Canada passes Bill C-68, overhauling the Fisheries Act and banning import and export of shark fins ~enviro conservation Article 405 words 9 votes
Florida city to pay $600K ransom to hacker who seized computer systems weeks ago ~tech security.cyber Article 5 votes
Michigan authorities drop all criminal charges relating to Flint Water Crisis ~enviro pollution.water Article 1144 words 6 votes
Maine Governor signs strictest internet protections in the US ~tech internet Article 839 words, published Jun 7 2019 8 votes
New York is one step closer to becoming first state to ban cat declawing ~life.pets Article 469 words 11 votes
West Virginia Senate passes sweeping education bill to ban teacher strikes ~news usa.wv politics.usa Article 545 words 11 votes
‘Orphan counties,’ and a battle over what local news really means ~news journalism politics Article 1451 words 4 votes
Oregon restricts solar development on prime farmland ~enviro energy.renewable Article 895 words, published May 23 2019 5 votes
Colorado becomes first state in nation to cap price of insulin ~health healthcare medicine Article 249 words 11 votes
Defeating the voters: Across the United States, state autocrats are spurning democratic majorities ~humanities Article 2142 words, published May 14 2019 15 votes
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
Should a Colorado library publish local news? ~news usa.co.longmont journalism Article 1255 words 11 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
“We’re drinking now”: The oldest newspaper in New Orleans just fired its entire staff ~news usa.la.new orleans journalism Article 982 words 11 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