Month: March 2021

AL Political Reporter: “Monday was the last day for ballots to be received from workers at Amazon’s fulfillment center in Bessemer. What hangs in the balance is a monumental decision by those workers on whether to join a union, the results of which could send ripples through the massive company’s other centers.  If the majority…

Courier-Journal: “The Kentucky General Assembly passed significant legislation Monday night that will make three days of widespread early voting a regular part of the state’s future elections and expand people’s access to the ballot in other ways while also instituting new security measures.  The state House of Representatives’ Republican and Democrat members overwhelmingly voted late…

NY Times: “Representative Matt Gaetz, Republican of Florida and a close ally of former President Donald J. Trump, is being investigated by the Justice Department over whether he had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old and paid for her to travel with him, according to three people briefed on the matter. Investigators are examining whether…

The Daily Beast: “But their calls to boycott Georgia over this law? They’re just wrong, she says. “Sometimes being an ally means shutting up,” Taylor continues. “As soon as this began to happen, we heard people, especially people in Hollywood, say, ‘Oh, we’re going to boycott Georgia until they stop this.’ Right. And both me…

Yahoo! News: “New research published earlier this month in the American Journal of Public Health argues that Florida is undercounting the number of people who died from COVID-19 by thousands of cases, casting new doubt on claims that Gov. Ron DeSantis navigated the coronavirus pandemic successfully. Conservatives have celebrated DeSantis for his handling of the pandemic, which has killed…

The Dispatch: “Michael Wood voted for Donald Trump in 2020 because of his strong record on deregulation, Israel, the 2017 tax bill, and Supreme Court justices.  “You line all that up against—in early November 2020—an increasingly radicalized Democratic Party that was talking about packing the Supreme Court, abolishing the filibuster, statehood for Puerto Rico, statehood…

MS Free Press: “Discarding the Mississippi state flag of 1894 came in a fast final chapter last summer after decades of political impasse. It was the only remaining state flag in the U.S. featuring the Confederate emblem.  The police killing of George Floyd on May 25 started the ultimate event chain. At the June 6 Black Lives Matter protest in Jackson,…

MS Free Press: “Driver’s license suspensions over unpaid fines have long triggered a devastating domino effect on poor Americans, costing them not only their ability to commute, but their jobs and livelihood. But the 35 states that continue to enforce such penalties could find new reasons to reconsider if a bill that U.S. Sens. Roger Wicker,…

PBS: “Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Friday signed into law legislation allowing doctors to refuse to treat someone because of religious or moral objections, a move opponents have said will give providers broad powers to turn away LGBTQ patients and others. The measure says health care workers and institutions have the right to not participate…

The Daily Beast: “This is the team Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is assembling to investigate Donald Trump—to go after his advisers and their attempts to manipulate election results in Georgia….In interviews with Willis, her staff, five former members of the team, and several people who interacted with them, The Daily Beast has learned…