Juneteenth or Jefferson Davis? Ala. state workers may have to choose. | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
About US is a forum to explore issues of race and identity in the United States. Sign up for the newsletter. Alabama state Rep. Juandalynn Givan and other Black lawmakers have lobbied for years to have the state recognize the Juneteenth holiday. “It’s an acknowledgment that history happened, and I think we need to do […]
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Atlantic City mayor, his wife accused of abusing their teenage daughter
Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small Sr. (D) and his wife, superintendent of the city’s public schools, were accused Monday of physically and emotionally abusing their teenage daughter. Marty Small, 50, and La’Quetta Small, 47, were each charged with a second-degree count of endangering the welfare of a child, according to the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office. […]
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Arkansas lawmakers question governor’s office about $19,000 lectern
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 […]
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Colorado Springs mayor, an immigrant, tries to calm fears of migrant influx
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Throngs of people were crossing the southern border. Denver was straining to assist the thousands who had made their way there. But 70 miles south, the migrant crisis had hardly touched Colorado’s second largest city — and local officials didn’t want that to change. County commissioners announced they were aware of […]
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Opinion | Alabama might avert an IVF disaster, but the antiabortion activists won’t stop there | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
That didn’t take long. On Feb. 16, Alabama’s state Supreme Court ruled, 8-1, that frozen embryos are children, entitled to protection under an 1872 state law that allows parents to sue over the wrongful death of a minor child. Within a week, members of the state’s Republican-majority legislature and the GOP governor were promising to […]
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Alabama IVF ruling exposes GOP’s buyer’s remorse on ‘personhood’ | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
Banning abortion has been far better in theory than in practice for the Republican Party. After the Supreme Court in 2022 overturned Roe v. Wade and opened the door to abortion restrictions, the party has struggled mightily with the new paradigm. And few examples drive that home like the party’s embrace of in vitro fertilization […]
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Senate Republican blocks bill to protect IVF after Alabama ruling | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
A Republican senator has blocked legislation that would protect in vitro fertilization and other assisted reproductive technologies in the wake of an Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are children under state law. Prominent Republican officials and candidates have voiced support for IVF since the Alabama ruling, though Democrats have responded with skepticism, arguing […]
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Alabama tensions show how Republicans reversed on Ukraine support | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — In the early days, long before Russia’s war entered its third year, drivers honked and smiled when Natalia Reznick stood by the roadside holding her handmade sign: “Support Ukraine.” Then one afternoon in November, a man lowered his truck window and flipped her off. She might have dismissed that as a fluke […]
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Opinion | Does blame for crime belong with the D.C. Council?
It’s true that no D.C. Council member has been successfully recalled in 50 years of home rule. But that ought to be small comfort to Charles Allen (D-Ward 6) and Brianne K. Nadeau (D-Ward 1), who are facing efforts to remove them. D.C. voters have ousted elected officials before. A successful recall occurred in 2012 […]
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Kansas City mayor questions future celebrations after parade tragedy
Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas is questioning whether his city will ever host another public celebration like the Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade and rally that ended in gunfire, one woman dead and 22 people injured on Wednesday afternoon. “I’d be lying to you if I didn’t say that we’ll probably evaluate in the event that […]
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