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State and Local U.S. Politics

Started by Psy-Fi, Feb 29, 2024, 04:39 PM

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America's Most Corrupt City - Chicago

#33 Jun 25, 2024, 02:48 AM
Tomorrow is Democratic primary in NY state and there are some interesting races.

It's basically progressives vs establishment corporate Democrats

Comparison piece from NYTimes

Quote"This is absolutely the right time for change," said Claire Cousin, 31, a mother of three who is challenging Assemblywoman Didi Barrett in the Hudson Valley. She said her own struggle to pay rent while running for office captured the problems that working-class people faced."There are so many elected officials that are just not doing a good job at keeping their finger on the pulse," she said.

But centrists remain skeptical that progressives can turn catchy slogans about transformative change into policies that can be implemented. This skepticism has only grown as progressive gains of years past — from state climate goals to a cannabis program that aimed to right the wrongs of racially biased drug enforcement — have stumbled and lost ground.

I've been doing a lot of canvassing work for Claire Cousins over the past month or so.

I was this cool the whole time.
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#38 Jul 05, 2024, 12:43 PM
She won a Pulitzer for exposing how the country's poorest state spent federal welfare money. Now she might go to jail.


QuoteWhen Anna Wolfe won the Pulitzer Prize for her dogged reporting on Mississippi's welfare fraud scandal, she had no inkling she was soon going to have to contend with the possibility of going to jail.

But just over a year after she secured journalism's top award for exposing how $77 million in federal welfare funds went to athletes, cronies and pet projects, she and her editor, Adam Ganucheau, are contemplating what to pack for an extended stay behind bars. Sued for defamation by the state's former governor — a top subject of their reporting — they have been hit with a court order requiring them to turn over internal files including the names of confidential sources. They say the order is a threat to journalism that they will resist.


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#41 Aug 20, 2024, 03:36 PM
State rests case in Robert Telles' murder trial


QuoteRobert Telles' phone had more than 100 downloaded images of Las Vegas Review-Journal investigative reporter Jeff German's home before the journalist was killed, a witness testified Monday in the second week of Telles' murder trial.

Telles, 47, is accused of stabbing and killing German, 69, over articles the reporter had written about Telles' conduct as the Clark County public administrator, and accusations he created a toxic work environment and engaged in an "inappropriate" relationship with a staffer.


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