Tom Takubo

Dark Money Group Spins Local Election In National Initiative To Help Big Pharma

Health care officials and political leaders are worried. A dark money group dropped hundreds of thousands of dollars into a local primary election spreading falsehoods about the lieutenant governor and a program called 340B. 

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Baby Olivia Video Bill Passes Despite Bipartisan Pushback

Senate Bill 468 requires that public schools show a four minute video on human development to eighth graders and eleventh graders. An amendment to the bill includes language that life begins at conception.

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Senate Takes On School Discipline, Other Bills

Teachers may have the ability to remove troubled children from elementary school classrooms if Senate Bill 614 becomes law. The bill sparked a lot of debate on the chamber floor. It gives kindergarten through sixth grade teachers the ability to remove children from classes or from school if they are exhibiting certain behavior like threatening teachers or classmates or otherwise creating an unsafe learning environment. 

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