Month: April 2022

AL Political Reporter: “State Representative Steve McMillan of Bay Minette died Thursday at the age of 80. He had served in the Legislature for more than 40 years. McMillan had announced in January that three tumors had been discovered on his brain and that he would not be seeking re-election. Speaker Mac McCutcheon, R-Monrovia, said…

WaPo: “Crosley Green walked out of a Florida prison on April 8, 2021, more than three decades after he was convicted of a murder he always denied committing. Loved ones dressed in “Free Crosley” shirts rushed to greet him, laughing and crying as they threw their arms around his neck. A jury convicted Green of…

WaPo: “After Florida education officials rejected a number of math textbooks over alleged “woke content,”including references to critical race theory, some of the books have been reinstated. The Florida Department of Education announced Thursday thatnine books were added back to an adoption list of instructional materials for math after publishers removed prohibited topics from the…

WUNC: “California and 15 states that want the U.S. Postal Service to electrify its mail delivery vehicles are suing to halt purchases of thousands of gas-powered trucks as the agency modernizes its delivery fleet. Three separate lawsuits, filed by the states and environmental groups Thursday in New York and California, ask judges to order a…

NY Times: “Besieged by multiplying scandals and salacious accusations, Representative Madison Cawthorn, Republican of North Carolina, is under mounting pressure from both parties to end his short career in Congress. In rapid succession, Mr. Cawthorn, who entered Congress as a rising star of the party’s far right, has been accused of falsely suggesting that his…

NPR: “A Florida activist known for his tongue-in-cheek petitions to local government agencies has asked school districts in Florida to ban the Bible. In petitions sent to public school superintendents across the state, Chaz Stevens asked the districts to “immediately remove the Bible from the classroom, library, and any instructional material,” Stevens wrote in the…

Washington Examiner: “Rep. Madison Cawthorn may have violated federal insider trading laws as he hyped up an alleged pump-and-dump cryptocurrency scheme, multiple watchdog groups told the Washington Examiner. On Dec. 29, the beleaguered North Carolina congressman posed at a party with James Koutoulas, a hedge fund manager and the ringleader of the Let’s Go Brandon cryptocurrency, a meme coin set…

Election Integrity: “A bipartisan group of county-level election administrators — the people who actually run elections— spoke out against HB 1464, Georgia’s proposed election regulation bill. They warned voters that the bill would create absurd burdens on the already dwindling force of election workers and create a high likelihood of increased voter intimidation.  Local leaders were…

Miami Herald: “As Florida legislators were rushing through passage of a bill to repeal the special district that governs Walt Disney World last week, they failed to notice an obscure provision in state law that says the state could not do what legislators were doing — unless the district’s bond debt was paid off. Disney,…

North State Journal: “Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill Monday to create a police force dedicated to pursuing voter fraud and other election crimes, embracing a top priority of Republicans after former President Donald Trump’s 2020 election integrity concerns. The new law comes after the Republican governor made voting legislation a focus this year,…