Tag: State legislature
Texas GOP renews push for new voting laws, unfinished agenda
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Republicans on Thursday brought back efforts to ban 24-hour polling places and drive-thru voting as Gov. Greg Abbott opened a...
Republican business owner enters US Senate race in Alabama
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The owner of a grant-writing business who narrowly missed a runoff for a congressional seat on Thursday became the fourth candidate...
California to pay victims of forced, coerced sterilizations
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California is poised to approve reparations up to $25,000 to victims who were among the thousands of people — some as...
Colby would be official Wisconsin cheese under bill
MADISON, Wis. — In cheese-obsessed Wisconsin, which proudly touts itself as America's Dairyland, the dairy cow is the official domestic animal, milk is the...
Kentucky’s Attica Scott challenges US House budget chairman
FRANKFORT, Ky — State Rep. Attica Scott, one of two Black women in Kentucky's legislature, announced Wednesday that she'll try to unseat longtime Democratic...
Aide to expelled Oregon lawmaker appointed to fill his seat
SALEM, Ore. — Commissioners from four Oregon counties have appointed an aide to former state Rep. Mike Nearman to fill the seat left open...
Judge won’t block parts of Georgia election law for now
ATLANTA — A federal judge on Wednesday declined to block some challenged sections of Georgia's new election law ahead of two runoff elections scheduled...
Democratic US Senate candidate Cheri Beasley raises $1.3M
RALEIGH, N.C. — Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Cheri Beasley of North Carolina raised nearly $1.3 million in little more than two months since she...
Judge letting Indiana’s governor sue to block emergency law
INDIANAPOLIS — A judge is letting Indiana’s governor proceed with a lawsuit challenging the increased power state legislators have given themselves to intervene during...
California delays considering supervised sites for drug use
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers will wait until next year to continue considering a bill that would give opioid users a place to inject...