The 2024-25 budget includes money for solar power at public schools, Alzheimer’s research, and redeveloping blighted shopping malls.
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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.
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 […]
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 top issues in the presidential race.
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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.
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.
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The highly anticipated press conference followed weeks of speculation about Biden’s ability to hold office and whether he should remain in the 2024 presidential election against former President Donald Trump. His performance, while markedly stronger than his devastating debate performance, still included a notable gaffe and could leave questions open.
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The bill creates a host of new regulations for pharmacy benefit managers, however it also allows for significant exemptions to those rules
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