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1 week ago |
governing.com | Carl Smith |Jabari Simama
The governor’s vetoes fell heaviest on education, as Dunleavy eliminated more than $50 million from the state’s per-student education funding formula and tens of millions intended for major school maintenance projects. Senate President Gary Stevens, R-Kodiak, and Speaker of the House Bryce Edgmon, I-Dillingham, said lawmakers are not likely to consider a veto override vote until January at the earliest, a schedule that will leave school districts with months of uncertainty. Gov.
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2 weeks ago |
governing.com | Jabari Simama
If enacted, these proposals would have significant repercussions for millions of struggling Americans. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office projects that by 2034, 16 million people could lose health insurance if Medicaid work mandates are widely implemented, Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax credits enacted under the American Rescue Plan Act are allowed to expire, and other policies relating to ACA enrollment become law.
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2 weeks ago |
governing.com | Jabari Simama |Girard Miller
Both hospitals are located in an agricultural swath of the state that’s home to most of its poorest counties. Many residents of the region don’t even have a nearby emergency department. Stacey Gilchrist is a nurse and administrator who’s spent her 40-year career in Thomasville, a small town about 20 minutes north of Grove Hill. Thomasville’s hospital shut down entirely last September over financial difficulties.
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3 weeks ago |
governing.com | Jabari Simama
Whatever the subject, Anjali Hay listens to the St. Paul students’ concerns, points them to others when she can’t meet a need and keeps on them about schoolwork. “They feel they can come to me as a trusted adult,” the 20-year-old said, noting that some students feel lost in a big school system. She works to ensure “they are seen and feel that they are heard. And I think it’s shown through their attendance and their grades.” Sometimes it’s their home life.
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3 weeks ago |
governing.com | Jabari Simama
Ellison explained the turnabout in a filing in which he said the arrested people had been found in an area his office thought was part of the new National Defense Area. It wasn’t. As a result, three people arrested in recent weeks won’t face newly created criminal charges for trespassing on a military base, punishable by up to a year in jail.
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