Please, for veterans’ sake, let up on the fireworks this July 4 Opinion: Register readers have things to say about child labor, the farm bill, and the presidential election in letters published June 17 to 23, 2024. 06/20/2024 - 4:37 am | View Link
Proposal would make NC public records and meetings access a constitutional right Group of legislators back proposed NC constitutional amendment to guarantee right of access to public records and meetings. GOP not on board. 06/16/2024 - 11:01 pm | View Link
Why some Republicans are concerned about Johnson’s Intel Committee moves In today’s edition … Outdoor groups push Schumer to vote on outdoor rec bill ... “Deciders” in six swing states may pick the next president. 06/16/2024 - 10:02 pm | View Link
SASC breaks spending cap by $25 billion in FY25 defense policy bill The amendment to break congressionally-mandated spending caps, offered by Sen. Roger Wicker, the committee's top Republican, led SASC Chairman Jack Reed to vote against the bill. 06/14/2024 - 5:55 am | View Link
The 2024 state primary election: 4th Congressional District Democratic candidates Q&A Here's what you need to know about the Democratic candidates on the 2024 state primary ballot for the 4th Congressional District. 06/14/2024 - 12:01 am | View Link
Once upon a time there was a person with the unnoticeable name of Mary Harris, born in County Cork, Ireland, in 1837, who lived a private life of suffering and failure. Her parents, fleeing Ireland’s Great Hunger, brought her as a teenager to Canada, where she briefly attended a Toronto teachers’ school, before she went to Monroe, Michigan, where she briefly taught school in a convent.
On Monday, the US Department of Justice sent a letter to Alaska’s director of elections, outlining the state’s litany of violations of the Americans With Disabilities Act that impacted disabled voters. Under the ADA, disabled voters should have the same opportunity and access to vote as non-disabled people. The DOJ says in Alaska that was not happening.
Here are just some of the issues found by the DOJ:
Not all early voting and Election Day sites had accessible voting machines, and some machines did not work.
Last week, Senate Republicans introduced a bill that would designate federal funds for “Restorative Reproductive Medicine,” a loose group of therapies meant to help treat infertility without the use of in vitro fertilization or artificial insemination. The seven lawmakers who introduced the Reproductive Empowerment and Support through Optimal Restoration (RESTORE) Act, say it isn’t meant as an attack on IVF, which recently has come under fire by conservatives.