MJ Hegar has defeated Royce West in the Democratic primary runoff for U.S. Senate, winning the nomination to take on Republican John Cornyn in November. With all polling locations reporting Wednesday morning, Hegar was leading West by 4 percentage points, according to… Read More »MJ Hegar defeats Royce West in Democratic runoff for U.S. Senate
On Thursday, January 18, 2018, the Arizona House of Representatives held a second training on ethics and sexual harassment policies. Like the first session held 9 days earlier, the House did not broadcast the joint caucus, but did record it.… Read More »Lawmakers meet to discuss sexual harassment policies, choose not to broadcast meeting
Last week, Ralph Fasano got the news every nonprofit that relies on state aid fears. The state Office of Mental Health told Fasano, the executive director of Concern for Independent Living, that he needed to be prepared to return some… Read More »Cuomo Plays Waiting Game on Federal Aid as Small Funding Cuts Threaten to Turn Huge
This week Montana Free Press continues its ongoing coverage of the lead-up to the 2020 elections with an interview with Mayor Wilmot Collins of Helena. Collins joined host John S. Adams to discuss his emigration from Liberia to the United… Read More »Senate candidate Wilmot Collins
America’s schools need more help from the federal government, soon, several education leaders and lawmakers said Wednesday. The coronavirus pandemic and the current economic downturn mean school district leaders are facing budget cuts and a complicated, expensive upcoming school year,… Read More »Schools need more federal money, education leaders tell Senate committee
Action by a U.S. Senate committee has family advocates in California breathing a sigh of relief. The Women, Infants and Children program — which supplies food, breastfeeding services and other benefits to low-income mothers — was included in the federal… Read More »State Advocates Happy Over Federal WIC Action
After receiving numerous prompts urging Tennesseans to contact their U.S. senators about Betsy DeVos, many constituents want to know just how many got through before Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker voted to confirm the Michigan billionaire as the nation’s new… Read More »Tennessee’s senators aren’t saying how many DeVos calls they got, but it was a lot
Unhinged leaders, dynastic intrigue, devastation and plunder: For 15 years I have been researching and teaching the ancient historian Tacitus’ works on the history of the Roman Empire. It has rarely been difficult to find echoes of the history he describes… Read More »What the Roman senate’s grovelling before emperors explains about GOP senators’ support for Trump
WASHINGTON — The state’s two U.S. senators spoke out in recent days to express their horror at the death of George Floyd. U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz said this weekend that the death of George Floyd, a Minneapolis black man, is “clearly police… Read More »U.S. Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz speak out against George Floyd’s death, condemn protest violence
U.S. Senators want the Trump administration to remove what they call needless, bureaucratic restrictions on how states can use funding from coronavirus relief efforts. The Senators, including New Mexico’s Martin Heinrich and Tom Udall, argued that state, local and tribal… Read More »Senators ask for more flexibility for states, tribal and local governments on COVID-19 relief funds