Articles
-
1 week ago |
governing.com | Girard Miller |Jabari Simama
But it’s impossible to have a discussion about these issues without a deluge of comments that rural voters “brought it on themselves” by supporting Donald Trump. (One example: the comments belowthis MSNBC interview with former Montana Senator Jon Tester and Mitch Landrieu.)We know: Never read the comments. But in this case, these sorts of discussions reveal a generally accepted wisdom that rural America is solely responsible for Trump’s election.
-
1 week ago |
governing.com | Alan Ehrenhalt |Jabari Simama
The administration has largely turned to the for-profit, private prison industry to reopen or repurpose shuttered and aging facilities — many of which have been previously criticized for poor conditions and inadequate care. In February, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced it will reopen Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey. The detention facility, owned by private prison company GEO Group, has the capacity to hold about 1,000 people.
-
2 weeks ago |
governing.com | Alan Greenblatt |Carl Smith |Jabari Simama
This article is part of Governing's Inside Politics newsletter. Sign up here. Being a Candidate Without a Party Is a Hard Way to Win: There’s always a hunger for having more than two choices. According to Gallup, 43 percent of Americans identify as independents, which is 15 percentage points higher than either Democrats or the GOP. Despite the desire for alternatives, however, actually electing independent candidates remains a rare event.
-
2 weeks ago |
governing.com | Jabari Simama
The department is down about 1,200 officers from its full complement of 6,380 — about a 19 percent vacancy rate department-wide — according to Police Commissioner Kevin J. Bethel, who took over the force last year and inherited an officer shortage that spiked during the pandemic and the racial justice movement in 2020.
-
2 weeks ago |
governing.com | Jared Brey |Jabari Simama
The verdict marks the conclusion of the first trial among 42 lawsuits filed since 2013 by parishes across coastal Louisiana. The lawsuits allege that decades of oil and gas activity — primarily canal dredging and other infrastructure work — violated state permitting laws and accelerated the state's catastrophic land loss. The case, Plaquemines Parish v. Chevron USA, Inc., is the first of its kind to go before a jury.
Try JournoFinder For Free
Search and contact over 1M+ journalist profiles, browse 100M+ articles, and unlock powerful PR tools.
Start Your 7-Day Free Trial →X (formerly Twitter)
- Followers
- 160
- Tweets
- 66
- DMs Open
- No
German exchange students Can Ozden, Simone Mayer, and Johannes Rottinger visited my office today. I am proud of the work we do to build the American and global workforce. #TechEd #WorkforceDevelopment https://t.co/lQs4DUvN5g
RT @GoGPTC: A big thanks to the Dart Foundation for partnering with us in our Advanced Manufacturing Center! #DartFoundation #AdvancedManuf…
I always enjoy celebrating the good work our industry leaders are doing. #teched #HigherEducation #WorkforceDevelopment #Manufacturing https://t.co/JGv5h3aI4k