February 2024
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COLUMBIA — A bill banning puberty blockers and hormone replacement therapy for transgender youth advanced Thursday after senators re-inserted a parental notification requirement. A 10-6 vote by the Senate Medical Affairs Committee, along party lines, sent the amended bill to the Senate floor. Senators made few changes to the legislation pushed swiftly through the House…
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COLUMBIA — Legislation that would ban South Carolina businesses from requiring COVID vaccines and restrict what the state’s public health agency could provide in future pandemics advanced Wednesday in the state Senate, despite opposition that included the state Chamber of Commerce. The proposal sponsored by Sen. Shane Martin would greatly expand on a law signed…
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COLUMBIA — All of South Carolina’s K-12 students could qualify for public aid toward private schooling under legislation that could exponentially expand the state’s fledgling voucher program. The latest proposal, introduced Wednesday by House GOP leaders, would make all students, regardless of their parents’ income, eligible for state aid toward private tuition, tutoring, transportation and…
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Manchin said he refuses to be a “spoiler” in the 2024 election and he’d like to support whoever becomes president. The post With no pathway for a presidential run, Joe Manchin tries to ‘unite the middle’ in Detroit speech appeared first on Pennsylvania Capital-Star.
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As South Carolina seeks to become a hub for electric vehicles and batteries, the technical college system finds itself juggling the startup for a swarm of programs to train residents for high paying jobs in the industry.
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Trump was on stage for about 30 minutes and stuck to his usual talking points — the situation on the border is “the worst it’s ever been” and the country “is a failing nation.” He predicted that Michigan autoworkers would support him in that state’s primary on Tuesday. The post Trump triumphs over Haley in…
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ITHACA, N.Y. — Cayuga Medical Center will install two emergency generators and build a storage facility for the generators thanks to a $10,450,800 grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency […] The post Cayuga Medical Center receives $10 million from feds for new generators appeared first on The Ithaca Voice.
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ITHACA, N.Y. — Tompkins County property owners should expect to see an eyebrow-raising jump in the assessed value of their property this year. The Tompkins County Assessment Department published in its annual county-wide assessment report that property value in Tompkins County, on average, increased by 19.8%. It is a steep rise that is calculated from…
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ITHACA, N.Y. — The Tompkins County legislature took another step in their plans to build a Center of Government earlier this week when they approved what county departments would be housed in the building slated for the 300 block of North Tioga Street in the City of Ithaca. A total of 16 departments will be…
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Alabama Supreme Court Justice Jay Mitchell, writing for the majority, said that there was no exception for frozen embryos under an 1872 law known as the Wrongful Death of a Child Act, allowing civil lawsuits for the deaths of children, or under a 2018 state constitutional amendment that required the state to “ensure the protection…