former Georgia labor commissioner Michael Thurmond, Amanda Duffy, and Olu Brown. Four current or former Republican Georgia senators are vying for Jones' job. Greg Dolezal, Steve Gooch, John Kennedy and Blake Tillery are running along with Brenda Lynn Nelson-Porter, David Timothy Clark and Takosha Misheal Swan. Democrats in the race are state Sens. Josh McLaurin and Nabilah Parkes, and Richard Wright. U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff does not have a Democratic challenger, but five Republicans want to take him on in the November election. U.S Congressmen Buddy Carter and Mike Collins are leaving their posts to run for Senate. Former University of Tennessee football coach Derek Dooley is also in the race and has Gov. Brian Kemp's endorsement. Also in the Republican primary are Jonathan McCollum and John Francis Coyne III. Eleven of the Republican candidates in the March 10 special election to replace former 14th District U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene have qualified for the May 19 primary. They are former state senator Colton Moore, Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit prosecutor Clay Fuller, James Edward Tully Jr., Brian Stover, Nicky Lama, Eric Brad Cunningham, Reagan Christane Box, Star Black, Thomas Gray and Beau Brown. Only one Democrat, Shawn Harris, qualified. A former Greene challenger is running for the U.S. House District 11 seat. U.S. Rep. Barry Loudermilk is not seeking reelection. Dr. John Cowan Jr., who challenged Greene in 2020 and lost in a runoff, is seeking Loudermilk's post. Also running is Public Service Commissioner Tricia Pridemore, who is leaving the commission to run for the office. Other candidates in the Republican party are Robert Allen Adkerson, William Brown, Lisa Anne Carlquist, Uloma Stacy Kama and Chris Mora. Democrats seeking the District 11 post are Barry Wolfert and Chris Harden. Candidates for all of the offices are listed on the Secretary of State's website.

An update released Friday shows current fiscal year revenue is expected to be about 1.2% higher than what lawmakers budgeted for. For the upcoming year, new projections are now more bullish than what Gov. JB Pritzker proposed, according to the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability.

(The Center Square) - American gasoline prices continued to rise on Friday and are up the most of any week since 2022. Iran widened attacks on energy-producing countries near its borders and the Strait of Hormuz remains closed to shipping, dashing hopes for a quick resolution to a crisis sending shockwaves through global markets. The United States last Saturday began a military campaign in Iran, one that has continued throughout the week with aggression. Friday at 1 p.m. Eastern, the U.S. national average price for regular gasoline had jumped approximately 35.9 cents per gallon from the same time in the previous week, reaching approximately $3.34 per gallon, according to GasBuddy. The 12% rise from the previous Friday was the largest weekly increase since March 2022, when Russia’s invasion of Ukraine roiled global energy markets. Gasoline prices in Indiana rose 44.3 cents during the week while drivers in Florida, Louisiana and Oklahoma had seven-day increases of 43.9 cents, 42.3 cents, and 40.9 cents per gallon, respectively. Meanwhile, benchmark prices for other key fuels in overseas markets rose even more during the week. In Europe, the price of liquified natural gas – LNG – at the TTF Hub was up about 52% in the week, reaching $15.61 per million British thermal units. In Asia, the Japan-Korea Marker was up 91% in the week $31.65 per million BTU, which compared with $3.20 per million BTU at the Henry Hub in Louisiana, up a modest 6.8% on the week. Second-term Republican President Donald Trump said in an interview with Reuters late Thursday that the U.S. military operation was his top priority, not higher gasoline prices. "They'll drop very rapidly when this is over, and if they rise, they rise, but this is far more important than having gasoline prices go up a little bit," the president said. The president reiterated on Friday that a deal with Iran will require “unconditional surrender.” On Thursday the president said he would be "all for" a ground offensive inside Iran by the region's Kurdish forces. GasBuddy head of Petroleum Analysis Patrick De Haan said in an interview Thursday afternoon that prices were surging across a range of fuels that include U.S. gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel as markets realized U.S. naval escorts of oil and gas tankers would not occur immediately. “Nothing's moving, and I think that's why the market suddenly ramped up today,” said De Haan. "In addition, we saw Iran escalate today by launching new missile attacks on Azerbaijan." U.S. wholesale jet fuel prices were up by 72% at one point of the day on Thursday, noted De Haan. “The U.S. Navy will escort ships ‌as soon as reasonable,” Energy Secretary Chris Wright said ⁠Friday in an interview on Fox News. On Tuesday, the president ordered the U.S. Development Finance Corporation to offer political risk insurance and naval convoys for ships transporting energy and other commodities through the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf. About 20% of the world’s crude oil passes through the Strait of Hormuz. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday on CNBC that U.S. officials will make a "series of announcements" aimed at facilitating shipments of oil, LNG, and other commodities out of the Persian Gulf. Early Friday afternoon, New York Mercantile Exchange West Intermediate Texas crude oil futures for delivery in April traded at $90.49 per barrel, up $25.28 or 38.8% in the week since the conflict began. This was the largest increase in percentage terms over a seven-day period since oil demand collapsed during the COVID-19 era in 2020. “There is a lot of volatility in the markets,” said Mike Moncla, president of the Louisianan Oil and gas association. “In general, higher prices are better for the oil and gas industry in Louisiana and elsewhere, but we also need stability and clarity – a year from now this whole thing might be over and a barrel of oil might be back at $60.” Still, gasoline prices remain relatively inexpensive. In 2022, the year Russia’s invasion of Ukraine pushed global energy prices sharply higher, a gallon of regular grade gasoline averaged $3.88 per gallon and in June peaked at a monthly average of $4.92 per gallon. “There's no cheaper liquid in the world than gasoline,” said Moncla. “If you had to fill your tank with milk or Windex or any other liquid out there, I think you’d spent a whole lot more than you do filling your tank with gasoline.”

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(The Center Square) – An initiative requiring a sentence of life in prison for child trafficking has qualified for Colorado’s November ballot, the secretary of state’s office said. Initiative #108, titled "Penalties for human trafficking of a minor,” would make the human trafficking of a minor for sex a class one felony, rather than a class two felony. If passed by voters, the requirement for life sentences without the possibility of parole would take effect Jan. 1, 2027. “Residents of Colorado and other states and territories throughout the United States have seen an alarming increase in human trafficking, especially human trafficking involving minor children,” the initiative’s text says. “Current penalties in Colorado law with parole possible in as little as eight years have failed to adequately deter the human trafficking of minor children.” According to the office, supporters of the initiative submitted 169,775 signatures. “After reviewing a five-percent random sample of the submitted signatures, the Elections Division projected the number of valid signatures to be greater than 110 percent of the total number of signatures required for placement on the ballot,” the office said in a news release on Thursday. Statewide initiative petitions require at least 124,238 valid signatures to qualify for the ballot. Protect Kids Colorado, the group behind Initiative #108, says on its website it’s a “coalition protecting kids and strengthening families in Colorado.” PKC Executive Director Erin Lee said in a news release that thousands of volunteers help with the effort to get the measure on the ballot. “This moment belongs to the people of Colorado,” she said. “Thousands of volunteers stepped forward across our state including parents, grandparents, faith leaders, students, and concerned citizens because they believe children deserve stronger protection. We are deeply grateful to every volunteer who gave their time to gather signatures and make this possible. Because of them, the voters of Colorado will now have the opportunity to take action to protect children.” The group is also behind initiatives #109, titled “Male and Female Participation in School Sports,” and #110, titled “Prohibit Certain Surgeries on Minors.” Signatures for both measures were submitted last month and are currently under review, according to the secretary of state’s website. PKC did not respond to The Center Square’s request for comments. Two other measures have made the ballot so far. One would increase penalties for the sale or possession of fentanyl, and the other proposes amending the state constitution to require law enforcement to notify the federal government if an illegal immigrant is charged with a crime in the state.

(The Center Square) – Former President Barack Obama said his path to the White House was laid by late civil rights leader Jesse Jackson. The public home going service for Jackson was at House of Hope in Chicago on Friday. Obama said he was nominated for the presidency because of the path Jackson laid when he ran for president in 1984 and 1988. “Because of his courage, his audacity, that two decades later, a young Black senator from Chicago’s South Side would even be taken seriously as a candidate for the presidential nomination,” Obama said. Former presidents Joe Biden and Bill Clinton also attended the service. Other speakers included Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson. Pritzker said you could feel Jackson’s spirit in the movements for justice that grew from the seeds he tilled. “His ambition, the North Star of his advocacy, was to shape a world where justice is not an anomaly but a constant,” Pritzker said. Johnson spoke for several minutes before encouraging musical accompaniment. He then said it is time to fully fund education and build an economy that works for all. “Black, brown, white, Asian, young, old, it is time for the ultra-rich to pay their fair share in taxes on the other side of the bridge. Reverend, you crossed your bridge. We know our assignment. We see you on the other side,” Johnson said, as music played and the crowd rose to its feet. Jackson died Feb. 17 at the age of 84. ###