Month: March 2022

Axios: “Mark Meadows, who previously served as former President Trump’s chief of staff, is under investigation for alleged voter fraud, the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigations (SBI) confirmed to Axios Thursday. Why it matters: The probe comes after the New Yorker reported that Meadows, also a former U.S. congressman, registered to vote in September 2020 using an…

SuperTalkFM: A four-part limited documentary series called Exposing Parchman has been announced to air on A&E Network. The documentary centers on a lawsuit that was filed in 2020 by rapper Yo Gotti and Team Roc against former Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) Commissioner Pelicia Hall and Parchman superintendent of the Mississippi State Penitentiary Marshal Turner. Jay-Z is…

Off the Kuff: “As dominating as Gov. Greg Abbott’s GOP primary victory on Tuesday looked at first blush, a closer look at the results shows a nagging problem within his own party that could ultimately cost him in his race against Democratic nominee Beto O’Rourke. Although two-thirds of the Republican Party voters statewide backed Abbott…

Culpeper Star Exponent: “After reviewing 11 challenged books found in certain school libraries in the Bedford County Public Schools system, BCPS administrators and book review committees decided not to remove any of the challenged titles from school libraries. At the November School Board meeting, some parents called for the removal of certain book titles in…

AR Times: “The Arkansas House completed business after adjournment [yesterday] by supporting  Rep. Matthew Shepherd of El Dorado for a third term as speaker of the House. The election was actually for speaker designate, with the formal election to occur when the next legislative session begins in 2023. An effort by Rep. Austin McCollum of Bentonville to take the chair apparently…

NC Policy Watch: “In an afternoon full of recitations of numbers and policy details on states’ experiences with Medicaid expansion, former Ohio governor John Kasich told North Carolina legislators that getting health insurance to more people was just the right thing to do. “What I would say to the fine members of the legislature in…

AL Political Reporter: “Nearly three in five Alabamians (59.3 percent), including 56.1 percent of Republican voters, support legislation that would remove the state sales tax on groceries without cutting education funding, according to a new poll commissioned by Alabama Arise. Only 25.3 percent of respondents opposed the plan, with another 15.5 percent saying they were unsure…

Political Wire: ““Republican lawmakers in Georgia were poised on Tuesday to advance a bill expanding law enforcement’s power to investigate election fraud, adding to a broader push by U.S. conservatives for more restrictive voting laws after former President Donald Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was rigged,” Reuters reports.”

AL Political Reporter: “Barbara Maxwell found out her son died in an Alabama prison from another incarcerated man who called her, and from a Facebook post by another who said he’d overdosed on fentanyl and heroin.  Maxwell now wants to spread awareness of the rampant drug problem in Alabama’s overpopulated, understaffed and deadly prisons. She…

MS Free Press: “Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves declared a victory today as he signed a bill into law that he and other Republican lawmakers have falsely claimed would ban the teaching of “critical race theory” in the state’s public schools and community colleges. In a pre-taped video that the governor posted to his social-media channels…