AL Political Reporter: “Both turnout and enthusiasm in the union election at the Mercedes plant in Vance have reportedly been high, which the UAW is viewing as a positive sign. Workers have been casting ballots since Monday and the election will close at 9:45am on Friday. The election is being supervised by agents from the…
“Incident ALGOP claimed as political violence was merely road rage, police say”
AL Political Reporter: “The Alabama Republican Party claimed Monday that a volunteer for former President Donald Trump was assaulted after leaving a local Trump headquarters in an “apparent politically motivated attack.” But Athens Police Capt. Anthony Presnell released a statement Tuesday that said the incident in the local Lowe’s parking lot was simply a matter…
Sen. Tuberville Has Not Followed Through on His Pledge to Donate His Salary to Veterans and Orphans
AL Political Reporter: “Tuberville made the pledge repeatedly during his campaign for office in 2020, promising at one point to go on radio periodically and give away a paycheck to “a veteran or a wife who has lost her husband.” Well, here we are, years later, and Tuberville’s pledge seems to have vanished into the…
National PAC Names AR’s Chris Jones and MS’s Brandon Presley National Co-Chairs
AR Times: “The Dirt Road Democrats PAC has named two former Democratic gubernatorial nominees as its 2024 co-chairs: Arkansas’s own Chris Jones, who lost to Sarah Huckabee Sanders in 2022, and Brandon Presley, who narrowly lost the 2023 race for Mississippi governor to Republican incumbent Tate Reeves. The PAC announced its new co-chairs by posting a video on X,…
“Arkansas Supreme Court greenlights four laws that make voting harder”
AR Times: “Surprising no one, the staunchly conservative Arkansas Supreme Court unanimously upheld four 2021 state laws that make voting in Arkansas less pleasant, less convenient and less likely to count. In an opinion issued Thursday, the seven-member court overturned former Pulaski County Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen’s 2022 ruling that the four laws at issue hindered…
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“Louisiana moves to make abortion pills ‘controlled dangerous substances’”
WaPo: “Louisiana couldbecome the first state in the country to categorize mifepristone and misoprostol — the drugs used to induce an abortion — as controlled dangerous substances, threatening incarceration and fines if an individual possesses the pills without a valid prescription or outside of professional practice. Legislators in Baton Rouge added the provision as a last-minute amendment to a…
“Virginia school board restores Confederate leaders’ names to two schools”
WaPo: “A Virginia school board voted to restore the names of two schools previously named for Confederate leaders Friday just after midnight at a meeting that stretched more than six hours. The Shenandoah County School Board voted 5-1 to call the schools Stonewall Jackson High School and Ashby Lee Elementary School, four years after the…
“Book Bans Are Surging in Florida. So Lauren Groff Opened a Bookstore.”
NY Times: “Groff and her husband, Clay Kallman, had toyed with the idea of opening a bookstore in Gainesville for more than a decade, but the timing never felt right. Groff’s writing career was taking off, and they had two young sons. But last year, as book bans surged across Florida, they decided that their town…
“Mississippi Lawmakers Reach a Tentative Deal to Expand Medicaid”
NY Times: “Mississippi lawmakers reached an agreement late Monday on a proposal to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, providing largely free health coverage to an additional 200,000 low-income residents in a state with dire health outcomes and numerous rural hospitals facing financial collapse. … The proposal still faces daunting hurdles, including a possible…