Month: February 2025

Independent: “First Amendment lawyers and press freedom advocates are sounding alarms after a Mississippi newspaper was forced by a judge to delete an editorial criticizing city officials in Clarksdale. The city sued the publishers of the Clarksdale Press Register over an editorial from February 8, which criticized officials for failing to notify the public about a hearing on proposed tax increases. On…

AL Political Reporter: “There is life within the Alabama Democratic Party — albeit at the county level.  On Saturday, Democratic county chairmen from across the state gathered in Birmingham to form the state’s first Alabama Democratic County Chair Association. The group said it plans to build off the work that county committees and county chairs…

HuffPo: “The North Carolina Democratic Party moved up the termination date of an employee who alleged in a formal complaint that a female supervisor had punished him for a sexual relationship they’d had, according to the text of the complaint and three people with knowledge of how it was handled. The NCDP offered the worker a severance…

Political Wire: “Daniel Cameron (R) is wasting no time in his run for U.S. Senate,” the Louisville Courier Journal reports. “Kentucky’s former attorney general and the Republican candidate for governor in 2023 announced Thursday plans to run for the Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Mitch McConnell.”

Mediaite: “Senate Armed Services Chair Senator Roger Wicker (R-MS) pulled no punches on Tuesday in his description of Russian President Vladimir Putin, suggesting the dictator should be “executed” as opposed to being negotiated with. Wicker made the comments when asked about Trump’s Secretary of State Marco Rubio meeting his Russian counterpart in Saudi Arabia earlier in the day to discuss…

WaPo: “A man is charged with two counts of attempted second-degree murder for allegedly shooting two people he thought were Palestinians in Miami Beach on Saturday night. … Both victims were injured but survived, the arrest report says. One was shot in the shoulder, and a bullet grazed the forearm of the other, it says….

WaPo: “At Phenix Lumber Co., workers had lost fingers, broken bones and been mangled by machines — at least 28 employees had reported injuries since 2010, at a company with only about 50 people on the payroll at a time. Three had died. A medical examiner’s report detailed how just 23 pounds of one employee…

NY Times: “A Texas county is taking steps to declare a state of emergency and seek federal assistance over farmland contaminated with harmful “forever chemicals,” as concerns grow over the safety of fertilizer made from sewage. Johnson County, south of Fort Worth, has been roiled since county investigators found high levels of chemicals called PFAS,…

NY Times: “In a case that could have major implications for abortion access in the United States, a Texas judge on Thursday ordered a New York doctor to stop prescribing and sending abortion pills to patients in Texas and to pay a penalty of more than $100,000 for providing the medication to one woman. The…

Political Wire: “Politico: “Republicans may have found a formidable candidate to help them grow their footprint in South Texas: a former Democrat who switched parties on national television.” “Webb County Judge Tano Tijerina, the top elected official in the county, is considering a run against Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar in his border district, which has…