7+ hour, 42+ min ago  (1717+ words) For the University of Nebraska, a 5% cut could subtract $36 million from its newly approved operating budget This post has been republished from the Nebraska Examiner under Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. LINCOLN — A memo Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen issued last…...

1+ hour, 36+ min ago  (510+ words) Donald Trump has endorsed Mike Lindell in Minnesota’s governor race, snubbing the state Republican Party’s chosen candidate, Kendall Qualls. The endorsement bolsters Lindell despite his history of promoting unfounded election conspiracies and receiving massive defamation lawsuits. On Wednesday, President Donald…...

7+ hour, 44+ min ago  (619+ words) This post has been republished from the Indiana Capital Chronicle under Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Indiana will discontinue aspects of a diversity program it used for decades to recruit minority and female contractors after the state attorney general determined…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (978+ words) This post has been republished from the Tennessee Lookout under Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Republican gubernatorial candidate U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn is ready to activate the modern iteration of “Old Sparky” as Tennessee grapples with lethal injection protocol for executions....

6+ day, 7+ hour ago  (564+ words) This post has been republished from the Ohio Capital Journal under Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. The losses come after the Republican-controlled Congress last year allowed pandemic-era subsidies to buy insurance on ACA exchanges to expire. That caused premiums to…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago  (782+ words) A massive Fourth of July weekend power grid failure left 400,000 Michigan residents without power, forcing some business owners to throw away thousands of dollars in food. Meanwhile, DTE Energy is pushing for a $473.3 million rate increase — months after House Republicans…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago  (527+ words) This post has been republished from the Wisconsin Examiner under Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley announced Wednesday that he is dropping his bid to be governor, a decision that narrows the Democratic primary field for…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (637+ words) This post has been republished from the Michigan Advance under Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. A coalition of national and local civil society groups sent a letter on Tuesday urging Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to withdraw Michigan National Guard troops from…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (571+ words) This post has been republished from the Wisconsin Examiner under Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. In a 5-2 decision, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that an activist group does not have the right to obtain the documents that notify election…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (1256+ words) More than 1,600 Indiana voters have had their registrations canceled or rejected under the state’s new proof-of-citizenship laws. For citizens like Charrie Stambaugh, a routine address update triggered a bureaucratic ordeal just to keep her right to vote. This post has…...