Panama City, May 6 (Prensa Latina) With 95% of the votes counted in Panama's general elections, the Electoral Tribunal (TE) confirmed on Monday that 21 legislators were elected by free nomination for the 2024-2029 term. The post Independent MPs are majority in the Panamanian legislature first appeared on Prensa Latina.
Legislative hopefuls face strict rules, deadlines, paperwork.
MORNING NEWSBREAK | Lowcountry leaders gathered at Emanuel AME Church Monday to make a special push to encourage state senators to pass a long-dreamed-of hate crime law. It is among the major bills unresolved in the General Assembly, which is racing toward the end of its regular session Thursday. Also still on tap: proposals to […]
(The Center Square) - The Hawaii legislature ended its 2024 session with bills passed to bring income tax relief, tighten short-term rental regulations and funnel more money to Maui relief efforts. House Bill 2404, which is currently on the governor’s desk, would incrementally increase the standard deduction amounts for filing status beginning after 2023 and annually adjust the income tax brackets and standard deduction amounts by a cost-of-living adjustment factor, according to...
Hamilton, Halton, Niagara and area news from CHCH - Hamilton, Halton, and Niagara news.. The Speaker of Ontario’s legislature says politicians, staff and visitors will be allowed to enter the building while wearing a keffiyeh, but he is upholding his ban on the scarf inside the legislative chamber. Sarah Jama, who sits as an independent after being booted from the NDP caucus last year, put on a keffiyeh as […]
Crimes committed by state employees, accidents on public property and a couple Second Amendment challenges are contributing to settlements, judgments and other legal claims this year to cost Hawaii taxpayers $18.1 million.
If the Hawaii state Legislature closes as expected, the theme has to be the struggle of lawmakers to grasp the importance of recognizing and fixing state money problems.
Law was signed last July, but parties at odds on implementation.
Updated at 4:36 p.m. Gov. Phil Scott has appointed the owner of a prominent catering company to fill the Burlington legislative seat left vacant when Emma Mulvaney-Stanak resigned last month after becoming mayor of the Queen City. Abbey Duke, the founder and chief executive officer of South Burlington-based Sugarsnap, will represent the residents of the Chittenden-17 district, which includes parts of the Old North End and New North End. She was sworn in at the Statehouse on Monday and...
“It was May 5, 1993, when the Hawaii Supreme Court ruled in favor of same-sex marriage. The first court in the world to do so,” stated former appellate court judge, Daniel Foley.
Repeal expected to be signed by governor won’t go into effect until 90 days after end of current legislative session
Four protesters who unfurled keffiyehs inside Ontario's legislature and were subsequently kicked out have been banned from Queen's Park. Mariam Bebawy said she and three friends from York Centre 4 Palestine were given trespass notices last week from the Legislative Assembly of Ontario's sergeant-at-arms after they held out their keffiyehs and began chanting "free free Palestine" during question period. Bebawy's notice said she is prohibited from entering the premises of the main...