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State legislature considers privatizing mental health care
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Big changes could be coming to Michigan’s mental health care system, as more people seek treatment after two years of the pandemic. HealthWest in Muskegon is seeing more patients than ever for mental health services. “We have more people coming in our doors asking for help than we ever have,” …
County eyeing several ways to deal with mental health issues | Western Colorado
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Utah legislature will tackle critical race theory and gun rights after all
Lawmakers pressured Cox to include the two topics on the special session agenda. He declined so they will appear as resolutions. (Laura Seitz | Deseret News, pool) Gov. Spencer J. Cox provides updates on the ongoing pandemic during the weekly briefing at the Capitol on in May 2021. | May 18, 2021, 9:03 p.m. | …
Texas Legislature Set to Vote on Election Bill
AUSTIN, Texas—Texas lawmakers are poised to vote Thursday on a Republican-sponsored election bill that has received pushback from civil-rights groups and major corporations. The Texas bill comes after voting laws passed in Georgia and Florida that Republicans say will increase election security and Democrats contend will restrict voting access, particularly to minority communities. Florida Gov. …
California Legislature OK’s Tax Break for Small Businesses – NBC 7 San Diego
The California Legislature approved a major tax break for small businesses on Monday, voting to give up as much as $6.8 billion in revenue over the next six years so that struggling business owners can have smaller bills. The federal government loaned more than $97 billion to California small businesses during the coronavirus pandemic, and …
Brewer: Breaking apart the state budget | Columnists
The Nebraska Constitution requires the Legislature to do only two things: meet on the first Wednesday after the first Monday in January, and pass a budget once every two years. Technically, the Legislature only has to pass this package of budget bills and nothing else. Legislatures are two years long. Much of the first session …
Abortion votes don’t always make or break politicians | Local News
Say what you will about state Rep. Phelps Anderson, but he’s no publicity hound. Anderson, who recently quit the Republican Party, voted with Democrats last week to repeal New Mexico’s 1969 anti-abortion law. The decision marked a turnabout for Anderson. In 2019, he voted to retain the old, poorly written and unenforceable law criminalizing abortion. …
North Dakota Legislature marches toward midsession break
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota’s Legislature is in its last week before its midsession break. Many of the major spending bills are still being considered as the session heads to “crossover.” The break takes its name from the fact that Senate bills “cross over” to the House during the Legislature’s second half, and vice …
GOP lawmaker quiet after breaking ranks on abortion bill | Local News
Republican state Rep. Phelps Anderson is reserved, courteous and almost averse to publicity. Tell him you made a bet you could get three words out of him, and Anderson might reply: You lose. Yet there he was last week, making waves by siding with Democrats to repeal a 1969 law that criminalizes abortion in New …
Coronavirus live updates: Giuliani tests positive for coronavirus, Arizona legislature shuts down
The coronavirus has come roaring back into Brazil, shattering illusions it wouldn’t By Terrence McCoy and Heloísa Traiano RIO DE JANEIRO — For weeks, it has seemed to Carla Santos de Lima that people here have been in the thrall of a collective delusion that the pandemic was on the way out. The beaches, bars …
