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In this July 14, 2020 file photo, a voter, right, shows her identification to a Harris County election clerk before voting, in Houston. Paper shortages and a new identification rule for absentee ballots are causing problems in some counties ahead of the state's March 1, 2022 primary. A paper shortage and new identification requirement are causing problems ahead of Texas' March 1 primary. A...

Bills to Address the State’s Teacher Shortages Now Law New Laws Aim to Address Teacher Retention, Impacted Subject Areas and the Shrinking Teacher Applicant Pool (TRENTON) – New Jersey is currently facing severe teacher shortages in school districts throughout the State. To address this and fill classroom vacancies with qualified educators, Assembly Democrats sponsor two measures that were si...

U.S. Rep. Richard Neal speaks alongside Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno, center, and Public Works Director Chris Cignoli to announce that the state Department of Transportation will receive $225.3 million for fiscal 2022 from the federal bridge program. The railroad bridge behind them is part of Armory Street. (Don Treeger / The Republican) SPRINGFIELD — The city and state are prepping about ...

Chair Lauren McFerran (D) discusses value of public briefing Prior GOP majority took time-saving route in many big cases The federal labor board’s Democratic majority has embraced seeking public input when the board contemplates overturning precedent, even though that will slow its efforts to reverse pro-employer decisions from the Trump era. In an exclusive interview, National Labor Relati...

The District of Columbia’s long-awaited pay-to-play law will take effect on November 9, 2022, after over two years of delay. The District’s pay-to-play law was originally set to go into effect on November 4, 2020, but was postponed as part of the fiscal year 2021 appropriations bill due to lack of funding to implement the law. The effective date was uncertain until the law’s implementation wa...

Young cannabis plants in growth in California. A New Hampshire worker who was fired after he told his employer he started using cannabis when his doctor prescribed it for PTSD may have a viable claim under state disability bias law, the state’s top court ruled. A lower court was wrong that Scott Paine couldn’t establish a failure-to-accommodate claim against Ride-Away Inc. because his conditi...

A Cadiz man was charged with fleeing from law enforcement and assaulting his girlfriend Friday afternoon. Trigg County Sheriff’s deputies say they were called to Little River Boulevard after 47-year-old John Repass slapped, tackled, and struck his girlfriend in the face during an altercation. When deputies called Repass on the phone to find out his location he reportedly told them he was not ...

Doctors are currently banned from advertising abortion services and offering information online A Nazi-era law banning doctors from giving women information about abortions is to be scrapped by Germany’s new government in a decision welcomed by activists who have long argued that it has hampered women’s ability to make informed choices. The justice minister, Marco Buschmann, said that he will...

BU School of Law Professor Katharine Silbaugh cosponsored a Brookline, Mass., ordinance that ties being able to buy tobacco to birth date, not to age. Anyone born after January 1, 2000, cannot legally buy tobacco or vaping products. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi A Q&A with LAW’s Katharine Silbaugh, cosponsor of Brookline’s new first-in-the nation ordinance linking tobacco sales to birth date ...

Police parked outside the Andover Subacute and Rehabilitation Center, which came under scrutiny after 17 bodies — some stored in a makeshift morgue — were discovered in 2020. New Jersey’s nursing homes will be forced to disclosure more detailed financial information about their operations, under new mandates signed into law Tuesday by Gov. Phil Murphy. The measure A4478/S2759, also will mete ...