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In a rare move these days, The Dallas Morning News hires a public editor - Poynter

The news organization hopes to reestablish trust by creating "a bridge between the public and our newsroom," the publisher says.

Did You Know The Oldest Degree-Granting HBCU Was Founded 170 Years Ago Today? | Essence

On April 29, 1854, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania granted a charter to Ashmun Institute, which in 1866 would become renamed after President Lincoln, to what is now known as Lincoln University.

Massachusetts: Health Connector celebrates 18th Anniversary of healthcare reform (that's not a typo) | ACA Signups

This is actually from a couple of weeks ago (I'm playing catchup from my trip to Houston): via the Massachusetts Health Connector: The Massachusetts Health Connector is celebrating today’s 18th anniversary of health care reform in Massachusetts, highlighting all-time high enrollment in health a..

Library Futures | The Kids Online Safety Act Denies Young People’s Freedoms of Expression and Privacy

Championing the right to equitable access to knowledge.

Florida bans gender changes on driver's licenses

The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles issued a memo last Friday telling county tax collectors not to allow people to update their gender identities on driver's licenses and to prove that the gender on the license is the person's biological sex.

Utah's Anti-Trans Bathroom Bill Rattles Sundance

As the film festival celebrated the work of several LGBTQ artists, its home state passed the first bathroom ban of the year.

Pa. Supreme Court grapples with whether abortion is protected by state constitution

The ruling is the first to grapple with the question of whether Pennsylvania's constitution protects reproductive autonomy since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

Illinois vaccination rates low, cause of concern for a possible measles outbreak

The CDC has issued an alert for healthcare providers to be on alert for measles. The highly infectious virus was eliminated in the U.S. nearly 20 years ago, but now several states have measles outb...

US Ambassador Nikki Haley’s Disappointing UN Rights Legacy | Human Rights Watch

Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the United Nations, will not be remembered as a staunch defender of human rights when she resigns at the end of the year. She vigorously defended egregious Israeli abuses like the unlawful use of lethal force that killed over 150 protesters in Gaza this year. But he..

Supreme Court to hear arguments in a case that could weaken federal rulemaking : NPR

The court is considering whether to scrap nearly 40 years of precedent in a case that could weaken federal agencies' power to regulate everything from the environment to guns.

Does the EPA Die Today? - by Thom Hartmann

The Supreme Court, it appears, is planning to gut most of America’s regulatory agencies in what could be the most consequential re-write of the protective “deep state” since the New Deal…