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MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Governor Kay Ivey on Tuesday signed Senate Bill 171, the Alabama Numeracy Act, into law. The Numeracy Act, sponsored by Sen. Arthur Orr (R – SD3) and Rep. Alan Baker (R – HD66), is a strategic approach to improving mathematics achievement. In 2019, Governor Ivey and the State Board of Education eliminated Common Core from Alabama’s mathematics standards and with the governo...

Bill would train officers to respond to mental health, behavioral health, and substance use crises WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) joined a bipartisan group of senators this week to introducing the Law Enforcement De-escalation Training Act. The legislation, which was authored by U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) will help law e...

Reeves signs tax reform bill into law  The Center Square

The $26 million Cherokee Justice Center opened in 2014. Holly Kays photo Victims of crime on the Qualla Boundary will now have a defined list of rights to rely on as they navigate the legal process, following unanimous passage of an ordinance before Tribal Council Thursday, March 1. The victims’ bill of rights The law, since ratified by Principal Chief Richard Sneed, lists 19 separate protec...

(Photo by William Thomas Cain/Getty Images) * Veteran police officer resigned after it went public that he didn’t think Hitler was all that bad. Come on now, Amazon does better background checks than this. [HuffPost] * Biden is freezing student loan payments till August 31st. Cheers to him delaying them to February 30th. [NY Times] * Some turbulence along the way: man faces federal charges af...

NEW YORK, April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mantese Honigman, P.C. is pleased to announce the opening of its New York City law office at 250 E. 54th. # 25A. The firm also has offices in the Detroit area and in St. Louis. The firm's CEO, Gerard V. Mantese, has recently been appointed co-Chair of the Committee on Corporation Law for the New York County Lawyers Association. Attorneys interested in b...

The percentage of female directors on California boards doubled in the three years since the gender law passed, one researcher said. In recent years, California has pushed for more gender and racial diversity on boards of companies headquartered there, going so far as to pass laws requiring it: The first law required gender diversity, the second law called for more board members from differen...

Best response to climate change is adaptation We need a new plan to address climate change and energy transition. The current approach, which relies on rapidly reducing CO2 emissions, isn’t working. Dr. Judith Curry, former head of Climate Science at Georgia Tech, has recently proposed an alternative plan which she terms “Plan B” at judithcurry.com. Although Dr. Curry’s proposal is longer and...

NEW YORK, April 06, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Scott+Scott Attorneys at Law LLP (“Scott+Scott”), an international shareholder and consumer rights litigation firm, is investigating whether Stronghold Digital Mining, Inc. (“Stronghold” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: SDIG), or other insiders, violated federal securities laws by making materially misleading statements to investors. If you purchased sha...

US: Infrastructure law demands new focus on transit worker assaults  Mass Transit Magazine