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State senators Friday voted 24-19 to end debate on Legislative Bill 31, far short of the 33 needed to force a first-round vote on Sen. Mike Jacobson’s 2024 priority bill.
North Platte state Sen. Mike Jacobson said Legislative Bill 31 will be back on the agenda Thursday. He can't move to break a filibuster by opponents until about noon Friday.
An ethics complaint filed by a former Gilbert Town Council member against the council but mainly targeting Councilman Jim Torgeson lacked merit and should be dismissed, an independent investigator said.
The major parties on Capitol Hill like to boast about how much more “representative” their Congressional delegations have become in recent years. But that’s only in the most-discussed categories of diversity—race, age, gender, ethnicity, and sexual orientation. Working-class Americans rarely end up in the halls of Congress. Fewer than 2 percent of Congress members had
Leaders of Bailey Yard's local unions warned that Union Pacific Railroad was taking safety shortcuts at Bailey and the ongoing safety impact of shrunken workforces under “precision scheduled railroading."