Get rid of FEMA? Trump-appointed group to look at shifting disaster response to states • Tennessee Lookout
WASHINGTON – As President Donald Trump looks for ways to move the federal role to the state, the governor and state legislature may have to step up natural disaster response and recovery efforts over the coming years. Trump, who fully proposed the Federal Emergency Management Agency during a tour of disaster scenes in North Carolina […]
Why California’s Latino voters are shifting toward Trump
Thirty years ago this fall, California’s Latino voters rallied into a multigenerational ethnic voting bloc for the first time in response to a tough citizen-led effort targeting immigrants who entered the state illegally. Proposition 187 called for denying most state taxpayer services to illegal immigrants. Although ultimately ruled unconstitutional, the proposal galvanized generations of Latino […]
FUSD shifting staff positions as ESSER funding ends
The Flagstaff Unified School District (FUSD) expects to finish the final spending of the federal COVID-19 Relief Fund by September and is now planning to adjust its paid position in schools. The school district has received three ESSER (Emergency Assistance for Elementary and Middle School) funds totaling $21.37 million since 2020 to help with the […]
Lawmakers to look at shifting Santa Cruz, Cochise county lines
Despite being rejected by colleagues, lawmakers in Southern Arizona have found a new way to implement a plan to see if part of Santa Cruz County should merge with Cochise County. R-Hereford Rep. Gail Griffin persuaded legislative leaders to set up a task force to investigate what would happen if the line between the two […]
