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• House Session Summary - Friday, April 26, 2024
• Riverside County deputy, 14 others arrested in drug trafficking bust
• Why Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 2003 tabloid deal came up at Trump’s hush-money trial
• Elections
• House Adds $10 Mil To Budget With Public Safety Amendment
• Drivers Rally With National Union Leaders
• Cause of Mass. State House fire revealed, building to reopen

Featured in “La La Land,” Charlie Chaplin’s “The Kid” and Lana Del Rey’s “Summertime Sadness” music video, this is one of the more well-known bridges in L.A. The Pasadena overpass was lauded as the highest and longest concrete bridge in the world when it was completed in 1913. Now that warmer days are on the horizon, there’s no better time to traverse L.A.’s arches.

House Session Summary - Friday, April 26, 2024

Galvin's office said another three ballot questions reframing the relationship between app-based drivers and the companies that hire them "are expected" to head to the Legislature later this month once his staff finishes reviewing the petitions. "This is the latest into the year that legislative leaders have been unable to agree on a bill to reconcile the final loose ends on the budget from the prior year since at least 1995," the News Service wrote Nov. 26, 2019, the last time talks on a closeout budget went this long. Asked if the session was being held open to give negotiators more time to reach a budget bill deal and vote on it Monday, Sen. Pat Jehlen of Somerville, who presided over Monday's Senate session, said, "There’s no official answer to that, but we’re living in hope."

Riverside County deputy, 14 others arrested in drug trafficking bust

Meanwhile, DPH reports that the number of urgent care centers rose from 18 in 2010 to 173 across Massachusetts by the end of 2021. With only a bit more than three months left for major business this term, Mariano said health care and housing legislation are close to the top of his near-term agenda. The Republican leadership in the House voted for the fiscal 2025 budget, and the four minority party votes against the budget were cast by Reps. Nicholas Boldyga, David DeCoste, Marc Lombardo and Alyson Sullivan-Almeida. Overly optimistic revenue estimates are partly to blame for uprooting the budget that House and Senate Democrats drew up for fiscal 2024, causing Healey in January to reach for spending cuts and new revenues as part of a major midyear budget-balancing act.

Why Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 2003 tabloid deal came up at Trump’s hush-money trial

Investigators with Paul Hastings interviewed about 40 people, including current and former DWP employees and commission members, according to the report. Given how many California voters cast ballots via mail, results in some races may not be finalized for days. Under such budget constraints, California officials had little choice but to pull back on plans to spend $1 billion to reduce the principal on the unemployment insurance loan. Payroll taxes paid by employers are rising not only to cover payouts to unemployed workers but also a state surcharge and a gradually increasing federal surtax to help pay off the principal on the debt. But the tax increases are not enough to deal with the huge loan the state has incurred, or at least not in any timely manner.

Elections

A group of diverse legal experts, including one of Trump’s former attorneys, share their perspectives and key takeaways after an historic week of proceedings. In California that year, 47% of recipients took the full maximum 26 weeks of jobless benefits. Sacramento collects unemployment insurance taxes on the first $7,000 of wages per employee per year. Traub noted that most other states have a significantly higher taxable wage limit — New York at $12,500; New Mexico at $31,700; and Washington state, the highest, at $68,500.

House Adds $10 Mil To Budget With Public Safety Amendment

The co-hosting producers convened with a small film crew outside Arden, the famous Santiago Creekside retreat of 19th-century Shakespearean actress Helena Modjeska, which today serves as a historic house and museum. A second installment in January showcased the untold rock ‘n’ roll history of Orange County, the birthplace of iconic bands like No Doubt and the Runaways. It featured a taping in Anaheim, on the former site of the Harmony Park Ballroom, where American songwriter Richard Berry penned hit “Louie, Louie” in 1955. Two local history buffs, and co-hosts of the new and locally produced television show “OC History Hunters,” have combined their talents and interests, honed over decades of scholarly research and experience, to bag the big game for a regional audience.

Drivers Rally With National Union Leaders

Representatives continued work on the House's fiscal year 2025 state budget for a second straight day Thursday, when they also finalized an emergency shelter funding and policy bill without any Republican support. Writing in a report with Holmes, Bernick recommended a number of steps the EDD could take to shore up the state’s unemployment benefits program, including tightening eligibility standards and modernizing the agency’s computer and communications systems. But by far the main policy change that’s needed is to help jobless workers move into new jobs more rapidly. The DWP board sought the report in the wake of a corruption scandal involving top executives at the utility, who were accused of rigging contracts and taking bribes, costing the agency tens of millions of dollars.

Following his victory Tuesday night, Prokopiak said in a statement that voters had told him during the campaign that they "need help supporting their families" and "want control over their own bodies." "Voters want representatives who protect their fundamental freedoms, which is why electing Democrats to legislatures across the country is so important," added Williams, whose group, the national Democratic arm in charge of funding candidates for state legislative races, invested in the contest. The win in Bucks County — a purple slice of the northern suburbs of Philadelphia — was hailed as positive news by national Democrats, some of whom had viewed the contest as an early bellwether of the party’s fortunes among suburban voters ahead of the 2024 election. After top Democrats warned that spending must be pared back, the House passed its first mega-amendment of the fiscal 2025 budget debate, adding $20 million for accounts dealing with education and local aid, social services and veterans.

House Dems’ $57.9B budget positions Mass. to grow, compete, top leader says - MassLive.com

House Dems’ $57.9B budget positions Mass. to grow, compete, top leader says.

Posted: Wed, 24 Apr 2024 19:33:00 GMT [source]

A week ago, one Republican in the Arizona house joined 29 Democrats to bring the repeal measure to a vote, but the effort failed twice on votes. The Arizona supreme court earlier this month concluded the state could enforce a long-dormant law that permits abortions only to save the pregnant patient’s life. The ruling suggested doctors could be prosecuted under the law, first approved in 1864, and that anyone who assists in an abortion could face two to five years in prison. Three Republicans joined with all 29 Democrats on Wednesday to support the repeal of the law, which predates Arizona’s statehood and provides no exceptions for rape or incest. Recent studies of homelessness in California, they say, have shown most homeless people in the state lived here before becoming homeless.

The Grants Pass case began when local homeless people challenged as unconstitutional a pair of city ordinances against sleeping and camping in public parks. "Out of an abundance of caution while details of today's fire continue to be investigated, the Massachusetts State House will be closed on Wednesday, July 19, 2023," Tammy Kraus, the state house's superintendent, said in a statement. "We're grateful for the efforts of the Boston Fire Department, Mass State Police and DCR Rangers to ensure the safety of all officials, staff and visitors and are working diligently to reopen the building as quickly and safely as possible." House Speaker Ron Mariano is "still searching for some answers" about the scope of the fast-changing emergency shelter crisis, while Gov. Maura Healey on Tuesday delivered another impassioned plea for federal aid that she acknowledged so far has not been forthcoming.

Before that, Rector worked at the Baltimore Sun for eight years, where he was a police and investigative reporter and part of a team that won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in local reporting. The 9th Circuit has already allowed for reasonable restrictions on when, where and how homeless people can sleep or build protective structures, the critics said. And San Francisco already have such policies in place — and actively enforce them.

The MBTA Board voted unanimously Thursday to extend the agency's contract with Keolis Commuter Services, which operates the authority's commuter rail network, for one year into 2027.

Four out of 10 are even older, dating back more than 100 years -- or before former Massachusetts Gov. Calvin Coolidge took over in the Oval Office. MBTA officials added another pair of partial Red Line weekend closures to a long list of maintenance-fueled disruptions planned in October. Add the Tobin Bridge to the list of aging, congested spans that state officials are eyeing for replacement. The U.S. Department of Defense on Wednesday chose Massachusetts to lead a regional microelectronics hub, positioning the state for growth in a burgeoning industry that the Healey administration hopes will reach a level of significance akin to the state's life science industry.

"We've got a grid that needs to be modernized; we've got transmission lines that need to be built; and we've got energy sources that need to be brought in. These things cross state lines and cross state boundaries." Lawmakers directed another $250 million toward the shelter system in a supplemental budget, though there is some uncertainty about just how far that money will go. The state has struggled to keep up with the soaring demand for shelters over the past year. After 40 years of Massachusetts being the only state in the country to guarantee a safe place to stay for every eligible family, Healey said the system had run out of room this fall, and capped the number of families shelters could hold at 7,500.

“We hope that there is support for the notion that cities need to have more flexibility to address the crisis on the streets, but providing us with flexibility is different from letting cities completely off the hook in addressing what is happening,” Chiu said. On Monday, after the high court’s conservative justices indicated during oral arguments that they are skeptical of treating homelessness as a status that deserves constitutional protection, Horvath said the future will be bleak if cities are allowed to clamp down by criminalizing poverty. Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday that California continued to rapidly add the battery storage that is crucial to the transition to cleaner energy, but admitted it was still not enough to avoid blackouts during heat waves. Gryniuk said on Monday that the tower used the highest amount of replacement mixes instead of cement in the city's history. Michael Gryniuk, founder and principal at Boston-based structural engineering firm Cora Structural, said that portions of concrete for new buildings can be safely replaced to reduce the embodied carbon. For structural steel, every one ton produced emits about one ton of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, he said, and enough concrete to fill a mixer truck is worth about three tons of carbon dioxide.

In a letter to House and Senate Republicans last week, McNamara detailed potential negative consequences and warned that inaction by the end of the year would put him in an "untenable position." The delayed $2.8 billion supplemental budgets include $250 million for the state's strained shelters, raises for thousands of public employees, and -- in the Senate version but not the House -- language designed to facilitate construction of a soccer stadium in Everett. Democrats were unable to agree on a bill closing out spending for fiscal 2023 before formal sessions ended on Nov. 15, and now must come up with a bill that attracts unanimous support in informal sessions, or start the spending bill debates all over again next year. A POLITICO Magazine profile of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer offhandedly referred to Healey as one of a few new governors who might have eyes on a national post in 2028. When Healey recently took over a position helping to elect more women governors, NBC News described the role as "a national platform for one of the party's rising stars in state office." Healey has already been drawing attention from national pundits as a future standard-bearer for the Democratic Party and a potential candidate for higher office.