Newscasts
PNS Daily News- February 15, 2019
Shutdown averted and a national emergency declaration; A push in Iowa for virtual caucus attendance for 2020 primaries; and concerns about legislation that could hide oil pipeline records. Those stories and more in today’s news.
Daily Newscasts
Environment
Thursday, February 14, 2019
PHOENIX – A new poll shows an overwhelming majority of Arizonans support the growing use of clean and renewable energy in the state.
The survey, from the Arizona Public Interest Research Group Education Fund, found that voters see those issues as important to growing jobs and the Arizona economy.
Diane Brown ...Read More
Thursday, February 14, 2019
HARTFORD, Conn. – Obey the law by reducing interstate air pollution – that's the message environmental groups want a federal court to deliver to the Environmental Protection Agency.
Smog-forming air pollution follows the wind, and in 2015 the EPA determined that planned actions in states such as Illinois ...Read More
Health and Wellness
Thursday, February 14, 2019
CONCORD, N.H. – More than 43 million Americans are suffering from mental illness, but less than half, or 43 percent, receive treatment, according to the new State of Mental Health in America report.
Trisha Ellis coordinates New Hampshire's In Our Own Voice workshops and encourages people to recognize that mental illness isn't "who they ...Read More
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Groups that promote greater access to health care cheered Tuesday as Gov. Gavin Newsom made the issue a central part of his State of the State address. The governor criticized what he called the Trump administration's "vandalism" of the Affordable Care Act.
Anthony Wright, executive director of the nonprofit Health Access ...Read More
Social Issues
Friday, February 15, 2019
SANTA FE, N.M. – New Mexico could become the 12th state to get behind the National Popular Vote idea if approved by the state Senate and signed by the governor.
The National Popular Vote bill would guarantee the U.S. Presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
Barry Fadem ...Read More
Thursday, February 14, 2019
BOISE, Idaho – Critics of computer algorithms that predict someone's risk of committing a crime say they're tinged with racial bias.
A bipartisan measure in the Idaho Legislature aims to make the algorithms transparent and ban those that show bias.
Civil rights groups, including the ACLU and NAACP ...Read More
