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The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) includes historic levels of spending on surface transportation, which accounts for roughly half the total package of $1.2 trillion -- the largest-ever five-year surface transportation reauthorization. Whether the new law’s transportation investments exacerbate our climate crisis or help us achieve our climate goals – and more equitable and sus...

The elections bill would create a state office to investigate allegations of voting irregularities, Feb. 2, 2022. (WPEC) TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (News Service of Florida) — Amid fierce opposition from Democrats, a Senate committee Tuesday backed an elections bill that includes adding more rules for voting by mail and creating a state office to investigate allegations of voting irregularities. The b...

Ulster town council members are considering a local law to allow its members to participate in town board meetings remotely when they’re outside of municipal boundaries. The law would only impact members of the town board and no other municipal boards . . . ➜ Subscribe to keep reading. Already a subscriber?

New Mexico Senate Republican Caucus Chair Senator Mark Moores introduced a bill, titled Senate Bill 184, that’d exempt all New Mexico law enforcement officers from the state income tax, according to a press release on Tuesday. “We have a once in a generation opportunity to change how this state treats our law enforcement officers before we chase every one of them across state lines,” Moores, ...

Demonstrators protest against the forced eviction of Palestinians from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem, outside the Israeli embassy in London, United Kingdom, January 21, 2022. (Rasid Necati Aslim / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) In December of last year, British Conservative politician Robert Jenrick announced that the UK government was “working to outlaw BDS in the UK” and ...

Staff members hold the certification of Electoral College votes from Tennessee during a joint session of the House and Senate to confirm Electoral College votes at the Capitol, early Jan 7, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File) Donald Trump’s relentless, false claims about the 2020 presidential election have sparked fresh urgency in Congress — and in both parties — for changing ...

By MADDISON BOOTH, Alabama Daily News MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Alabama Senate on Tuesday unanimously passed a bill prohibiting law enforcement agencies from using artificial intelligence or facial recognition software alone to make arrests or establish probable cause for arrests. Under Senate Bill 56, the results of a facial recognition service may be used only in conjunction with other informa...

Law enforcement searching for driver who struck, killed pedestrian Monday  wvua23.com

Just when you thought The Loop was boring — trial by combat! * Umm. St. Louis might be bringing back trial by combat? Dead men tell no tales, I suppose. [STL Today] * People are still couching casual racism as a 1st Amendment issue, despite the key examples occurring at private institutions that aren’t bound by it. [Reuters] * The Judicial Big 4: Here are some key SCOTUS jurisprudence areas y...

An example of an Alabama pistol permit. The Alabama Sheriffs Association, joined by the Association of County Commissions of Alabama and the Alabama Association of School Resource Officers, held a press conference outside the Alabama Statehouse Tuesday to voice their opposition to a slate of permitless carry — also known as “constitutional carry” — bills currently moving through the Legislatu...