Alabama Senate approves $9.3 billion education budget with employee pay raises Sen. Arthur Orr, R-Decatur (left), the chair of the Alabama Senate's Finance and Taxation Education Committee, speaks with Sen. Tim Melson, R-Florence, during debate on the 2025 Education Trust Fund ... 05/2/2024 - 12:02 pm | View Link
Alabama House committee passes General Fund budget, 2% state employee pay raise An Alabama House committee approved a $3.4 billion General Fund budget for the 2025 fiscal year and a supplemental funding bill for the current year of about $254 million. The House Ways and Means ... 04/30/2024 - 7:54 am | View Link
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CT House and Senate approve final year of employee union contract The agreement is between the Lamont administration and SEBAC — the State Employee Bargaining Agreement Coalition — that represents 35 labor units across state agencies. 04/24/2024 - 1:04 am | View Link
Wisconsin Senate candidate shifts abortion position amid GOP struggles on issue Republican Senate candidate Eric Hovde speaks Tuesday at a rally in Green Bay, Wis. (Mike Roemer/AP) Republican Senate candidate Eric Hovde, who is looking to unseat Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), ... 04/5/2024 - 6:50 am | View Link
After his bonkers Time magazine interview, Trump continued his insistance of "heads I win, tails you lost" about Wisconsin. Via Reuters:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump said he may not accept the 2024 election results in Wisconsin, a key battleground state in his matchup with President Joe Biden, leaving open the possibility of post-election turmoil.
In an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Wednesday, Trump said that if he doesn’t believe the result in November's election was legitimate, “you have to fight for the right of the country.”
Trump again says he won’t accept the election results if he loses.
Marjorie Taylor Greene will never think she said anything wrong.
Marge says she voted against the Anti-Semitism Act today because she’s concerned that if she says that Jews handed over Jesus to be killed by the Romans that could be considered a violation of the law. pic.twitter.com/tnAOf1s8B0
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) May 1, 2024
That's right.
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Turkey said late Thursday that it had halted all trade with Israel until “uninterrupted and adequate humanitarian aid is allowed into Gaza,” signaling further deterioration in relations between the two countries, the New York Times reports.