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Detroit City Council narrowly votes to extend gunshot detection tech, after passionate split debate
The Detroit City Council voted Tuesday to extend the city’s contract with California-based tech company SoundThinking Inc. for its ShotSpotter gunshot detection technology.
Push to add limits on school sports participation to Nebraska Constitution gathers 211k signatures
A ballot measure that would let Nebraska voters decide whether to limit sports participation in public K-12 schools and colleges to teams that are biologically male, female or co-ed has enough signatures to be on the November ballot, the conservative-leaning group behind it announced Tuesday.
Most Kentucky opioid settlement money is not being spent, new report shows
Local governments in receipt of opioid settlement dollars are sitting on most of the money, according to a Tuesday analysis from The Kentucky Center for Economic Policy.
Report: Indiana leads nation in decline of children insured through Medicaid
An estimated 174,000 fewer Hoosier children were insured through Medicaid programs in April compared to January 2025, according to a report from Georgetown University School of Public Policy.
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