Cicadas will likely first emerge during the third week of April or when areas experience “good rain,” cicada expert Gene Kritsky told USA TODAY.

The House Ways and Means Committee passed a tax increase on the state’s casino industry from 12% to 16%. Legislators believe the increase would raise as much as $50 million a year for state coffers. Lastly, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine wants to double the tax rate on the Buckeye State’s sports betting industry.

The administration is required to provide advance notice of mass layoffs to employees and states so that states can mobilize resources needed to process unemployment claims and care for unemployed workers,

Maryland is poised to double its sports betting tax rate, but this is not without opposition from the gambling industry.

Recent actions of Republicans and Democrats in multiple states are an explicit reminder that the war on people who use cannabis is ongoing.