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Mayor

What do Uber and Lyft drivers think of the mayor’s race?

Mayor London Breed’s day was filled with meetings on Friday, and she was not free for shadowing as part of Mission Local’s daily dispatches from the campaign trial. So Mission Local instead rode around the city today and spoke to half-a-dozen rideshare drivers about San Francisco and the race for Room 200. The 21st century […]

Alabama

Alabama lawmakers advance bills to ensure Joe Biden is on the state’s ballot | #elections | #alabama

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers advanced legislation Wednesday to ensure President Joe Biden will appear on the state’s November ballot, mirroring accommodations made four years ago for then-President Donald Trump. Legislative committees in the Alabama House of Representatives and Senate approved identical bills that would push back the state’s certification deadline from 82 days […]

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21 Vice Mayors endorse Daniella Levine Cava for re-election as Miami-Dade Mayor

Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava’s re-election campaign just announced the endorsements of nearly two-thirds of the county’s municipal Vice Mayors. Twenty-one Vice Mayors are officially backing Levine Cava to hold onto the county’s top government job, including 13 Democrats, seven Republicans and one no-party official. Together, they represent more than 23% of Miami-Dade’s nearly 2.7 […]

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Mayor Breed, back from China, works from home

Visit the zoo and make a plan to see the pandas, and you may notice: They don’t do much. They’re rare and amazing, but content to sit in their enclosures and eat the up to 84 pounds of bamboo they require for sustenance every day, leaving zoo-goers with a sense that the visit ain’t all […]

Mayor

Who do you endorse for mayor?

In our “Meet the Candidates” series, we are asking every supervisorial hopeful in the November 2024 election one question each week. Candidates are asked to answer questions on policy, ideology and more in 100 words or less. Answers are being published individually each week, but we are also archiving the weekly series here. In terms of […]

Alabama

Biden could miss the deadline for the November ballot in Alabama | #elections | #alabama

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — President Joe Biden could be left off the ballot in Alabama, the state’s elections chief said Tuesday, because the state’s certification deadline comes several days before the Democratic Party’s convention. Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen, a Republican, made the statement Tuesday, a day after a similar concern was raised in […]

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What to expect in Alabama’s congressional primary runoffs | #elections | #alabama

WASHINGTON (AP) — Voters in a new Alabama congressional district at the center of an ongoing legal and political dispute will return to the polls Tuesday to select the nominees in a U.S. House contest that could help decide control of the narrowly divided chamber this November. Shomari Figures, a former top aide to Attorney […]

Alabama

Alabama: Voters to decide primary runoffs in new Congressional District | #elections | #alabama

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama voters decided primary runoffs on Tuesday for the state’s newly redrawn 2nd Congressional District, setting up a potentially historic November race that could play a part in the battle for control of the U.S. House of Representatives. Shomari Figures, a former top aide to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, defeated […]

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Biden’s ballot access in Ohio and Alabama is in the hands of Republican election chiefs, lawmakers | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Democratic President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign is wrangling with Republican-dominated state governments in Ohio and Alabama to assure he is listed on their fall ballots, as once-mundane procedural negotiations get caught up in the nation’s fractious politics. Both states, which control a combined 26 electoral votes, have deadlines for appearing on […]

Alabama

Republicans debate ahead of runoff for Alabama congressional seat | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The two Republicans running for Alabama’s redrawn 2nd Congressional District clashed in a debate that aired Monday ahead of next week’s runoff. Dick Brewbaker, a businessman and former state senator, and Caroleene Dobson, an attorney and political newcomer, are vying for the GOP nomination in the April 16 runoff. The winner […]