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4 天之前 · In 2024, Politics Is Local. Bolts covers the nuts and bolts of power and political change, from the local up. We report on the places, people, and policies that shape public policy. We focus on criminal justice and voting rights, and delve further in our vertical What’s on the Ballot.
What’s on Your Local Ballots: Your Questions Answered
3 天之前 · November is fast approaching, and with it a myriad of state and local elections. We published a guide last week to more than 500 races, and why they matter, to help you navigate it.. But we also wanted to hear from you. For “Ask Bolts,” our ongoing series in which we tackle reader questions, we asked you what you wanted to know about these upcoming elections.
“Agony” and “Suffering” as Alabama Experiments with Nitrogen …
6 天之前 · This article was produced as a collaboration between Bolts and The Intercept.. Alan Miller had spent the six months leading up to his execution confined to his cell. Though Miller was never given an explanation for the heightened captivity, which had over the past few years become routine for people facing execution in Alabama, he used the time to conduct his own …
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2024年10月2日 · Thousands of public officials have decisive roles in policy-making. Our cheat sheets and databases offer resources on who has the power to do what, and how they come to be in power.
Arizona GOP Asks Voters to Nullify the Judicial Elections They’ll Be ...
2024年9月27日 · As civil rights groups zero in on Arizona courts as a key battleground, Republicans have placed a measure on the November ballot that would eliminate retention elections for judges, shielding conservatives’ control over the state supreme court by ending voters’ ability to remove justices.. The Arizona GOP put Proposition 137 on the ballot in June, …
In Illinois, a Private Prison Company’s Long Trail of Deaths and …
2024年10月3日 · Michael Broadway gasped for air inside his cell at Stateville Correctional Center, a sprawling complex of beige and gray about an hour and a half southwest of Chicago. It was a sweltering mid-June day, when the heat index outside topped 100. Inside the crumbling prison, it felt even hotter, with one ...
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Bolts is the new home of “What’s on the Ballot,” a platform that since 2018 has offered cheatsheets and databases to organize the chaos of U.S. democracy. “What’s on the Ballot” is now continuing to help readers follow elections small and big, local and national, by producing more cheatsheets and information.
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Ask Bolts: What’s on State and Local Ballots This November
The image that accompanies this page on social media shows voters in Des Moines precincts 44, 58 and 59 casting their ballots at Callanan Middle School on election day 2020.
Kentucky Activists Step In to Deliver on the Promise of Voting …
2023年10月12日 · On March 4, 2020, a few months after signing the order to restore voting rights, Beshear held a press conference in Frankfort to tout a new online search tool people with felony convictions could use to determine their voting eligibility. This, the governor said, showed he was delivering on one of his top priorities: “Restoring the right to vote to Kentuckians that have …