She serves as a member of the Moberly City Council and recently was awarded the “Henry S. Geyer Award” from the Mizzou Alumni Association for her advocacy for higher education.

Nearly all of Georgia’s representatives in the U.S. House have signed on to support a resolution that would establish a new national park in Georgia.

The United States is halfway to the next once-a-decade census, but the Supreme Court is still dealing with lawsuits that grew ...

Several conservative justices were skeptical that the Voting Rights Act’s attempts to redress past discrimination can coexist ...

Pedestrian deaths have become a more common consequence of traffic accidents, and one congresswoman with a history in Watertown is hoping to push federal authorities to take pedestrian safety more ...

Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon represents Pennsylvania’s Fifth Congressional District, south of Philadelphia. She was born in Syracuse and raised in Watertown. Scanlon, a Democrat, introduced the Pedestrian ...

The U.S. Justice Department withdrew from a lawsuit alleging that Texas’ legislative and congressional district maps drawn after the 2020 U.S. Census discriminated against Latino and Black ...

Legislation that would allow students to enroll in neighboring school districts won approval from the Missouri House on Wednesday. The 88-69 vote saw 22 Republicans join with all but three ...

The bill would take nearly $30 million of funding away from Oregon’s Fifth Congressional District, putting a halt to projects ranging from providing clean drinking water to reducing traffic.

Twelve non-Black plaintiffs filed suit against the state over the new congressional district lines drawn in 2024's Senate Bill 8. Lawmakers redrew the district map as a result of the 2023 Robinson v.

Her colleague Rep. Josh Gottheimer, a Democrat who represents the 5th Congressional District, holds a monthly virtual town hall called “Cup of Joe with Josh,” and the next one will take place ...