All the headlines from our Politics Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 11 2024 // MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Assembly Republicans’ highly restrictive plan to legalize medical marijuana in the state drew a lukewarm response from Senate Republicans and Democratic Gov. Tony Evers on Monday.The...
Dec 28 2023 // MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Wisconsin Republicans plan to unveil a proposal soon to legalize medical marijuana in the state and could vote on it sometime in 2024, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said.Republicans have been working...
Dec 1 2023 // The chairman of the U.S. Senate’s Budget Committee has begun an investigation into Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corp. and how the state-created insurer plans to address potential underwriting losses...
Nov 9 2023 // Democrat Dan McCaffery won an open seat on Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court in Tuesday’s general election, preserving a strong Democratic majority on a panel that has produced several critical election-related...
Nov 6 2023 // Representatives John Garamendi, Zoe Lofgren and other members of California’s congressional delegation sent a letter to California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara urging him to use his power under state law to...
Oct 3 2023 // Ohio victims of child sexual abuse while in the Boy Scouts of America could see more compensation for the crimes committed against them under legislation passed by the state Senate last week in a unanimous vote and is...
Sep 20 2023 // Like most lobstermen, the Maine House Republican leader scrambled to complete his work ahead of the remnants of Hurricane Lee. Rep. Billy Bob Faulkingham was rushing home from sea when a giant wave rose up, seemingly from...
Sep 15 2023 // Oklahoma Senate Pro Tem Greg Treat, a Republican, announced the appointment of Sen. Dewayne Pemberton, R-Muskogee, as the chairman of the Senate Retirement and Insurance Committee. The Senate Retirement and Insurance...
Sep 7 2023 // The American Property Casualty Insurance Association (APCIA) and the Reinsurance Association of American together presented testimony in Washington today on the state of of the property insurance market.The presentation,...
Aug 18 2023 // Activision Blizzard Inc and Kellogg Co have joined a growing list of major U.S. companies to face claims from a group founded by former Trump administration officials that efforts to diversify their workforces amount to...
Aug 11 2023 // Gina Thorn`s life was uprooted when a monstrous tornado tore through her Kentucky hometown of Mayfield, but her family stuck it out and now they`re homeowners for the first time.Thorn says Gov. Andy Beshear deserves credit...
Aug 8 2023 // Saying Gov. Ron DeSantis has followed the autocratic examples of governments in Russia and China, a group of mostly Republican former high-level government officials and business leaders has called the Florida governor`s...
Jul 27 2023 // Two Florida Democratic state senators are hosting webinars this month and next on the state’s property insurance situation.“Homeowners Insurance 101: A Guide for Insurance Coverage,” a series of virtual...
Jul 20 2023 // Thirteen Republican state attorneys general are cautioning CEOs of the 100 biggest U.S. companies on the legal consequences for using race as a factor in hiring and employment practices, demonstrating how the Supreme...
Jul 7 2023 // A group of 25 Republican state attorneys general Thursday urged the Biden administration to abandon its proposal to sharply cut vehicle tailpipe emissions, which would require dramatically more electric vehicles, saying it...
Jun 30 2023 // The Pennsylvania Senate this week unanimously confirmed Michael Humphreys to serve as the state’s insurance commissioner. Governor Josh Shapiro nominated Humphreys, who previously served as acting commissioner, to...
Jun 27 2023 // Pennsylvania’s state Senate wants to expand a ban on texting while driving and approved legislation on Thursday that would increase the penalties for motorists who are handling their cell phones for almost any...
Jun 23 2023 // Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has opened a Senate investigation into Amazon’s warehouse safety practices, the latest in a series of probes he’s initiated against big corporations in his role as chairman of a...
Jun 12 2023 // Democrats on the U.S. Senate Budget Committee launched an investigation on Friday into major insurers’ “support” of new fossil fuel projects, on the heels of an industry retreat from areas prone to...
Jun 9 2023 // North Carolina agencies and state pension plans would be prohibited from using socially and environmentally conscious criteria to make investment decisions or hire employees, under legislation that advanced Wednesday in...