Month: July 2022

The Atlantic: “Every American child in public school learns that the U.S. political system is one of checks and balances, in which the judicial, executive, and legislative branches constrain one another to ensure that no one branch of government exercises too much power. One pending case before the Supreme Court asks: What if they didn’t?…

Political Wire: “Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe “predicted that former President Donald Trump will face an indictment in Georgia before he is potentially charged with a crime by the Justice Department,” Newsweek reports.”

WUNC: “Both of these young men are part of the North Carolina Clean Energy Youth Apprenticeship Program. Evans is taking the solar energy route, while Jimenez is learning about heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC). The pilot of this program launched last year. This summer, the program has doubled in size. This program is the first…

Proud news for one of Louisiana’s own: WaPo: “In the late 1980s, Maj. Ronald Bailey met a young Marine he knew had promise. Michael E. Langley was a powerlifter who dominated flag football games, an intellectual who set records for how many training courses he wrote and a problem-solver whose bosses frequently tapped him to…

AL Political Reporter: “You have to give it to Alabama Democrats – they don’t give up easily.  Sure, they get tossed around and beaten down plenty in this deep-red state, where Fox News blares from every waiting room TV and pastors bemoan socialism and liberalism from the pulpit on Sundays. But still, the Dems –…

AR Times: “Chris Jones, the Democratic nominee for Arkansas governor, announced his plan to raise teacher pay outside of Little Rock’s Central High School on Tuesday. Former and current teachers joined Jones and voiced their concerns about the message state lawmakers are sending by not prioritizing Arkansas education.”

AL Political Reporter: “A spokesperson for the Alabama Department of Corrections confirmed Tuesday the deaths of three incarcerated men in the corrections system over the last week. The most recent confirmed death occurred last Sunday when Brian Stephen Pate, 48, an incarcerated man serving a 30-year sentence for burglary and rape committed in Walker County,…

AR Times: “Racop’s post has documentation of Little Rock police officers’ pursuit in March 2021, sometimes at high speeds, of an SUV occupied by three teens, including a 12-year-old driver who didn’t have permission to use the family vehicle. It ended in a crash that killed one passenger and injured the driver and another passenger….

Political Wire: “A video from 2019 shows Georgia U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker (R) falsely claiming that he was an FBI agent. He then told a story about grabbing a gun with the intent to kill someone. At the same event, Walker said his “favorite game” was Russian Roulette.”

WaPo: “The most exhaustive report yet on the May 24 mass shooting inside a Uvalde, Tex., elementary school spread blame across every law enforcement agency responding to the attack, faulting local police for mistakes and more experienced agencies for failing to take charge. Nearly 400 local, state and federal law enforcement officers were at the…