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The most important stories are often the ones that never trend nationally: a Mississippi town rebuilding two years after a devastating tornado, a Kansas newspaper whose offices were raided by its own police, and a Baltimore program selling vacant homes for $1. Trill News covers local news, small towns, and community stories from the places and people that mainstream media overlooks.
DETROIT — Overcast skies and a sprinkling of rain that fell over Sunset Point on Belle Isle on Thursday afternoon failed to dim the excitement from government officials as Gov. Gretchen joined the heads of the Departm...
Read article →Republican Lieutenant Gov. Stravos Anthony is looking to defend his seat against Democratic challenger Sandra Jauregui at a time when Democrats are feeling optimistic about their chances of flipping control of statewi...
Read article →Judge Jennifer Schwartz, who is wrapping up her first term on the bench, faces a reelection challenge from prosecutor Jacob Villani in Clark County District Court Department 17. Schwartz is a lifelong Las Vegan and gr...
Read article →As Missouri prepares to vote on whether to reinstate an abortion ban, a new information campaign by a local nonprofit is setting out to remind Missourians that regardless of what happens in November, some abortion opt...
Read article →Editor’s note: This story is part of Gen Z at the Ballot Box, a collaboration between States Newsroom and The 19th. Brenna Vandergeest was a teenager when her grandmother told her about Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health...
Read article →Henderson City Councilwoman Carrie Cox, who among a flurry of scandals is facing a criminal investigation, is at risk of being unseated this November by Jennifer Atlas, a nonprofit government affairs director. Cox, wh...
Read article →Election Day is not for another month, but you should get your vote in now if you can. Mail in your ballots ASAP or make a plan to vote in person starting Oct. 24.
Read article →Michigan Sen. Chedrick Greene (D-Saginaw) is no stranger to special state legislative elections — he took office in May as a result of one in the 35th Senate District. On Thursday, he presented a bill to the state Sen...
Read article →The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office has stopped classifying deputies as “undercover” to shield their body camera footage from the public, following a campaign by public defenders for more than a year and rebukes from...
Read article →Sen. Andrew Zwicker is behind a bill that would retrict when employers can use algorithms, models, computations, and other such tools.
Read article →Missouri drew its final round of marijuana microbusiness applicants on Sept. 9. The state received 888 applications and expects to issue approximately 77 licenses beginning in December. I want to write about the month...
Read article →After a month-long sprint of political campaigning across the new Centennial State, Coloradans went to the polls to vote in the first state elections on Oct. 3, 1876 — and telegrams arriving in Denver throughout the d...
Read article →Every morning in the Ohio Capital Journal’s free newsletter, The Eye-Opener, we round up the news and commentary from across Ohio and around the country and world that is catching our attention. We call this feature C...
Read article →Voters beware! At the end of your ballot, you’re asked to approve permanent changes to the North Carolina constitution that will harm families for generations. In particular, a proposed amendment to cap local property...
Read article →Is there a way for Cameron Parish to maintain control of industrial development within its own borders?That seemed to be the central question in front of the Cameron Parish Police Jury last week.
Read article →One of the less noticed features of the Virginia Way is the long-running tendency of the commonwealth’s leaders to conduct their decision-making behind closed doors. While the Virginia Freedom of Information Act presu...
Read article →Across the political spectrum, people who do the math come up with the same answer: the cheapest kilowatt-hour is the one you don’t need to use. A well-insulated building outfitted with LED lighting and energy-efficie...
Read article →The U.S. Department of the Treasury released new guidance Thursday for participating states, scholarship-granting organizations and taxpayers as the federal scholarship tax credit program prepares to take effect in Ja...
Read article →Kalshi, Polymarket and the Coalition for Prediction Markets have spent at least $3 million this year on lobbying and campaign contributions across the federal and state levels, according to a new report from the gover...
Read article →Nearly 100 community-based organizations have lost their federal HIV-prevention grants this week as the Trump administration redirects dollars to state and local health departments.
Read article →This article was originally published by Votebeat, a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. Sign up for Votebeat Michigan’s free newsletter here. LANSING, Mi...
Read article →Questions about labor protections, traffic and taxpayer costs filled a packed hearing Tuesday night in Largo, as the Prince George’s County Council heard from the public about the proposed Sphere at National Harbor.
Read article →The Office of Inspector General for Health did almost 1,400 audits and investigations over the last four years and found more than $42 million in improper or unrecovered payments -- but those reports have only recentl...
Read article →The town of Hudson has refused for months to take any steps to review and enforce its zoning code as it applies to a planned immigration detention center there, say the plaintiffs in a lawsuit seeking to block the fac...
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