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Jan 14, 2025 | 
news.vin.com | Ramenda Cyrus
While vacationing in California this summer, Richard Novak and his family spotted a dead sea lion on the beach near Santa Barbara. That same day, they saw a second sea lion dying and a third looking disoriented. Novak reached out to area rescue groups, making contact with the Channel Islands Marine & Wildlife Institute (CIMWI), which, he learned, had become woefully familiar with calls like his.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
prospect.org | Ramenda Cyrus
This November, Florida voters will be presented with a ballot initiative called the “Amendment to Limit Government Interference with Abortion,” or Amendment 4, which would enshrine the right to an abortion in the state’s constitution. The measure, which reads, “No law shall prohibit, penalize, delay, or restrict abortion before viability or when necessary to protect the patient’s health, as determined by the patient’s healthcare provider,” will need 60 percent of the vote to pass.
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Apr 8, 2024 | 
prospect.org | Ramenda Cyrus
This article appears in the April 2024 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here.
After the 2022 midterms, Florida seemed like a lost cause for the Democrats. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis won a second term, flipping multiple counties that President Joe Biden took in 2020. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) beat Rep. Val Demings (D-FL) by more than 15 percentage points. GOP voter turnout was strong at 67 percent compared to the Democrats’ 52 percent.
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Mar 4, 2024 | 
prospect.org | Ramenda Cyrus
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Feb 14, 2024 | 
prospect.org | Ramenda Cyrus
Last week, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) stopped accepting applications for the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP), a pandemic-era discount for qualified low-income households to obtain reliable and quality broadband service. As of January 1st, over 23 million households were enrolled in the program.
Funding is expected to run out in April, months before the original projected end date.
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Feb 8, 2024 | 
prospect.org | Ramenda Cyrus
Historically, federal judges have tended overwhelmingly to be white, male, and from law practices that defend the rich and big business. To remedy this, President Biden has committed to diversifying the judicial bench, vowing to widen the pool of consideration and future nominations.
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Feb 5, 2024 | 
prospect.org | Ramenda Cyrus
This article appears in the February 2024 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here.
For the first 48 years of its existence, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was bruised but not battered. While near-constant lawsuits chipped away at it, the VRA maintained its core structure, protecting Black voters and other groups from discrimination at the ballot box. But in 2013, U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts issued a 5-4 opinion in Shelby County v.
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Jan 19, 2024 | 
prospect.org | Ramenda Cyrus
Dominant discount retail chain Dollar General, which operates about 19,000 stores in the U.S., is being sued for an alleged “pricing scam.” In the class action lawsuit, customers allege that Dollar General frequently tags merchandise on store floors at a lower cost than what it rings up at the register.
The case was brought on behalf of the class by Dann Law, a firm spearheaded by former Ohio attorney general Marc Dann.
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Dec 25, 2023 | 
prospect.org | Ramenda Cyrus
2023 was my second year with the Prospect. My writing has become more specific and more focused on the beats that I am naturally curious about as a journalist. I hope Prospect readers will see the passion in the topics I covered this year.
This story felt very daring. There are a few social and cultural understandings that underlie all those terrible moments of police brutality. This is an examination of just one of them, but it is one of the harder-to-pin-down associations.
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Dec 18, 2023 | 
prospect.org | Ramenda Cyrus
In November, the Biden administration proposed an update to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Lead and Copper Rule. Besides updating requirements for utilities regarding water quality, the proposal amends the timeline in which the administration aims to make the country “lead-free.”
The EPA’s Lead and Copper Rule (LCR) largely governs the abatement of lead in drinking water.
