Pennsylvania
Elected officials in Berks County shared their thoughts on Gov. Josh Shapiro’s restrictions on proposed data centers across the state.
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During a press conference earlier this month, Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear stood firm behind the power of his executive order he issued seeking to limit the impacts of data centers eyeing Kentucky. “The executive order is fully enforceable, and if you don’t believe it, watch me,” Beshear told reporters. “Watch what happens as we […]
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OKLAHOMA CITY — Gov. Kevin Stitt’s latest effort targeting Muslim groups is “political theater” meant to tap into a broader undercurrent of Islamophobia and create unwarranted fears during an election year, experts said. They said Stitt’s demand that state resources be used to investigate the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, is similar to previous […]
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During a press conference earlier this month, Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear stood firm behind the power of his executive order he issued seeking to limit the impacts of data centers eyeing Kentucky. “The executive order is fully enforceable, and if you don’t believe it, watch me,” Beshear told reporters. “Watch what happens as we […]
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Members of the Indiana Black Legislative Caucus say Gov. Mike Braun overstepped his authority when he issued an executive order last month targeting a state diversity program. The IBLC hosted a press conference Monday to renew attention to the order eliminating race- and sex-based preferences in the Minority and Women’s Business Enterprises Program without legislative […]
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After days of deadly storms, historic flooding and widespread power outages, Indiana Gov. Mike Braun on Friday requested a presidential emergency declaration to bring federal assistance into the state. The request, submitted through the Federal Emergency Management Agency, seeks federal support for emergency response costs. That could include expenses associated with water rescues, restoring electricity […]
Commentary
A federal courtroom in Concord has once again become the center of a national argument over who is an American citizen. On Aug. 11, the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups asked the U.S. District Court in New Hampshire to block President Donald Trump’s latest effort to restrict birthright citizenship. The filing came just […]
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North Dakota Gov. Kelly Armstrong on Wednesday lifted a ban on TikTok for state-owned devices, citing a change in ownership for the social media company. The TikTok ban for state government devices had been in place since a 2022 executive order from then-Gov. Doug Burgum. The prohibition aimed to safeguard the state’s cyber infrastructure and […]
(The Center Square) – President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday that changes the federal government’s recommendations for the childhood vaccination schedule, spacing some vaccinations further apart and eliminating others altogether.
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Following similar steps of elected officials in Washington D.C., Utah Gov. Spencer Cox is spearheading the state’s own push to bolster quantum technology development with a new executive order. The technology, often used to create tools in computing, sensing and communications by applying the principles of quantum physics, has been in the eye of leaders […]
