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March 17, 2022
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Roy Blunt (Mo.) and Amy Klobuchar (Minn.) announced that their bipartisan legislation to provide support for Brand USA, a public-private partnership that promotes international travel to the United States, was signed into law. The legislation will help Brand USA promote the U.S. to international visitors by allowing the program to access $250 million in criti...
March 17, 2022
By Police1 Staff
WASHINGTON — Last week the National Law Enforcement Museum in Washington, D.C., announced the opening of its first-ever exclusively online exhibit: “Eyes to the Sky: A Century of Law Enforcement Aviation and Airborne Public Safety.”
The exhibit is free and accessible to anyone here. “Eyes to the Sky” highlights the history and importance of planes, helicopters and drones in l...
March 17, 2022
Cement Creek, which was flooded with millions of gallons of mining wastewater, was pictured on August 11, 2015, where it meets with the Animas River in Silverton, Colo.
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This story was updated at 3:05 p.m. EDT.
A lack of federal enforcement, outdated pollution standards and chronic budget cuts have kept EPA and states from reaching ambitious goals under the Clean Wat...
March 17, 2022
Boise, Idaho – Governor Brad Little signed a key part of his “Leading Idaho” plan into law today, providing hundreds of millions of dollars in new transportation funding to clear out one-third of Idaho’s bridge maintenance backlog.
Senate Bill 1359 includes $200 million for local bridges, $6 million for air, $8 million for rail, $18 million to pay off debt for Garvee projects, $10 million for...
March 17, 2022
Evergy(KWCH)
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - The Kansas Corporation Commission says state law requires it to pass a new rate hike for Evergy customers and prevents the utility from making changes to its proposal.
Starting April 1, the Kansas Corporation Commission says Evergy Kansas Central residential customers will see a price hike of 36 cents per month or $4.32 per year.
KCC said Kansas law allows e...
March 17, 2022
Imagine clearing out your desk on the last day of your job, ready to begin a higher-paying position elsewhere. But just as you turn in your keys, your boss hands you a court order preventing you from taking your new job. Instead, you need to come back tomorrow to the same job — for the same pay — if you want to work at all.
This is exactly what happened in January to seven employees of ThedaC...
March 17, 2022
Interstate vs. intrastate: State Supreme Court weighs meaning of overtime law for truckers coloradopolitics.com
March 17, 2022
Oregon Knight Law Center
University of Oregon School of Law’s 2021 graduates achieved a 92% employment rate as of March 2022. That overall employment rate is the best outcome for any class since the class of 2007. Out of the students employed, nearly 92% reported obtaining full-time, long-term jobs that require bar passage or for which having a JD degree offered an advantage.
“I am thrilled b...
March 17, 2022
Meta Headquarters along 1 Hacker Way in Menlo Park, California. Photo: Marc Olivier Le Blanc
What You Need to Know
Major law firms backing rival social media and technology companies have joined the FTC's antitrust lawsuit against Facebook. The companies and their counsel are seeking to prevent Facebook's in-house lawyers from viewing highly sensitive documents about their businesses through...
March 17, 2022
MIAMI (WSVN) - Renters in Miami-Dade who are struggling with rising rent prices will no longer be blindsided by increases.
Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava signed a new bill into law on Thursday that gives residents 60 days notice before their rent increases.
The new measure requires landlords to give tenants a two months’ heads up if the increase is more than 5%.
It also extends ...
