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Alabama

What does UAW’s failed Mercedes-Benz union vote mean for Alabama? What comes next? | #elections | #alabama

With the possibility of a unionized workplace at Alabama’s first auto plant seemingly in the rearview mirror for now, the state’s economic strategy for recruiting major employers is expected to remain status quo. But that comes with a cost dubbed the “Alabama discount.” That’s what union advocates and some workers use to describe the state’s […]

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What Marilyn Lands’ special election win means for Alabama, and Republican politics | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

Marilyn Lands’ victory in an Alabama statehouse race in North Alabama on Tuesday followed a similar script for Alabama Democrats on the rare occasions they topple a Republican within the ruby red state. That includes winning a special election, receiving a boost from national media exposure, and generating support from Republicans. It happened for Doug […]

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Alabama Super Tuesday 2024 primary: When polls close, where and how to vote, results, more | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

Alabama will have its say on who should be the party nominees for president next week when voters head to the polls as part of Super Tuesday, when a large chuck of delegates will be at stake across the country. “Before heading to the polls on March 5, I encourage Alabama voters to visit www.AlabamaVotes.gov […]

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Alabama 2024 primary updates, results: District 2 runoffs set; Barry Moore defeats Jerry Carl | #elections | #alabama

Alabama’s Super Tuesday primaries ended with an incumbent losing his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives losing his seat to another sitting Republican Congressman and set the stage for April 16 Democrat and GOP runoffs for the redrawn District 2. Rep. Jerry Carl lost his re-election bid to Rep. Barry Moore, after District 2 […]

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Two Republicans square off in race for next Alabama chief justice | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

Five of the nine seats on the all-Republican Alabama Supreme Court are up for election this year, but there is a contested race for only one, the open seat for the position of chief justice. Chief Justice Tom Parker could not seek another term because the state constitution bars judges from being elected after age […]

Alaska

Alaska Federation of Natives joins feds in lawsuit against state over subsistence rights | #alaska | #politics

Salmon being cut at a fish camp along Kuskokuak Slough on the Kuskokwim River near Bethel, AK on Saturday, June 28, 2014. (Bob Hallinen/ADN) The state’s largest Alaska Native organization this week intervened on the side of the federal government and other groups in a battle with the state of Alaska over subsistence rights and […]

Alaska

Alaska unions urge Biden administration to block Albertsons-Kroger merger | #alaska | #politics

Fred Meyer in Midtown Anchorage in 2018. (Laurel Andrews / ADN) Labor unions in Alaska are calling on the Federal Trade Commission to block a $25 billion merger that would combine Fred Meyer and Carrs Safeway grocery stores into one corporate behemoth. Union officials say the deal between Kroger, the parent company of Fred Meyer, […]

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Senate majority introduces plan to overhaul Alaska’s public retirement system | #alaska | #politics

Alaska state Sen. Gary Stevens, a Kodiak Republican, smiles following his election as Senate president on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2023, in Juneau, Alaska. Tuesday marked the first day of the new legislative session. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer) Alaska Senate majority members on Wednesday unveiled a new policy proposal to revamp the state’s public retirement system, in […]

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Alaska education board votes to ban transgender girls from participating in girls’ sports | #alaska | #politics

The athletic field at Begich Middle School on Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018. (Loren Holmes / ADN) A board appointed by Gov. Mike Dunleavy decided Thursday in favor of a new regulation that would ban transgender girls from participation in high school girls’ sports. The decision by the state board of education came less than six […]