New Jersey Statehouse in Trenton (Dana DiFilippo | New Jersey Monitor) Budget committees in both chambers of the Legislature approved a $56.6 billion spending bill in late-night votes that fell along party lines Wednesday, setting the stage for final budget votes Friday. The spending bill will maintain a full payment toward the state’s pension obligations […]
With less than a week before the end of the fiscal year, legislative committees were in Trenton on Wednesday to advance a budget bill. The Assembly Budget Committee was scheduled to start at 2 p.m. – though it was later updated to 4:30 p.m. − and the Senate at 4 p.m., both were hours late […]
As Republicans across the nation seek the votes of Black Americans in November’s presidential election, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson took the stage with Milwaukee radio host Tory Lowe on Wednesday for what was billed as a “powerful conversation.” “We have to have the conversation because it’s political season, the (Republican National Convention) is coming to […]
Sen. Joe Manchin (I-W.Va.) has signaled he will vote for Joe Biden in November’s election, despite leaving the Democratic Party to register as an independent, as he ruled out backing Donald Trump at the ballot box. Last November, the West Virginia senator announced he would quit the party and not seek a third term in […]
PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) – Virginia state regulators with the Virginia Marine Resources Commission (VMRC) voted to reopen the winter harvesting season for blue crabs in the Chesapeake Bay in a 5-4 vote on Tuesday, ending a 15-year closure. In 2008, declines in the blue crab population led to a fishery disaster declaration in which multiple […]
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Seemingly every afternoon in Iran’s capital, police vans rush to major Tehran squares and intersections to search for women with loose headscarves and those who dare not to wear them at all. The renewed crackdown comes not quite two years since mass protests over the death Mahsa Amini after […]
WASHINGTON — The House Judiciary Committee plans to vote this week on a measure to hold President Joe Biden’s ghostwriter in contempt of Congress for refusing to hand over documents and other materials tied to his work on the president’s memoirs. The vote on the resolution targeting writer Mark Zwonitzer is scheduled for Thursday morning, […]
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona authorities on Tuesday said they were investigating whether a 27-year-old temporary election worker in the state’s largest county had political motivations when he stole a fob that would allow him access to vote tabulators just before the July 30 primary. “This is not your average theft,” Maricopa County Sheriff Russ Skinner […]
(Bloomberg) — The United Nations said it will deploy a team of four experts to monitor Venezuela’s elections days after the opposition declined to sign a deal to recognize the presidential vote’s results. Most Read from Bloomberg The UN’s team will independently produce a confidential report for the Secretary General, which will include recommendations for […]
Other than former congresswoman Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, Democrats running for U.S. Senate against Rick Scott have been relatively low-key in a race to be determined in less than two months. One of Mucarsel-Powell’s opponents, though, hopes that will change with his announcement of a key endorsement. Stanley Campbell, a Palm City businessman, has landed the state […]
Some moderates think the presidential candidates are too extreme. And some people don’t want to vote for either elderly candidate. Some don’t think it matters who they vote for. It matters greatly. Vote Republican if you want:Authoritarian government instead of a democracy.To get out of the Paris Climate agreement.Tax subsidies for fossil fuel companies.Tax cuts […]
Union votes can go forward at an Iowa City Bruegger’s Bagels store, the National Labor Relations Board has ruled. The workers claim their quest to organize Bruegger’s Workers United is the first unionization effort at a Bruegger’s anywhere in the country. Workers from both an Iowa City store and one in Coralville sought approval for […]