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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.The Michigan Bureau of Elections revoked Antrim County Clerk Victoria Bishop’s access to Michigan’s voter roll Friday, the latest salvo in the dispute between the state and the controversial Republican election official.Jonathan Brater, Michigan’s director of elections, said in a letter to Bishop that she is “taking actions ... that do not comply with the Michigan Election Law and fall outside the scope of your statutory authority” after she allegedly changed or even canceled some voters’ registrations earlier this year.Under Michigan law, maintaining the Qualified Voter File — the state’s central database of registered voters — is the job of city and township clerks, not county clerks. Brater noted in his letter that Bishop does “not have authority to alter QVF records except in certain situations,” including to flag voters who have died.However, Brater wrote, the state’s review of Bishop’s QVF activity found that that was not what she was doing. He also reprimanded her for sending notices to voters about the cancellations that were insufficiently complete, based on unreliable information, and also supposed to be sent only by city and township clerks.“Based upon your actions, it appears there is a lack of understanding regarding your responsibilities and authority as it relates to voter registration, list maintenance, and use of QVF,” Brater wrote. He concluded by notifying her that her QVF access has been suspended until she completes a series of trainings on QVF security, promises to comply with Michigan’s election law in the future, and responds adequately to the state’s initial inquiries on whose voter registrations were changed and why.Bishop did not immediately respond to requests for comment Friday afternoon on the suspension. However, she has previously argued she has a “mandate” from voters to “rectify long-standing vulnerabilities in the county’s registration data” after Antrim County elected her on promises she would clean up the county’s rolls.Bishop has been in hot water with the state since April, when Votebeat first reported that she had been altering people’s voter registrations. Interlochen Public Radio later reported that she had sent notices of confirmation or cancellation to some 1,800 voters in the county of about 25,000 people, confusing voters and irritating township clerks who had to deal with the fallout.After Bishop failed to correctly respond to the state — she initially sent her response to an incorrect email address and did not answer a number of questions — the Department of State formally demanded she stop. Bishop and her husband, a radio host best known as Trucker Randy, threatened their own legal action against the state. They raised a few hundred dollars for the effort before ultimately unpublishing their fundraiser. It does not appear a suit was filed.Michigan State Police also investigated the Bishops after it came to light that her husband was alone in the clerk’s office using her computer in February. The Bishops told investigators that he was using the computer to watch a public county meeting as he was waiting for a phone call. The attorney general’s office confirmed Friday that investigation is ongoing.Voters should not see services interrupted by Bishop’s lack of access to the QVF, as her deputy clerk, Annette Marcus, will still have access, and the bulk of work in the QVF is done by city and township clerks.The county’s next elections are the primaries in August.Hayley Harding is a reporter for Votebeat based in Michigan. Contact Hayley at hharding@votebeat.org.

Sign up for Chalkbeat Colorado’s free daily newsletter to get the latest reporting from us, plus curated news from other Colorado outlets, delivered to your inbox.When the federal education department announced in March that Jeffco Public Schools had in its view run afoul of anti-discrimination law, it cited one key piece of evidence: rosters indicating 61 boys were on girls’ sports teams. In a letter to the community this week, Colorado’s second largest school district said no boys were competing on those teams — and offered an explanation.“Some teams had male managers, trainers, or mascots — not athletes,” the letter said. “Because the [U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights] never asked us to clarify the role of any individual listed on those rosters, we did not learn of this confusion until the OCR issued a press release. Since that moment, we have repeatedly and respectfully asked the OCR to address this factual error. They have declined to do so.”The U.S. Department of Education declined to comment for this story.The federal Office for Civil Rights is meant to ensure equal access to education by enforcing laws that prohibit discrimination. But under President Donald Trump, the office has used the federal Title IX law to target school district policies that protect transgender students.Jeffco has been in a back-and-forth with the federal office for a year.Last June, the office launched an investigation into Jeffco’s policy on sleeping arrangements for transgender students on overnight school trips. The policy says transgender students should share rooms with peers who match their gender identity. A family had sued the district after their 11-year-old daughter was assigned to share a bed with a transgender student.The federal office eventually found that several of Jeffco’s policies — including those on overnight accommodations, bathroom use, and sports participation — violated Title IX.At first, the office said Jeffco athletic rosters indicated “that male students occupy 61 roster positions on girls’ sports teams.” A later version of the press release posted on the federal education department’s website walked back that language by adding the words “may” and “up to.”The department has not answered questions from Chalkbeat about the change. Nor has it answered questions about how it made the determination about the 61 boys.Last week, the federal office issued a warning letter to Jeffco threatening to pull the 74,000-student district’s federal funding if it doesn’t change its policies, saying the two sides are at an impasse.In a statement, Jeffco disagreed about the impasse, noting that the district is still within the 90-day window that the office allows for good faith negotiations.Jeffco has said from the start that it is following Colorado’s anti-discrimination law, which “directly contradicts” the Trump administration’s interpretation of Title IX, the district said.“This places school districts in an impossible position,” the district wrote in its letter to the community, which was posted to its website Thursday. “We must navigate conflicting requirements with clear state law on one side and non-binding federal guidance on the other.”Despite receiving an impasse letter, Jeffco said it has “not given up on dialogue” with federal officials to come to a resolution.Melanie Asmar is the bureau chief for Chalkbeat Colorado. Contact Melanie at masmar@chalkbeat.org.

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Sign up for Chalkbeat Chicago’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the latest news on Chicago Public Schools. Subscribe here for Board Rule.For three decades, Chicago voters have not had a direct say in who represents them on the city’s Board of Education. And many may not have much of a choice again this fall, despite an otherwise historic election in which all 21 school board seats are on the ballot in November’s general election. That’s because 17 races could end up with just one candidate if challenges to their petition signatures are successful. That’s on top of the two seats up for election that have just one candidate. This year, 28 candidates — more than half the current field of 51 candidates — are at risk of getting knocked off the ballot. The Urban Center, a pro-school choice, politically centrist organization, is behind at least 14 of those challenges. Most of the candidates facing challenges — including four of the five people running for board president — could be wiped from the ballot due to a claim that the way they collected signatures violated election law. Most of The Urban Center’s challenges include this claim. Known as a dual circulator argument, the challengers say that some people who helped candidates collect signatures were not allowed to do so because they had already circulated petitions for other candidates during the March primary election. Chicago’s school board races are nonpartisan and were not part of the primary. If the electoral board agrees, they could make a single ruling that would result in thousands of voters across 14 districts having just one school board candidate on their ballot. For candidates, fighting petition challenges can be time-consuming and expensive, which can cut into campaigning or cause them to withdraw from the race and leave voters with fewer choices. Election attorneys and challengers, however, say the process ensures candidates are following the law and are people who voters want on the ballot. In 2024, 47 candidates filed to run, and 31 remained on the ballot.In Chicago, petition challenges are often backed by powerful special interests as a tactic to narrow the race. The Chicago Teachers Union was behind many of the challenges in 2024, when 10 of 21 board seats were up for election. This year, other special interests are employing the tactic. Robert Sylvester, vice president of The Urban Center and chair of their political action group, told Chalkbeat and Board Rule his group is working with other political organizations and longtime elections attorney Mike Kasper on their challenges — more than half of which target candidates who are current mayoral appointees on the school board, have previously been backed by the union, or lean politically progressive. “The democratic process is important to me and Urban Center,” Sylvester said in an interview. “We challenge to make sure people play by the rules.”Asked if The Urban Center targeted candidates who don’t ideologically align with it, Sylvester said, “We challenged anybody we thought didn’t have the requisite signatures or that they didn’t follow the rules around the circulators.” The basis for challenging candidate petitions Candidates for school board running to represent the district they live in were required to collect between 500 to 1,500 signatures on a form known as a nominating petition. Those running for board president, which is a citywide office, were required to collect 2,500 signatures.But there are very specific rules for what counts as a valid signature: Signers must be registered to vote at an address in the same district as the candidate, they cannot sign multiple petitions for the same race, and, though it may be obvious, the signature can’t be forged. Victor Henderson, a newcomer candidate running for board president, is facing one of the more serious challenges: Two objectors have accused him or someone on his team of fraudulently altering his signers’ addresses in order to make the signatures valid. A handful of objections are over more technical matters. For example, one objector claimed that current appointed board member Norma Rios-Sierra, who is running in district 3a, should be knocked off the ballot because she didn’t include a hyphen in her last name on her nomination paperwork. Candidate Marlo Bennet faces two challenges arguing they did not identify the subdistrict they’re running for and should therefore be disqualified.Nearly two dozen challenges include the “dual circulator” argument and cite a part of election law that says “no person shall circulate or certify petitions for candidates of more than one political party, or for an independent candidate or candidates in addition to one political party, to be voted upon at the next primary or general election, or for such candidates and parties with respect to the same political subdivision at the next consolidated election.” Another section of election law says that where applicable, the law also applies to nonpartisan candidates. The point of the law is to prevent “political gamesmanship” or a “sore-loser” situation, such as someone switching to run as an independent in the same election season, said Ross Secler, an elections attorney and partner at Odelsen, Murphy, Frazier and McGrath, who cited previous Illinois Supreme Court rulings over the issue. Secler, who is representing objectors in two challenges but is not making the dual circulator argument in either of them, said he doesn’t see how dual circulators violated the spirit of the law in this situation. The March primaries were unrelated to local school board races. Normally, a challenge is resolved once a hearing officer reviews the case, issues a recommendation, and the electoral board takes a final vote on whether the candidate gathered enough valid signatures to be on the ballot.Connie Anderson is running in district 10b and is one of the candidates facing the dual circulator argument. Anderson’s husband, Clifton, has also challenged the petitions of Anderson’s opponent, Rosita Chatonda. Anderson said she is now getting legal help from the CTU to defend her petitions — an offer CTU leaders made to all candidates shortly after challenges were made public. “We are blessed that an organization came in and said, ‘We will help you even if we haven’t endorsed you because we believe in your vision,’” Anderson said. “We align in that way.”During the 2024 school board races, the union was behind challenges against 19 candidates. A CTU spokesperson said the union did not back any challenges this cycle and could not immediately confirm which candidates the union has offered legal help to.Julie Metea, a spokesperson for the Electoral Board, said that attorneys involved in cases with the “dual circulator” argument asked the Electoral Board to rule on the issue once instead of having several different hearing officers decide on individual cases.Metea said that the board is tentatively planning to hold one hearing to decide on this issue, but that isn’t final. Candidates who escaped challenges breathe sigh of reliefSeveral candidates facing these objections didn’t return calls or declined to comment on the record about their cases. Some current and former candidates said they escaped challenges because they did a lot of research or didn’t rely on paid circulators, who candidates pay per signature.Jennifer Custer, a current elected board member who is running for board president, escaped a challenge, meaning she’s guaranteed to be on the ballot. “We made sure to just check everything before we even started petitions and make sure that we were following the law,” Custer said in an interview. When Anthony Hargrove ran for school board in 2024, he largely relied on a paid circulator who was tasked with securing 500 signatures. Then, Hargrove faced a petition challenge and was knocked off the ballot after many of his signatures were deemed invalid. Last time, it cost the father of four expensive attorney fees and time to fight the challenge.Chicago elections, he said, can feel “like a frat that’s really, really impossible to get into.”Hargrove is running again this year for district 5a on the West Side, and he changed his strategy for getting on the ballot. He got advice from retired politicians. He read the law. He said he didn’t pay anyone to collect signatures, and instead, he, his wife and others spent evenings and weekends knocking on doors and attending community events to collect hundreds of more names than he needed. Then he went to the county building to make sure his signatures were valid. Last week, after repeatedly refreshing the Board of Elections website, he saw that no one had challenged his petitions.“It was like, ‘Oh my god, I made it. Oh my god, I’m a candidate,’” Hargrove said. Isaiah Pinzino and Norah D’Cruze contributed to this report. Reema Amin is a reporter covering Chicago Public Schools. Contact Reema at ramin@chalkbeat.org.Maureen Kelleher is the founding editor for Board Rule. Contact Maureen at maureen.boardrule@gmail.com.

(The Center Square) – During President Donald Trump’s first term, one policy that united Pennsylvania lawmakers on both sides of the aisle was the effort to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement, known as NAFTA. In 2019, every single member of Pennsylvania’s U.S. House delegation voted in favor of USMCA, which aimed to reform trade policy between the United States, Mexico, and Canada. “The USMCA is the largest, fairest, most balanced, and modern trade agreement ever achieved. There’s never been anything like it,” Trump said when he signed it into law in January 2020. Although the agreement isn’t set to expire until July 2036, regular review of the terms and the countries to negotiate every six years is in place, as the first six-year term ends at the beginning of July. On Wednesday, Trump opened the door to not renewing the trade deal that he signed into law in 2020. “I don't know that I'm going to renew it because to be honest with you, United States does much better,” Trump said from his Oval Office desk. “We don't need anything that Canada has. We don't need anything that Mexico has, but they need everything that we have.” The Center Square contacted every member of the state’s congressional delegation, asking the same two questions: What does the lawmaker think of the USMCA and does that lawmaker think the USMCA should be renewed. Those who replied said they wanted to see the USMCA enhanced, not abandoned. U.S. Rep. Brendan Boyle, D-2nd District, who was a vocal critic of NAFTA, voted in favor of the USMCA. “USMCA improved many of the failures of NAFTA,” Boyle said to the Center Square. “But it did not do enough to address the myriad challenges faced by American workers.” “Now, President Trump’s chaotic trade policies are making things even worse,” he continued. “As a senior member of the Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee, I believe it is vital for Congress to use this opportunity to make improvements to USMCA that benefit American workers, American consumers, and American manufacturers.” U.S. Rep. Dan Meuser, R-9th District, is a staunch ally of Trump and voted to pass the USMCA. “The U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement was negotiated during President Trump’s first term to put Americans first and secured important protections for our farmers and manufacturers,” Meuser said to the Center Square. “As with the many trade agreements he has successfully negotiated, President Trump takes a thoughtful America First approach to free and fair trade policy, that means both America and our partners are treated fairly.” “The six-year review provides an opportunity to keep the core tenets of USMCA intact while making targeted improvements, particularly in agriculture,” Meuser continued. “Any potential changes should build on the agreement’s success and further strengthen Pennsylvania’s farmers, manufacturers, and workers. This cultivates an international economy focused on correcting trade imbalances, advancing American businesses, and protecting American jobs.” U.S. Rep. Dwight Evans, D-3rd District, also voted to pass the USMCA. He told the Center Square that he has a “generally positive view” of the trade agreement. “House Democrats successfully insisted in 2019 on strengthening the labor and environmental protections from what the Trump administration had negotiated,” Evans said. “As a member of the Ways and Means Committee, which oversees trade, I’m proud to have been part of that effort.” Evans believes USMCA should be renewed. “There are areas where it can be improved, and I’m open to that, but Trump’s chaotic, belligerent approach to tariffs and our foreign partners in general has hurt our businesses and American families and households,” Evans said. “We are all paying the price at the grocery store, for example. Canceling this agreement with two of the biggest markets for American goods and services would be ‘America Last.’” U.S. Rep. Chris Deluzio, D-17th District, was not in office during the USMCA vote. However, he’s been one of the most outspoken members of his party with regards to trade policy since he was elected to represent the district in western Pennsylvania, with Semafor even dubbing him a “pro-tariff Democrat.” “NAFTA was a massive betrayal of American workers and industry. And NAFTA 2.0 (the USMCA) has failed to fix so many of the problems stemming from NAFTA: the nation’s trade deficit has expanded under the USMCA, and we’ve lost tens of thousands of domestic manufacturing jobs,” Deluzio said to the Center Square. “Meanwhile, Mexico has added hundreds of thousands of new, low-wage manufacturing jobs since USCMA and remains a place where other countries like China take advantage of loopholes to gain access to the North American free trade block.” “Pennsylvanians know how important it is to get this right—because we’ve seen how it can go very wrong,” he continued. “We must have industrial and trade policies that can deliver good-paying jobs and restore America’s manufacturing leadership.” On the question if the USMCA should be renewed? “It should be renegotiated with important fixes to support America’s workers and industries,” Deluzio said. “We should fix the USMCA to force companies seeking its benefits to agree to higher wages and stronger labor rights enforcement, to pay for their pollution costs in Mexico, and to stop Chinese firms from using it to obtain duty-free access to the United States.” Gov. Josh Shapiro even addressed the matter north of the border on Wednesday during a joint event with Ontario Premier Doug Ford. Ford, who recently made a visit to the United States, described the discussion revolving around USMCA as one for the federal government and the prime minister, but argued that both countries do need each other for trade. Shapiro said he wants to make sure that the USMCA is strengthened to be “fair across the border and to ensure that both countries can benefit from it.” “It is critically important that we find ways to trade together, and it is critically important that we find ways to do that in a manner that supports our citizens, that benefits Pennsylvanians, and benefits the people of Ontario,” Shapiro said. “And I believe that this process was laid out in a way where it would have an opportunity to make tweaks to make changes at this moment.” “I do not believe that the President is right in suggesting that we don't need each other,” he continued. “I think our economies are linked and they should be linked, but they should be done in a way that is mutually beneficial.” In 2019, then-U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, a Democrat, voted “yes” on the deal by Trump, while then GOP U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey voted against it. Pennsylvania’s current delegation in the U.S. Senate, John Fetterman, a Democrat, and Dave McCormick, a Republican, did not respond to a request for comment from the Center Square. Canada has urged both Mexico and the United States to renew the agreement for another 16 years before July 1, according to The Hill, as the deal is set to automatically expire on July 1, 2036, unless all three countries agree to formally renew it for an additional 16-year term. The next round of talks, according to The Hill, between the countries on the trade agreement is scheduled for the week of July 20 in Mexico City.

Un accord entre l'Iran et les États-Unis est-il imminent ? Plusieurs déclarations récentes, émanant de responsables américains, iraniens et du médiateur pakistanais vendredi 12 juin, vont dans ce sens. Mais la prudence reste de mise. Plusieurs dossiers sensibles demeurent en suspens, notamment la question des avoirs iraniens gelés à l'étranger et celle du programme nucléaire de Téhéran.

A new report from the nonpartisan State of the Nation Project lists New Mexico near the bottom of national rankings for education, shootings, youth depression and a number of other factors that impact life satisfaction.

(The Center Square) - The Pierce County Charter Review Commission will hold a special meeting on Saturday, June 13 to give the public an opportunity to provide comments on proposed charter amendments being considered for the upcoming November ballot. Among those amendments are two highly controversial proposals that directly impact the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department. Both measures have drawn significant public debate and vocal pushback from the current administration, including Sheriff Keith Swank. “This is complete corruption and corruption at its finest,” Swank told The Center Square. One amendment would remove the elected sheriff position from the ballot, establishing specific professional qualifications for the role and shifting selection authority to the County Executive branch for appointment. Currently, King County is the only county in Washington state with an appointed sheriff; the other 38 counties maintain elected sheriffs. Pierce County voters rejected an appointed sheriff model in 2006, voting 66% in favor of maintaining an elected law enforcement leader. Another proposal the commission is considering would establish an independent sheriff ombudsman position. The ombuds would hold authority to independently investigate community complaints regarding the sheriff's department and its employees. “I feel like this is an attempt to implement 5974 at a local level, and it's inappropriate and should not be sent to the voters,” said Commissioner Hollie Rogge in a Friday interview with The Center Square. She was referring to the legislation approved by majority Democrats and signed into law in April 2026 to allow an appointed state board to decertify sheriffs. The measure also created a number of obstacles to running for sheriff that a Thurston County Superior Court Judge found constitutional issues, setting the measure on hold pending further legal review. “This isn't just about Sheriff Keith Swank. This is really about an elected sheriff who is responsible for enforcing the law. We really want him to be independent and not have a political agenda, which by making that position appointed, it becomes politicized by whoever the executive is at that moment,” said Rogge. Swank told The Center Square if the measures are placed on the ballot and adopted by voters, he’s “not participating.” “They can do whatever they want to do," he said. "I'm not going to give them any records or do anything at all because I want to see what they're going to do then. What are they going to do? If you're against me like that, I'm not cooperating with you, right? So, I’d like to see what they do about that.” Rogge told TCS she believes progressive members do have the votes to push at least one of the anti-sheriff measures onto the ballot. “I have a sense that at the very least they're going to push this ombudsman forward to the voters,” said Rogge. “But we have heard, I believe, from the majority of the public that they want to keep their elected sheriff and that having an ombuds over the sheriff, an unelected, appointed commission over the sheriff, is inappropriate.” Rogge said her constituents on both sides of the aisle have said the office of sheriff should be independent. “He shouldn’t have a political agenda," she said. "My making that position appointed, that position becomes politicized by whoever the executive is at that moment.” Swank called the proposals a “recipe for criminality on behalf of the executive.” “They pick the sheriff that they want, and then they threaten him with the ombuds. If you do anything to go against me, we'll go after this because the ombuds would be picked by them also.” The Charter Review Commission meeting is scheduled for Saturday, June 13, beginning at 9 a.m., for the sole purpose of receiving public comment on proposals being considered for placement on the November ballot. The commission will not be debating or voting on any of the proposals at the meeting. Remote attendance is available through Zoom at https://piercecountywa.zoom.us/j/92844977008

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The city attorney for Norwalk has been reprimanded by the state’s Attorney Disciplinary Board for neglecting a probate case that allegedly languished for almost six years. In issuing the public reprimand, the board found that James S. Dougherty, who was in private practice for a number of years before becoming the staff attorney for the […]

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Gov. Kelly Ayotte quashed a bipartisan effort to make medicinal marijuana more affordable and available in New Hampshire. Senate Bill 468, sponsored by Loudon Republican Sen. Howard Pearl, would allow medicinal marijuana dispensaries to have their own greenhouse on site. The idea is to increase supply and lower prices. Each dispensary would be limited to […]

(The Center Square) — Maine election officials began recounting tens of thousands of ballots Friday cast in the governor's race as the multi-day process of picking Democratic and Republican nominees by ranked choice voting got underway. The ranked choice process is being held at the Maine Department of Public Safety Headquarters building in Augusta, and officials have set up a live stream for the public to watch the counters. The Secretary of State's office said it expects the tabulation process to be completed by next week. In Tuesday's Democratic primary, Nirav Shah, a physician and former U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official, was ahead with 26.7% as of Tuesday night when the Associated Press determined that the race would go to a run-off. Hannah Pingree, a former speaker of the state House of Representatives, had 23.2%; former Senate President Troy Jackson had 23 % of the vote; Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows and Angus King III, son of the state's independent U.S. senator, were also on Tuesday's primary ballot. On the Republican ticket, Bobby Charles, an attorney and former Navy intelligence officer, was ahead with 38.5% of the vote, according to preliminary results. Jonathan Bush, the nephew of former Republican President George H.W. Bush, and Businessman Ben Midgley were tied with 19.7% of the vote. Other GOP candidates — Garrett Mason, Owen McCarthy, David Jones, and Robert Wessels — received single-digit support from voters. Because no one picked up more than 50% of the vote in either primary, the state is re-tabulating voters' second and third choices to determine who has the most votes. Maine is one of only two states that use ranked-choice voting, and the system factored heavily in the gubernatorial primary races. The rules require voters to list candidates in order of preference, which comes into play in crowded races when no candidate gets 50% of the votes. When that happens, the candidate who got the least votes is eliminated, and their votes are reallocated and re-tabulated until someone wins a majority. Maine law requires for the results of the election to be given to the governor certify no later than 20 days after the election. State election officials expect to wrap up by the Juneteenth holiday, but said as possible that candidates could request recounts. Ranked choice voting won't be used for the general election, officials say. Mills, who can't run for the seat again due to term limits, was seeking the Democratic party's nod to challenge incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins in November's election but dropped out. The winners of the Democratic and Republican primaries will face state Sen. Rick Bennett, who will also be on the November ballot running as an independent.

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O Grupo Hospitalar Conceição (GHC) deu início oficial às celebrações de suas sete décadas de história com o lançamento da campanha “Construindo legados. Projetando o futuro”. Em evento realizado na manhã desta sexta-feira (12), no Teatro da Unisinos, em Porto Alegre, a maior rede hospitalar 100% SUS do Sul do Brasil reuniu gestores, autoridades e […] Fonte