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PNS Daily Newscast - September 21, 2018
We’re covering stories from around the nation including a victory for safety for nuclear site workers; President Trump chastises Republicans for not securing border wall funding; and a predicted spike in population fuels concerns about the need for care.
Archive: November 01, 2016
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – With just a week before the election, Missouri's largest grassroots environmental group is mobilizing against Constitutional Amendment 6, otherwise known as the Voter ID law. If approved, it would amend the state constitution to require voters to prove their citizenship ...Read More
MINNEAPOLIS – Each weekday in the United States, 69 million children are cared for outside of the home, including 11 million children younger than five years old. Not only is affordable quality care a necessity for all of these families, but emergency plans for child-care providers are critica ...Read More
DENVER – Coloradans for Coloradans, the group working to defeat Amendment 69 on the statewide ballot, a measure that would create a universal health-care system, raised five times more money than the initiative's proponents, according to new analysis by Clean Slate Now. Jon Biggerstaff, the ...Read More
PORTLAND, Ore. – Two major economic reports on Measure 97 leave out the potential value of investment in education, health care and senior citizen services to Oregon's economy, according to a new report. Doctor Richard Sims, chief economist for the National Education Association, analyzed th ...Read More
PHOENIX – Annual enrollment for the health-care marketplace opens today and runs through the end of January. So now's the time to sign up for a plan or find a new one if your insurance plan is being discontinued, as several health insurers have exited the federal marketplace. Each county still ...Read More
NEW YORK – School suspensions in New York City fell last year, but the latest data shows that African-American children still are much more likely to be suspended. In the 2015 to 2016 school year, there were fewer than 38,000 suspensions from city schools, a decline of about 16 perent from la ...Read More
