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The Wisconsin State Capitol building in Madison. (Photo via Vijay Kumar Koulampet/Wikipedia Commons) MADISON, Wis. (CN) — Republicans in the Wisconsin Legislature passed multiple new election laws Tuesday that place more limits on absentee voting and bar private funding for local officials to facilitate their elections. The push in the Badger State to toughen voting statutes comes as Republicans nationwide — including in statehouses in Florida and Georgia — are working to correct what they say are unlawful or unfair election laws and procedures after a chaotic 2020 general election that...

The Ketchikan Gateway Borough Assembly is set for a budget-centric meeting on Monday. Its only non-routine items are two motions to introduce for a future meeting the borough's budget and the Ketchikan School District's spending authority for the upcoming fiscal year. Borough budget The Assembly will get its first chance on Monday to discuss the proposed $55.8 million borough budget for the 2022 fiscal year, which begins on July 1. The budget, which includes appropriations from all borough funds except for the Local Education Fund, rests on several assumptions about how the next fiscal year w...

Impeachment probe of Cuomo moving swiftly with 70 witnesses contacted FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3 New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks during a news conference about the state budget on Wednesday.APShow MoreShow Less 2of3 Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks during a news conference in New York on Monday, April 19, 2021.Shannon Stapleton/APShow MoreShow Less 3of3 ALBANY — The Assembly's impeachment probe against Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has moved swiftly as the law firm conducting the investigation has contacted attorneys for 70 witnesses and requested records from four government agencies. The investigation, ...

Editorial: More secrecy, governor? FacebookTwitterEmail THE ISSUE: Gov. Andrew Cuomo has at least four law firms working on his behalf but won’t reveal how they’re being paid. THE STAKES: ---- Gov. Andrew Cuomo has an ever-growing need for lawyers. New evidence of that arrived Monday, when we learned state Attorney General Letitia James, acting on a referral from Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, will be investigating the governor’s possibly criminal use of state employees for his coronavirus book — the one he got a huge but still secret advance for. In turn, Richard Azzopardi, a spokesman...

Anchorage Assembly extends COVID-19 emergency declaration April 14, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Anchorage Assembly has extended into June a local COVID-19 emergency declaration, approving a shorter extension than Acting Mayor Austin Quinn-Davidson requested, with some Assembly members indicating this latest extension, the city's eighth, could be the last. The Assembly voted 6-4 Tuesday to extend the declaration, first enacted in March 2020, to June 11. Without the extension, emergency orders — including a mask mandate — would have expired, the Anchorage Daily ...