The Florida Legislature’s failure to pass a bill mandating regular condominium inspections leaves in place a lax regimen experts say is full of glaring loopholes that endanger residents of aging buildings… The bill would have required periodic, routine inspections of most condo buildings — something that doesn’t exist under current law. The main disagreement was over a mandate that condos set aside money to cover future repairs.
The bill was prompted by the catastrophic collapse last June of the Champlain Towers South condo in Surfside, where unit owners bickered for years over paying for needed structural repairs, delaying the work. The building partially collapsed as work was finally underway. (Miami Herald)
Idaho’s bill, H.B. 675, is an addendum to an existing ban on female genital mutilation. It proposes that gender-affirming care for transgender youths, including hormone therapy and puberty blockers, be categorized in the same way that castration and hysterectomies are for minors… The bill, passed on a mostly party-line vote, would make providing gender-affirming care a felony, punishable by up to life in prison. It goes farther than other legislation by making transporting a child to another state to receive that care a felony, too…. There is clear overlap among the states proposing more aggressive restrictions on abortion and transgender youths: Alabama, Ohio, Louisiana, Iowa and Mississippi are all considering bills that would limit age-appropriate hormone therapy for minors. They are also among at least 26 states poised to ban abortion if the Supreme Court weakens or overturns Roe v. Wade, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit research center that supports abortion rights…. Experts say the overlap is because opposition to abortion and transgender people have become litmus tests for the Republican Party… Last week, Dave Carney, a senior adviser for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s (R) reelection campaign, told reporters he considers the politics of the transgender youth issue as a “75, 80 percent winner” for the governor. (Washington Post)
BE AFRAID America, SERIOUSLY be AFRAID, I CERTAINLY AM, and I even live in a BLUE STATE, MASSACHUSETTS! So it seems that the GERRYMANDERED SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICAN STATES OF AMERIKA, want to obstruct your freedom as a female to control and restrict your REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS, control, and restrict your PARENTAL RIGHTS! To actually say the word, GAY, to acknowledge the personal needs of your child should they be TRANSGENDER, to deny any facts from history that remind you of our BIGOTED, RACIST, MISOGYNISTIC, HOMOPHOBIC, ANTI-SEMITIC PAST! All of this of course under the pretense that somehow personal freedoms are at stake, and God Knows, that GOD himself hates you for loving your child or yourself! (God is a HE in REPUBLICAN-VILLE). BUT go ahead and live in a Condo, or a House and NEVER be bothered by SAFETY INSPECTIONS or CARRYING GUNS and using them in schools/colleges/movie theaters! Join a Militia and try and overthrow the US Government. And even as the more AUTHORITARIAN SCHEMES AND MACHINATIONS of the GOP arise like weeds in the spring, polls tell us that the REPUBLICANS have a great chance to take control of the Congress during MIDTERMS! Holy Shit!
