WASHINGTON INFORMER — A funding-formula work group on Tuesday recommended spending about $4 billion to improve Maryland’s public education, but a few jurisdictions would be asked...
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — U.S. Senators Kamala D. Harris (D-CA) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) on Thursday joined Senator Mark R. Warner (D-VA) and 37 of their Senate...
CHICAGO DEFENDER — Governor Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) announced expanded eligibility and affordability for the Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP), taking...
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — State Controller Betty T. Yee, chair of California’s Franchise Tax Board (FTB) and the only statewide elected official serving on the Governor’s new...
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — Congresswoman Maxine Waters (CA-43), Chair of the House Financial Services Committee, announced that the United States Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)...
WASHINGTON INFORMER — The chair of a group commissioned to provide policy and funding recommendations for Maryland’s public education system announced Thursday that a final decision on...
BIRMINGHAM TIMES — Census information determines the amount of money the state receives from the federal government to pave interstates, support Medicare and fund other programs in...
CHICAGO DEFENDER — About 60,000 property owners in Cook County should use cookcountytreasurer.com to update the name or mailing address on their tax bills, another example of...
THE WESTSIDE GAZETTE — The City of Miramar’s Vice Mayor, Alexandra P. Davis, working with the City of Miramar’s Economic & Business Development team, Business Inclusion &...
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — Wednesday, September 18, South Central opened its’ arms to The Beehive, the nation’s first-ever business campus for opportunity-zone (OZ) operated businesses. Here, some...
CHICAGO DEFENDER — The State of Illinois is seeking support for recovery efforts in northern Illinois following flash flooding in Cook and Will counties. On June 26,...
OAKLAND POST — Oakland’s Department of Public Works (DPW) and Police Department followed Mayor Libby Schaaf’s city administration’s orders on Tuesday to evict about two dozen homeless...
OAKLAND POST — Presidential candidate Julian Castro visited Oakland on Wednesday Sept. 25. Hosted by Councilman Noel Gallo, Castro was provided a tour of the Fruitvale...
CHICAGO DEFENDER — Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) Chairman Carrie Zalewski today announced the release of a Citizen’s Guide on the ICC website to help the public...
NEW TRI-STATE DEFENDER — With the Frayser Exchange Club meeting as the setting, Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris on Thursday pitched his plan to fight poverty...
WASHINGTON INFORMER — For more than a decade, economists, lawmakers and others have heralded the nation’s economy. Often citing how unemployment has declined as new jobs have...
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — The Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA) has been awarded a $3.7 million grant aimed at giving job training and...
WASHINGTON INFORMER — The Obama administration has become a part of history but its signature social initiative, “My Brother’s Keeper,” has continued in the District and Mayor...
NEW ORLEANS DATA NEWS WEEKLY — The Executive Director of the Sewerage & Water Board (S&WB), Ghassan Korban believes it’s time for the citizens of New...
OAKLAND POST — After years of escalating and brutal displacement driving millions of Californians into poverty or homelessness, today, the California legislature this week passed Assembly...
CHICAGO DEFENDER — According to a 2018 study by the Illinois State Board of Education, in over 500 of Illinois’ 898 school districts, new teachers with a...
LOUISIANA WEEKLY — A gathering of anti-death penalty activists this month in New Orleans was to kick-start a movement to abolish the death penalty at the...
LOUISIANA WEEKLY — Since the Democrats took control of the U.S. House last November, their efforts to restore the Voting Rights Act (VRA) — gutted by...
NEW TRI-STATE DEFENDER — Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland is optimistic. With the October 3 election less than a month away, the incumbent, who is completing his first...
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — The Los Angeles Board of Public Works today approved changes to a policy that would require people to obtain permits for planters, railings,...