General Assembly committee holds hearing on early voting, no-excuse absentee voting
Tribune Publishing via Yahoo News· 4 days agoAs a stopgap measure due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the state legislature instituted what was essentially no-excuse absentee voting in the 2020 election.
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Bennington Banner· 7 days agoIn Texas, 7 million people — a quarter of the population of the nation’s second-largest state — were under orders to boil tap water before drinking it because low water pressure could have allowed ...
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The Charlotte Observer· 7 days agoSouthern cities slammed by winter storms that left millions without power for days have traded one crisis for another: Busted water pipes ruptured by record-low temperatures created shortages ...
More than 160 Confederate symbols came down in 2020, SPLC says
Gwinnett Daily Post· 2 days agoThe Alabama-based civil rights advocacy group reported that 168 Confederate symbols were renamed or removed from public spaces in 2020, including one marker in Arizona that ...