Gov. Ron DeSantis celebrated a string of victories Friday as his fellow Republican lawmakers delivered on nearly all of his agenda. Now, he could be required to rack up some wins in court to keep them.
Published April 27, 2021 at 6:36 PM MDT Listen • 5:20 Wikimedia Commons Starting in June, Utah’s Division of Wildlife Resources will begin research on trout in Bear Lake. This story and more in Tuesday evening s news brief.
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Utah Being Fastest Growing State Doesn’t Come With Extra Congressional Seat
Utah’s population grew by about 18% over the past decade. That makes it the fastest growing state in the country. But it isn’t getting an extra Congressional seat. Utah only added about 508,000 people. Meanwhile Texas, which gained two seats, added about 4 million. Since Congressional representation is based on population, Utah didn’t gain enough people to require a fifth seat. Michael Barber is a political science professor at Brigham Young University. He said this just means there will be more work for the state’s elected officials. But Barber said if Utah keeps growing at this pace, it could very
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One unfortunate consequence of the conservative movement s descent into nihilism and madness is that it has produced increasingly mediocre stars who distinguish themselves only by their willingness to behave more shamelessly than everyone else. It s enough to make you yearn for the days of Paul Ryan, who at least rose to prominence by tricking Beltway types into thinking his customer service for plutocrats, chock full of discredited economics and bad math, was actually a wonky platform rooted in a coherent philosophy of government. Now we re subjected to the grotesque stylings of Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene, who don t seem to have any policy proposals at all, at least as far as they relate to actual problems this country faces.
School Superintendent During Parkland Shooting Indicted for Perjury
21 Apr 2021
Broward County Schools Superintendent Robert Runcie, who led the district at the time of the mass shooting at the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in 2018, was indicted for perjury and arrested on Wednesday.
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Sun Sentinelreported:
Broward County Schools Superintendent Robert Runcie and General Counsel Barbara Myrick were arrested Wednesday as part of a statewide grand jury probe into the district.
Runcie was arrested on a charge of perjury in an official proceeding, a third-degree felony. Myrick was arrested on a charge of unlawful disclosure of statewide grand jury proceedings, also a third-degree felony.