If the problems persist, "it's going to be a problem for the city of Chicago," which "wrote an anti-gentrification ordinance ...

Seventeen other states, however, say it’s illegal to ban plastic items, effectively placing a ban on a ban. This kind of legal maneuvering is booming. Four states created preemptions this year ...

Ashleigh Coleman In the Land Ordinance ... northwest of St. Louis. A few chiefs attended a conference with Harrison. There are no records of what transpired at the meeting, but the United States ...

At a time when marijuana arrests remained common across the United States ... The initiative also created a Marijuana Policy Review Panel to oversee the city’s compliance and impact. While critics ...

Indiana government has a new digital front door with the redesigned IN.gov website. The homepage now features an AI chatbot, ...

For all their progressive claims, Oregon and Washington trail nearly all other states in adding new sources ... What’s held the Northwest back is a bottleneck Oregon and Washington leaders ...

The land that would become Ohio at that time was part of the Northwest Territory, a vast stretch of land that was ceded to the United States after ... when the Northwest Ordinance was enacted.

One such document is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787. Following the Revolutionary War, the British ceded lands to the United States through the Treaty of Paris. The land that eventually became Ohio, ...

Regarding the Northwest Ordinance, the bill states it “extended fundamental principles of civil and religious liberty,” to the territories and said, “religion, morality, and knowledge ...

Adams and Jefferson began with education programs in their home states, but their ideas quickly became the work of Congress too. In passing the Northwest Ordinance of 1787—one of four founding ...

The origin of non-voting delegates in the U.S. House of Representatives goes back to the Continental Congress when they established the Northwest Ordinance in 1787. Most of the Delegates would ...

Actually, townships were in place in many Midwest states, including Michigan, before they even became states. They were just territories at the time. The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 charted a ...