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Removing lanes to slow down speeding drivers is a long-embraced strategy for improving safety on city streets. The practice known as road diets has proven to reduce accidents. Federal transportation officials once heralded such “road diets” for cutting crashes by 19 percent to 47 percent, but President Donald Trump’s administration is heading in another direction. [...]
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — State lawmakers across the country have introduced at least 240 anti-China proposals this year, aiming to ensure public funds don’t buy Chinese technology or even T-shirts, coffee mugs and key chains for tourists. They’re also targeting sister-city relationships between American and Chinese communities. After years celebrating trade ties with China, states [...]
COLUMBUS (AP) — Prompted by a defeat at the U.S. Supreme Court, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost said he was putting aside his objections and allowing a proposed constitutional amendment that would end qualified immunity for police and other government employees to move forward. Yost’s action came the same day the high court declined to [...]
As President Donald Trump cracks down on illegal immigration, Republican lawmakers in many states are pushing new laws targeting people lacking legal status to live in the United States. The measures contrast with policies in 19 other states and Washington, D.C., which issue driver’s licenses regardless of whether residents can prove their legal presence. In [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health officials earlier this week said they would urge food makers to phase out petroleum-based artificial colors in the nation’s food supply, but stopped short of promising a formal ban and offered few specifics on how they intended to achieve the change. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary said at [...]
A southwest Ohio state lawmaker recently revealed to committee members in the Ohio House of Representatives the details of legislation he’s authored that would add up to 53 hours of additional instruction to the academic year for school students. Rep. Adam Bird, R-New Richmond, told members of the Education Committee that House Bill 145 proposes [...]
The sponsors of a bill that puts Ohio in control of efforts within the state to capture carbon dioxide and store it in injection wells recently outlined the details of the bill and their rationale for it. Republican Rep. Monica Robb Blasdel of Columbiana told members of the Natural Resources Committee in the Ohio House [...]
The Trump administration has issued an order to stop construction on an offshore wind project that would power more than 500,000 New York homes. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum directed the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to halt construction on Empire Wind, a fully-permitted project. He said it needs further review because it appears the Biden [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration says it plans to eliminate the IRS’ Direct File program, an electronic system for filing tax returns directly to the agency for free, according to two people familiar with the decision. The program developed during Joe Biden’s presidency was credited by users with making tax filing easy, fast and [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A review issued last week by the Defense Department inspector general could not determine why Colorado was chosen over Alabama as the permanent location of U.S. Space Command. The inspector general’s report said its lack of a finding was in part due to a lack of access to senior defense officials during [...]