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This commentary is by Jon Groveman, policy and water program director for the Vermont Natural Resources Council. Vermont’s Act 250, our one-of-a-kind statewide land use program, is often synonymous with the state’s environmental ethic. Act 250 has served Vermont well for more than 50 years, mitigating the impacts of large-scale development on natural resources, working lands, and sprawl that ...

Eric Schmitt has refused to drop three of his 47 lawsuits against school districts, while the Lee’s Summit district filed a counterclaim against the attorney general Out of the 47 lawsuits Attorney General Eric Schmitt filed against schools mask mandates, only a few remain where Schmitt and the Lee's Summit School District want questions on schools' authority settled once and for all (photo ...

DEAR ABBY: For more than 20 years, my mother-in-law has shown blatant favoritism toward my husband’s younger brother. Several people, including her own mother and my father-in-law, have tried to discuss it with her, but she refuses. My husband has accepted that there is nothing he can do to change her behavior. Abby, she has recently, on the rare occasions we see her (once every three to four...

Share This: Kentucky is the latest state to sign into law model provisions written by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) to protect consumer data that is provided to insurance carriers. The Insurance Data Security Model Law was adopted in 2017 by the NAIC after two years of “extensive deliberations and input.” It was created to address “several major data breaches invo...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – An all-encompassing education reform bill met the ink of Gov. Mike DeWine’s pen last week. From $2,000 grants to students who re-enroll in college after “stopping out” to promoting public universities to partner with community colleges, Senate Bill 135 was enacted into law April 21, paving the way toward making higher education a reality for more students in Ohio, bill...

Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios Gov. Ron DeSantis again stated bluntly that he expects lawmakers to send him legislation that would allow the open carry of guns without any kind of license or permit. The Republican wagon-train legislation would come after Georgia recently passed a "constitutional carry" law — the 25th state to do so, according to the National Rifle Association. Why it matters: ...

Old Main on the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville campus is shown in this file photo. (NWA Democrat-Gazette file photo) FAYETTEVILLE -- War was no match for springtime in Kyiv, at least not in the semester's final transnational Rule of Law class taught at the University of Arkansas School of Law. The weekly course included online students from Ukraine who joined their American counterparts...

Old Main on the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville campus is shown in this file photo. (NWA Democrat-Gazette file photo) FAYETTEVILLE -- War was no match for springtime in Kyiv, at least not in the semester's final transnational Rule of Law class taught at the University of Arkansas School of Law. The weekly course included online students from Ukraine who joined their American counterparts...

Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios Job listings could get much more interesting in New York City this fall. Starting Nov. 1, employers will be required to to post the maximum and minimum salary for a role, so you can actually know how much a job pays before you take that interview. Why it matters: This is quickly becoming a thing. Salary transparency is believed to be a way to diminish unfair g...

Cans of Budweiser brand beer move down a conveyor belt at the Anheuser-Busch Budweiser bottling facility in St. Louis on July 8, 2021. Jamie Mathis was Husch Blackwell’s beer industry practice leader He’s now new senior transactional lawyer for AB InBev subsidiary Anheuser-Busch has brought back former in-house lawyer James “Jamie” Mathis, a corporate partner at Husch Blackwell, to be its t...