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  • 1 week ago | restorationnewsmedia.com | Corey Friedman |Billy Corriher

    A few months after I left my hometown of Cherryville, North Carolina for college, I voted in my first presidential election. Like so many people in America, I was shocked to watch the disputed 2000 election play out in Florida and then the U.S. Supreme Court. One side accused the other of trying to change the rules after the election so its candidate would come out ahead. I was even more shocked, decades later, when something similar happened in North Carolina.

  • 3 weeks ago | democracydocket.com | Billy Corriher

    In a victory for North Carolina Democrats, Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs was sworn in for a new term on Tuesday, days after Judge Jefferson Griffin conceded that he lost the 2024 election for the seat. Griffin’s Republican friends on the high court had ruled to throw out ballots by changing the rules retroactively, prompting a federal court to step in to stop the election theft.

  • 1 month ago | governing.com | Billy Corriher

    Over the next two decades, demand could increase by between 1.8 percent and 3.1 percent annually, the Northwest Power and Conservation Council heard Tuesday. The projected growth will come primarily from companies building more data centers in the region, more electric vehicles on roads, electrifying buildings, computer chip manufacturing and the production of “green hydrogen” created by running an electrical current through water to split the molecules into hydrogen and oxygen.

  • 1 month ago | governing.com | Billy Corriher

    Leavenworth, Kansas, is a prison town. The conservative city and the surrounding county of about 80,000 is home to a constellation of federal, state and military correctional facilities, including Leavenworth U.S. Penitentiary, which once housed infamous gangsters like Al Capone and George “Machine Gun” Kelly. In 2023, then-Mayor Jermaine Wilson — who was once incarcerated himself — said prison facilities were a part of the city’s DNA.

  • 1 month ago | governing.com | Billy Corriher

    The arrest of a Wisconsin judge last week by federal agents over decisions she made in her courtroom, when federal agents showed up during the criminal trial of a Mexican immigrant, is an escalation of the Trump administration’s unprecedented assault on the rule of law. And it’s not just the defiance of court orders to halt deportation.

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