On Colorado's ballot on Tuesday, there's a pair of statewide ballot measures that are meant to sustain the state's free school meals program, PBS explains.
A Washington state program that directed outreach workers to spend weeks building relationships with homeless people living under highways brought about 1,200 people inside. Seattle mayoral candidate Katie Wilson sees it as a model for the city.
The charge of “felony murder” allows defendants to be charged with the death of an accomplice, even when the killing was committed by someone else. Between 2009 and 2017, 83 percent of people charged with felony murder in Alabama were Black.
Missouri organizers have a lot on their plate: They’ve already launched a ballot campaign to preserve direct democracy, and they’re also preparing for a so-called veto referendum to block the GOP’s middecade gerrymander.
Virginia is currently the only state to strip people of their voting rights for life for any felony. A constitutional amendment would change that, but hinges on November’s legislative races.
Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders campaigned in 2022 on putting more people behind bars. After taking office, she spearheaded a bill limiting parole and bail. Her announcement of a new state prison has sparked fierce opposition in one rural county.
After over 500 hearings, lawyer Douglas Jennings quit representing clients before the South Carolina Parole Board, citing the board's consistent rejections. "I just couldn’t justify taking somebody’s money," he told Bolts.
Maine’s Question 1 comes as President Trump has called to eliminate mail voting and many red states have restricted access to mail voting. If the practice is banned, he said, “you’re not gonna have many Democrats get elected.”
A ballot measure in Maine that would add new restrictions on mail voting would have an outsize effect in this state, where the average age is the highest of any state in the country and there is a high incidence of disability.
Connecticut lawmaker Josh Elliott was “horrified” to learn that a local company supplied chemicals for federal executions. His office was flooded with calls urging action, and this year he is pushing to ban execution drug sales for good.