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NEWS: June 24, 2016
Ruling Clears Way for Race-Conscious College Admissions The Supreme Court's decision to uphold race-conscious college admissions came as a welcome surprise to many university officials and civil-rights activists. Advocates had feared that the court might rule that there was no longer a place for affirmative action. But the 4-to-3 decision in Fisher v. University of Texas means that universities can continue using race as one of multiple factors in their admissions decisions. >> Washington Post Inmates to Get Pell Grants Under Pilot Program As many as 12,000 prison inmates will be able to use federal Pell grants to finance college classes despite a 22-year congressional ban on financial aid to prisoners. The Obama administration selected 67 colleges and universities Thursday for the pilot program. >> Washington Post Grambling State's President Quits After Less Than a Year Willie Larkin, president of northern Louisiana's historically black Grambling State University for less than a year, resigned following a personnel evaluation by the Louisiana System Board of Supervisors. >> Baton Rouge Advocate Immigration | The Nation Will Immigration Setback Energize Hispanic Voters? Republicans cheered after the Supreme Court thwarted President Obama's plan to offer millions of undocumented immigrants relief from deportation, but any sense of triumph might last only until November. Stalled immigration reform could energize Hispanic voters in support of likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. >> Reuters
Court Voids Residency Rules for Municipal Employees Milwaukee officials fear that a flood of city workers will move to the suburbs in the wake of a state Supreme Court ruling that police officers and other municipal employees can no longer be required to live in the cities where they work. Republican Gov. Scott Walker applauded the residency ruling, but Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, a Democrat, called the court's decision "a sad day for Wisconsin." >> Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Lawmaker: Don't Punish Feds Who Refuse to Break Rules U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy, a Wisconsin Republican who is looking to block a federal court ruling that allows federal agencies to punish employees who refuse to break rules and regulations, introduced a measure that would block funding to implement the decision. >> Government Executive 2 Nominated to Fill Out New Jersey Civil Service Panel New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie nominated two Republicans for the bipartisan Civil Service Commission, which has been without a quorum since December when the terms of two members expired. >> NJ.com Public Safety | The Nation Coast Guard Ends Sales of Assault-Style Guns Assault-style firearms are no longer being sold at four Coast Guard exchange stores that handle firearms. John Riley, chief operating officer for the Coast Guard exchanges, said the June 12 killing of 49 people at a nightclub in Orlando, Fla., was "the tipping point" but that "it's something we've been looking at for several months." >> AP/Military Times California Launching Center for Study of Gun Violence The state has allocated $5 million to the University of California to open the nation's first public research center for the study of gun violence, filling a hole Congress left when it effectively banned the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's gun research in 1996. >> Governing
New GSA Tech Team's Leader Leaving After Short Tenure The overseer of the General Services Administration's in-house tech consultancy, 18F, is leaving after two years on the job and less than two months after being promoted to lead a new tech unit. Phaedra Chrousos, the commissioner of the new Technology Transformation Service, said she will be taking maternity leave but that she won't be returning to her post at GSA. >> Nextgov Aide Who Set Up Clinton's Email Server Takes Fifth Invoking his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination, the computer technician who set up Hillary Clinton's private email server for her work as secretary of state declined to answer questions more than 125 times during a deposition ordered by a federal judge. >> Reuters, The Hill Public Health | Flint, Mich. Feds: Filtered Water Now Safe for Everyone Certified water filters distributed in Flint effectively reduce lead levels and should now be considered safe to provide drinking water for everyone, including pregnant women, nursing mothers and children, federal officials said. More than 25,600 Flint homes--more than 90 percent of the water system's customers--now have water filters. >> Detroit Free Press >> Follow GovManagement on Twitter >> Share this edition:
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DATAPOINT 91% and 86% Percentage of Republicans and Democrats, respectively, who view the opposing party "very unfavorably," according to a new Pew Research Center survey indicating that America's partisan divide is deeper today than it has been at any point in nearly a quarter-century, with nearly half the members of both parties saying their opponents stir feelings of fear and anger in them >> New York Times | More data
“The Obama administration goes to great lengths to police the menus of K-12 cafeterias, but looks the other way as billions of taxpayer dollars finance a steady diet of Mars bars and Mountain Dew.” Maine's Republican governor, Paul LePage, in a letter to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack threatening that if Vilsack's department won't allow Maine to ban the purchase of sugar-sweetened drinks and candy with food stamps he will end the state's administration of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program >> Portland Press Herald | More quotes VIEWPOINT Immigration | Roberto G. Gonzales The Immigration Ruling's Troubling Consequences No one has to wonder about the enormous consequences of the Supreme Court's decision to let stand a lower-court ruling blocking President Obama's plan to protect from deportation millions of undocumented immigrants who are parents of citizens or permanent residents. All you have to do is look at how much the smaller program that it was modeled on has accomplished and multiply. Close to 730,000 young people have taken giant steps toward the American mainstream as a result of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and have, in turn, contributed significantly to American society. >> Washington Post | More commentaries UPCOMING EVENTS National Association of Regional Councils Annual Conference June 26-29, Salt Lake City National Education Association Annual Meeting and Representative Assembly June 27-July 7, Washington, D.C. Brookings Institution Lecture by Lloyd Axworthy, Canada's former minister of foreign affairs: "Pursuing Justice in a Globalized World: Reflections on the Commitment of Madeleine K. Albright" June 28, 10-11:30 a.m. ET, Washington, D.C. Heritage Foundation Address by FTC Commissioner Maureen K. Ohlhausen and discussion: "Federal Online Data Security Regulation: Where Are We Going?" June 28, noon-1 p.m., Washington, D.C. Urban Institute, Center for Law and Social Policy and Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Discussion: "Making Government Programs Work for Families" June 28, noon-1:30 p.m. ET, Washington, D.C. American Society for Public Administration Student and young professional webinar: "Resumes, Resumes, Resumes: Marketing Yourself on the Page" June 28, 1 p.m. ET Governing Webinar: "Modern Solutions for Serving Vulnerable Children and their Families" June 28, 2 p.m. ET Jennifer Schaus & Associates Lunch seminar: "Getting Your Financial House In Order" June 30, noon-1:30 p.m. ET, Tysons Corner, Va. >> Full events listings |
