Seventy years ago, sharecroppers David and Mildred Nash refused to back down in a dispute with a white farmer, and fled from a lynch mob in Hope, Arkansas. With their 2-year-old daughter in tow, they found a new home out west in a place so different her grandfather, who would die without ever being able […]
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Do You Know Where Your Ballot Is?
For the first time, Californians can track their mail-in ballots from the point they’re printed to the moment they’re accepted by their county elections office. Ballot tracking, now available in parts or all of a dozen states, has become a particularly useful option this year, when many voters are anxious about election security. As of […]
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Supreme Court Pulls ‘Three Californias’ Measure From November Ballot
Well, it looks like voters won’t get to decide whether California should be severed into three separate states — at least not this year. The California Supreme Court ruled today, according to multiple news reports, to remove the measure that the California Secretary of State’s Office had already approved for the November ballot. According to […]