House Bill 3872 would make in-person voting on Election Day the standard in Oregon, require photo ID, kill the seven-day postmark grace period, and end state-paid ballot postage. Drazan is its lead sponsor. She calls it 'an opportunity for in-person voting.'
Sixteen of the Pillen family's monitored hog operations recorded nitrate above 50 parts per million. The federal drinking-water limit is 10. Nebraska's governor said he hadn't read the story and wouldn't — then attacked the reporter's nationality.
The Speaker of the House headlined a Harding campaign breakfast built around one small, temporary tax break from Trump's budget bill. The same bill is costing Nebraska up to $4 billion in Medicaid and has already taken food assistance from 18,000 Nebraskans.
Harding's pitch is that Congress has 'turned the public's trust into personal benefit' by trading stocks. For ten months he ignored the federal law requiring him to tell Nebraska voters what he owns — until Democrats referred him to the Justice Department.
Gallagher's amendment to the defense bill would have opened a study into how federal authority can 'preempt or otherwise mitigate' state fuel policies. Seven Republicans joined every Democrat but four to kill it, 212-216.
The New York Times found photos of a 20-year-old Mike Lawler with his face darkened at a college Halloween party. He said sorry, then spent the same night arguing it didn't count. Three NAACP branches told him it did.
Idaho cut most state agencies 4% this year and 5% next year to absorb a $155 million hole created by matching Trump's federal tax cuts. In July, Brad Little pointed at the $250 million left over and said he won't be putting any of it back.
House Bill 752 took effect in Idaho on July 1. A first offense is a misdemeanor. A second one within five years is a felony. Gov. Brad Little signed it, along with a second law fining schools $100,000 for not reporting kids to their parents.
In July, Bailey's running mate told WBEZ that claims they'd restrict abortion access were 'a flat-out lie.' This week, at a rally hosted by an anti-abortion lobbying group, he said Pritzker is 'willing to murder millions of babies.'