July 12, 2024
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Iowa and national conservative leaders discussed wins and future goals for issues like abortion and education policy Friday at the Family Leadership Summit, with one of the group’s officials calling for further abortion restrictions in Iowa. The Family Leader, an influential conservative Christian organization, brought speakers to the gathering of an estimated 1,000 at the…
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While Gov. Josh Shapiro characterized the budget as a “major victory” and ended up with a budget that would cost the state only $700 million less than the $48 billion he proposed, both Democrats and Republicans had to sacrifice some of their priorities. The post Cannabis, school vouchers and skill games: Here’s what didn’t make…
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The 2024-25 budget includes money for solar power at public schools, Alzheimer’s research, and redeveloping blighted shopping malls. The post Digging deep: Which new programs in the Pa. budget didn’t make headlines? appeared first on Pennsylvania Capital-Star.
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Several groups that oppose a recently approved carbon dioxide pipeline network in Iowa plan to launch challenges to that approval in the coming days that will likely be decided — months or more than a year from now — in court. Summit Carbon Solutions wants to build a sprawling pipeline system in five states that…
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Kessler first joined the ranks of City Hall as an assistant city attorney in September 2021.
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ITHACA, N.Y. (APNS) — Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit (TCAT) has secured $1.2 million in federal funding to upgrade its fleet with eco-friendly vehicles. The Federal Transit Administration grant will allow the local transit authority to acquire two diesel-electric hybrid buses, replacing older diesel models. TCAT expects the new vehicles to be operational within approximately 12…
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The RNC released its trimmed-down party platform the week prior to the convention, after foregoing one entirely in 2020. And while many Republicans in Congress said during interviews they either support it, or hadn’t read it, some were critical it adopts Trump’s position that abortion access be left up to states — one of the…
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A second Steuben County town is taking steps to ban the use of sewage sludge, also known as biosolids, as fertilizer.
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The Democratic National Committee is launching billboards that link former President Donald Trump to the controversial Project 2025 policy agenda. The billboards will be displayed in English and Spanish in Philadelphia and other cities in battleground states. Trump has said he is not connected with the plan, created by the conservative Heritage Foundation, that would…
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The bill also contains what are effectively individual policies, from the massive new funding formula that will change how money is distributed to Pennsylvania’s school districts, to smaller policy points, like allowing schools grants to provide menstrual hygiene products. The post Here’s some of what’s in the bill that directs historic new Pa. education funding…