Tag: State Legislatures

Vermont’s Republican governor signs law protecting abortion rights

Caitlin Yilek · June 11, 2019 8:45 pm

In this March 21, 2013, file photo, a homeless woman has a bite to eat in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles. Reducing poverty has emerged as the key theme in California after state lawmakers moved closer to raising the minimum wage, expanding healthcare to immigrants, and allowing child care providers to unionize.

What’s the matter with California?

Washington Examiner · June 11, 2019 4:00 am

Hugh F. Culverhouse Jr. and his wife, Eliza, enter the University of Alabama law school in Tuscaloosa, Ala.

University may return $21 million after donor discourages women from attending over state abortion ban

Zach Halaschak · June 6, 2019 11:54 pm

New York poised to become first state to ban cat declawing

Jonas Wells · June 5, 2019 12:04 am

In this Feb. 11, 2019 photo, Gov. Janet Mills delivers her State of the Budget address to the Legislature at the State House in Augusta, Maine.

Bill legalizing assisted suicide reaches Maine governor’s desk

Grayce McCormick · June 4, 2019 7:13 pm

In this Feb. 2, 2019, file photo, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam speaks during a news conference in the Governor's Mansion in Richmond, Va.

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam to push gun control in special session after Virginia Beach shooting

Tim Pearce · June 4, 2019 3:45 pm

CORRECTS JOHN MILKOVICH TO D-SHREVEPORT - Sen. John Milkovich, D-Shreveport, left, and Rep. Valarie Hodges, R-Denham Springs, speak outside the State Capitol, after the House passed Milkovich's 'fetal heartbeat' bill that would ban abortions at about six weeks of pregnancy, if upheld by the courts, sending it to the governor's desk without exceptions for victims of rape and incest, on Wednesday, May 29, 2019, in Baton Rouge, La. Hodges handled the bill on the House side for its passage. Gov. John Bel Edwards, the only Democratic governor in the Deep South, supports the ban and intends to sign it into law.

Democrat: Abortion is ‘modern-day genocide’

John Gage · June 3, 2019 7:26 pm

‘Stunningly bizarre’: Ohio public library cancels LGBT Pride event after backlash

Tim Pearce · June 3, 2019 2:34 pm

The Illinois legislature is expected to return later this month to close a deal to subsidize nuclear plants, as Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker, legislators, environmental groups, and labor unions are motivated to preserve thousands of jobs.

Illinois expands abortion rights amid stringent bans across the US

Cassidy Morrison · June 1, 2019 4:55 pm

FILE - In this May 17, 2019 file photo, Teresa Pettis, right, greets a passerby outside the Planned Parenthood clinic in St. Louis. Pettis was one of a small number of abortion opponents protesting outside the clinic on the day the Missouri Legislature passed a sweeping measure banning abortions at eight weeks of pregnancy. Planned Parenthood says Missouri's only abortion clinic could be closed by the end of the week because the state is threatening to not renew its license, which expires Friday, May 31.

Judge rules Missouri’s last abortion clinic will remain open — for now

Cassidy Morrison · May 31, 2019 8:45 pm

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Injustice funders

James Piereson and Naomi Schaefer Riley · May 31, 2019 4:00 am

Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak sits at his desk at the Capitol in Carson City before signing a bill that opens the books on applications for licenses to sell recreational marijuana Friday, May 10, 2019. Melanie Young, executive director of the state Department of Taxation, looks on.

Nevada rejects national popular vote effort

Diana Stancy Correll · May 30, 2019 9:57 pm