House Democrats defeated a Republican bid to restrict migrants' access to the state's overflowing emergency family shelter system, a day after the Legislature shipped a supplemental budget to Gov. Maura Healey that would impose a new nine-month limit on shelter stays.
Gov. Maura Healey's administration has confirmed that family shelters, which have been at capacity due to an influx of immigrants into the state, could run out of dedicated funding by the end of April despite $250 million in supplemental funds approved in December.
Yuval RosenbergApril 18, 2024House Republicans continued to snipe at each other Thursday as party leadership continued to propel a $95 billion
The Russian 2009 “Fourteen Point” security program represented at that time, actually, the first positive foreign policy initiative by Moscow since the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Maui County Mayor Richard Bissen is making an overtime plea to state lawmakers for more Lahaina wildfire recovery funding.
Plan for 85-turbine Wooroora project withdrawn after minister signals refusal because of threat to spectacled flying-fox habitatGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastA proposed windfarm next to the wet tropics world heritage area in north Queensland will not go ahead after the federal government signalled it would refuse the project.Ark Energy had proposed building the 85-turbine Wooroora Station windfarm – formerly known as the Chalumbin windfarm project –...
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has expressed strong opposition to a proposal allowing international observers to visit Hamas members imprisoned in Israel following their involvement in the October 7 massacre. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, however, supports the idea of permitting visits by two foreign observers alongside an Israeli judge. This initiative, prompted by a […]
Disney and Marvel Comics are celebrating the 60th anniversary of the iconic superhero teams the Avengers and the X-Men this year with a series of Disney What If…? mash-up variants, and we now have a look at the covers set to arrive between July and September as Mickey and friends recreate the cover artwork to […] From blockbuster Hollywood movies to independent and British cinema, Flickering Myth has you covered. Read the original post here: Mickey and friends join the Avengers and X-Men in...
A legislative panel on Thursday narrowly rejected a proposed 20% reduction to Arkansas PBS’ spending authority for fiscal year 2025.
(The Center Square) – An emergency bill to allow the Seattle Fire Department to conduct demolition of unsafe vacant buildings in Seattle would cost the city up to $500,000 this year before potential reimbursements. The emergency legislation was proposed by Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell on Thursday. The Seattle Public Safety Committee was briefed on the proposed bill on Tuesday. Harrell’s emergency legislation comes as a result of the number of fires in vacant...
Mayor Roger Reinert says the city has achieved the necessary savings to affordably staff up to a previous level.
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) on Monday rejected accusations of a cover-up during their investigation into Chinese swimmers testing positive for a prescription heart drug and said they would take "whatever action necessary" in response to the allegations. Reports at the weekend that 23 Chinese swimmers tested positive for trimetazidine