Tag: ron desantis
Arizona interest in anti-mask school vouchers outpaces funds
A program announced by Arizona’s Republican governor last month to give private school vouchers to parents who object to campus mask requirements...
Joe Biden calls school chiefs, lauds defiance of anti-mask rules
President Joe Biden called school district superintendents in Florida and Arizona to praise them for doing “the right thing” after their respective...
States that had a grip on COVID now seeing a crush...
The COVID-19 surge that is sending hospitalizations to all-time highs in parts of the South is also clobbering states like Hawaii and...
Schools fight back against GOP governors, defy bans on masks
With the highly contagious delta variant fueling a surge in coronavirus cases just as students return to classrooms, major school districts in...
Doug Ducey backs SCOTUS case that could overturn Roe v Wade
Gov. Doug Ducey has joined 11 other Republican governors, asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade abortion ruling, AZ Central reported....
New CDC guidelines set off rush to reimpose mask mandates
New guidance from the federal government set off a cascade of mask rules across the nation Wednesday as cities, states, schools, and...
Doug Ducey joins 14 governors; urge swift release of 2020 Census...
Gov. Doug Ducey and fourteen other governors wrote a joint letter to Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo urging a swift release of the census...
Florida governor heeds call from Texas, Arizona for border help
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis castigated the Biden administration for what he called “a disaster and an emergency” at the nation’s border with Mexico and...
Some in GOP worry new limits will hurt their voters, too
As Republicans march ahead with their campaign to tighten voting laws in political battlegrounds, some in their party are worried the restrictions will backfire...
Fear, lack of funding hurt census in Sunbelt, advocates say
According to the new census, the booming Sunbelt isn’t booming quite like the experts thought.
Population counts released Monday came as a shock to many...
