State and local election officials could breathe easier about cybersecurity challenges if they weren't so short on cash: stateline.org/2024/04/23/cas… via Stateline

In CT: Senate Democrats are narrowing a proposal to set standards for the use of AI, an effort to address Gov. Ned Lamont’s skepticism over a small state playing an outsized role in shaping technology.

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This month, Wisconsin joined 27 other states that have banned or restricted local governments’ use of private donations to run cash-strapped election offices, buy voting equipment or hire poll workers for Election Day, Matt Vasilogambros reports.

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Republican opponents have long derided Medicaid expansion as a government handout. Now there is growing momentum in deep-red Mississippi and several other holdout states to shift course ... but on one condition: that enrollees get a job. my latest --> stateline.org/2024/04/22/hol…

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Others: I bet the creative process is magical.
The creative process:

For the first time, the next U.S. census will include a Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) category.

MENA people have been classified as “white,” despite the group identifying otherwise, masking accurate counts and health data, Nada Hassanein reports.

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A new study of U.S. lethal injections found states botched executions of Black prisoners at much higher rates than other races.

I talked to race scholars & workers who helped carry out 20+ executions to learn the mechanics of how that might be happening: tinyurl.com/yc8fwfvj

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🛢️Lawmakers are hoping to use an emerging climate science to charge oil companies for disasters.

But industry leaders are objecting to the new methodologies, Alex Brown reports.

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Research has shown basic income programs can boost employment and health, but GOP lawmakers are increasingly pushing back on the concept of free cash.

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