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By Micah Walker, BridgeDetroit | July 10, 2024, 5:21pm CDT The Detroit school board approved a new two-year contract for teachers Tuesday that includes pay increases for new and veteran educators as well as bonuses for special-education and mental health employees. The new agreement means that from 2017 to the second year of the contract, which lasts until…

Q&A: Caleb Banta-Green of UW Medicine discusses an approach to reduce overdose deaths, now part of a bill in Congress. June 25, 2024 Media Contact: Brian Donohue – [email protected], 206-543-7856 Last month, two U.S. senators introduced bipartisan legislation called the Fatal Overdose Reduction Act. The bill aims to reduce the outsize, deadly impact of fentanyl and other…

Loneliness and social isolation can lead to a number of negative mental and physical health problems, according to research. Social isolation and loneliness are widespread problems in the U.S., posing a serious threat to our mental and physical health, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Last year, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy…

BY: KATHIE OBRADOVICH – APRIL 18, 2024 Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a bill Thursday that she said would help deliver services to military veterans and close a gap in eligibility for some Iowans with service-related disabilities. She signed House File 259 during a conference of county veterans affairs commissioners and leaders in Johnston. The bill addresses training and requirements…

Regina Medina May 14, 2024  A few days before a crucial vote on equal rights amendment legislation, former DFL state representative Betty Folliard was out and about at the Capitol.  She and her fellow ERA Minnesota volunteers stood near the Senate Chamber’s entrance carrying ERA signs. “Yes on ERA!” and “ERA for Mother’s Day.”  The…

BY JOEY FLECHASUPDATED APRIL 11, 2024 7:55 AM A federal judge has thrown out the city of Miami’s voting map after ruling that commissioners in 2022approved unconstitutional, racially gerrymandered district boundaries that sorted city residents by raceand ethnicity. On Wednesday, U.S. District Court Judge K. Michael Moore issued a sharp ruling that invalidated theboundaries of…

BY Carrie Johnson UPDATED FEBRUARY 26, 20245:10 PM ET  The Supreme Court wrestled Monday with a pair of cases that could help define the future of the Internet. Legal experts say they’re the most important First Amendment cases in a generation. The question is whether states like Florida and Texas can force big social media…

A jury on Tuesday returned a guilty verdict in the trial of Robert Hawkins. By: Colette Bordelon Updated 11:33 AM, Mar 27, 2024 DENVER — After a trial that lasted nearly a month, a jury on Tuesday returned a guilty verdict against Robert Hawkins on more than a dozen counts — four of which were human trafficking…

By Richard Roth On March 6, 2024 The war in Sudan is “triggering the world’s largest hunger crisis,” with more than 25 million people “trapped in a spiral” of food insecurity, a United Nations agency has warned. Nine in 10 people across the country face “emergency levels of hunger” and are “stuck” in areas “largely…

State DMV’s move exposes trans people to criminal liability for listing gender identity on their driver’s license. By Naomi Feinstein January 30, 2024 The State of Florida will no longer allow transgender people to change their listed gender on their driver’s licenses, opening up the possibility of criminal prosecution should they do so, according to a…