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Alabama

Alabama 2nd Congressional District race: Figures vs Dobson | #elections | #alabama

Democrat Shomari Figures and Republican Caroleene Dobson will face off in November for Alabama’s newly drawn 2nd Congressional District seat. The two candidates won their respective runoffs Tuesday, setting the stage for a general election campaign that Democrats are closely eyeing. A Democratic win would give the party an additional seat in the state’s congressional […]

Alabama

Alabama 2nd Congressional District: Figures wins Democratic runoff | #elections | #alabama

Shomari Figures, a former Obama administration official, won the Democratic nomination Tuesday for Alabama’s newly redrawn 2nd Congressional District. Figures received 58.7 % of the vote, defeating opponent Rep. Anthony Daniels, who received 41.1%, according to the unofficial results from the Alabama Secretary of State’s office. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled last year that the […]

Alabama

AL’s 2nd Congressional District: Figures wins Democratic runoff | #elections | #alabama

Shomari Figures, a former Obama administration official, won the Democratic nomination Tuesday for Alabama’s newly redrawn 2nd Congressional District. Figures received 61% of the vote, defeating opponent Rep. Anthony Daniels, who received 39%, according to the unofficial results from the Alabama Secretary of State’s office. “Thank you to the people of District 2,” Figures said […]

Arkansas

Arkansas Attorney General Griffin joins 21 states in supporting Texas

Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin signed on to an amicus brief Wednesday in support of a Texas law which would make it a state crime, enforceable by state authorities, to cross the US-Mexico border without authorization. He is joined by officials from 21 other states who are not directly involved in the court case but […]

City Council

Jackson MS city council resolution opposes state takeover of water system | #citycouncil

The Jackson City Council, on a 5-0 vote, passed a resolution opposing Senate Bill 2628, which would, if passed, place control of JXN Water under a state-appointed board after Jackson’s federally appointed Third-Party Water Administrator Ted Henifin leaves. The action came during in a special-called meeting Monday morning in which Ward 3 Councilman Kenneth Stokes […]

Mayor

Phoenix mayor picked as president of Democratic Mayors Association

Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego was elected president of the Democratic Mayors Association on Thursday, a national distinction that will broaden her influence to promote liberal ideals in cities across America. The two-year term means Gallego will establish an agenda that guides how more than 500 U.S. mayors lead their cities and attempt to resolve some […]

Mayor

Jackson not involved with Hinds County pauper’s field bodies

To associate the City of Jackson with national reports of 215 people who were buried in a pauper’s field behind the Hinds County Penal Farm is “misinformation” and “dangerous,” said Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba. Lumumba made the comments Saturday at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum during a meeting of the Jackson People’s Assembly to […]

Mayor

Mayor Paul Young to enforce Tyre Nichols ordinances

Memphis Mayor Paul Young said Thursday he plans to enforce a slate of ordinances that were passed in the wake of Tyre Nichols’ death by the Memphis City Council. The ordinances, which include one that says the Memphis Police Department cannot make traffic stops for certain low-level violations and another that says police cannot initiate […]