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5 days ago |
governing.com | Jabari Simama |Alan Ehrenhalt
Oregon’s high behavioral health needs outpace the state’s availability to provide services, according to an audit report from the Secretary of State’s Office. The state’s suicide rate has consistently outpaced the nation since 2000, and it ranks 46th among states for adults with substance use disorders who needed but did not receive treatment, according to the report.
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5 days ago |
governing.com | Jabari Simama |Alan Ehrenhalt
The more than 500-page ruling from a unanimous three-judge panel said it was “not a close call” to require the state to have a map with more representation for Black voters than the 2023 plan. The state is currently using a court-mandated map drawn after a preliminary ruling against the state’s 2023 version, and Thursday’s decision opened the door for the state to have yet another map going forward — its third since the 2020 census.
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6 days ago |
governing.com | Jabari Simama
Just two states, New Jersey and Virginia, are electing governors this year, but 2026 will be a very different picture, with 36 states holding gubernatorial elections. Fifteen of them will feature no incumbents because of term limitations. Four of them — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan and Pennsylvania — will be the most competitive because of their diverse populations.
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1 week ago |
governing.com | Jabari Simama
The confrontation wasn’t real, and neither was the gun. But the lesson was deadly serious. Oliva is a criminal justice major at Muscatine Community College in this largely agricultural community along the Mississippi River. She was in a simulation lab, with that scenario projected on a screen as classmates watched, spellbound. The suspect moved menacingly toward her, but Elexiana Oliva stood her ground, gun drawn and in a half crouch as she calmly tried to talk him down.
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1 week ago |
governing.com | Jabari Simama
“It’s forced medication when they’re jamming fluoride. And they did it because if you have fluoride, it’ll help with dental. And I’m not saying that’s not true, but we have other ways where people can get access to fluoride,” Gov. Ron DeSantis said Tuesday in Miami. “When you do this in the water supply, you’re taking away a choice of someone who may not want to have overexposure to fluoride.”The state House and Senate passed the fluoride ban last month.
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