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Boston.com surveyed David Halbert again on some of the election's most pressing issues before the final city councilor at-large election.

Legislative audit shows substantial increase in statewide deaths to COVID Joseph Hennessy © Provided by Topeka WIBW-TV Kansas Legislative Division of Post Audit meeting. (June 29, 2021) TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - COVID-19 accounted for more than 35% of all deaths in the state from September 1, 2020 to the end of the year. The numbers are in a Kansas Legislative Division of Post Audit revealed Tuesday morning. “From even 2019 to 2020, those causes of death numbers were very similar and then COVID-19 was additional deaths, so there was this addition of just under 3,000 deaths,�...

/ Smaller and regional colleges and universities made $132,000 in illegal payments to an association that was created to lobby on their behalf, according to a legislative audit released Monday. In 2013, the West Virginia Association of Regional Colleges and Universities was created as a 501(c)6 organization through the IRS and was registered with the West Virginia Secretary of State’s office in May 2014. The organization was exclusively comprised of college and university presidents, who are state employees. The group — which included presidents of Bluefield State College, Concord Univers...

Getty Images Even as the pandemic forced states to shift their policy priorities and grapple with the economic downturn during the 2020 legislative session, governments continued to enact major reforms to economic development tax incentives. And as more states across the country implement processes to regularly produce high-quality, rigorous evaluations of such programs, lawmakers increasingly use findings from these reports to inform policies that ensure that incentives are effective, accountable, and fiscally sound. For example, New Jersey previously lacked a process to regularly evaluate ...

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 person in the circumstances of an immediate family member of such child, to fear for such child’s safe...