TOPEKA (KSNT) -- The city of Topeka is one step closer to finding its newest city manager.Five Topeka city manager finalists met up Monday evening at Hotel Topeka to meet community members. Beforehand, they spoke about why they feel they're the best choice to lead the city. Working for you, 27 News asked the hard []
Oklahoma City is one step closer to building the country's tallest skyscraper, even though some city officials raised concerns about the building's structure during a planning meeting earlier this week.Developers are looking to put a 1,907-foot tower dubbed "The Boardwalk at Bricktown" in Oklahoma's capital, which would give the city the sixth tallest building in the world. The current tallest skyscraper in the United States is the One World Trade Center in Manhattan, which reaches 1,776 feet...
Legislation that would put in place automatic enrollment of eligible private-sector employees in the Hawaii Retirement Savings Program is one step closer to passage. On April 9, the state House of Representatives passed SB 2553, a measure that would change that. Under the bill, employees would no longer be required to opt in to participate in […]
Congress is now one step closer to extending the life of a key federal government surveillance tool known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). A bill to reauthorize FISA’s Section 702 passed through the House Rules Committee on Tuesday night, the final hurdle for a piece of legislation before it’s considered House-wide. It passed in a 9 to 2 vote. Section 702 is a provision that allows the federal government to conduct warrantless surveillance of a foreign national...
By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee’s GOP-controlled Senate has advanced legislation allowing the death penalty in child rape convictions. Republicans approved the bill on a 24-5 vote Tuesday. It must still clear the similarly conservatively dominant House chamber before it can go to Gov. Bill Lee’s desk for his signature. Florida’s
Tennessee’s GOP-controlled Senate has advanced legislation allowing the death penalty in child rape convictions
Louisiana’s Republican-controlled Senate advanced a bill Tuesday that would empower state and local law enforcement to arrest and jail people in the state who entered the U.S. illegally, similar to embattled legislation in Texas.
A bill unanimously passed in the Senate this week for more restrictions on pornography websites has advanced in the House.
Despite an uncharacteristically slow start from Caitlin Clark, the rest of the Hawkeyes answered the call and helped give the star one last shot at a national championship.
(The Center Square) – The Arizona State Legislature did not repeal an abortion law created in 1864 banning nearly all abortions on Wednesday for the second week in a row. However, the Senate did begin the process on a new bill Wednesday. On the House side, a motion to get House Bill 2677 to go straight to the floor for a vote failed twice, as Democratic Reps. Stephanie Stahl-Hamilton and Alma Hernandez made motions but it got shot down during roll call votes over whether the...
A day after Ottawa included Ojibway National Urban Park in the federal budget, a Windsor member of parliament’s urban park bill cleared second reading in the Senate on Wednesday, moving it a step closer to official legislation. Bill C-248, MP Brian Masse’s (NDP — Windsor West) private members bill, will now advance to the committee […]
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