Starting Aug. 1, Louisiana will require all health insurance plans to cover menopause/perimenopause treatment. They will be obliged to cover hormone replacement therapy without prior authorization, etc. that is sometimes used to delay or deny HRT coverage. lailluminator.com/2024/07/03/i...
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Conservationists are seeking protection for the Oasis Valley speckled dace, a rare fish found in isolated Nevada springs, that faces a host of threats, including invasive species, climate change, and groundwater pumping for solar energy development and gold mining.
Via Nevada Current
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South Carolina nonprofits will receive about $90 million of more than $435 million in approved earmarks. They include YMCAs, United Way chapters, and veteran support groups, as well as churches and fledgling charities with few-to-no financial records.
Via SC Daily Gazette @statesnewsroom.com
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Via @jemmakstephenson.bsky.social: Attorneys for transgender youth and their families, who are seeking to overturn Alabama's ban, asked for the stay after the U.S. Supreme Court took up a similar case in Tennessee.
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Cyanobacteria alerts for New Hampshire beaches mean residents should “be on the watch” for a potential bloom. Warnings mean that cyanobacteria have been found at a concentration where harmful toxins could be present and threaten public health.
Via New Hampshire Bulletin
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The Riley Fire burning around the main entrance of Alaska's Denali National Park and Preserve, which broke out over the weekend and was measured at 388 acres as of Tuesday, prompted the National Park Service to shut down visitor access there and evacuate about 150 employees.
Via @alaskabeacon.com
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The US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services picked Maryland and Vermont as the first states to implement a new total cost of care model, in which states take responsibility and accountability for health outcomes of their patients.
Via Maryland Matters @statesnewsroom.com
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The number of 4-year-olds enrolled in state-funded pre-K programs in the 2022-2023 school year ranged from a high of 67% in Florida, Iowa, Oklahoma and West Virginia to single digits in Alaska, Missouri, Nevada, Delaware, North Dakota, Arizona, Hawaii and Utah.
Via Stateline @statesnewsroom.com
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Wrote this column for Independence Day. The National Monument to Freedom is a reminder that America’s steps toward real justice and freedom have always been led by the oppressed and marginalized.
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Tiny bark beetles, namely the Ips engraver and southern pine varieties, have been killing millions of trees across Louisiana and Mississippi after a severe drought last year left forests and woods weakened and susceptible to the insect.
Via Louisiana Illuminator
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She won a Pulitzer for exposing how the country's poorest state spent federal welfare money. Now she might go to jail.
"The rabbit's got the gun now," said a lawyer for former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, who is trying to force reporter Anna Wolfe to reveal her sources.
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Indiana Secretary of State Diego Morales warned US agencies against carrying out Pres. Joe Biden’s spring 2021 order, titled “Promoting access to voting,” which mandates federal agencies to “consider ways” to encourage citizen participation in the electoral process.
Via Indiana Capital Chronicle
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The Wisconsin Supreme Court accepted two cases that ask if the state’s 1849 law widely seen as banning abortion actually does so and if abortion is a right protected by the state Constitution.
Via @wiexaminer.bsky.social @statesnewsroom.com www.newsfromthestates.com/article/wisc...
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A grassroots advocacy group has filed a lawsuit against Kentucky election officials alleging the state’s process for removing voters from rolls violates federally protected voting rights.
Via Kentucky Lantern www.newsfromthestates.com/article/kent...
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The Bureau of Land Management published a draft environmental assessment detailing the potential sale of hundreds of acres of public land southwest of Ely, Nevada to “allow for future expansion of the refinery,” despite the state’s push to move away from fossil fuels.
Via Nevada Current
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“The world Defendants attempt to portray—one of rampant on-demand sterilization, nefarious organizations pushing unsafe treatment to serve political ends, and where transgender youth are not actually transgender—does not exist,” the DOJ wrote in opposition to a Alabama attorney general's motion.
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State officials are focused on testing and surveillance of dairy workers but are encountering significant challenges. Dairy farmworkers, who are often immigrants, can’t afford to miss a day of work, and can be reluctant to reach out to request testing or say they feel sick.
Via Stateline
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The RNC ruling based on state convention irregularities gives the Missouri GOP executive committee until 5 p.m. Friday to select an entirely new set of at-large delegates and alternates, a deadline the party says it will meet.
Via Missouri Independent @statesnewsroom.com
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Biden administration announces new rule to protect workers from heat-related illnesses. From the @statesnewsroom.com DC bureau. wisconsinexaminer.com/briefs/biden...
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Today at the Reformer: after voters in this conservative corner of Minnesota rejected two consecutive funding levies, elementary students had to fundraise to save one of their own classrooms. minnesotareformer.com/2024/07/02/e...
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A prosecutor reviewed Marcellus Williams's case and found “clear and convincing evidence” of his innocence. The Missouri Supreme Court still set an execution date.
Today, the circuit court will decide if it'll hold a hearing and consider that evidence
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The Autauga-Prattville Library Board of Trustees, facing controversy and litigation over its policies on book removal, passed a resolution last week declaring the board would have the final say on what books could be displayed.
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The 2023 deaths of 190 children are being investigated for suspected abuse and neglect by the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services — a nearly 30% increase over the prior year and the largest number of suspected child neglect and abuse deaths in nearly a decade
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In Topline:
➡️Minnesota jails people at a higher rate than Russia
➡️Minnesota one of the safest states for pedestrians
➡️Joe Biden is quite old
➡️Minnesota is not especially diverse from the standpoint of religion
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A new law that goes into effect today means that if you sell, manufacture, or distribute cultivated meat in Florida, you could be charged and, if found guilty, face 60 days in jail and a fine of up to $500.
Via Florida Phoenix @statesnewsroom.com
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Nevada corrections officials said they are implementing measures to keep prison units under 85 degrees, the state standard, after Southern Nevada saw record-breaking temperatures in June. They didn't describe process of relocating people if prison facilities go above 85 degrees.
Via Nevada Current
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About 20% of coal miners in Central Appalachia are suffering from black lung—the highest rate detected for the disease in more than 25 years. Fatalities tied to black lung are steadily increasing in the region faster than the rest of the country.
Via West Virginia Watch
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And now, for some very good news:
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Presidential immunity extends to some official acts, Supreme Court rules in Trump case. @fischler.bsky.social & Ashley Murray report from the @statesnewsroom.com DC bureau. wisconsinexaminer.com/2024/07/01/p...
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Presidential immunity extends to some official acts, Supreme Court rules in Trump case
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Law professors who spoke to the Alabama Reflector said that precedent and the current U.S. Supreme Court’s record make it hard to predict what will happen if Alabama passed a similar law that ended up in court.
Via @alreflector.bsky.social
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Investigators now allege at least $33,000 in donations to GOP candidates made in disgraced former sheriff Jamey Noel’s name actually came from public funds he misappropriated. But most Indiana Republicans aren't returning the money.
Via Indiana Capital Chronicle @statesnewsroom.com
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The three Republicans of South Carolina's five 'sister senators' knew bucking an abortion ban would draw challengers and provide fuel for nasty attack ads from the party’s right flank. All were defeated in primaries or runoffs.
Via South Carolina Daily Gazette @statesnewsroom.com
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Defense attorneys will begin presenting their case Monday morning, and they have indicated they will argue that Sen. Bob Menendez stashed cash at home over decades as a coping mechanism for past trauma and did not know his wife took money from or cut deals with people.
Via New Jersey Monitor
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