Rural Texas can be a very dangerous place to be badly injured or really sick. From 2010-20, 26 hospitals in 22 Texas communities in rural Texas closed, according to the Texas Organization of Rural and…
A New York judge ruled Thursday evening that maps for new legislative and congressional districts drawn by Democrats violated the state’s constitution because they were designed to give the party in power a political advantage….
Alabama Republican Gov. Kay Ivey has awarded grants to emergency service providers. The governor announced that $10 million in COVID Recovery Grants have been distributed to first responders from the State Fiscal Recovery Fund that is part…
The city’s Panel for Educational Policy voted Wednesday night against the routine approval of New York City’s school funding formula, raising significant concerns about school budgets for next academic year. The panel’s rejection, stemming from…
An audit released Tuesday by New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli found that the state’s Medicaid program paid $965.1 million in claims over a five-year span to medical professionals not enrolled in the health insurance…
Youth Communication writers recently interviewed the new Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education about the issues students face at school. Here are Chancellor Banks’ positions on budget cuts, school safety, the gifted…
There is new legislation requiring water utilities to notify health-care and senior living facilities of water supply disruptions that could lead to water quality problems, such as legionella and other pathogens. In 2015, an outbreak…
Joined by former President Bill Clinton and New York City civic and business leaders, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Thursday unveiled a playbook the state will use to substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions and…
After two years of successfully evading getting COVID-19 — including a few brushes with close contacts, a couple ofare-they-just-colds? scares and lots of negative tests — I recently tested positive. It felt both inevitable and shocking….
Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg launched a $50 million initiative to expand summer programming among New York City charter schools on Monday, an effort he said was meant to close learning gaps widened by the pandemic….