This article exposes the harsh reality of homelessness, systemic failure, and survival-driven crime in America. Using my personal experience as a homeless father, I show how agencies prioritize billing over real help, leaving families in the woods. Packed with facts and statistics, it reveals how poverty and lack of resources push otherwise law-abiding people toward desperate measures — and why the system is failing those who need it most.

This article exposes how Kansas’ KanCare and mental health agencies prioritize billing over real help. Using my personal experience as a homeless father, I reveal how clients are counted as “served” while waiting for case management, housing, and medication — showing how the system profits while human lives are left in the cold.

Homeless, blocked, and ignored — I spent 15 years raising my daughter without support, only to face a system that punishes those who do everything right. Agencies, courts, and policies trap families in limbo. This is my story of survival, obstruction, and a system designed to grind people down.

Governor Greg Abbott finds himself at the heart of Texas' heated hemp and THC debate. Recently, he vetoed Senate Bill 3, which aimed to ban all consumable THC products, including gummies, vapes, and beverages. The bill, backed by Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, sought strict prohibition, but Abbott’s veto preserved the booming hemp industry that generates billions for Texas’ economy. His decision reflects growing public support for regulated THC products rather than outright bans, balancing economic benefits with health and safety concerns. Following the veto, Abbott called a special legislative session to revisit THC regulation, aiming to find a middle ground amid political divisions. Abbott’s stance highlights a complex clash between conservative values, business interests, and evolving public opinion on cannabis-related products in Texas. This showdown will shape the future of hemp and THC in the state for years to come.

Eric Adams didn't have time to put contracts up for bid. Some of the migrant shelter security guards hired by the city are making $117 an hour. Basically, Adams and his administrators took $50 million and set it on fire.

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Do-it-yourselfers and repair shops are celebrating a victory in Minnesota with the enactment of a new law that requires many manufacturers to share parts and information with tinkerers and small businesses.

Former eight-year Army veteran Wilma Fiddmont’s dreams of settling into a comfortable life in Georgia took a sharp detour that left her homeless and sleeping in her car. Her life was in shambles as the little money she had saved up quickly disappeared while she was living in hotel rooms, but she would quickly rebound in 2021 after searching phone book listings led to her discovering a new Warner Robins shelter that is aiming to end chronic homelessness for women who served in the military.

A letter delivered Thursday from more than 115 Nebraska business leaders tells Gov. Jim Pillen and state lawmakers that two proposals attacking LGBTQ+ rights are hurting job recruitment and retention in the state.

Gov. Bill Lee has signed a new law that puts book publishers, sellers and distributors at risk of prosecution for providing written materials to the state’s public schools that may at any point be deemed obscene.

Gov. Bill Lee has signed a new law that puts book publishers, sellers and distributors at risk of prosecution for providing written materials to the state’s public schools that may at any point be deemed obscene.

Amid sharp divisions between Republicans and Democrats, the Legislature has approved measures for Florida’s public schools that could help or hurt — by restricting “pronouns,” quickly removing certain books in classrooms and school libraries, and expanding a ban on discussion in sexual orientation or gender identity

A chorus of these chants echoed in front of the Statehouse Wednesday as part of a rally to protest a controversial higher education bill that would drastically alter Ohio universities.

New Mexico’s congressional delegation on Wednesday again introduced the Chaco Cultural Heritage Area Protection Act, with support from Pueblo governments and environmental organizations.

District Court Judge Mike Menahan said Tuesday he won’t put an emergency stop to Montana Speaker of the House Matt Regier’s censure of Rep. Zooey Zephyr. On a party-line vote, the House censured the Missoula Democrat last week alleging a breach of decorum after a protest in the gallery broke out by people who wanted Regier to recognize Zephyr to speak on the floor.

A top Republican election lawyer recently caused a stir when she told GOP donors that the party should work to make it harder for college students to vote in key states. But the comments from Cleta Mitchell, who worked closely with then-President Donald Trump to try to overturn the 2020 election, are perhaps less surprising than they seem.

As a lawsuit by transgender Idahoans against the state’s Medicaid administrators makes its way through federal court, Gov. Brad Little stepped in this week to clarify the state’s official position on the matter.

Stanton Healthcare's strategy is a window into how the anti-abortion movement is looking for ways to stop abortions nationwide in the absence of a federal ban.

A group of Helena professionals who work in tech made their way to the Montana Capitol on Tuesday to join a revolving crew of people protecting the bench where Rep. Zooey Zephyr, D-Missoula, has been representing her constituents.

An Arizona judge overseeing a high-profile lawsuit accusing the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints of conspiring to cover-up child sex abuse has ruled that the church may not refuse to answer questions or turn over documents under the state’s “clergy-penitent privilege.”