Legislature
OAKLAND, California — Multiple efforts are underway on both sides of California’s political divide to short-circuit a 2022 law that would impose new income-based fixed fees on customers of PG&E and other utility leviathans. Democrats and Republicans in the state legislature have crafted separate measures designed to quash a plan to implement the fee that lawmakers hastily approved in an 11-hour proceeding. PG&E, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric would be able to impose the new charge on their customers if the state Public Utilities Commission gives the plan a final OK — p...
The Mercury News
PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court voted 4-3 last week to uphold Philadelphia’s ordinance prohibiting the manufacturing and assembling of 3D-printed gun parts used to create “ghost guns.” The majority decision of the appellate court filed Friday said that Philadelphia’s ordinance, as amended in January 2021, did not violate the state constitution’s gun-ownership protections and a 1996 Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling that state lawmakers have sole authority over firearm laws, meaning that local jurisdictions, such as Philadelphia, cannot pass their own contradicting laws. The chal...
The Philadelphia Inquirer
The Republican-controlled Florida Legislature has unveiled another election bill that would further restrict where voters can drop off mail-in ballots and also force party primary candidates into runoffs if they don’t get more than 50% of the vote. The bill is just the latest in a series of controversial bills since the 2020 election aimed at mail-in voting, all of which have come under fire from Democrats who say they are designed to suppress turnout. But this proposal also brought immediate pushback from some members of the GOP for what they claimed was an attempt to prevent them from winnin...
Orlando Sentinel
Former President Donald Trump endorsed downstate U.S. Rep. Mike Bost for reelection Tuesday, dealing a major blow to Darren Bailey’s insurgent challenge in one of the nation’s most closely watched Republican primary races. Bost, a five-term congressman from Murphysboro, and Bailey, a former state legislator from Xenia who was the losing Republican candidate for governor in 2022, each had sought the backing of the former president for the March 19 GOP primary in the state’s 12th Congressional District, an overwhelmingly Republican rural district that makes up roughly the bottom third of the sta...
Chicago Tribune
Nearly four years ago, Wichita, Kansas, resident Jeff Terhune sought approval from his local homeowner’s association to install solar panels on his home. He hoped to save money on his utility bills, take advantage of federal tax credits and reduce his carbon footprint. He was told the solar panels could not be installed on the front of the house, so he opted to install them on the side of his garage and on the back of the house. Installation cost around $19,000, a relatively cheap price compared to other estimates. But over a year later, Terhune’s HOA told him he must reinstall the panels in t...
The Kansas City Star
The leader of a church-run school in Orlando was called into a fourth-grade classroom where more than a dozen children were allegedly acting out, and spanked them. Orange-Osceola State Attorney Andrew Bain investigated his actions as possible child abuse but did not file charges. When the decision was announced last month, it begged a question: Florida still allows corporal punishment in its schools? In fact, the state is one of 18 that continue to permit the practice, although data show the number of incidents has declined each year over the last decade. Still, legislation to limit corporal p...
Orlando Sentinel
OLYMPIA — Washington lawmakers last year passed a sweeping package of gun laws, including a 10-day waiting period for firearm purchases and a ban on the sale of AR-15s and similar semi-automatic rifles often used in the nation’s worst mass shootings. This session, by comparison, the Legislature is taking a small-ball approach. While lawmakers are considering a few additional restrictions on gun owners and dealers, some more ambitious laws, such as a permit requirement, had apparently stalled as a key legislative deadline ticked by this week. More than 100 supporters of additional gun measures ...
The Seattle Times
LANSING, Mich. — Dozens of Michigan State University students gathered on the steps of the State Capitol Thursday afternoon, ignoring the day's heavy snow to call for more gun laws just over one year after a shooter took the lives of three classmates and injured five more on campus. Organizers said they appreciate the Democratic majority legislature's swift action with some gun control measures, but there is still work to be done. Several called on Michigan lawmakers to take action. "Don't wait for another tragedy to make change. Growing up in the lockdown generation — it has taught me that th...
The Detroit News
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A group of Missouri Republican lawmakers are pushing now-debunked social media posts purporting to identify one of the gunmen in the Kansas City Chiefs rally shooting and unsubstantiated assertions that one or more of the shooters were migrants in the country illegally. The hard-right Missouri Freedom Caucus’ social media page, as well as at least two of the group’s members, Republican Sens. Rick Brattin and Denny Hoskins, have shared a series of posts that claim to identify a 44-year-old man as a shooter. The Associated Press on Thursday debunked the claim as false. The ...
The Kansas City Star
Missouri lawmakers this week weighed several Republican-led bills that would allow prosecutors to criminally prosecute individuals in the United States illegally. The three bills would create new criminal offenses, such as trespass by an “illegal alien.” In some instances, prosecutors could only charge individuals if they have already been accused of another crime. The bills vary in how they define who is in the United States illegally. The legislation comes amid a nationwide debate over historic numbers of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border. Republicans across the country, including Missouri ...
The Kansas City Star
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