Maryland could become the first state to ban expanded polystyrene food service products after state senators passed a legislative measure Tuesday, WTOP reported. The measure bans the sale of containers made of expanded polystyrene, commonly referred to as Styrofoam. It also would prohibit the sale of food in foam cups, plates or egg cartons. “It cannot be […]
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Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) held an increasingly tenuous grip on his office Monday amid nearly unanimous calls for his resignation, while the man who would succeed him fiercely denied allegations of sexual assault. On Monday, the first workday after a racist photo in Northam’s medical school yearbook was published by a conservative website, Northam […]
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) told state Democrats that he will not resign, despite facing overwhelming calls for him to step down over a photo that surfaced Friday showing a man wearing blackface and another dressed in a Ku Klux Klan robe. At least one state Democrat has said the governor has been telling other party members that he does not believe […]
Two vaccine skeptics have been appointed to a new Minnesota state council on autism, alarming public health advocates who worry they will promote the hoax linking vaccines to autism. The MN Autism Council, formed last year by Republican state Sen. Jim Abeler, was aimed at advising the Minnesota Legislature on autism and public policy. But […]
Former Georgia candidate for governor Stacey Abrams (D) said Tuesday that the “real national emergency” is voter suppression. Abrams, who argues that Republicans in Georgia worked to make it harder for African-Americans to vote in her state last fall, said the issue deserves national attention and implicitly criticized President TrumpDonald John TrumpGary Cohn says Trump […]
A Confederate plaque has been taken down from the Texas state Capitol after a bipartisan effort from lawmakers to have it removed. State officials on the Preservation Board voted unanimously on Friday to remove the “Children of the Confederacy Creed” that claimed that slavery was not the root cause of the Civil War. State Rep. […]
A Democratic-backed bill proposed in Virginia’s state legislature that would loosen restrictions on late-term abortions has sparked major conservative backlash this week. The legislation would eliminate the requirement that abortions in the second trimester of pregnancy occur at state-licensed hospitals and would require only one doctor to determine if a pregnancy threatens the woman’s life or health to allow […]
A Kansas state lawmaker who switched her party affiliation from Republican to Democrat said Monday that she’s heading into this year’s legislative session with new peace of mind. “I don’t have that pit in my stomach,” state Sen. Barbara Bollier, who represents Mission Hills in the Kansas City metropolitan area, told NPR. “That stress of […]
The GOP-held Virginia House of Delegates on Thursday killed a Democratic-led effort to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), a proposed constitutional amendment that would establish gender equality as a principle in the U.S. Constitution. Virginia would have been the 38th state to ratify the amendment, clearing the three-fourths barrier an amendment must pass in order […]