One in five Americans now live in places committed to 100% clean power ~enviro energy.renewable Article 661 words 9 votes
Amid measles outbreaks, states consider revoking religious vaccine exemptions ~health Article 904 words 14 votes
Maine is the first state to ban styrofoam ~enviro pollution plastics.single use Article 848 words 11 votes
Report: Twenty-six states now ban or restrict community broadband ~tech internet Article 826 words 9 votes
Silicon Valley-funded privacy think tanks fight in DC to unravel state-level consumer privacy protections ~tech privacy Article 1381 words 5 votes
Colorado could be the next state to let its employees collectively bargain ~life work Article 811 words 8 votes
How Atlanta plans to get to 100% green energy by 2035 ~enviro energy.renewable Article 1148 words 6 votes
Last summer, Foxconn announced a barrage of new projects in Wisconsin, but an attempt to check up on them found little except empty buildings and secrecy ~finance business Article 6807 words, published Apr 10 2019 10 votes
California National Guard defies Donald Trump on transgender troop ban ~lgbt transgender Article 461 words 12 votes
House OKs 100 percent clean energy in Washington by 2045 ~enviro climate change energy.renewable Article 385 words 15 votes
Take from the rich and give to ... the subway? Inside New York's evolving congestion pricing policy. ~transport Article 2812 words 7 votes
Nova Scotia to become first in North America with presumed consent for organ donation ~health healthcare medicine Article 1051 words 18 votes
Puerto Rico just passed a bill to require 100% renewable electricity by 2050 ~enviro energy.renewable Article 472 words 13 votes
Maryland just became the sixth state to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour ~finance Article 1115 words 23 votes
Transgender advocates 'gobsmacked' by 'uneducated' ad opposing Tasmanian birth certificate laws ~lgbt transgender Article 574 words, published Mar 20 2019 8 votes
Madison adopts plan to achieve clean energy goals, align with federal Green New Deal bill ~enviro Article 555 words, published Mar 20 2019 8 votes
State-funded adoption agencies in Michigan barred from refusing LGBTQ parents ~lgbt Article 647 words 7 votes
Hundreds of US cities are killing or scaling back their recycling programs ~enviro recycling plastics Article 1059 words 23 votes
Protecting the 'unbanked' by banning cashless businesses in Philadelphia ~finance business banking Article 907 words 12 votes
Kentucky approves bill to make 'doxing' illegal after Covington student's online backlash ~tech Article 728 words 4 votes
Ontario’s basic income was working amazingly well before it got canceled ~finance Article 700 words 16 votes
Right to repair legislation is officially being considered in Canada ~tech Article 561 words 15 votes
Atheists and non-believers could soon receive civil rights protections under Portland law ~humanities religion Article 404 words, published Feb 11 2019 18 votes
Five Melbourne councils forced to dump recycling in landfill as Victoria crisis deepens ~enviro recycling Article 5 votes
Florida is drowning. Condos are still being built. Can't humans see the writing on the wall? ~enviro climate change Article 1540 words, published Feb 15 2019 18 votes
West Virginia lawmaker faces calls to resign after likening LGBTQ people to KKK, ‘terrorist group’ ~lgbt Article 444 words 9 votes
Ralph Northam yearbook page shows men in blackface and KKK robe ~news usa.va politics.usa Article 564 words 15 votes
Premier Daniel Andrews has just announced that the Victorian government will ban gay conversion therapy in that state ~lgbt Article 217 words 9 votes
New Jersey approved LGBTQ-inclusive school curriculum — And it's only the second in the nation ~lgbt Article 629 words 7 votes
Ex-Jakarta Governor Ahok, jailed for blasphemy, freed ~news indonesia.jakarta politics crime Article 750 words 3 votes
New York passes Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA) and legislation banning “conversion therapy” ~lgbt transgender Article 311 words 12 votes
The future of the minimum wage is alive in Seattle ~finance economics Article 888 words, published Jan 4 2019 7 votes
How an emerging African megacity cut commutes by two hours a day ~design urban planning Article 11 votes
City of Keene in dispute with local restaurant owner over 'Pho Keene Great' name ~food restaurants Link 11 votes
Scientists think Alabama's sewage problem has caused a tropical parasite. The state has done little about it. ~health Article 3757 words 6 votes
An Indonesian city has launched a new campaign to "cleanse" LGBT people of their "social sickness" through religious exorcisms ~lgbt Article 770 words 7 votes
Taiwan ruling party suffers major defeat in local elections ~news politics china taiwan Article 817 words 9 votes
Wealthy White people in Atlanta suburb tried to secede from their Black-led town. They failed. ~life housing Link 16 votes
Waymo has been granted the first permit in California to begin driverless testing on public roads ~transport Article 414 words 7 votes
Dulwich Hamlet: The improbable tale of a tiny football club that lost its home to developers – and won it back ~sports.football Article 7512 words 4 votes
Thirty-five US states tell the Federal Communications Commission to get off its ass and do something about spoofed robocalls ~tech Article 326 words 6 votes
Colorado’s recreation roadmap makes it one of the only states to fuse outdoor play, environmental protection ~enviro conservation Article 931 words 10 votes