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Ted Remsnyder/Columbia-Greene MediaGreene County Director of Real Property Tax Services Ray Ward at the Greene County Legislature’s Government Operations Committee meeting on April 18. The Legislature is weighing a local solar law. CATSKILL — The Greene County Legislature is considering a local law that would establish a set fee rate for developers who want to build solar projects in the coun...

Farmers weigh in after Gov. Brown signs farmworker overtime bill into law  KEZI TV

Washington Supreme Court OLYMPIA — The Washington Supreme Court has struck down an Edmonds gun storage ordinance in a court order reaffirming state law that local governments can't impose their own firearms regulations. In an opinion signed by all nine justices, the court ruled that Washington state law "fully occupies and preempts the entire field of firearms regulation within the boundaries...

[IS] Opinions Fearing for their political lives, many elected officials in New York are hurriedly backing down from previous commitments on bail reform. The measures had rolled back the use of cash bail, except for some violent crimes and other exceptional circumstances. That meant an end to jailing people before their trial for months or years, for the crime of being unable to pay their bail...

Law & Order returned to NBC with new episodes for the first time since 2010 back in February, filling out a full three-hour block of hit franchise action on Thursday nights and bringing back television icon Sam Waterston along with some other familiar faces from the original run of the series. Some key new cast members joined Waterston for Season 21 as well, including Odelya Halevi, whose...

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds has signed a law that seeks to legislatively overturn a state ban on warrantless police searches of garbage following an Iowa Supreme Court decision last year. Senate File 2296, which Reynolds signed Thursday, says people have "no reasonable expectation of privacy" for garbage placed outside their residence for waste collection "in a publicly accessible area," such as ...

Gov. Mike DeWine has signed into law an action that will certainly stir up Ohio State fans in the heart of Big Ten country. DeWine signed a law this week that created an Ohio specialty license plate to benefit the University of Alabama. Here’s background from last year about the early development of the bill, which is now a law, from Cleveland.com: State Rep. Adam Bird, a Clermont County Repu...

JEFFERSON CITY — A bill approved by the Missouri Senate would impose limits on the state's public records law to exclude certain types of documents and communications and no longer classify some meetings of elected officials as "public." The legislation was initially designed to limit personal information of constituents from being public in records requested by members of the public. It was...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked a state law that effectively eliminated abortions in Kentucky after the state’s two remaining clinics said they couldn’t meet its requirements. The decision by U.S. District Judge Rebecca Grady Jennings was a victory for abortion rights advocates and a setback for the Republican-led legislature, which passed the law in Ma...

Marijuana possession and use on the Flathead Reservation closely mirrors State law  Char-Koosta News