Marnette Gordon was doing laundry at home in Minneapolis one summer morning last year when a call came from her 36-year-old son. She figured her son, Telly Blair, was checking in to see if she wanted a soda from a gas station down the street, where he often went for fuel and snacks. “Mom, I’ve […]
In recent years, a variety of prominent and powerful Republican officials have become a little too fond of defunding offices and agencies that have bothered them to one degree or another. Some in the GOP, for example, have raised the specter of defunding the FBI. Other congressional Republicans have endorsed the idea of defunding the […]
Trump was found guilty of 34 felony charges by a New York jury on Thursday. Now, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene wants to cut off all federal funding to the state as punishment. It’s not going to happen — but don’t be shocked if other Republicans get on board with the idea. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene […]
The House passed a resolution on Friday condemning calls to defund the police. 61 House Democrats voted against it. The resolution also blamed progressive policies for an uptick in violence against cops. The House of Representatives easily passed a resolution by a 337-61 margin on Friday that condemned calls to defund the police and blamed progressive […]
Over the course of the last year, Donald Trump has been unsubtle in begging congressional Republicans to somehow intervene in his criminal trials and rescue him from possible accountability. There’s no shortage of problems with the former president’s appeals, starting with the obvious fact that lawmakers’ options are severely limited. As I explained last month, […]
Welcome to your Sunday Under the Dome newsletter all about the governor’s race. Dawn Vaughan here, The News & Observer’s Capitol bureau chief. How much money to spend on public education has long been a partisan issue in North Carolina. Democrats want to follow the guidance from the long-running Leandro court case on funding public […]
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Kentucky House voted Friday to choke off funding for diversity, equity and inclusion offices at public universities following an impassioned debate that had a GOP lawmaker dismissing DEI efforts as a failure and Democrats defending them as pillars of support for students from underrepresented groups. The overhauled bill passed the […]
Among the latest responses to the “Defund the Police” movement is a bill that forbids Arizona cities and towns to reduce their police budget from the previous year — or risk losing their state shared revenue. House Bill 2120, sponsored by first-term lawmaker David Marshall, R-Snowflake, passed its first hurdle out of a committee on […]
A bill filed Friday in the Kentucky House would ban race-based scholarships while dismantling diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives at the state’s higher education institutions. House Bill 9, which was filed by Rep. Jennifer Decker, R-Waddy, also would ban the promotion of “discriminatory concepts” and funding for diversity, equity and inclusion trainings and offices. Colleges […]