In addition to the good news below, we want to thank the 34 people who responded to our request with love notes for our volunteer team. Thanks for lifting us up with your words of gratitude!
Remember that negative news is designed to keep you emotionally hooked. The more time you watch, the more advertisements you see. Make a choice today to moderate your consumption of negative news, and instead, revel in all the good things happening in our nation recently:
- Congress passes and the president signs the reauthorization of funding for migratory bird conservation.
- The Biden-Harris administration requires federally-funded state & Tribal foster care agencies to ensure that LGBTQI+ youth are placed in homes where they will be safe from discrimination, harassment, and so-called “conversion therapy.”
- Danna Jackson (Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes) is nominated to serve as a federal judge in the U.S. District Court for Montana, potentially becoming the first Indigenous person to serve as a federal judge in the state.
- The DOJ will file an antitrust suit against Live Nation for its monopoly on entertainment ticket sales.
- The FTC bans new noncompete clauses for all agency workers, protecting the freedom of employees to change jobs.
- CA’s energy grid recently ran only on clean energy sources for 9.5 hours.
- KS’s legislature votes to sustain Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of legislation that would have banned gender-affirming healthcare for transgender youth.
- MD passes a slate of legislation to improve access to affordable housing and protect renters, including a Tenants Bill of Rights.
- NE residents with past felony convictions are automatically eligible to vote upon completion of their sentences under newly-passed legislation.
- PA: CVS Health Plans and Geisinger Health Plans cover over-the-counter contraception with or without a prescription at no cost.
- A federal appeals court rules that it is discriminatory for WV and NC to refuse coverage of gender-affirmative healthcare for transgender people with government-sponsored insurance.
- Middletown, RI high school students run a voter registration drive for their classmates as part of the Secretary of State’s Civic Liaison Program.
- The League of Women Voters’ resource website, Vote411.org, is nominated for a Webby Award in the Government & Associations: Websites and Mobile Sites category.
- Kids with incarcerated parents can enjoy story time with them at Becca’s Place, a cozy reading area within Chicago’s Cook County Department of Corrections.
- Construction on the U.S.’s first high-speed rail begins in the southwest.