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Dec 29, 2024 | 
kansascity.com | Joe LoCascio |Joe Locascio
I was a municipal judge in Kansas City from 2001 to 2019 and was taken aback by Melinda Henneberger's recent column concerning Kansas City inmates held in the Vernon County, Missouri, jail. I couldn't help but think back about the old Municipal Correctional Institution, commonly referred to as "The Farm," which was run by Nancy Leazer and her very compassionate and professional staff when I was a judge.
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May 27, 2024 | 
southernillinoisnow.com | MaryAlice Parks |Soo Kim |Isabella Murray |Joe LoCascio |Joe Locascio
(WASHINGTON) — Former President Donald Trump made a heavy-handed appeal to Libertarian members at their party’s frenzied nominating convention on Saturday in Washington, D.C., telling the hostile voting bloc that he would support a number of their key issues and put a Libertarian in his cabinet and more in senior posts. “I think you should nominate me or at least vote for me, and we should win together,” Trump said to the booing crowd.
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May 27, 2024 | 
willmarradio.com | MaryAlice Parks |Soo Kim |Isabella Murray |Joe LoCascio |Joe Locascio
(WASHINGTON) -- Former President Donald Trump made a heavy-handed appeal to Libertarian members at their party's frenzied nominating convention on Saturday in Washington, D.C., telling the hostile voting bloc that he would support a number of their key issues and put a Libertarian in his cabinet and more in senior posts. "I think you should nominate me or at least vote for me, and we should win together," Trump said to the booing crowd.
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May 26, 2024 | 
abcnews.go.com | MaryAlice Parks |Soo Kim |Isabella Murray |Joe LoCascio |Joe Locascio |Caleigh Bartash
"We should win together," Trump said, to the booing crowd. ByMaryAlice Parks, Soo Rin Kim, Isabella Murray, Joe LoCascio, and Caleigh Bartash Former President Donald Trump made a heavy-handed appeal to Libertarian members at their party's frenzied nominating convention on Saturday in Washington, D.C., telling the hostile voting bloc that he would support a number of their key issues and put a Libertarian in his cabinet and more in senior posts.
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Mar 12, 2024 | 
abcnews.go.com | Zach Fannin |Joe LoCascio |Joe Locascio |Mack Muldofsky |Ivan Pereira
State leaders changed the law to allow for more police authority. ByZach Fannin, Joe LoCascio, Mack Muldofsky, Aria Young, and Ivan PereiraThree years ago, Oregon decriminalized small amounts of illicit drugs, from fentanyl to methamphetamine to crack. But some state leaders, local residents and others are having second thoughts about the law, which was passed following a 2020 voter-approved ballot initiative.
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Mar 12, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Zach Fannin |Joe LoCascio |Joe Locascio |Mack Muldofsky |Ivan Pereira
Three years ago, Oregon decriminalized small amounts of illicit drugs, from fentanyl to methamphetamine to crack. But some state leaders, local residents and others are having second thoughts about the law, which was passed following a 2020 voter-approved ballot initiative. Now cities like Portland have seen a surge in homeless people encamped in the streets using drugs. "We're out here every day and we write the same ticket.
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Jan 10, 2024 | 
abcnews.go.com | Joe LoCascio |Joe Locascio |Benjamin Siegel |Ivan Pereira
Only 34 bills were passed last year, according to data. ByJoe LoCascio, Benjamin Siegel, and Ivan PereiraJanuary 10, 2024, 7:30 PMLawmakers are halfway through the congressional session, and it looks like it could be a historic one for the wrong reasons, according to congressional data.
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Sep 15, 2023 | 
abcnews.go.com | Joe LoCascio |Joe Locascio |Ivan Pereira |Anna Katharine Ping
Workers at at Lordstown, Ohio plant voted to unionize last year. ByAnna Katharine Ping, Joe LoCascio, and Ivan PereiraSeptember 15, 2023, 8:08 AMLordstown, Ohio, has been a crucial and valued site in the automotive industry, and now it is at the crossroads of what could be a major labor movement. The 25-square-mile town was formally the site of a General Motors plant that employed thousands of unionized workers.
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Sep 8, 2023 | 
today.westlaw.com | Scott Stein |Jaime Jones |Joe LoCascio |Joe Locascio
(October 12, 2023) - Sidley Austin attorneys Scott Stein, Jaime Jones and Joe LoCascio discuss an appeals panel ruling criticizing the government's "inexcusable" delay in intervening in a False Claims Act case and reaching "notable" conclusions on materiality and tolling the statute of limitations. Chastising DOJ for asking eighteen times to extend the seal period, the Fifth Circuit recently held that due to its "dilatory conduct," DOJ could not avail itself of the FCA's tolling provision.
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Aug 10, 2023 | 
abcnews.go.com | Joe LoCascio |Joe Locascio |Sarah Baniak |Allie Weintraub
In the south Bronx in the 1970s, a new kind of dance emerges. ByJoe LoCascio, Sarah Baniak, and Allie WeintraubIn the South Bronx in the 1970s, a new kind of dance began to emerge and anyone could do it. It didn’t require much, maybe a piece of cardboard. Breaking, also known as breakdancing, was named after the breakbeats in hip-hop tracks that gave dancers a chance to show up and show off.
