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Mayor Johnson accepts reality: State won’t consider more money for migrants until 2024

That should end City Hall’s lobbying via news media for more money this fall and lower the temperature a little, Rich Miller writes.

Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 13, 2023

The Ballot Bulletin: Ballotpedia’s Weekly Digest on Election Administration, October 13, 2023

Two of the three bills approved since our last edition are the result of veto overrides in North Carolina.

Ballotpedia · Oct 13, 2023

Election legislation roundup: General Assembly of North Carolina

As of Oct. 8, members of the General Assembly of North Carolina, which includes the North Carolina House of Representatives and the North Carolina State Senate, have passed 17 bills related to election administration since the beginning of the year.

Ballotpedia · Oct 11, 2023

Records of Library Removal Requests, Like Other Library User Records, Are Exempt from State Public Records Law

The case stemmed from user challenges asking that a public library remove Gender Queer: A Memoir, or at least keep children from getting it.

Reason · Oct 6, 2023

Women’s rights held hostage at UN, say former leaders

Advocacy group says lack of gender equality at the heart of the UN is making it harder to combat a growing hostility to the issue around the world

The Guardian - UK · Oct 2, 2023

The UN and the multilateral system are in crisis – what the Global South must do

The planet is on fire, but almost all the firefighters have deserted. At the meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, which began on September 19 in New York, the leaders of four of the five permanent members of the Security Council – the UN’s most powerful executive body –…

The Conversation · Sep 28, 2023

Low-wage workers say minimum wage hike in Kentucky would ‘help tremendously’

It’s not easy to find folks who make the minimum wage – even in convenience stores, where you might expect to. Estimates of the number of Kentuckians who make $7.25 an hour range from 5- to 12-thousand. Perhaps those relatively low numbers explain why groups like the Kentucky Center for…

WEKU · Sep 28, 2023

Election legislation roundup: General Assembly of North Carolina

As of Sept. 24, members of the General Assembly of North Carolina, which includes the North Carolina House of Representatives and the North Carolina State Senate, have passed 17 bills related to election administration since the beginning of the year. Of those 17 bills, legislators passed two during the week…

Ballotpedia · Sep 27, 2023

Hall Pass: Your Ticket to Understanding School Board Politics, Edition #79

Welcome to Hall Pass, a newsletter written to keep you plugged into the conversations driving school board politics and governance.

Ballotpedia · Sep 27, 2023

Traffic stops of Black drivers across Illinois at a 20-year high despite law Obama championed

The law that then-state Sen. Barack Obama sponsored aimed to collect law enforcement data and reduce racial disparities in police traffic stops but has fallen short, a WBEZ / Investigative Project on Race and Equity has found.

Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 27, 2023