Month: January 2023

Newsweek: “Tennessee Republican leaders introduced two bills in the state legislature on Wednesday that would ban gender-affirming care for children as well as public drag performances in the state. Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson, who was reelected in Tuesday’s midterm elections, is sponsoring both bills. He had campaigned to “preserve Tennessee conservative values,” according to…

ABC11: “A replica of a nuclear bomb returned to Downtown Raleigh Sunday to commemorate the anniversary of the catastrophic 1961 B-52 nuclear bomber accident. The replica was displayed during a protest by members of North Carolina Peace Action at the Terry Sanford Federal Building on New Bern Avenue. A B-52 bomber dropped two 3.8 megaton…

Fox7: “The family of Hays County inmate Joshua Wright, who was shot and killed by a corrections officer in December, held a demonstration in San Marcos Sunday to protest and call for transparency in the investigation into his death. Community organizations Mano Amiga, Hays County Jail Advocates, the Caldwell/Hays Examiner, Fierce Madres and the Austin Justice Coalition all joined the…

Axios Raleigh: “North Carolina State Auditor Beth Wood was charged with a hit and run in Wake County in December and will appear in court Jan. 26, North Carolina court records show. Details: Wood did not return a request for comment, but Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman confirmed that the charges include a Class 2 misdemeanor for hit…

reason: “A bill introduced last week in the Mississippi Legislature would require public schools and postsecondary institutions to install video surveillance cameras all over their campuses. The bill would require that the cameras also record audio and that they be installed in classrooms, auditoriums, cafeterias, gyms, hallways, recreational areas, and along each facility’s perimeter. Further, it would…

NY Times: “Florida will not allow a new Advanced Placement course on African American studies to be offered in its high schools, stating that the course is not “historically accurate” and violates state law. In a letter last week, the Florida Department of Education informed the College Board, which administers A.P. exams, that it would not include…

WaPo: “Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) announced Friday he plans to seek a third term, sending a wave of relief through the Democratic Party amid worries that he would retire and create a potential opening for Republicans. Kaine saidit was not a decision he reached lightly. He consulted for some time with his family, friends and…

AR Times: “To get at an answer to whether restrictive voting laws, like those passed in Arkansas, are driving turnout down or increasing it, we can look at all the states that had gubernatorial races in 2022 (36 in total) and compare the turnout in those same states to gubernatorial turnout in 2018. In total,…

AL Political Wire: “The Alabama Democratic Party is scheduled to consider significant changes to its party bylaws, including how members of the party’s executive committee are selected and the terminology used for diversity caucuses, during its upcoming meeting in Montgomery on Saturday, according to a copy of the proposed bylaws obtained by APR. Additionally, the proposed…

The Assembly: “In a drab conference room at the North Carolina Department of Justice last Friday, Attorney General Josh Stein—shirt sleeves, no tie—was relaxed and confident. He seemed too at ease for a man on the precipice of launching a nearly two-year campaign for the state’s most high-profile office.  But he was keen to take his…