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Mar 14, 2021 Mar 14, 2021 FRANKFORT — Grade school students in Kentucky may soon have access to funds to allow them more choices in where they go to school. The Kentucky House of Representatives approved House Bill 563 by a 51-45 vote tonight following a three-hour debate on the House floor. The bill’s sponsor, House Majority Whip Rep. Chad McCoy, R-Bardstown, said HB 563 would allow students to use education opportunity accounts (EOAs) to attend a public school outside of...

DENVER — This week, the Colorado House could approve a bill establishing how counties are to redraw their county commission district lines. The measure, HB1047, only outlines the process counties

Staff Reports Mar 15, 2021 TIFTON, Ga. — Despite not having an in-person gala because of the pandemic, the ABAC Foundation set a record in February by raising funds for student scholarships at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College through A Week for ABAC. ABAC Arts Connection Director Wayne Jones, who coordinated the event, said the Foundation set a record by raising nearly $130,000 for more than 50 student scholarships. “When we first realized we would not be able to host an in-person...

KINGSTON — The University of Rhode Island continued its Suffrage Centennial Lecture Series last week with the importance of getting out the vote — especially among young people.

A snow-sledding accident left James A. “Jim” Rothrock paralyzed when he was still a teen in Martinsville, but he went on to a long career in state government helping others with disabilities, not just through policy but with his relentless good cheer. His work, though, was merely an extension of his life. “Jim was a constant fount of unrestrained enthusiasm and boundless optimism,” said his longtime friend Bernie Henderson. “Either he never realized he had some physical...

Community newspapers across the nation this week are celebrating Sunshine Week, a call to emphasize open government and the public’s right to know. It’s an excellent reminder to the public, journalists and those in government of the importance of open, transparent government. As Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton wrote in the “Public Information Act Handbook 2020,” Texans have the right to see how their government is spending their tax dollars and exercising the powers they h...

Today’s Highlight in History: On March 14, 1964, a jury in Dallas found Jack Ruby guilty of murdering Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, and sentenced him to death. (Both the conviction and death sentence were overturned, but Ruby died before he could be retried.) On March 14: In 1794, Eli Whitney received a patent for his cotton gin, an invention that revolutionized America’s cotton industry. In 1883, German political philosopher Karl Marx died in L...

WASHINGTON — Heres a look at how area members of Congress voted over the previous week. House vote UNIONIZATION: The House has passed the Protecting the Right to Organize Act (H.R. 842), sponsored by Rep. Bobby Scott, D-Va. The bill would change laws governing labor practices and unions, with the general goal of making it easier for workers to form unions. Scott said the changes were needed because existing labor law "lacks the teeth to enforce workers rights when employers unlawfully r...

Automobile museum receives major grant

Open government is good government or, at the very least, it is better government. In order for government to be of, by and for the people, it must always be out in front of the people. Government at all levels — local, state and federal — belongs to the governed not to the governing. As has often been said, we are the government and the government is us. All the business transacted by government and all the money collected and spent by government belongs to the public. However, publi...