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Pete Sepp joins Jim Blasingame to report on the current tax proposals by the Harris/Biden administration and why these changes will significantly hurt small businesses.

Ohio keeping sex education in check Thursday, May 13, 2021  |  Bob Kellogg (OneNewsNow.com) Spanish A conservative activist thinks parents will be thrilled to know that the Ohio Legislature has introduced a measure to ensure that parents can know what their children are being taught in public school sex education classes. The Parents Right to Know Act (House Bill 240) would, for one thing, prohibit schools from teaching additional information about venereal disease or teen pregnancy th...

CARBONDALE, Illinois (AP) — Below is an analysis of public record laws in all 50...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Keypoint: This week an amended version of the Colorado Privacy Act unanimously passed out of committee, Alaska’s House held another hearing on its bill (and scheduled another hearing for May 12), Connecticut’s bill was tabled for the Senate calendar, and Nevada’s Assembly Committee on Commerce and Labor scheduled a May 10 hearing on its bill. Below is our eleventh weekly update on the status of proposed CCPA-like privacy legisla...

By Sasha Margulies, iHeart Media May 6, 2021 The Sacramento Bee is suing the city of Sacramento. The Sacramento Bee is demanding the City release information from a 2018 police-involved fatal shooting of a Black man. Nineteen-year-old Darell Richards was shot-and-killed by Sacramento police officers after finding him hiding under a stairwell holding a knife and pellet gun. Controversy sparked when released body-cam footage didnt back up an officers claim that Richards pointed the gun at them, ...

Campaign to end dark money is back. And this time (maybe), theres no virus to derail it Laurie Roberts, Arizona Republic © Sergey Nivens, Getty Images/iStockphoto Coming soon: Outlaw Dirty Money 2020 Great news, Arizona. The drive to lift the shroud on “dark money” campaigns – the people and groups that secretly spend big bucks to buy our elections – is back.   A new and improved citizen initiative that would require disclosure of major contributors to independent ...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Over the past number of weeks, a variety of legislative proposals, from both sides of the aisle, have been released that, if enacted, could drastically impact the US energy industry and, in many cases, the taxation of energy in the United States. These proposals come on the heels of the Biden administrations American Jobs Plan and Made in America Tax Plan. Legislative proposals related to ene...

Print this article Sen. Marsha Blackburn is introducing a bill on Thursday that aims to ensure "informed consent" for women seeking an abortion procedure. The legislation, titled the "Womens Right to Know Act," was introduced in 2020 by Sens. Kelly Loeffler and Blackburn but failed to pass committee. Blackburn is reintroducing the bill, which, if approved, would require providers to explain "all medical risks" associated with an abortion procedure being requested, to explain the gestational a...

My Testimony on the CLEAN Future Act and Environmental Justice: Protecting Frontline Communities My Testimony on the CLEAN Future Act and Environmental Justice: Protecting Frontline Communities Adrienne Hollis, Senior Climate Justice and Health Scientist | April 21, 2021, 10:40 am EDT On Thursday, I testified before the Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. I am sharing a sig...

Governor Laura Kelly Signs Several Pieces of Bipartisan Legislation TOPEKA – Governor Laura Kelly today signed several bipartisan bills that will implement meaningful changes for Kansans, communities, and businesses. HB 2071, as amended, would amend the definition of the crime of stalking to include intentionally engaging in a course of conduct targeted at a specific child under the age of 14 that would cause a reasonable person in the circumstances of the targeted child, or a reasonable pers...