Challenges to candidates running for a seat on Chicago’s first elected school board were released Tuesday, in which more than half received objections to their nominations. Of the 47 candidates vying for a school board seat across 10 districts, 27 received objections to their nominations. The 1st district was the only district in which no […]
BRUSSELS (AP) — Hungary on Tuesday lifted its veto on Mark Rutte becoming the next head of NATO after the outgoing Dutch prime minister gave written guarantees that he would not force the country to take part in the military alliance’s new plans to provide support to Ukraine. Rutte’s assurances, contained in a letter to […]
After more than a year, the renaming of portions of several major Fresno streets as Cesar Chavez Boulevard is now physically underway. Crews are installing more than 200 new street signs along a 10-mile stretch of the city, running west along California Avenue through downtown and into southeast Fresno. It’s the culmination of a 30-year […]
Lynn Helms, center, director of the Department of Mineral Resources, listens Tuesday, June 11, 2024, during a public hearing in Bismarck on proposed carbon dioxide storage that would be connected to the Summit Carbon Solutions pipeline. (Kyle Martin/North Dakota Monitor) The underground carbon dioxide storage plan that is key to the Summit Carbon Solutions pipeline […]
Jun. 14—U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney, D-2nd District, joined fellow Democrats in voting Friday against the proposed 2025 National Defense Authorization Act after Republicans had added provisions regarding payments for abortion services, a permanent freeze on hiring for diversity, equity and inclusion jobs and other cultural issues. The measure passed 217 to 199, with 211 Republicans […]
Lynn Helms, center, director of the Department of Mineral Resources, listens Tuesday, June 11, 2024, during a public hearing in Bismarck on proposed carbon dioxide storage that would be connected to the Summit Carbon Solutions pipeline. (Kyle Martin/For the North Dakota Monitor) The underground carbon dioxide storage plan that is key to the Summit Carbon […]
Jun. 7—VALDOSTA — June 14 marks the 81st anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, a landmark ruling that found compulsory flag salute policies in public schools to be an unconstitutional violation of freedom of speech and religion. “The Barnette decision was not only a victory for […]
Not everyone seems happy about Jaylynn Parker’s blue catfish record, but when has universal happiness ever been achieved in any doings involving the human race? Suffice to say that, after displaying a few loose hairs initially judged as made for splitting, the 101.11-pound blue cat taken from the Ohio River on April 17 at New […]
Thursday, Kansas City’s City Council voted eight to two to scrap the current plan for the city’s first low barrier emergency shelter, considered a key initial step in the city’s five year initiative to address homelessness. The situation has caused frustration among advocates for the unhoused community, who say the lack of such a shelter […]
Trump attorney Todd Blanche did several thing he wasn’t supposed to on Monday – and he probably did it on purpose. On the first day of actual arguments in Donald Trump’s criminal trial, the former president’s defense counsel tried to plant some objectionable seeds in the minds of jurors. In his opening statement, Blanche portrayed […]
As Florida schools face a growing number of book ban attempts, Gov. Ron DeSantis is scaling back policies that made it easier for people to challenge materials in schools. In 2022, DeSantis signed HB 1467, which required elementary schools to provide a searchable list of the books accessible to students in libraries or classrooms and […]
Tennessee House Republicans on Thursday voted to vacate the entire Tennessee State University board over the outcries of Democrats as the GOP supermajority reneged on a previous deal struck in committee to keep three of the board’s 10 members. The House’s move aligns it with the Senate, where Republican leadership last week indicated they would […]