AL Political Reporter: “A closer look into U.S. Senate candidate Mike Durant’s required financial reporting shows he is an extremely wealthy individual, with a multimillion-dollar estate in Colorado, who has benefited from recent federal bailout funds, used his company’s services to further his campaign and purchased copies of books he has written using campaign contributions….

AL Political Reporter: “Managing Raleigh’s Torchlight Academy was a lucrative family venture for Don McQueen. The school paid McQueen nearly $3 million in management fees between 2016 and 2020, financial audits submitted by the school show.  The Raleigh businessman ran the K-8 charter school with a reported 600 students (state officials could only confirm 489…

NC Policy Watch: “Managing Raleigh’s Torchlight Academy was a lucrative family venture for Don McQueen. The school paid McQueen nearly $3 million in management fees between 2016 and 2020, financial audits submitted by the school show.  The Raleigh businessman ran the K-8 charter school with a reported 600 students (state officials could only confirm 489…

NC Policy Watch: “After living all over North Carolina, Terry and Joyce Long finally came home.  In 2020, they bought a tract of land in Hamptonville adjacent to property that had been in Joyce’s family for five generations. Joyce grew up in this Yadkin County town of just 6,100 people, and now she and her…

AR Times: “Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen didn’t take long to rule on the challenge of four new laws passed by the Arkansas legislature to make voting more difficult. The judge agreed at the conclusion of the trial with plaintiffs, including the League of Women Voters and Arkansas United, that four new state laws placed state unconstitutional…

Axios: “Mark Meadows, who previously served as former President Trump’s chief of staff, is under investigation for alleged voter fraud, the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigations (SBI) confirmed to Axios Thursday. Why it matters: The probe comes after the New Yorker reported that Meadows, also a former U.S. congressman, registered to vote in September 2020 using an…

SuperTalkFM: A four-part limited documentary series called Exposing Parchman has been announced to air on A&E Network. The documentary centers on a lawsuit that was filed in 2020 by rapper Yo Gotti and Team Roc against former Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) Commissioner Pelicia Hall and Parchman superintendent of the Mississippi State Penitentiary Marshal Turner. Jay-Z is…

Off the Kuff: “As dominating as Gov. Greg Abbott’s GOP primary victory on Tuesday looked at first blush, a closer look at the results shows a nagging problem within his own party that could ultimately cost him in his race against Democratic nominee Beto O’Rourke. Although two-thirds of the Republican Party voters statewide backed Abbott…

Culpeper Star Exponent: “After reviewing 11 challenged books found in certain school libraries in the Bedford County Public Schools system, BCPS administrators and book review committees decided not to remove any of the challenged titles from school libraries. At the November School Board meeting, some parents called for the removal of certain book titles in…

AR Times: “The Arkansas House completed business after adjournment [yesterday] by supporting  Rep. Matthew Shepherd of El Dorado for a third term as speaker of the House. The election was actually for speaker designate, with the formal election to occur when the next legislative session begins in 2023. An effort by Rep. Austin McCollum of Bentonville to take the chair apparently…