He’s only been Pennsylvania’s governor for a year and a half and just got his second state budget wrapped, but Josh Shapiro already had a national profile for some of the cases he prosecuted during his tenure as the state’s attorney general. Shapiro is one of the people considered most likely to join the Democrats’ […]
More than a dozen Republican governors gathered in Eagle Pass in February, heeding a call from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to confront what he labeled “President Joe Biden’s border crisis.” The governors, along with other GOP state leaders, vowed to send another round of National Guard troops from their states to the Texas-Mexico border. With shifts […]
When news became digital at the turn of the century, I prophesied in “Interpersonal Divide: The Search for Community in a Technological Age” that people would seek affirmation over information, which the web readily provides, putting newspapers out of business and undermining democracy. The second edition, “Interpersonal Divide in the Age of Machine,” documented how […]
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Though the waiting period has lifted on the Iowa law banning most abortions after six weeks, the date when the law will begin enforcement has not yet been decided. Before the abortion ban can go into effect, the Iowa Supreme Court must first consider the Planned Parenthood of the Heartland’s petition for a rehearing of […]
ITHACA, N.Y. — The Ithaca Common Council will discuss a new piece of proposed environmental legislation that aims to protect birds from untimely deaths. The Ithaca Common Council’s proposed ordinance, […]
Underground drainage tiling apparently failed and formed a sinkhole in a corn field in northwest Iowa that allowed manure to flow into a creek, where it killed small fish for miles, according to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. The manure came from Roorda Dairy west of Paullina, which has about 4,200 dairy cattle, DNR […]
