California 2022 Voter Guide:Steve Glazer
Professional Profile You might say Steve Glazer started shaping California politics as a college student: In 1978, while attending San Diego State University, he helped organize a campus campaign to elect Jerry Brown as governor – the first of many years of work with Brown. A communications consultant and political strategist by trade, Glazer’s first […]
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Lawsuit filed on ban of HIV+ people enlisting or commissioned in military | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
WASHINGTON – In a stunning revelation published Monday evening in Politico, an initial draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito disclosed that the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to strike down the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. According to Politico’s reporting; “The draft opinion is a full-throated, unflinching repudiation of the 1973 decision which guaranteed federal constitutional […]
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Mobile County Commission looks to approve almost $178,000 for COVID cleaning after elections | #elections | #alabama
MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) – The Mobile County Commission is looking at approving just under $178,000 for COVID cleaning of polling places starting the day after the upcoming election. “As a courtesy and to give assurances to the building owners that everything will be clean and sanitized after they are utilized as polls,” said County Commission […]
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WATCH: Sec. Haaland announces panel to focus on Native American missing, slain cases | #alaska | #politics
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Nearly 40 law enforcement officials, tribal leaders, social workers and survivors of violence have been named to a federal commission tasked with helping improve how the government addresses a decades-long crisis of missing and murdered Native Americans and Alaska Natives, U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced Thursday. Watch Haaland’s remarks in […]
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Arkansas Repertory Theatre Announces Faculty Of Teaching Artists For Summer Education Programs
The Arkansas Repertory Theatre has announced the educational faculty members to lead The Rep’s summer of four different week-long theatre education day-camps for middle and high school students. The Arkansas Rep is able to provide students in Central Arkansas with the opportunity to work with an internationally-trained faculty of teaching artists from Arkansas, New York […]
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NYC Mayor Adams’ fundraising trip to California extended after flight cancellation – New York Daily News
Mayor Adams scrapped nearly all of his public events planned in the city for Thursday after his flight back from a campaign fund-raising trip to Los Angeles got canceled, according to his spokesman and a source familiar with the matter. Adams, who traveled to Los Angeles on Tuesday, was supposed to get back Thursday morning […]
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Alabamians encouraged to serve as poll workers | #elections | #alabama
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WAFF) – Alabama Secretary of State, John Merrill, is urging Alabamians to serve as poll workers for the May 24 primary. Poll workers are election officials that help to carry out Election Day procedures at local polling places and with about 1,980 polling places in Alabama, there are plenty of positions that need […]
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Mock M&M election teaches Alaskans about ranked choice voting | #alaska | #politics
Alaskans For Better Elections hosts an event educating people about ranked choice voting at Amalga Distillery in Juneau, Alaska on April 19, 2022. (Lyndsey Brollini/KTOO) Alaskans will be trying out the state’s new ranked choice election system in June. One group is helping educate voters about how it works — with M&Ms. Listen to this […]
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Director, interim secretary appointed to Arkansas health dept.
Governor Asa Hutchinson announced he will be appointing Dr. Jennifer Dillaha as the director of the Arkansas Department of Health. LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Governor Asa Hutchinson announced he will be appointing Dr. Jennifer Dillaha as the director of the Arkansas Department of Health (ADH). Dr. Dillaha has been with the ADH since 2001 and […]
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ISPs Drop Legal Fight Against California Net Neutrality Law – Legal Aggregate
(Originally published by The Stanford Center for Internet and Society on May 4, 2022) On Wednesday May 4 2020, the cable, phone, and wireless companies suing California over its historic net neutrality law withdrew their lawsuit after three consecutive losses in federal courts in California. Statement from Professor Barbara van Schewick (professor of law at Stanford University […]
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