NPR: “Dale Farran has been studying early childhood education for half a century. Yet her most recent scientific publication has made her question everything she thought she knew. “It really has required a lot of soul-searching, a lot of reading of the literature to try to think of what were plausible reasons that might account for this.”…

“Hearing ends in Arkansas gerrymander case, now we wait” AR Times: “After a whirlwind week of late nights, snow delays and a marathon Saturday session, both sides finished arguments in a case over whether Arkansas’s new state House maps violate the 1965 Voting Rights Act by weakening Black Arkansans’ political power. And while skeptics predict…

AR Times: “Jay Martin, a lawyer in Little Rock and former state representative, has joined the filed of Democratic candidates for governor….Martin considered a run for governor in 2018. He served two terms in the House, 2003-2007, representing parts of North Little Rock and Sherwood. He heads the law firm of Wallace, Martin, Duke &…

CNN: “The North Carolina State Board of Elections said on Monday that it has the power to block GOP Rep. Madison Cawthorn from running for reelection over his role in the January 6 insurrection — an open legal question at the center of liberal-backed efforts to disqualify him from future office.The bipartisan election board made the assertion…

AL Political Reporter: “The Alabama Department of Archives and History at noon Wednesday is to hold a live-streamed program honoring three pathbreaking Alabama women.  The “Alabama Women at Work” program is to take place at noon, live-streamed on the department’s Facebook page.  Debbie Pendleton, retired ADAH director of public services, will discuss Birmingham businesswoman and suffragist,…

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: “Stacey Abrams apologized Tuesday for going maskless in pictures with masked elementary school students after growing backlash from Republicans who accused her of hypocritical behavior. The Democratic candidate for governor told CNN that she took her mask off to read to students at a Decatur school last week so that children listening remotely in other…

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: “Georgia Democrats have built an enormous fundraising advantage over their Republican rivals in the state’s marquee political races. In just two months, Democrat Stacey Abrams amassed $9.2 million, outdoing both Gov. Brian Kemp and his Republican rival, former U.S. Sen. David Perdue. She collected nearly $2 million more in that span than Kemp did…

WaPo: “A divided Supreme Court on Monday restored an Alabama congressional map that creates only one district favorable to a Black candidate, and put on hold a lower court’s order that said a second district was necessary to comply with the Voting Rights Act. Over the objections of Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and…

AL.com: “Madison County Commission Chairman Dale Strong, a Republican candidate for the 5th District congressional district, says he will fight an effort to remove him from the GOP primary ballot for his part in moving a Confederate statue from the county courthouse grounds. “My understanding is to be taken off the ballot they’ve got to…

Politico: “Democrats were caught off guard by Donald Trump’s numbers in South Texas in 2020. The Hispanic Republican women who live there were not. Many of them have played a leading role in urging their neighbors in majority-Hispanic South Texas to question their traditional loyalty to the Democratic Party. Hispanic women now serve as party…