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Arkansas

Arkansas governor recommends school funding increase

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Thursday recommended that lawmakers increase public school funding by $550 million over the next two years to raise teacher pay, as the Republican prepares to leave office in January. Hutchinson presented his budget recommendations to a legislative panel days after Republican Sarah Huckabee Sanders was elected […]

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Alabama

Florida to ban transgender health care treatments for minors | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Transgender children in Florida will be barred from receiving hormones or undergoing surgeries to treat gender dysphoria under a rule approved Friday by state medical officials at the urging of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. The Florida Board of Medicine and the state Board of Osteopathic Medicine voted at a joint meeting in […]

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Alabama

Labor agency tallies votes in another Amazon union election | #elections | #alabama

NEW YORK — The nascent group that secured the first-ever union victory of an Amazon warehouse in the U.S. is set to face a crucial test on Tuesday, when votes from yet another election are set to be tallied. Representatives from the National Labor Relations Board will be counting ballots cast by workers at a […]

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Alaska

As suicides rise, US military seeks to address mental health | National Politics | #alaska | #politics

WASHINGTON (AP) — After finishing a tour in Afghanistan in 2013, Dionne Williamson felt emotionally numb. More warning signs appeared during several years of subsequent overseas postings. “It’s like I lost me somewhere,” said Williamson, a Navy lieutenant commander who experienced disorientation, depression, memory loss and chronic exhaustion. “I went to my captain and said, […]

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Alabama

Black leaders rebuke Tuberville stance on reparations, crime | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

By COREY WILLIAMS – Associated Press As far as Jeremy Ellis is concerned, Republican Tommy Tuberville should know or learn more about the long history and struggles of the Black Alabama residents he represents in the U.S. Senate. Tuberville told people Saturday at an election rally in Nevada that Democrats support reparations for the descendants […]

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Alabama

Georgia features Deep South’s only competitive US House race | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

By JEFF AMY – Associated Press GEORGETOWN, Ga. (AP) — In an uphill fight against a 30-year incumbent, Republican congressional candidate Chris West was scratching for votes in Georgia’s second-smallest county on a recent October evening. West was telling voters in Georgetown, just across the Chattahoochee River from Alabama, that they should dump longtime Democrat […]

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Arkansas

Recreational marijuana measure OK’d for Arkansas ballot

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday said voters can decide whether to legalize recreational marijuana, overturning a state panel’s decision to block the measure from the November ballot. Justices granted a request by Responsible Growth Arkansas, the group behind the proposal, to certify the measure for the November ballot. “The people […]

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Alabama

Watering while Black: anatomy of a pastor’s Alabama arrest | State News | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

By JAY REEVES – Associated Press CHILDERSBURG, Ala. (AP) — Michael Jennings wasn’t breaking any laws or doing anything that was obviously suspicious; the Black minister was simply watering the flowers of a neighbor who was out of town. Yet there was a problem: Around the corner, Amber Roberson, who is white, thought she was […]

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