BOSTON — A dozen bills heard by the Legislature’s Joint Committee on Agriculture throughout the course of the last year could benefit Massachusetts farms while also increasing food security, protecting farmlands and even offering financial support to the state’s lobster industry and fisheries. In a file photo, Kelsey White of Holden and her daughter, Finley, […]
The Turkish parliament’s foreign affairs committee has given its consent to Sweden’s bid to join Nato, drawing the previously non-aligned country closer to membership in the western military alliance. Sweden’s accession protocol will now need to be approved in the Turkish parliament’s general assembly for the last stage of the legislative process in Turkey. No […]
FILE – Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, shakes hands with Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, right, as NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg looks on prior to a meeting ahead of a NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, Monday, July 10, 2023. The Turkish parliament’s foreign affairs committee was poised on Tuesday, Dec. 26, 2023, to […]
Dec. 23—A residents’ committee appointed by the Joplin City Council has selected 16 street and bridge projects as its picks from 33 possibilities for the next 10-year cycle of the capital improvements sales tax. The list will be presented Jan. 8 to the council as part of the committee’s work to promote voter renewal next […]
MUNCIE, Ind. — Delaware County Council’s Tax Abatement Committee will review previously approved tax abatements for proposed solar projects in northern Delaware County during a public meeting at 10 a.m. Jan. 9 at the Innovation Connector, 1208 W. White River Blvd. The committee will consider questions relating to property tax abatements approved for the Meadow […]
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s congressional budget committee approved on Thursday the country’s 2024 budget bill, with a shallower-than-expected spending cut in President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s growth acceleration program. The bill now needs to be voted on by both the lower house and senate in a joint session of Congress, expected to take place […]
CNN — The House Oversight Committee has launched an investigation into the US Coast Guard’s “mishandling of serious misconduct” — including sexual assault, racism and hazing — after CNN exposed that its leaders concealed reports documenting those problems from its workforce, the public and Congress. The inquiry is the latest in a string of government […]
Editor’s Note: Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is the host of SiriusXM radio’s daily program “The Dean Obeidallah Show.” Follow him @DeanObeidallah@masto.ai. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion on CNN. CNN — On Monday, the GOP-controlled House Judiciary Committee — chaired by Donald Trump ally Rep. Jim Jordan — […]
Several members of the committee, including Republicans, did say they had concerns about sections of the bill that would alter requirements about which party must pay for the other’s attorney fees, fearing it might undermine laws aimed at preventing retaliatory or frivolous lawsuits designed to silence critics. Some said they hoped amendments would be made […]
Dec. 6—AUGUSTA — Lawyers for the state agency that oversees child protective services and a legislative oversight committee clashed over access to confidential case records during a hearing in the state’s highest court Wednesday. “This case is about maintaining the checks and balances inherent in our constitutional system of government,” said Josh Dunlap, an attorney […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio House committee cleared a contentious higher education bill Wednesday that would eliminate nearly all diversity and inclusion training requirements in Ohio’s public colleges and universities and bar them from taking stances on “controversial topics,” despite House leadership claiming it doesn’t have the votes. Republican House Speaker Jason Stephens told […]