Month: July 2024

NBC: “Two conservative federal judges in Texas have blocked President Joe Biden’s administration from enforcing new anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ students, preventing the rule from taking effect in the Republican-led state and a school district represented by a Christian legal rights group. Thursday’s rulings by U.S. District Judges Matthew Kacsmaryk in Amarillo and Reed O’Connor in Fort…

Political Wire: “A new University of Houston/Texas Southern University poll finds Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) leading challenger Colin Allred (D) by just three points in the U.S. Senate race, 47% to 44%. The survey echoes a Manhattan Institute poll released earlier this month that showed Cruz leading, 46% to 43%. In the presidential race, Donald Trump leads Joe Biden…

WaPo: “Look east from the cemetery, to an adjacent field where cattle graze, birds sing and a brook babbles: This will become a 116-acre data center housing 2.2 million square feet of massive structures with concrete walls up to 70 feet high. Look to the south from the cemetery at another green field: Here will…

Fox News: “Lucien Greaves, TST co-founder and spokesperson, told Fox News Digital that should a Florida school district seize on the opportunity to introduce a chaplaincy program into their schools, TST “will be happy to participate.” “When passing the school chaplain bill into law, Florida’s bloviating incompetent Culture War-obsessed governor, Ron DeSantis openly lied to…

NY Times: “A searing heat wave that has engulfed much of the western United States for over a week will continue to bring dangerously high temperatures through Saturday before sliding east to the central and eastern U.S. by Sunday. The situation is especially pressing in Texas, where, two days after Hurricane Beryl left millions without…

WaPo: “Many fellow Democrats lack her confidence. This spring, the Supreme Court signed off on district lines in South Carolina that Republican state lawmakers said they had designed to benefit their party. The 1st District, held for the last four years by Rep. Nancy Mace (R), had previously been competitive but is now ranked solidly Republican by the nonpartisan Cook…

NC Newsline: “North Carolina has always been a state in which the law has allotted very few legal rights to residential tenants. Unless the actions of a landlord are truly outrageous – and sometimes even when they are – tenants rarely prevail when they seek to push back against evictions or fight for better rents…

The 19th: “What keeps you up at night? When field organizers with Down Home North Carolina knock on a door in rural North Carolina, that’s the first question they ask. Health care comes up a lot. So does housing. And recently, abortion rights.  North Carolina has the second-highest rural population of any state after Texas…

NC Newsline: “Despite pressure from Republicans in Washington, the state Board of Elections again put off a decision that would allow well-known third-party presidential candidates on North Carolina’s ballot while it investigates petitions asking to form their political parties. The state Board on Tuesday delayed certifying Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s We the People Party and…

WBTW: “A tribal-owned medical marijuana dispensary in western North Carolina is also now selling cannabis products for adult recreational use just weeks after the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians governing board approved its expanded use on tribal lands. The Great Smoky Cannabis Co. began recreational marijuana sales on July 4 to adults at least 21 years of…