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Old timers who manage ditches, head gates and canals often mention the “head of water.” It refers, somewhat imprecisely, to an amount of water needed to force its movement over

  The Department of Defense announced Friday the approval of a series of grants that will help military spouses with the issue of professional license portability. Through a cooperative agreement with the Council of State Governments, grants will allow selected professions to work with CSG’s National Center for Interstate Compacts to develop model interstate occupational licensure compact legislation, addressing license portability affecting transitioning military spouses, along with other p...

More than a third of military spouses in the labor force have jobs that require state licenses. But frequent moves bring challenges in the job market that their civilian counterparts often don't have to deal with.

Heres why some state laws may prevent you from finding mental health counseling online Certain laws nationwide prevent therapists from helping new patients across state lines. Efforts to change that may take years, officials say. Author: Nathan Baca (WUSA9) Updated: 1:28 PM EST March 9, 2021 BURKE, Va. — Licensed therapist Elizabeth Brokamp settles in for a counseling session. Instead of the face-to-face meetings she’s done for 25 years, the pandemic forced h...

Tk-12 education. we have crumbling roads. the people of california believe we deserve better. this is an initiative by people who love california and want to stay there and raise their families there. and have business economic opportunity the, and thats not happening right now. >> some of the critics say youre ignoring the problems this would create. i want to read from an article today, quote. critics have long wonders how citizens of a state where the majority of water supplies exist in one r...

But they would still have to meet minimum coverage requirements. it would also allow for people over 30 to buy catastrophic so-called copper plans. these are the skimpiest allowed by law and it would encourage interstate compacts making it easier to buy and sell insurance across state lines which so many people are looking for. as senators look over the plan, mitch mcconnell is giving no indication as to whether this bill would get a vote. but resistance, it is building in congress. house speake...

Republican lamar alexander and democrat patti murry nearing an agreement on the compromise. under the framework the deal likely will fund affordable care act subsidies through 2019, let ages 30 and over buy catastrophic plans, put $106 million back into promoting obamacare enrollment and make it easier for states to get aca waivers while allowing interstate compacts for purchases, getting rid of the so-called lines. president trump yesterday seemed to welcome the bipartisanship but a spokesman s...

All the constitution says about electing a president is that the states will appoint electorates in such manner as the legislature of those states determine. so the states are free, essentially, to govern with any method. it took a long time to come up with the winner-take-all method per state, and that -- what this does is it doesnt run an end run around the constitution. it honors the constitution by using that provision of the constitution, that the state legislatures have this power and then...

Legislation. for example, theyve said that they want tort reform to be part of health reform. as you know, tort reform efforts were incorporated into the senate bill. theyre still complaining about tort reform, still complaining that theyre going to vote against it. is -- are you feeling like there is anything constructive coming from republicans on this, or are you just asking for that? >> i have been talking to republicans. ive been talking to democrats. and i think if both sides get together,...

Efforts were incorporated into the senate bill. theyre still complaining about tort reform, still complaining theyre going to vote against it. are you feeling like theres anything constructive coming from republicans on this? or are you just asking for that? >> i have been talking to republicans, ive been talking to democrats, and i think if both sides get together. we can say lets go after the special interests rather than each other, lets try to score policy points rather than political points...