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MN HF 4520 provides a refundable sales and use tax exemption for Blue Line Extension light rail transit line construction materials; referred to Taxes on 2026-03-23.
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · Status and sponsor
Resolution 26-1498 would add $957,199 to a $1,452,199 contract with Catholic Charities and Community Services to provide 108 Head Start and 20 Early Head Start slots in Denver.
Source: Legistar: 15 city and county councils (denver.legistar.com) · Status and sponsor
MN HF 5160: ownership, possession, and sale of semiautomatic military-style weapons and large-capacity magazines regulated; referred to Public Safety Finance and Policy.
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · Status and sponsor
MN HF 3617 would ban possession of semiautomatic military-style weapons and provide criminal penalties; latest action on 2026-03-12 added author Pursell.
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · Status and sponsor
MN HF 2740, on a report on the affordable housing industry, low-income tax credit compliance periods, and regulatory relief for providers, had a second reading on 2026-04-07.
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · Status and sponsor
MN HF 3668: Office of gun violence prevention established in the Department of Health, money appropriated; action 2026-02-23: Introduction and first reading, referred to Health Finance and Policy.
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · Status and sponsor
MN HF 4836 would require employers to provide notice to employees of federal immigration inspection and prohibit federal immigration officers from nonpublic work areas; author Xiong added 2026-04-09.
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · Status and sponsor
Denver resolution would amend its Salvation Army agreement, adding $40,000 for a new total of $1,157,803 and two years for rapid resolution services for homelessness or housing instability citywide.
Source: Legistar: 15 city and county councils (denver.legistar.com) · Status and sponsor
MN HF 3618: possession of semiautomatic military-style weapons and large-capacity ammunition magazines banned, and criminal penalties provided; Pursell added as author 2026-03-12.
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · Status and sponsor
Denver resolution amends a contract with Volunteers of America Colorado Branch to add $852,000.00 for rapid rehousing for families experiencing literal homelessness, citywide.
Source: Legistar: 15 city and county councils (denver.legistar.com) · Status and sponsor
Minnesota HF 3659 would require taxpayers who earned Minnesota-source income while participating in immigration enforcement activities to file an income tax return; referred to Taxes.
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · Status and sponsor
A Tampa TSA union steward said the airport was targeted by the $13 billion Gold+ TSA privatization program, which the union averted.
Source: Labor Notes (labornotes.org)
With ICE arrests and detentions at their highest levels, a questions feature asks how Trump's mass deportation agenda will shape the US midterm elections.
Source: The Guardian US (theguardian.com)
A Denver resolution approves a proposed contract with Volunteers of America Colorado Branch for $1,068,531.00 to provide 76 Head Start and 20 Early Head Start slots in Denver, citywide.
Source: Legistar: 15 city and county councils (denver.legistar.com) · Status and sponsor
A City Council resolution orders a report pursuant to California Elections Code Section 9212 on the effects of the citizen sponsored initiative Oakland Living Wage For All Act Of 2026.
Source: Legistar: 15 city and county councils (oakland.legistar.com) · Status and sponsor
An Oakland city resolution to submit the citizen-sponsored Oakland Living Wage For All Act Of 2026 to voters at the November 7, 2028 general municipal election or at a special election.
Source: Legistar: 15 city and county councils (oakland.legistar.com) · Status and sponsor
An ordinance adopting the citizen sponsored Initiative Oakland Living Wage For All Act of 2026 to increase the minimum wage to $30 for Oakland employees by July 1, 2037 is in committee.
Source: Legistar: 15 city and county councils (oakland.legistar.com) · Status and sponsor
A resolution accepting the certification of the examination of the initiative petition proposing the Oakland Living Wage For All Act Of 2026 minimum wage ballot measure, status in committee.
Source: Legistar: 15 city and county councils (oakland.legistar.com) · Status and sponsor
Prosecutors filed over 900 cases of pregnancy-related crimes since Dobbs, most from laws never meant to apply to pregnancy.
Source: Truthout (truthout.org)
Conservative parents lament that anti-trans ads are teaching their kids trans people exist.
Source: Erin in the Morning (erininthemorning.com)