KINGSTON, N.Y. — Lawmakers in two legislative committees on Thursday approved a resolution to set aside funds to hire outside counsel to defend Ulster County Clerk Taylor Bruck against a lawsuit brought against him by the state of Texas. But the approval did not come easily, as Republicans on both the Legislature’s Laws, Rules and
The Gardner Fire Department has received all three apparatuses purchased three years ago, totaling $1,800,410, which were funded by grants from the American Rescue Plan Act. The vehicles were ordered in March 2022. Gardner Fire Chief Gregory Lagoy said the city previously had only one heavy rescue truck that is almost 30 years old. He
ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) – DFL U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith announced the U.S. Department of Education has unfrozen funding for Rochester Public Schools (RPS). This comes after the department froze the federal dollars at the end of June. Prior to the Jul. 1 deadline, which is when the funds are typically disbursed, the
Hawaiʻi is expecting to collect $100 million a year from the new “Green Fee” tax on hotels and cruise ships that starts next year. The 0.75 percentage point increase to the state’s visitor tax — bringing it to 11% — will be spent on climate resilience. But what types of projects need the funding most?
Sign up for TPR Today, Texas Public Radio’s newsletter that brings our top stories to your inbox each morning. San Antonio City Manager Erik Walsh presented a $4.04 billion proposed city budget to the San Antonio City Council on Thursday. The operating budget, which is how the city pays for most resident services and departments like
On the anniversary of the August 15, 2021, Taliban recapture of Afghanistan, a new Washington audit is alleging American aid funds in the country were widely misused, with goods being diverted to the terrorist group and its favored allies, and claiming a pattern of bribery of United Nations officials. The report of the Special Inspector
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A network of clinics that provides health care in Maine asked a judge Thursday to restore its Medicaid funding while it fights a Trump administration effort to keep federal money from going to abortion providers. President Donald Trump’s policy and tax bill, known as the “ big beautiful bill,” blocked Medicaid
The Trump administration illegally withheld more than $9 million for climate resilience projects in Washington state, violating the Administrative Procedure Act and the U.S. Constitution, the state’s attorney general alleges in a new lawsuit against the Trump administration. In a complaint filed last week in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, Attorney
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A bill in New York would counteract the federal government’s withholding of state funds. The RECOURSE Act would let the state withhold payments to the federal government only after it withholds funding for New York programs. The bill comes after the Trump administration withheld $464 million for education funding. Assemblymember Micah Lasher, D-Upper West Side, the bill’s co-sponsor, said