More in the Iowa Capital Dispatch live blog: Nikki Haley and Donald Trump Jr., a surrogate for his father’s campaign, both spoke to the crowd gathered for five precinct caucuses at Franklin Jr. High in Des Moines. iowacapitaldispatch.com/2024/01/15/iow…

Reports say LA Times is losing $40 million a year. Its owner, Patrick Soon-Shiong, has an estimated net worth of about $5 billion. Even if he never makes another penny he could cover those losses every year for a century and still have more than $1 billion left over in the bank.

Excellent work from Ralph Chapoco Alabama Reflector Alabama with 167 people on death row does not provide those inmates attorneys when filing post-conviction appeals. alabamareflector.com/2024/01/24/mos…

Smith convulsed for 2 minutes, with 7 minutes of heavy breathing as he took large breaths. John Hamm, w/the Alabama Department of Corrections, said it: “appeared that Smith was holding his breath as long as he could.” Ralph Chapoco. alabamareflector.com/2024/01/25/ken…

These activists think psychedelics could save the planet eenews.net/articles/these…

President Biden easily wins South Carolina's 'first-in-the-nation' Democratic primary scdailygazette.com/2024/02/03/pre… via SC Daily Gazette by Abe Kenmore

For a lot of Republican congressional candidates the big test is now, as they scramble to gather enough support in crowded primaries avoid a runoff. via NC Newsline Lynn Bonner shar.es/agpim1

Excellent work from ruth conniff via Wisconsin Examiner on labor trafficking: "People are bought and sold to produce goods that are used throughout our daily lives.” wisconsinexaminer.com/2024/03/14/tra…

7 yrs ago all hell broke loose in #NC when #GenX was found in drinking water. Now we have standards for 6 types of #PFAS Here's the latest + look for a follow up after today's event in Fayetteville ncnewsline.com/2024/04/10/fed… N.C. DEQ U.S. EPA NC Newsline Cape Fear River Watch Clean Cape Fear

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🚨🚨🚨 A week before Petersburg chose Cordish for its casino, the city manager signed a letter saying the city was picking Bally's. The city claims it received a "demand" to sign the letter or the General Assembly would block the project. virginiamercury.com/2024/04/25/bef…

👏Congratulations👏 to Vladimir Kara-Murza and The Washington Post as well as to 🎉FINALIST🎉 Brian Lyman of Alabama Reflector News from the States

Every day this spring, it seemed another Biden reg came out — on power plants, public lands, water heaters and more It was meant that way Robin Bravender and I look at what rules should be safe from quick elimination next year if Trump takes the White House eenews.net/articles/how-b…

“We suspect they haven’t done PFAS monitoring yet, and so they don’t know what they’re up against,” said Robert Edelman, director of technical services at the office of drinking water at VDH, in an interview. virginiamercury.com/2024/06/21/vir… via The Virginia Mercury

"The fundraiser backed by leaders of Word of Faith Fellowship...has raised questions among critics about Robinson’s connections to the group.. .. Some of the accusations against the church have resulted in criminal convictions; church leaders deny the rest."

“This case has the potential to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges and extend the same religious freedom protections beyond Kentucky to the entire nation.” kentuckylantern.com/2024/07/23/kim… Via Sarah Ladd Kentucky Lantern

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You cannot make up what is happening on Justice’s briefing right now. After weeks of unprecedented bad news for the governor’s businesses we’re spending the only time we have to hear directly from him (as he runs for a U.S. Senate seat) watching… a billiards trick shot