(The Center Square) — Veterans reportedly have faced a difficult time receiving compensation for decades of radiation exposure at classified sites. U.S. Sens. Jacky Rosen and Catherine Cortez Masto, both D-Nevada, look to change this. The FORGOTTEN Veterans Act would expand toxic exposure compensation to veterans stationed at classified sites across Nevada’s Test and Training …
(The Center Square) – The California Senate passed a bill to allow Los Angeles County and other municipalities to use property taxes to fund “Resilient Rebuilding Authorities” that would have to use at least 40% of their funding for building low-income housing. Senate Bill 549 now has a hearing in the state Assembly scheduled for …
(The Center Square) – A 10,058-acre Utah fire has crossed over the border into Colorado as the Southwest continues to experience wildfires, including one that created a vortex of flames over the weekend on the Grand Canyon’s North Rim. On Monday, the Madre Fire in San Luis Obispo County, north of Santa Barbara, had burned …
As someone who has walked the path from active addiction to recovery, I am compelled to speak out against Washington state’s proposed “safer supply” program that would have our government distribute fentanyl, heroin and methamphetamine to addicts. This isn’t compassion – it’s a death sentence wrapped in the language of harm reduction. Thirteen years ago, …
(The Center Square) — The Trump administration has ordered the end of federal funding for a national LGBTQ+ suicide prevention hotline, effective Thursday. The Trevors Project, a LGBTQ+ suicide hotline, received a notice, back in June, from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration that the national 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline “will no …
This week we’ll get some housing data, but the main event will be the consumer price index and producer price index for the month of June. Are the Worst Tariff-Induced Inflation Fears Justified? So far, inflation has continued to moderate partly due to lower energy prices and cooling housing costs. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) …
“Gun control means control for the government so government can control the people.” – Luke Scott On April 19,1775, In Concord at dawn, the church bells signaled the colonists to grab their muskets and rush to the North bridge. A troop of 800 British soldiers had been ordered to seize their arms. Soon, 150 Minutemen …
(The Center Square) – North Carolina native David Gergen, advisor to the White Houses of Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Clinton, has died. He was 83. Born in Durham and educated at Yale (undergraduate) and Harvard (law), Gergen’s career included serving in the Navy; bar membership in the District of Columbia; broadcast journalism starting with the …
(The Center Square) – The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is investing a black bear attack in Barron County where a black bear allegedly attacked a 69-year-old woman in Comstock. The attack was reported around 2 p.m. on Saturday. The victim was taken to the hospital for treatment and her current condition is unknown. Officers …
(The Center Square) – The latest death count from the July 4 flash flood event in Texas is up to 129 with more than 170 people still missing. Sunday morning recovering efforts were suspended in Kerr County due to heavy rainfall and a new flash flood warning issued for several areas in the Hill Country …