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A ballot measure to codify California's progressive abortion protections in the state Constitution appeared headed to victory Tuesday, an expected win for a measure placed on the ballot in the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade.Proposition 1 would create a constitutional guarantee of a person's "fundamental right to choose to have an abortion and their fundamental right to choose or refuse contraceptives."

Ratings agencies are like pub bores.They state the obvious.Bank collapses arrive out of the blue but the ratings agency, Fitch, is troubled by the fact that France is 3,000 billion in debt.Didn't we know that already?Isn't that one of the reasons why President Emmanuel Macron wants the French to retire later and stop piling up deficits in their state pension system?

Ratings agencies are like pub bores.They state the obvious.Bank collapses arrive out of the blue but the ratings agency, Fitch, is troubled by the fact that France is 3,000 billion in debt.Didn't we know that already?Isn't that one of the reasons why President Emmanuel Macron wants the French to retire later and stop piling up deficits in their state pension system?

Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday said that $1 billion approved in the state budget for reimbursing the Big Apple's migrant crisis spending won't be enough to reverse recent wide-ranging cuts he's made to city agency budgets in anticipation of the influx's projected cost.The $1 billion reimbursement, which will cover 29% of the city's cost for sheltering the migrants over this fiscal year and the next, is part of the $229 billion state budget deal being passed this week, after being proposed by Governor Kathy Hochul earlier this year.

The state budget will be late this year due to tough negotiations between Governor Kathy Hochul and Albany lawmakers over her bail reform rollback proposal and housing plan, the governor, state Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie announced separately Thursday.

As the debate around whether to make even more changes to New York's reformed bail laws heats up in the final days of state budget negotiations, a group of over 100 law professors penned a letter to Governor Kathy Hochul and state legislative leaders urging them to leave the statutes as they are.In the missive, the law professors, who hail from law schools across the state including Columbia University and CUNY, blasted Hochul's push to excise from state law the least restrictive standard which compels judges to use the least onerous means for bringing defendants back to court.

Sometimes not often, but sometimes one person can have a life-changing impact on the wellbeing of millions of people.Marion Joseph, who died nearly a year ago at age 95, was one of those people.She impacted millions of California schoolchildren present and future who struggle with reading comprehension, the vital skill that underlies all of education.

It is not often that New York City prosecutors abandon legal arguments or strategies in midstream, especially when they seem to be on the cusp of victory.But on Thursday, they did just that.The city's five district attorneys, in an abrupt about-face, released a joint statement to oppose changing a law that governs the way that case material is shared with defense lawyers.

By Susan Montoya Bryan | Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Monday signed legislation to provide free school meals to all students regardless of family income, as New Mexico and several other states look to fill the gap left by lapsed federal pandemic-era benefit programs and address the strain to family budgets caused by food prices.

A state budget deal would sharply dial back an expansion of charter schools in New York City floated by Gov. Hochul in her executive plan.Instead of 100-plus new charter schools that Hochul proposed in February, an agreement hammered out with state lawmakers would cut that number to 14 schools, sources said Thursday.

The defeat of three anti-abortion bills came just weeks after Democrats won a critical state Senate race.Then-gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin listens at an election night rally at the Westfields Marriott Washington Dulles on November 2, 2021, in Chantilly, Virginia.Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images Virginia state Senate Democrats in an education and health subcommittee defeated a series of anti-abortion measures on Thursday, thwarting Gov. Glenn Youngkin's (R) efforts to shorten the time frame in which Virginia residents can obtain the procedure by several weeks.

Missouri Republicans' proposal may violate the state constitution.Kilito Chan / Moment / Getty Images Missouri's Republican-led House of Representatives has given initial approval to a state budget that would strip libraries of state funding in what appears to be retaliation for a lawsuit filed by librarians seeking to overturn a law expanding book bans in schools.

It's time for the three people in the room traditionally responsible for working out New York's annual budget to deliver a front-page rescue for New York state's journalism industry.That rescue comes in the form of the Local Journalism Sustainability Act (S.625/A.2958),one of the many legislative items now before Assembly Speaker Heastie, state Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and Governor Kathy Hochul as they work to hammer out a new state budget by the April 1 deadline.

Emmanuel Macron likes to take risks.To insist on a hated but necessary pension reform at a time of crisis abroad and dissension at home was, from the beginning, a calculated risk.On Thursday afternoon afternoon the President found himself confronted, like one of the priggish heroes of classic French tragedy, with a choice between two great risks.

Three years after the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis shifted tens of thousands of office workers into permanent remote working, New York City faces a situation where it has far more vacant offices than occupied ones.What does the city do with millions of empty square feet of commercial office space that likely won't be filled with workers again?

Each year, the State budget has the power to shape the lives of hundreds of thousands of CUNY students and tens of thousands of dedicated faculty and staff.Through 46 years of teaching at CUNY, I've been here for periods where CUNY was fully funded and the promise of public higher education was a reality for tens of thousands of New Yorkers.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker started his budget address on Wednesday with a passel of numbers meant to get our attention.During his first term, the state has eliminated a $17 billion backlog of unpaid bills, built a rainy day fund of $2.3 billion and repaid several billions of dollars worth of debt.The list went on.

New York City's Panel for Educational Policy (PEP) approved a proposed $37.5 billion education budget last week, but some panelists charged that the move was premature because the state budget has yet to be finalized.That concern centers around the Fair Student Funding Formula, which is responsible for calculating $10 billion of the state's education budget.

$1B in a one-time boost in funding made it possible to approve 93 new high-scoring projects.The CTC plans to request a larger allocation for the ATP in future state budgets.I Street Bridge Deck Conversion Project in West Sacramento.Image courtesy CTC
The California Transportation Commission this week approved staff recommendations for two categories of the current cycle of Active Transportation Program funding: Statewide and Small Urban and Rural.