Washington Governor Jay Inslee announced the end of his campaign to seek the presidency on Wednesday night since he hadn’t polled high enough to participate in the second round of debates. But he went out with a bang — at least in terms of climate policy. Earlier that same day, […]
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Efforts to end partisan gerrymandering suffered a blow in the Supreme Court, but the push to end it now moves to state legislatures, starting with North Carolina. Bob Phillips, the executive director of Common Cause North Carolina, says his state is the poster child for political gerrymandering. In the 2018 […]
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In the spring of 2015, KentuckyWired, the Bluegrass State’s ambitious plan to bring high-speed internet access into rural areas, had ground to a halt. Officials were in talks with Macquarie Capital, an Australian investment bank known for organizing big infrastructure projects around the globe, to build and manage the new […]
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If you’ve ever been to an event where Cecil Roberts, the president of the United Mine Workers of America, is on the bill, then you probably know that whether a protest or speech, a miners’ rally or press conference, it doesn’t take long for his preacher-like fervor to take over […]
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Perhaps it comes from losing a war together, but the South has had periods of great regional solidarity in the contemporary era. There is a sense in which folks in Mississippi care about their brethren in Georgia, South Carolina and other Southern states in a way that it is difficult […]
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