| Date | Title | Description |
| 05.10.2024 | The Battle for the Ballot: How New Voting Laws Could Shape the 2024 Election | As the 2024 election looms, the battleground states are gearing up for a showdown. The stakes are high, and the rules of the game are changing. New voting laws are being introduced, and old ones are being challenged. The outcome of this ele... |
| 05.10.2024 | National Politics | The issues and states that will determine who wins the White House | Unsurprisingly, the pair disagreed on much.
But while speaking at the National Conference of State Legislatures in Kentucky, the two senior strategists framed the race similarly to the 2020 contest, when fewer than 50,000 votes in Arizona, ... |
| 05.10.2024 | National Politics | In the tightest states, new voting laws could tip the outcome in November | “The last four years have been a long, strange trip,” said Hannah Fried, co-founder and executive director of All Voting is Local, a multistate voting rights organization.
“Rollbacks were almost to an instance tied to the ‘big lie,’” she ad... |
| 28.08.2024 | The Strain of Trust: Election Clerks in the Crosshairs of Misinformation | In the heart of America, where cornfields stretch endlessly and small-town values reign, election clerks are facing an unprecedented crisis. The trust that once bound communities is fraying. Misinformation has taken root, and even the most ... |
| 27.08.2024 | National Politics | In small towns, even GOP clerks are targets of election conspiracies | She knows her voters. They’re her neighbors. But the level of distrust of elections has gotten to a point where they won’t listen to her anymore. The fact that she’s a Republican doesn’t matter — only that she’s the clerk.
Sitting in the Hu... |
| 08.06.2024 | National Politics | Wins at the ballot box for abortion rights still mean court battles for access | The delay had a purpose, according to Elisabeth Smith, state policy and advocacy director at the Center for Reproductive Rights, which filed the lawsuit: It’s preferable to change laws through the legislature than through litigation because... |
| 22.03.2024 | National Politics | Working-class people rarely have a seat ‘at the legislative table’ in state capitols | Robbie Sequeira | Stateline.org (TNS)
In her first few months as a Minnesota state legislator in 2021, state Rep. Kaela Berg often wondered: “What the hell am I doing here?”
A single mother and flight attendant without a college degree or p... |
| 27.02.2024 | Health | ‘It was the life raft’: Transgender people find a safe haven in Florida’s capital city | Nada Hassanein | (TNS) Stateline.org
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Quandarius “Chanel” Johnson twirled a gold-colored crown that glinted with light streaming in from a nearby window.
It’s a symbol to remind her of her strength. After all, “I’m a Leo,... |
| 07.02.2024 | Michigan lawmakers noncommittal on Detroit property tax cut plan | Mayor Mike Duggan's proposal to slash property taxes and discourage land speculation was among the many pieces of legislation lawmakers tried but failed to pass last year.
How it works: Under the land value tax plan, the city's operating mi... |
| 05.01.2024 | Michigan laws changing in 2024 | Big changes and tweaks to laws took effect on Jan. 1 after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and the Legislature passed laws to reflect a Democratic agenda for the first time in decades.
What's happening: A number of new laws passed last year that take... |
| 14.12.2023 | Michigan Republicans are overwhelmed by election denialism. It could cost them in 2024 | Politics Michigan Republicans are overwhelmed by election denialism. It could cost them in 2024
Analysis by Brent D. Griffiths
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| 17.07.2023 | Detroit voters will shape U.S. Senate primary | If there's one Democrat who's going to challenge Rep. Elissa Slotkin for Michigan's open U.S. Senate seat, it's actor Hill Harper.
Why it matters: Known for his roles on "CSI: NY" and "The Good Doctor," the owner of Camp... |
| 15.02.2023 | Biden renews a call for action on gun control following Michigan State mass shooting | Police vehicles outside Michigan State University following a mass shooting that killed three people and injured five on Feb. 13, 2023.
Photo by Anna Gustafson of the Michigan Advance
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden at an annual meeting wi... |
| 28.11.2022 | New poll: Nearly 60% have seen online calls for violence based on race, gender or sexual identity | Women, people of color and the LGBTQ+ community are all experiencing higher levels of harassment and threats of violence on social media than other users.
That’s according to a new report set for release Tuesday commissioned by four advocac... |
| 01.11.2022 | Are national ‘parental rights’ groups making decisions in your local school district? | On a stage in Troy, in front of dozens of parents, state leaders, school board members and candidates last month, GOP gubernatorial nominee Tudor Dixon stood beside far-right activists from Florida and made a pledge.
“I pledge to advance po... |
| 08.01.2021 | New Auto Insurance Options For A Post-Pandemic World | Founder and CEO of Zendrive, a mission-driven company making roads safer with data and AI. |
| 02.11.2020 | GOP Rep. Fred Upton has fended off Democrat Jon Hoadley to win Michigan’s 6th Congressional District | The 14-term incumbent Rep. Fred Upton has successfully defended his seat in Michigan’s 6th Congressional District from a challenge by the Democrat Jon Hoadley, according to Decision Desk HQ.
The district is located in southwestern Michigan ... |
| - | GOP Rep. Liz Cheney backs Rep. Elissa Slotkin in tight Michigan House race in her first endorsement of a Democrat | Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, co-leader of the House Jan. 6 committee and a staunch critic of former President Donald Trump, is endorsing Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin in her tough reelection fight in Michigan.
Cheney and Slotkin are set to ... |
| - | State medical cannabis programs failing to make enough progress, advocacy group finds | WASHINGTON — A report from a patient advocacy group found the future of medical cannabis in the states is hazy unless costs are decreased, product safety standards are improved, and civil rights are strengthened for patients and prescribers... |
| - | Stabenow announces she won’t run again in 2024, sets off speculation on possible successors | U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow speaks at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit on Sept. 14, 2022. Andrew Roth | Michigan Advance
After four terms as a U.S. senator, Michigan’s Debbie Stabenow said Thursday morning that she will n... |
| - | Nikki Haley campaigners endorse Harris as GOP former governor backs Trump | Several former state campaign committee members on Nikki Haley’s failed presidential campaign endorsed Democratic nominee Kamala Harris over GOP nominee Donald Trump.
They include former members of Haley’s Michigan, Iowa and Vermont campaig... |
| - | Man who attacked Speaker Pelosi’s husband wanted to break ‘her kneecaps,’ DOJ says | WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday announced federal charges against the man who allegedly broke into U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco home and attacked her 82-year-old husband with a hammer.
If convicted, ... |
| - | Advocacy groups ask FTC to expand Biden administration efforts to rein in junk fees | President Joe Biden devoted 19 sentences of his State of the Union speech to “junk fees,” which includes credit card late fees, service fees for concert tickets and airplane seating preferences that he said strain families’ budgets.
Biden d... |
| - | Parents score victory in federal civil rights battle over baby blood spots | A federal judge in Michigan last week sided with parents who say the state unconstitutionally stored, sold and tested blood it collected from newborns to screen for rare diseases — a ruling that could be precedential for such civil rights b... |
| - | New federal student loan repayment plan aimed at low-income borrowers | President Joe Biden speaks about electric vehicle manufacturing during a stop at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit on Sept. 14, 2022. Andrew Roth | Michigan Advance
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Education unveiled ... |
| - | D.C. nears Jan. 6 anniversary with warnings about extremism, awards for courage | Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson speaks at the Michigan Democratic Party's Election Day watch party in Detroit on Nov. 8, 2022. (Andrew Roth/Michigan Advance) Andrew Roth/Michigan Advance
WASHINGTON – On the eve of the second anniversary o... |
