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In 2024, the year after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law a ban on diversity, equity and inclusion programs at state colleges, Milliken testified at the state house that UT closed 21 DEI offices, removed 311 DEI-related jobs and canceled more than 600 contracts connected to diversity issues.

McKinney was first elected to the Michigan state House in 2022, representing the 14th district.

In the state House, McKinney has championed community violence intervention programs and public schools.

With songs that averaged about a minute in length, SS Decontrol — Society System Decontrol for long, SSD for short — railed furiously against what the members saw as the hypocrisy and the oppressive tendencies of government, the police and organized religion on albums such as 1982’s “The Kids Will Have Their Say,” which bore a cover photo depicting a group of young people storming the steps of the Massachusetts State House.

In the past I would have been gleefully reading everything I could about the Pennsylvania state house races and following what was going on down in Florida in the two deep red GOP seats trending towards upsets.