(The Center Square) — New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani is suing to block a new law giving paraprofessionals a $10,000 bonus, arguing that the taxpayer funded giveaway bypassed the city's collective bargaining process.
Oak Grove, Minnesota, has petitioned the state Supreme Court to settle a dispute with Anoka County over which of the two jurisdictions can designate the use of electronic voter rosters — as opposed to paper rosters — in county, state and federal elections held at Oak Grove’s polling places. Anoka County has mandated all precincts in […]
Kansas Supreme Court reverses felony and misdemeanor convictions for man claiming he was unable to pay $20 fee when filling out offender registry form.
For a patient with a high risk of a cancer diagnosis, the most frightening part of an extra scan should be the result, not the bill that may arrive weeks later. Oklahoma’s new cancer coverage laws, Senate Bill 109 and House Bill 1389, became law last year. They were written around a simple idea: no […]
The family of a MU student found dead on a trip with his fraternity has filed an appeal in their wrongful death lawsuit after it was dismissed last month.
When Desalyn Swank applied to law school at University of Idaho, she said she made it clear she wanted to reform the state’s laws. Before her first year at law school ended, she already had. This year, the Idaho Legislature passed, and the governor signed, a bill she wrote to strengthen the state’s laws to […]
Incarcerated Mainers are pushing back against a longstanding loophole in the Department of Corrections disciplinary policy that allows staff to issue punishments before and regardless of a finding of guilt. “It flat out just denies incarcerated people their due process rights,” said Foster Bates, president of the Maine State Prison branch of the NAACP. Language […]
Patient advocates reacted with alarm this week at the suggestion by the administration of Gov. Brian Kemp that it could end Georgia Pathways to Coverage, his signature Medicaid program that gives health coverage to about 18,500 poor Georgians. Precious Andrews, an advocate who works for mothers’ and children’s health, said she was in shock when […]
Despite stating that signatures collected for the data centers ballot initiative didn’t meet the July 13 deadline established by state law, a district judge didn’t make a ruling about the petitioners’ lawsuit.
BUTTE, Mont. -- A ballot initiative to put the idea of building a data center in Butte up to a vote, which had collected the necessary signatures to appear in the November elections, may not appear on the ballot after all.
