With help from Shawn Ness Both houses of the state Legislature are planning to introduce their one-house budget proposals next Monday then pass them sometime before they adjourn for the week on March 14. That will frame the debate around the $233 billion spending plan proposed by Gov. Kathy HochulContinue Reading
Guest post by Steve Trash Magicians are folks who like to create illusions. Skeptics are folks who like to expose illusions. At first glance, you might think (skeptics and magicians) would be mortal enemies, or at the very least, play on opposing teams, because one manufactures illusions and the otherContinue Reading
Having taken all of 2023 off, my spouse absolving me of all income generation responsibilities for the year, I left this humble blog to lie fallow, checking in only to promote other interests. I still don’t know what the future holds for this lowly opuscule, but having had multiple reportersContinue Reading
The latest order tells unsheltered people where they can’t sleep but doesn’t give much guidance to where they can sleep.Continue Reading
Environmentalists are suing Utah to force water cutbacks to farmers to save the Great Salt Lake. Farmers call the blame unfair and say that would have its own environmental and economic consequences.Continue Reading
Cruz received more support than any other major party candidate in a contested Texas U.S. Senate primary As Democrats brace to hold multiple vulnerable seats in an attempt to maintain their fragile majority in the U.S. Senate, they eye Ted Cruz’s seat in the state of Texas as one ofContinue Reading
Climate activists, alongside Greta Thunberg, demonstrated in front of the Swedish parliament by blocking entrances, urging for radical changes to address the climate crises., Read MoreContinue Reading
FiveThirtyEight More: Apple Podcasts | ESPN App | RSS | Amazon Music | Spotify This is a special end-of-meteorological-summer installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast. Galen Druke speaks with pollsters Kristen Soltis Anderson and David Byler in an episode made entirely of “good or bad use of polling” examples.Continue Reading
Student Debt How Restarting Student Loan Payments Could Change Millions of Lives — And The Economy By Monica Potts Aug. 28, 2023, at 6:00 AM ABC News Photo Illustration When Congress voted in May to restart student loan payments this fall — and then the Supreme Court overturned President Biden’sContinue Reading
Investigators in Texas have found the largest wildfire in the state’s history was “ignited by power lines.” Experts say many utilities aren’t doing enough to reduce the fire threat from power lines.Continue Reading
Everybody loves Tripod the three-legged coyote, but High Desert locals say that visitors are spoiling the beast with handouts and causing a dangerous situation.Continue Reading
Civic life is a muscle, and you can resolve to strengthen it every day — just as you might set out to practice a sport or a musical instrument.Continue Reading
As spiking uranium prices drive a surge of proposals for new mines, the Navajo Nation joined the Ute Mountain Ute, Havasupai, Northern Arapaho and Oglala Sioux tribes in a commission hearing with federal officials to push back against mining on and near their lands. By Noel Lyn Smith Members ofContinue Reading