Dudik, who is also running to be Montana’s next attorney general in 2020, doesn’t think the state got enough bang for its buck from the 2-year-old pilot program. “It’s only available now to help offenders in three communities; in Missoula, Billings and Ravalli County. And no tribal entities applied for grants, so nobody in […]

HELENA — After a lengthy debate, the bill to continue Medicaid expansion in Montana failed to pass the Senate on a 25-25 vote last week and several attempts to revive it Friday and Saturday also failed, leaving it stalled. House Bill 658, would have continued the program passed in 2015 that provides healthcare coverage to about […]

MARTIN COUNTY— State and local health officials are working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention trying to pin down the source of hepatitis A in Martin County. As of Friday afternoon, all three agencies didn’t have any specific leads and are not investigating specific restaurants in the county. There have been 19 cases of the […]

L-R Dar’shun Kendrick, Karen Bennett, Tonya Anderson State Representatives Dar’shun Kendrick (D-Lithonia) and Karen Bennett (D-Stone Mountain), along with State Senator Tonya Anderson (D-Lithonia), will host a healthcare symposium on Saturday, May 18, 2019, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m., at the Stonecrest Library, 3123 Klondike Road, Stonecrest. The upcoming symposium will address healthcare issues regarding maternal […]

It’s being put forth by Rep. Tarah Toohil, who had 42 (!) foster siblings. HARRISBURG— Tarah Toohil grew up intertwined with the foster care system. Over the course of her childhood, her parents took in 42 foster brothers and sisters. You read that right. Forty-two. Some of them stayed for just a few days, and some […]

(GEORGETOWN, Del.) – A human trafficking awareness campaign known as the ‘Red Sand Project’ comes to Georgetown for the first time ever. Today 40.3 million people live as slaves but the Red Sand Project is combatting against that to raise awareness for human trafficking. The National Foundation for Women’s Legislatures holds the Red Sand Project […]

SALT LAKE CITY — Preston Palmer filled cracks in the front steps at the state Capitol with bright red sand Sunday to call attention to victims of human trafficking. The 16-year-old Cottonwood High School student belongs to Backyard Broadcast, a youth movement aimed at stopping the sexual exploitation of children. “I decided that it’s a […]

On Wednesday, Gov. Ralph Northam signed two bills that will make changes to the family life education curriculum offered by local school divisions in Virginia. The first bill, HB45, requires elementary, middle and high schools to include information about personal privacy, personal boundaries of others and respect. Del. Eileen Filler-Corn (D-Fairfax) introduced the bill. She said it builds upon […]

While Murphy celebrated the key legislative victory on his 99th day in office, he was largely upstaged by former Republican state Sen. Diane Allen, whom the New Jersey legislation was named after, and Alabama’s Lilly Ledbetter, the namesake of the federal equal pay law that New Jersey aimed to surpass. TRENTON — Gov. Phil Murphy […]