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As the country tries to put COVID-19 in the rearview mirror, the 1.4 million nursing home workers who cared for our loved ones through the depth of the pandemic are seeing things get worse, not better, both for them and for the residents they love. Profit-driven nursing home ownership and decades of regulatory neglect, coupled with the pandemic’s fallout, have left skilled nursing facilities in dire crisis.

Tensions are escalating between Senate Democrats and the Congressional Black Caucus over the arcane tradition that gives a single senator veto power over President Joe Biden’s judicial picks.

Earlier this week, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced that it will begin seeking public comment about the proposed Libra Solar Project that would generate close to 700 megawatts of electricity on 5,500 acres of public lands mainly located in Mineral County.

Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) rallied outside the Capitol on Wednesday with Tennessee State Rep. Justin Jones (D-Nashville), in a call for gun control and an end to “attacks on democracy.”

The Brightline West project, a 218-mile, all-electric rail system slated for construction along the infamously congested Interstate 15 corridor, kicked off Monday morning at the site of its future Las Vegas Station in the central valley, with hundreds in attendance, from legislators and local business leaders to union contractors and other stakeholders.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee has become a new front in the battle for the future of American democracy after Republicans expelled two Black lawmakers from the state Legislature for their part in a protest urging passage of gun-control measures.