UBER REACHES DATA BREACH SETTLEMENT Ride-hailing company Uber agreed to pay $148 million to settle a dispute with all 50 states and the District of Columbia over its delay in disclosing a breach impacting 57 million of its drivers and riders worldwide...
The tiny Kentucky town of Rabbit Hash (population 315) is mostly known for two things: the bunny-based meal that gave the burg its name and for having the best known country store in the Bluegrass State. That’s worthwhile enough, but there’s...
GAS TAX REPEAL INITIATIVE ON CA BALLOT An initiative to repeal the gas tax hike and new vehicle registration fees approved by CALIFORNIA’s Democrat-controlled Legislature and Gov. Jerry Brown (D) last year to pay for road and highway repairs...
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) signed a trio of bills last week aimed at helping the Centennial State fight wildfires, including a measure that allows the state to spend $20 million to purchase or contract aircraft to comprise an aerial firefighting...
National Effort to Lower Voting Age A national campaign to lower the voting age from 18 to 16 to spur civic engagement by younger Americans kicked off last week. Vote16USA is backed by a nonpartisan group based in NEW YORK called Generation Citizen...
Saying he was “satisfied with the laws that we have,” Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad (R) said last week he does not support calls from some gun advocates to allow Hawkeye State teachers to be armed. “People have strong views on both...
The KANSAS Court of Appeals upholds a lower court’s decision that blocks a state law banning a common abortion procedure known as dilation and evacuation. The vote was 7-7, but ties result in a validation of the lower court’s ruling. Attorney...
Quick question: when is a sex party not a sex party? Answer: when it’s the Australian Sex Party, a legitimate Aussie political party kinda sorta like when we used to call libertarians in America pre-Tea Party. As the Sacramento Bee reports , Party...
For a guy who was never in the military, Kansas Secretary of State and current gubernatorial candidate Kris Kobach sure likes to act like a human GI Joe. Although the tough-talking Kobach usually saves his most vitriolic nonsense for making never-proven...
REDISTRICTING REFORM BOUND FOR OH BALLOT OHIO voters will consider a single statewide question on their May 8 ballots, asking their approval to establish rules for congressional redistricting. No such rules exist currently, making the process inherently...
LA House Signs HB 391 The LOUISIANA House rejects HB 391 , which would have opened up closed waters for public access and navigation (ADVOCATE [BATON ROUGE]).
Tim Draper, a billionaire venture capitalist based in California’s San Francisco Bay Area, is backing an effort to get a measure on the state’s Nov. 6 ballot that would divide the state into three parts: “Northern California,”...
TN HOUSE PUNISHES MEMPHIS FOR REMOVING CONFEDERATE STATUES: The TENNESSEE House voted last week to strip $250,000 earmarked for the planning of bicentennial celebrations in Memphis next year from the state’s fiscal 2018-19 budget. That action...
So far this year, about 450,000 people have registered to vote in Florida. Thanks to the youth movement spurred by the high school shooting in Parkland, Florida in February and big spending by various groups on get-out-the-youth-vote drives, about a quarter...
CA Governor Signs AB 2055 CALIFORNIA Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signs AB 2055 , which mandates that all ethics courses for lobbyists include information on State Assembly and Senate policies against harassment, including sexual harassment, in connection...
New Jersey Signs AB 3682 NEW JERSEY Gov. Chris Christie (R) signs AB 3682 , which allows animal facilities to use artificial turf in outdoor enclosures (NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR’S OFFICE). -- Compiled by RICH EHISEN
Most of us are used to polling stations being located in schools, firehouses and the like. But what about a Vietnamese restaurant? Or a laundromat? If that isn’t high end enough, would the Beverly Hills Hotel do? Too hoity-toity, you say? Perhaps...
Politics is not a sport for the weak of constitution. Proof came again recently when, as reported by The New York Times , a political ally turned frenemy put out a book accusing British Prime Minister David Cameron of having quite the wild youth. Included...
CALIFORNIA Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signs AB 902, which allows a person of any age who commits a traffic infraction not involving a motor vehicle to participate in a diversion program that is sanctioned by local law enforcement and eliminates the requirement...
CALIFORNIA Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signs SB 407, which authorizes a health care provider to employ or contract licensed midwives for the purpose of providing comprehensive perinatal services (LEXISNEXIS STATE NET). Also in CALIFORNIA, Gov. Brown (D) signs...
Devout Nebraska Cornhuskers football fans can relax – the balloons will continue to fly. As the Lincoln Journal Star reports , a federal judge recently rejected the plea of an Omaha man who wanted to bar fans from releasing balloons when Big Red...
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) has proposed a consolidation of executive branch agencies that if implemented would shrink the number of those agencies from 42 to 15. Hutchinson said the plan would improve “the delivery of services to Arkansas...
NV GOV WILL SIGN WAGE, PAID LEAVE BILLS In a statement issued last week, NEVADA Gov. Steve Sisolak (D) said he would sign legislation ( AB 456 ) on his desk that will incrementally raise the Silver State minimum wage to $12 per hour by July, 2024....
At least two cities, Philadelphia and San Francisco, and one state, New Jersey ( AB 591 ), have passed legislation requiring businesses to accept cash, according to the online and print business magazine Fast Company and LexisNexis State Net’s local...
Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner’s (R) veto of the state’s school funding package has some districts worried about having enough cash to open classroom doors in the fall, and a major ratings agency warning about some school districts’ credit...