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House Resolution 1, a 791-page bill titled “For the People Act," would erode voter rights and eliminate Constitutional protections, critics argue.

A legislative committee voted 5-0 to advance a bill that could limit Wyoming municipalities’ authority over municipal utilities after hearing testimony from Jackson landowner Nikki Gill. Gill’s plea came during a Senate Agriculture, State and Public Lands and Water Resources Committee hearing Thursday, which pit property rights and local control advocates against one another. It was also the first time the debate over the Gill family’s push to develop its Teton County property ha...

We are here today to point out what they’re not saying. This week, two of the five Democratic candidates announced their plans on two subjects near and dear to our hearts: Jennifer Carroll Foy announced her broadband plan and Jennifer McClellan announced her school plan — which also included some portions on broadband because many of these issues are interconnected. Earlier, former Gov. Terry McAuliffe, who is attempting a comeback, laid out his own schools plan. Now, as Paul Harvey l...

David Reid Without fail, like snow coming to the Blue Ridge Mountains in January, when the General Assembly convenes every year some Republican delegate or senator introduces a bill to pretend they care about school funding. For more than 20 years the Republicans were in the majority in the General Assembly and did nothing to address school funding. During most of those years, it wasn’t a slim 51-49 majority, when they might have had to make compromises. No. For much of that ti...

The Senate worked through the night and into midday Saturday to pass Democrats $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill, which will now go back to the House to approve the Senates

Every sport has its boundaries. Rules for playing the game may occasionally change, but the boundaries remain.

The March 8 consultation seeks to strengthen the United States-tribal nation-to-nation relationship in accordance with a Jan. 26 presidential memorandum.

Is Trump the solution going forward or not? Should he run in 2024 or not? This is the central, vital question of a Republicanism and conservatism that are in crisis

The University of Georgia’s Multicultural Greek Council and National Pan-Hellenic Council met in a virtual panel on March 5 to answer the question: “Do Greeks of color think the same?” The MGC is an umbrella organization for multicultural fraternities and sororities nationally and at UGA. The NPHC is another umbrella council made up of several historically African American Greek life organizations, seven of which have chapters at UGA. Representatives from the two councils came to...

LRC Public Information breaking featured Stivers passes over annexation bill to give London, Laurel chance to actually listen to what this does By Jarrod Mills Staff Writer Mar 4, 2021 Mar 4, 2021 Senate President Robert Stivers II, R-Manchester, presents a bill on Thursday. | Photo courtesy of LRC LRC Public Information FRANKFORT, KY - The third time still wasn’t the charm for a state senate bill that would allow the ...