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MADISON – A lawyer for Assembly Speaker Robin Vos testified Monday he had done little to ensure the contractor overseeing a Republican review of the 2020 election had turned over all documents that were responsive to a series of public records requests from a liberal group. The testimony from Vos' staff attorney, Steve Fawcett, caught the attention of Dane County Circuit Judge Valerie Bailey-...

Reps. Jeff Wheeland and Joe Hamm will host three gun law seminars in the coming months. The dates and locations are: Thursday, Jan. 27, from 6-8 p.m., at the Old Lycoming Township Volunteer Fire Company located at 1600 Dewey Ave., Williamsport. Wednesday, Feb. 2, from 6-8 p.m., at the Community Baptist Church located at 1853 State Route 87, Montoursville. Thursday, March 24, from 6-8 p.m., at...

New York State lawmakers have done it again – amending an often-forgotten whistleblower statute of limited application into a sweeping new source of employee rights that should make employers listen up and take notice. Almost two years ago it was Section 741 of the New York Labor Law, focused on healthcare workers. This time, it’s Section 740, which applies to all private-sector employers. Be...

AP AP Last month I wrote about the immigration crisis on our southern border. This column is about ways to improve our immigration laws. According to the Pew Research Center, the United States has more immigrants than any other country in the world. The U.S. foreign-born population reached a record 44.8 million in 2018, or 13.7% of the U.S. population. I have no problem with that. Since ...

VALLEY CITY, N.D. (NewsDakota.com) – The Barnes County Commission wants to remind residents that it’s against the law to deposit snow upon or across public roadways. NDCC 24-05-23 and 24-12-02 prohibits obstructing or causing to be obstructed any public highway or right-of-way including county and township roads. Piles of snow left on or near the roadway can freeze into a solid mass, creating...

Last week, two central banks dropped public reports that can have a sizable impact on the crypto landscape in their respective countries and beyond. The U.S. Federal Reserve published a discussion paper entitled “Money and Payments: The U.S. Dollar in the Age of Digital Transformation,” which summarizes years of the Fed’s research on CBDCs. Meanwhile, the Central Bank of Russia released a rep...

Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron (Provided by the Kentucky Attorney General's Office) FRANKFORT, Ky. (WBKO) - Attorney General Daniel Cameron today announced the creation of a new resource prosecutor position within the Prosecutors Advisory Council (PAC) to assist prosecutors and law enforcement in the prosecution of cases involving violent crimes and capital offenses. To serve as thi...

California Focus If any California proposition of the last half-century is an obvious candidate for a major rewrite, it is the 2014 Proposition 47, which made it a small-time offense to steal anything worth less than $950, unless you have a history of violent crimes. For sure, it is under threat. Lawmakers have introduced measures to cancel most of Prop. 47 or increase penalties for some cri...

Mobile biometric identification and verification or detection concept. face ID scaning or unlocking technology. serious man using facial recognition on smartphone. indoor isolated on yellow background ST. LOUIS – From facial recognition to fingerprint scans, biometrics are becoming more ingrained into our daily lives. Two of the top five biometric privacy litigation cases in 2020 were from Il...

FILE - Police officers and emergency crews park outside the Louis Vuitton store in San Francisco's Union Square on Nov. 21, 2021, after looters ransacked businesses If any California proposition of the last half-century is an obvious candidate for a major rewrite, it is the 2014 Proposition 47, which made small-time offenses out of all thefts of more than $950 value unless the perpetrator had...