NC Newsline: ““We just were obviously horrified post-2016 election,” said Andrea Cash. “And that was the real moment of, ‘What are we going to do?’” What they did was create FLIP NC, an all-volunteer grassroots organization co-founded by Amy Cox and Briana Brough. For the next year they knocked on 20,000 doors and sent 250,000 text…

NC Newsline: “Citing concerns about the potential new owner, a tenants’ rights group in Winston-Salem is urging the city to sell eight affordable apartments to the tenants instead of private developers. Housing Justice Now contends the developers have not honored conditions of the sale, which included a 30-day due diligence period, individual meetings with residents,…

WaPo: “Arkansas lawmakers from both sides of the aisle on Tuesday questioned the staff of Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) a day after legislative auditors released a report that found that her office may have broken the law while buying a $19,000 lectern and in handling government records about its purchase. The 68-page audit, released Monday —…

Political Wire: “Republican lawmakers in Kentucky on Friday removed the Democratic governor from any role filling future U.S. Senate vacancies — a move supporters said was unrelated to recent scrutiny about the health of the state’s senior senator, Republican leader Mitch McConnell,” the AP reports. “The GOP supermajority Legislature easily overrode Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto of the…

the 19th: “Democrat Marilyn Lands gained national attention in March when she flipped an Alabama state House seat with a campaign focused on abortion and reproductive rights. And she doesn’t want to be the last.  Lands’ supporters are launching a new PAC, Respect Alabama, to recruit, train and elect more women to run for office in Alabama,…

Political Wire: “Vox: “The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will not hear Mckesson v. Doe. The decision not to hear Mckesson leaves in place a lower court decision that effectively eliminated the right to organize a mass protest in the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas.” “Under that lower court decision, a protest…

the Assembly: “That year, the state’s three schools for the deaf enrolled more than 750 students.  Today, two schools remain open, educating just over 100 students.  The enrollment decline has several causes: the widespread adoption of vaccines against diseases that can cause deafness, like Rubella; a 1990s state policy that pushed deaf and hard of…

AP: “In a move that environmentalists called a betrayal, the Biden administration has approved the construction of a deepwater oil export terminal off the Texas coast that would be the largest of its kind in the United States. The Sea Port Oil Terminal being developed off Freeport, Texas, will be able to load two supertankers at once,…

Knox News: “Nearly three years after a group of Knoxville activists were arrested during their demonstration for police accountability, a Knox County jury will decide whether to embrace or reject Tennessee’s recent attempts to criminalize peaceful protest. Four demonstrators, including activists Constance Every and Calvin Skinner, are on trial on charges they disrupted a public…

AR Advocate: “Apartment management hasn’t fulfilled her requests for maintenance and repairs, but stress would worsen her heart condition, she said. “I try to stay calm and think positive and be in an upbeat spirit,” she said. She is far from the only elderly Arkansan who says those in charge of low-income housing complexes don’t…