A church in Alabama handed out $16,500 worth of grocery store gift cards to furloughed workers Thursday, NBC News reported. First Baptist Church of Huntsville is in a community where 40,000 federal workers and contractors live, in the Alabama town where NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center is located. Roughly 6,000 NASA staff have been sent home […]
Click:A bill in Florida that advanced through a state Senate committee Monday would prohibit local municipalities from banning plastic straws for five years. The Tampa Bay Times reported that the bill, when first introduced in the committee, would have actually forced restaurants and other dining establishments to only give out plastic straws when requested by a customer. […]
The GOP-controlled Iowa House of Representatives reportedly denied prominent liberal-leaning blogger Laura Belin her press credentials. The Associated Press reports that Belin, who runs the Bleeding Heartland blog, told the news outlet that the House chief of clerks denied her press credentials and did not cite any valid reason in doing so. Belin has covered […]
Dozens of protesters assembled near the governor’s mansion in Richmond, Va., on Monday morning to call for Gov. Ralph Northam’s (D) resignation amid a scandal over a racist photo that appeared on his medical school yearbook page. WBBT in Richmond and other local news outlets reported that demonstrators chanted and carried hand-made signs decrying Northam, who met with senior staff […]
An Alabama judge overturned a state law that prevents the removal of Confederate monuments from public property, arguing it violated the free speech rights of local communities. Jefferson County Circuit Judge Michael Graffeo issued a ruling late Monday which voided the 2017 Alabama state law that blocks local governments from removing monuments or renaming public schools […]
The Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates on Wednesday denounced admissions of racist behavior and allegations of sexual assault against the state’s top three officials as “disturbing” and “shocking.” Speaker Kirk Cox (R) issued the statement addressing the scandals that have plunged the Commonwealth’s leadership into turmoil in recent days while vowing that controversy surrounding Gov. […]
The West Virginia legislature passed a bill giving state residents free community college, sending the measure for the governor’s signature. The state Senate on Thursday unanimously agreed to amendments from the House, marking the legislation’s passage, according to the Charleston Gazette-Mail. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Craig Blair (R) said he believes the landmark legislation will positively benefit the […]
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The Democratic Governors Association (DGA) is maintaining that Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) should resign his post, three weeks after he apologized for a racist photograph that appeared on his page in his medical school yearbook. We “stand by that” call, the head of the association said over the weekend. In a press conference Saturday, Rhode Island […]
Lawmakers in Utah have formally moved to strip a provision from the state’s constitution that allows slavery to be used as a form of punishment for a crime. The Utah House of Representatives unanimously advanced a bill Monday that would remove the exception, according to the Salt Lake Tribune. The newspaper noted that language for the provision, which is taken […]