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Route Fifty
Recently, Minnesotans who rape their spouses can be charged with sexual assault, following the repeal of a statute that had previously made it difficult to prosecute such cases. The legislative change, approved unanimously by Minnesota lawmakers and signed by Gov. Tim Walz in May, was pushed by Jenny Teeson, who discovered she had been drugged and sexually assaulted by her now ex-husband only after finding video of the incident on her laptop.
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Government Executive
The Homeland Security Department’s watchdog sounded the alarm on recently over the Trump administration’s treatment of migrants and the conditions at the facilities in which they are detained, calling on management to address “dangerous overcrowding” and “prolonged detention” in violation of federal standards.
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Insurance Journal
The perennial issue in the gig economy is whether workers should be classified as employees. Uber Technologies Inc., Lyft Inc. and other companies that rely on contract work have dealt with this question in a number of ways: staging PR campaigns, hiring lobbyists and arguing in court that they’re software platforms, not employers. At Getaround Inc., which helps people rent out their personal cars online, the startup is employing an uncommon legal tactic in the hope of defeating a class-action lawsuit before it starts.
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Kaiser Health News
A green van was parked on the edge of downtown Miami, on a corner shadowed by overpasses. The vehicle serves as a mobile health clinic and syringe exchange, where people who inject drugs like heroin and fentanyl could swap dirty needles for fresh ones. One of the clinic’s regular visitors, a man with heavy black arrows tattooed on his arms, waited on the sidewalk to get clean needles.
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NextGov
Benjamin Schneider writes "One afternoon in late May, a Bird scooter appeared in front of my house in San Francisco. This would be considered a normal sight in many American cities, where the shared electric vehicles have been available for by-the-minute rentals since 2018. But Bird isn’t part of San Francisco’s 12-month scooter pilot program—the company is only permitted to rent its fleet of black-and-white two-wheelers cross the bay in Oakland."
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Government Technology
Pushback from a number of large cities in California is shaping a proposed state law meant to regulate bike-share and e-scooter operations. The latest version of Assembly Bill 1112 would allow cities to ban the e-scooter operations if they can justify the move is based on the California Environmental Quality Act. That’s a significant move from the bill’s earlier versions just two months ago, which would have not only enabled the businesses to operate, but prohibited cities from adopting regulations so stringent as to function as a de facto ban.
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Governing
The first inkling the city of Ann Arbor, Michigan, had that its drinking water was contaminated was five years ago. That was when the federal government started including a class of common industrial chemicals called PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) in routine testing it asked the city to do. At the time, few people in the Michigan city understood how dangerous and prevalent those chemicals could be.
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Governing
Just one kilometer east of downtown Toronto, the largest civil engineering project in North America is reshaping the course of the Don River, a major waterway. “We’re extending the Don by about 2 kilometers,” says Cam Coleman, a communications director with the Canadian construction firm EllisDon. Once the project is complete, a canyon of caissons, drilled 40 to 80 meters into the bedrock and filled with concrete, will carry the river southward, through a largely vacant industrial area known as the Port Lands and out into Lake Ontario.
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