| Public Policy Tipoffs Involving Kentucky Newsletter for Tuesday May 07, 2024 ( 2 items ) |
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Disabled American Veterans: 80 Years Later, D-Day Veterans Reflect on Operation Overlord
ERLANGER, Kentucky, May 7 -- Disabled American Veterans issued the following news:
By Brian Buckwalter
June 6, 1944, marked the first time George Mullins was ever in battle.
The day before, he boarded a Landing Ship, Tank (LST) to cross the English Channel to France as a replacement soldier with the Army's 327th Glider Infantry Regiment supporting the 101st Airborne Division for Operation Overlord.
Mullins recalled that just before the troops loaded up, then-Maj. Gen. Maxwell Taylor, the com
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HRC's Weekly State Fights Report: South Carolina Poised to Plunge South Into Health Care Crisis for Transgender People
WASHINGTON, May 7 -- The Human Rights Campaign issued the following Weekly State Fights Report on May 6, 2024:
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TOPLINE TAKEAWAYS:
* 24 states are currently in session as of May 3
* 20 states have ended the session as of May 3
* So far we are tracking about 820+ bills:
- 210+ pro-equality
- 435+ anti-LGBTQ+
- Twenty-six anti-LGBTQ+ bills have passed into law: Alabama: SB 129, Alabama: SB 48, Alabama: HB 89, Florida: C.S./H.B. 1425, Florida: C.S./H.B. 1291, Idaho: HB 668, Idaho: HB 4
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