Tag: State Legislatures
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86 Deaths and Counting: N.Y.C. Fire Fatalities Have Nearly Doubled This Year
The Brooklyn blaze that killed six people this week renewed focus on the soaring death toll and raised questions about whether e-bike batteries have played a role.
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Southern Democrats Now Have a Chance to Lead. What Will They Do With It?
Sweeping midterm successes in Georgia and North Carolina have given the party an opportunity, and a test, to lay out a vision for governing in the South.
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Texas Led the Conservative Overhaul of Education. What Now?
In Texas, teaching on race and gender was restricted, Christianity was encouraged and private school vouchers expanded. It may be hard for Democrats to reverse those policies.
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Gina Hinojosa Believes She’s the One Who Can Finally Flip Texas
The Democratic nominee for governor on her appeal to MAGA voters and her refusal to engage in the “culture wars.”
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California’s Proposition 45 Brings the Sprawl Debate Back
Among the measures up for a vote in November is one that would amend the state’s landmark environmental law and make it easier to build large housing developments outside cities.
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After Many Threats, an Arizona Lawmaker Asks: ‘Is It Really Worth It?’
Threats have altered the lives of State Representative Alma Hernandez, her family, friends and neighbors. They have even transformed her policymaking.
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Paxton Said in Deposition That Donor Gave Him Stocks to Please God
The leaked deposition from a fraud inquiry in 2014 provides insight into the Senate candidate’s investments and his tactics for defending himself.
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What New York’s Rape Laws Mean for the Cornell Case
State law makes it harder to prosecute when victims drank willingly. The prosecutor in the Cornell case said that kept him from charging students accused of sexual assault.