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Candidates advance from Madison, Wisconsin primary

The primary election in Madison, Wisconsin, was on Feb. 21, 2023. Candidates competed to advance to the general election scheduled for April 4. The filing deadline to run was on Jan. 3.

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Jimmy Carter, in his final campaign, is surrounded by friends

PLAINS, Ga. — Jimmy Carter could have lived anywhere after he was defeated by Ronald Reagan, but his return to Plains more than four decades ago gave the tiny southwest Georgia hamlet new purpose.

Tribune News Service

Schools where Jimmy Carter got political start still seek improvement

AMERICUS, Ga. — Jimmy Carter’s path to the presidency started as a school board member, and his legacy still lingers in the schools where he launched his political career.

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Texas Strikes Deal to Build Abbott’s Border Wall on Big Donor’s Ranch

The governor’s slow-moving wall scheme gets a major boost from a political ally as the state secures five miles of land for fencing.

Texas Observer

Self-help author Marianne Williamson reveals long-shot 2024 primary bid against Joe Biden

New-age author has little chance of winning the Democratic nomination

The Independent UK

DeSantis leads Trump by wide margin in California as primary race starts, poll finds

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has surged to a lead among California Republicans over former President Donald Trump for the party's 2024 presidential nomination, a poll released Friday found.

Los Angeles Times

Will Trump fans dump him to win?

Donald Trump's biggest supporters are not sure he can win because people's minds have been poisoned against him

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GOP Rep. John James won't seek Michigan's open Senate seat

Republican Rep. John James of Michigan is opting against a campaign for the Senate seat being vacated by Democrat Debbie Stabenow in 2024

The Independent UK

Trump's FBI brag backfires with judge

Federal judge rules that ex-FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page can depose Trump and FBI Director Chris Wray

Salon

Bernie Sanders warns against NHS privatisation ahead of Frankie Boyle interview

BERNIE Sanders has warned against the privatisation of the NHS and called on political parties to stand with the unions during a visit to the UK.

The National (Scotland)

I assisted Carter’s work encouraging democracy – and saw how his experience, persistence and engineer’s mindset helped build a freer Latin America over decades

When former President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn Carter founded the nonprofit Carter Center in 1982, one of their goals was to help Latin American countries – many of which were emerging from decades of military dictatorship – transition to democracies.

The Conversation

Here’s how the 4 mayoral front-runners plan to make the runoff

If the vote total is close to the 556,758 mayoral ballots cast in 2019, the two hopefuls making the runoff are likely to get 20% each. But the four top-polling contenders each have a different formula to reach that benchmark.

Chicago Sun-Times

About 2 of every 3 Chicago polling places aren’t fully accessible for people with disabilities

That’s according to a WBEZ analysis of new data from the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners, which has posted accessibility ratings for each poll.

Chicago Sun-Times

Top videos: Bernie Sanders becomes a living meme again with TikTok cameo

Bernie Sanders has become a meme again after accidentally stumbling into a TikTok video on the streets of New York City.

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Colleges brace for the end of affirmative action

"Institutions are just going to be scrambling."

Chicago Sun-Times

Higher education can do more to help our city’s immigrants

It is hard to know whether we will see comprehensive immigration reform in our lifetimes, but there are steps that higher-ed can take, right here and now, to partner with the organizations that serve immigrant communities.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: US faces bigger environmental threats than a single train derailment. Will GOP rise to the challenge?

One of the curiosities to rise out of the Norfolk Southern train derailment that spilled toxic chemicals in East Palestine, Ohio, on Feb. 3, and caused a dayslong fire, has been the outcry from Republican opinion leaders. High-profile conservatives — from U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio to Sen. Ted…

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Commentary: Nikki Haley's thankless task

Nikki Haley’s announcement that she was entering the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination should have evoked cheers among party leaders. Here was a non-white woman just over 50, the daughter of immigrants with a compelling, up-by-the-bootstraps life story, who had become the United States’ first female Asian American…

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Editorial: Black mayors lead America’s 4 largest cities, but their skin color is largely beside the point

It is historically significant that America’s four largest cities have Black mayors. Eric Adams of New York, Karen Bass of Los Angeles, Lori Lightfoot of Chicago and Sylvester Turner of Houston run municipalities where 18 million of us live. They are chief executives in charge of some of the most…

WEKU

This group gets left-leaning policies passed in red states. How? Ballot measures

The Fairness Project has won campaigns to raise the minimum wage and expand Medicaid in nine states dominated by Republicans. Next is abortion. But there's growing pushback from state lawmakers.

Tribune News Service

Bipartisanship isn’t dead. Here’s what Congress might actually agree on

A banking bill for cannabis businesses. “Junk fee” curbs. Insulin price cuts. The U.S. Congress is bitterly divided, but in these niche areas, there’s hope for compromise.

Chicago Tribune

Brandon Johnson once said it was a ‘political goal’ to defund police. He’s been less precise running for mayor.

As thousands of Chicagoans took to the streets during 2020′s nationwide racial reckoning on policing, one word captured the fury of that summer: “Defund.”

The Independent UK

Trump news – live: Trump suspected of classified documents ‘shell game’ with Mar-a-Lago probe

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Tribune News Service

Commentary: Reviving the Southern Black labor movement

In commemorating our forebears during Black History Month, we recognize those who fought for workers’ rights and understood that economic justice does not exist without racial justice. Black workers have always been more than “allies” in labor movements — they were, and are, on the front lines.

Tribune News Service

Robert A. George: Nikki Haley and Tim Scott may be too nice to win

Fittingly, the first shots in this year’s Republican Party civil war are coming from South Carolina. Former Governor and U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley officially declared her campaign for the Republican presidential nomination last week, the first person not named Donald Trump to announce. And the state’s junior senator, Tim Scott,…

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