Month: August 2024

Axios: “A proposal from Mayor John Whitmire to effectively ban protesters from targeting politicians’ homes will now be scrutinized by the City Council’s Public Safety Committee. Catch up quick: Whitmire’s proposal would prohibit “focused picketing” within 200 feet of a “targeted dwelling,” punishable by a fine of up to $500. Driving the news: City Council members were slated to vote on…

NY Times: “President Biden’s campaign declared in its earliest days that he had a strong chance of winning North Carolina, even though no Democrat had captured the state since Barack Obama’s victory in 2008. That claim began to look implausible as Mr. Biden plummeted in the polls and Democrats grew anxious about reliably blue states like…

Political Wire: “Hundreds of New College of Florida library books, including many on LGBTQ+ topics and religious studies, are headed to a landfill,” Sarasota Herald Tribune reports. “A dumpster in the parking lot of Jane Bancroft Cook Library on the campus of New College overflowed with books and collections from the now-defunct Gender and Diversity Center on…

Christian Post: “The granddaughter of the late Rev. Billy Graham endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris during an “Evangelicals for Harris” Zoom call Wednesday and suggested that Christians who support former President Donald Trump are causing people to turn away from Christianity. … The event reportedly reached 40,000 people as the Harris campaign attempts to court Evangelical voters…

Politico: “Vice President Kamala Harris used a speech on her economic platform Friday to try to distinguish herself as a candidate from President Joe Biden, casting her agenda as more ambitious and forward-looking. From her rhetoric to the phrases plastered around the room, Harris was sending that message loud and clear. “Now is the time…

The Tennessean: “Up to 17,000 AT&T workers in the Southeastern United States went on strike Friday, the Communications Workers of America union announced. Workers in Tennessee, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina and South Carolina are involved in the strike, which the union argued in a news release is necessary to “protest unfair labor…

In Economy-Focused Speech, Trump Still Lobs Personal Attacks Against Harris“Former President Donald J. Trump’s speech on Wednesday in Asheville, N.C., his first event in a battleground state in nearly two weeks, was supposed to offer him a bit of a reset after his Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, gained significant momentum. His top advisers…

WaPo: “Two women have filed complaints against two Texas hospitals for allegedly denying them treatment for ectopic pregnancies, which they say put their lives at risk and breached federal law. In a complaint to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Kyleigh Thurman said that in February 2023, Ascension Seton Williamson Hospital in Round Rock, Tex.,…

WUNC: “A week after Rosa Parks began a bus boycott protesting segregation, several Black men played a round of golf at the whites-only Gillespie Golf Course in Greensboro, NC. After placing their payment for the round on a front table in the course clubhouse, the men played through several holes before management began harassing them…

Political Wire: “The number of registered Republican voters in Florida officially surpassed Democrats by more than 1 million on Sunday, a milestone reflecting political shifts in the Sunshine State and the largest margin for the GOP since the late 1980s,” the Orlando Sentinel reports. “That means Republicans make up nearly 37% of Florida’s voters, compared to about…