Month: April 2025

Inside Higher Ed: “At least 10 Florida public universities have struck agreements with the federal government authorizing campus police to question and detain undocumented immigrants. Inside Higher Ed requested public records from all 12 State University System of Florida institutions related to their agreements with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Based on the results, it is…

NY Times: “The Texas House of Representatives voted early Thursday morning to create one of the largest taxpayer-funded school voucher programs, a hard-fought victory for private school choice activists as they turn their attention to a nationwide voucher push. The measure still has some legislative hurdles to clear before Gov. Greg Abbott signs it into…

FL Phoenix: “A significant rollback for child labor laws in Florida received approval in its third and final committee stop in the House on Tuesday. The same bill would speed up a state preemption of local living-wage laws in nearly a dozen cities and counties. It added insult to injury to its critics via a…

WKMS: “Debate over a bill to deny certain immigrant children the right to an education was disrupted Monday as two Lutheran pastors knelt in front of a House committee room and recited the Lord’s Prayer. Others in the audience soon joined from their seats. The bill (HB793/SB836) by Sen. Bo Watson of Hixson and House…

NY Times: “Such is the disappointment of Matt Gaetz, the former congressman from Florida and President Trump’s original, now defunct pick for attorney general in his new administration. Having been deemed so morally suspect that even President “Access Hollywood” opted to abandon the fight for him, Mr. Gaetz might have reasonably hidden away for some soul-searching…

WaPo: “The 57-year-old has been farming all his life. Every year, he mulls changes recommended by the tobacco companies, considers competition from Brazilian soybean farmers and ponders how much labor he needs to hire to eke out enough profit to keep everything going. But this year, his biggest numbers challengehas been the tariff policies of…

Political Wire: “Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) “disclosed on Monday that she had purchased between tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of stock on April 8 and 9, the day before and the day of President Trump’s announcement that he was pausing a sweeping set of global tariffs, a pivot that sent the…

Axios: “Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) met with Gov. Brian Kemp on Monday as the GOP lobbies the Georgia Republican to run for Senate in 2026. Why it matters: Georgia is a top pickup opportunity for Senate Republicans, and the popular Kemp is seen as the party’s strongest potential candidate. Kemp’s wife, Marty, also attended. Thune was joined…

Politico: “Former Democratic Rep. Wiley Nickel is kicking off a bid to challenge North Carolina Republican Sen. Thom Tillis. The attorney and former Obama administration staffer, who served one term in the House before redistricting made his seat much redder, is getting ready to nationalize the race by hitching Tillis to President Donald Trump. “We…

North State Journal: “North Carolina’s Supreme Court ruled on Friday that tens of thousands of cast ballots challenged by the trailing candidate in November’s unresolved election for a seat on the court must remain in the election count. The decision partially overturns last week’s ruling by a panel of the intermediate-level Court of Appeals that had favored Republican Jefferson…