elections

Alabama

Lawmaker helping lead impeachment of Philadelphia’s prosecutor will run for state attorney general | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

HARRISBURG, Pa. – A state lawmaker who is helping lead the effort to impeach Philadelphia’s elected prosecutor on Tuesday became the newest candidate for Pennsylvania attorney general, an office that played a critical role in court defending Joe Biden’s 2020 victory in the presidential battleground. Rep. Craig Williams, a Republican who represents part of suburban […]

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California

California AI Report Tempers Benefits With Potential Risks

The Newsom administration’s new report on generative artificial intelligence, which was released Tuesday, presents potential benefits for state use of GenAI – but finds areas of risk as well. The report, set in motion by Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Executive Order N-12-23 (EO), signed Sept. 6, called on the California Government Operations Agency (GovOps), the California […]

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California

Jewish groups sue University of California for ‘longstanding, unchecked spread of anti-Semitism’ at Berkeley

Jewish groups are suing the University of California Regents, President Michael Drake and other school officials for what they assert is the “longstanding, unchecked spread of anti-Semitism” on UC Berkeley’s campus. In a 36-page complaint filed Tuesday, the Brandeis Center and the Jewish Americans for Fairness in Education (JAFE) allege “inaction” by UC Berkeley and […]

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California

Hundreds of migrants living in San Diego airport as California battles ‘unimaginable’ homeless crisis

Hundreds of migrants have taken up residence in the San Diego International Airport with “no place to go” as California shelters are filled to capacity with the state’s homeless population. The mayor of El Cajon, California, called out state and federal government officials Tuesday for policies burdening his community. “California has basically made it completely […]

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California

54 California State Parks give free entrance to fourth graders and their families. Here’s how to get your pass – NBC Los Angeles

Exploring California’s mountains, deserts, forests and rivers can be done for free by kids who are ready to discover the world. California State Parks partnered with First Partner’s Office and the Natural Resources Agency to create the California State Park Adventure Pass, allowing free access to 54 state parks to fourth graders, their families and […]

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California

California privacy: 2022-23 legislative wrap-up

The last day for California Governor Gavin Newsom to sign or veto bills passed by the legislature was 14 Oct., concluding the busiest year for California lawmakers since 2007. Of the more than 2,600 bills introduced this session, approximately 1,000 were sent to Newsom’s desk. After the dust settled, the governor signed nine privacy bills, […]

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California

Leddy Maytum Stacy revamps century-old university building in California

Exterior louvres and faceted canopies are among the elements that US studio Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects has added to a 1920s academic facility, helping it achieve net-zero energy consumption, according to the studio. The Walker Hall project involved transforming a “vacant, seismically unsafe building” on the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) campus in northern […]

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California

California’s crisis, China’s nukes, and more from Fox News Opinion

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Welcome to the Fox News Opinion Newsletter. To receive this newsletter in your email, subscribe here. HANNITY – Fox News host says President Biden makes the ‘wrong’ foreign policy decisions, ‘doddering along, hoping for the best.’ Continue reading… CALIFORNIA’S CRISIS – The irony, the hypocrisy and Newsom’s […]

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California

Speech is freer in California than in Florida, watchdog warns ahead of Newsom-DeSantis debate

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is due to debate California Gov. Gavin Newsom later this week about whose state offers a better model for the country, is leading an “assault on free expression in Florida” that is “almost without peer in recent U.S. history,” a watchdog warned in a pair of reports released Tuesday. Pen […]

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Alaska

Political Reform Should Encourage More Competition | #alaska | #politics

As we see in Hawaii, uncompetitive elections lead directly to a declining quality of government. Over the past several years, calls for reforming the political system in Hawaii have grown substantially. Recent controversies from accountability over the Maui wildfire disaster to increasing transparency over the state legislative process have drawn the attention (and ire) of […]

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