Las Vegas is about to take a gamble on Elon Musk’s Boring Company ~transport Article 815 words 11 votes
The history of the Black radical group MOVE and its infamous bombing by police ~humanities.history Article 464 words 9 votes
San Francisco has banned government and police use of face surveillance technology ~tech privacy Article 304 words 25 votes
Statehouses, not the sun, drive solar energy gaps ~enviro energy.renewable Article 1927 words 3 votes
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
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
US Supreme Court unanimously rules that the Constitution's ban on 'excessive fines' applies to the states as well as the federal government ~news usa Article 512 words 17 votes
In North Carolina, investigators find ballot ‘scheme’ in House race ~news usa.nc politics.usa Article 1012 words 11 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