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2 months ago | 
governing.com | Elizabeth Daigneau
Editor's Note: This article appears in Governing's Special Issue 2025 magazine. You can subscribe here. Megan was athletic and played boys baseball in a youth league sponsored by Jewell and her husband, Robert L. “Bob” Evans, the owners of the Bob Evans restaurant chain. Megan’s mother volunteered on a committee for the league and introduced the two. Jewell quickly became like a “second mom,” Megan says.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
route-fifty.com | Elizabeth Daigneau
Hundreds of ballots stuffed into drop boxes were set on fire early Monday morning in Vancouver, Washington, and nearby Portland, Oregon. Incendiary devices inside went off in an act that local elections officials called a “direct attack on democracy.”Police in Clark County, Washington, are now monitoring the drop boxes.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
route-fifty.com | Elizabeth Daigneau
You're reading Route Fifty's State and Local Roundup. Subscribe here to get this update in your inbox every Saturday. More than 30,000 Boeing machinists have been on strike for nearly six weeks. On Wednesday, union members rejected a second contract by a two-thirds margin. Now, it looks like the strike will go on a while longer. The sticking point? A defined-benefit pension plan, which Boeing suspended a decade ago in favor of defined-contribution, or 401(k), retirement plans.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
route-fifty.com | Elizabeth Daigneau
You're reading Route Fifty's Public Finance Update. To get the latest on state and local budgets, taxes and other financial matters, you can subscribe here to get this update in your inbox twice each month. ***This year promised to be the biggest year for gun reform on the ballot ever. When The Trace, an investigative news outlet that focuses on guns and crime, analyzed state election filings in January, it found 13 initiatives in four states. But all those efforts failed.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
route-fifty.com | BedLock Safety |Elizabeth Daigneau
This year's group of Rising Stars isn't one of promising newcomers. Instead, it is a cadre of seasoned early-career leaders with responsibilities for nine-figure budgets, key cybersecurity projects, online voter registration and much much more.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
route-fifty.com | Elizabeth Daigneau
On a crisp fall evening last October, close to 1,000 birds died after flying smack into McCormick Place, a convention center in Chicago abutting Lake Michigan. The building’s massive glass facade was lit up, disorienting birds who were already flying low to the ground from rain earlier that day. The event was shocking. For members of the Chicago Bird Collision Monitors, it was the worst day in their 40-year history. Instead of picking up injured birds, monitors were filing garbage bags.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
govexec.com | Elizabeth Daigneau
When Congress returns from their summer recess next month, they’ll have 22 days to reauthorize the farm bill before it expires on Sept. 30. But with the November election just two months away, many observers say that a deal is unlikely to be reached until later this year. But Congress must pass some sort of legislation or extension before the current law expires or face massive upheaval in agricultural commodities and dairy markets. One of the main sticking points is food assistance.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
route-fifty.com | Elizabeth Daigneau
When Congress returns from their summer recess next month, they’ll have 22 days to reauthorize the farm bill before it expires on Sept. 30. But with the November election just two months away, many observers say that a deal is unlikely to be reached until later this year. But Congress must pass some sort of legislation or extention before the current law expires or face massive upheaval in agricultural commodities and dairy markets. One of the main sticking points is food assistance.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
route-fifty.com | Elizabeth Daigneau
You're reading Route Fifty's Public Finance Update. To get the latest on state and local budgets, taxes and other financial matters, you can subscribe here to get this update in your inbox twice each month. You can find a full archive of these newsletters here. ***The cost of groceries has been a hot topic on the presidential campaign trail. Late last week, both candidates made lower food prices a central part of their economic pitch.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
matr.net | Elizabeth Daigneau
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