Tag: Gov.

18 SEP

A bus contractor hired by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to transport migrants to New York signed an agreement not talk to NY officials, complicating volunteer efforts to help: report

One of the migrants. Vanessa Leroy for Insider Texas has bused thousands of migrants to east coast cities over the past few months.  A contractor busing the migrants has been banned from speaking with New York City officials, the AP reported.  The lack of communication complicates non-profit groups efforts to meet and help those arriving.  […]

17 SEP

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves says it’s ‘a great day to not be in Jackson,’ where residents went without clean running water for weeks

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves seen on June 30, 2020. Rogelio V. Solis/Pool via REUTERS More than 150,000 people in Jackson — Mississippi's largest city and capital — went without clean running water for weeks. Speaking in Hattiesburg on Friday, Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves said it was "a great day to not be in Jackson." Jackson […]

12 SEP

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says Republicans are approaching big business all wrong: ‘Corporatism is not the same as free enterprise’

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at the Unite and Win Rally in support of Pennsylvania Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano at the Wyndham Hotel on August 19, 2022 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Jeff Swensen/Getty Images Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has gotten into high-profile fights with Disney and Big Tech. It's a model Republicans should follow, he […]

01 OCT

California gov. signs nation’s strictest net neutrality rules into law

Enlarge / Net neutrality supporter protests the FCC’s repeal outside a federal building in Los Angeles, California, on November 28, 2017. (credit: Getty Images | Ronen Tivony | NurPhoto) California Governor Jerry Brown today signed net neutrality legislation into law, setting up a legal showdown pitting his state against Internet service providers and the Federal […]

11 SEP

CA Gov. says 100% clean electricity not enough, state must go carbon neutral

(credit: Reyner Media / Flickr) On Monday, California Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill mandating that the state’s utilities move to 100-percent zero-emission electricity generation by 2045. Brown also issued an executive order today requiring the state to become carbon neutral by 2045, that is, mandating that the state remove as much greenhouse gas from […]

12 APR

Bombshell report details sexual misconduct allegations against Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens

Jeff Roberson/AP Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens initiated a physically aggressive unwanted sexual encounter with his hairdresser, according to testimony from the woman released by a House committee on Wednesday. The graphic report details multiple instances in which the woman said Greitens spanked, slapped, grabbed, shoved and called her derogatory names during a series of sexual encounters. It […]

16 FEB

Video games, not guns, to blame for school shooting, says Kentucky gov.

In the wake of a shooting that left at least 17 dead on Wednesday in a high school outside Boca Raton, Florida, Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin (R) focused on violent video games as part of a “culture of death that is being celebrated” and leading to these kinds of incidents. “There are video games that, […]