No one knows if remote political fundraisers will survive when things return to normal after the pandemic ends, or if they’ll feel like an unpleasant relic from a year everyone will want to forget and move past. But for months, as candidates and causes have felt their way through an […]
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Photograph: Christian Monterrosa/EPA Catie Stewart was on her way home from a vacation in early August when her phone reconnected to cell service and she realized something was wrong. As the communications director for Scott Wiener, a California state senator, Stewart manages her boss’s Instagram account, a task that usually […]
CHICAGO — Back when Gov. J.B. Pritzker was secretly spending taxpayer cash on private charter flights to China to buy personal protective gear as the coronavirus crisis hit Illinois, some people would ask to poke the billionaire for not kicking in the kind of cash he spent to get elected […]
Last summer in Berlin, Christine Wagner could safely do something Covid-19 prevented much of the world’s population from doing: go to a movie theater. The possibility of strangers sitting together, indoors, for hours, taking off masks to eat popcorn and other snacks, led even big chains like AMC to shut […]
Tulsa’s master plan for parks was last updated more than a decade ago, but input from residents is now being sought for a new outlook. Here, John Dawson sits at Centennial Park last fall. MIKE SIMONS, Tulsa World Tulsans who would like to participate in the city’s Parks and Recreation […]
Ballots for the April 6 municipal election will soon be arriving and The Daily Sentinel this week has been covering the city council races that voters will be deciding. Profiles of the eight candidates running for City Council can be found online at gjsentinel.com along with their complete answers to […]
This story also ran on U.S. News & World Report. It can be republished for free. Brandon Dell’Orto listened to the comments and complaints as the school board meeting dragged on hour after hour. Many parents were angry. Their kids were sad, bored, borderline depressed, fed up with a school […]
Brandon Dell’Orto listened to the comments and complaints as the school board meeting dragged on hour after hour. Many parents were angry. Their kids were sad, bored, borderline depressed, fed up with a school model that didn’t allow them to be on campus every day. The parents wanted schools open. […]
Yet that’s exactly what Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) chose to do. While hospitals around the state lost power and were forced to evacuate patients, homes went dark and frozen water pipes burst, icy roads forced terrible choices between risking the cold at home or chancing the journey to power and […]
Follow stories throughout the day with our Politics & Policy portal. Snapshot State Secretary Rex Tillerson, left, is welcomed by Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte during the former’s courtesy call at Malacanang Palace in Manila, Philippines. Bullit Marquez / AP What We’re Reading Two-Faced Thiel: Despite standing by the president in […]
Hillside councilmembers missed a deadline to pay Mayor Dahlia Vertreese and the town’s business administrator, and they still have yet to pay another three in her administration. Now, the mayor is accusing the council of playing politics. It’s the latest dispute between the mayor and council that’s been marked by […]
In our Love App-tually series, Mashable shines a light into the foggy world of online dating. After 26-year-old Brandon Fellows stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, . Instead, he boasted that his Bumble profile was “blowing up.” All the while, on dating apps. amid the chaos, only to reinstate it […]
In our Love App-tually series, Mashable shines a light into the foggy world of online dating. After 26-year-old Brandon Fellows stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, . Instead, he boasted that his Bumble profile was “blowing up.” All the while, on dating apps. amid the chaos, only to reinstate it […]
State must rethink vax plan I have read with great interest the opinion piece in The Jersey Journal (“Vaccine rollout a massive failure for seniors”; Jan. 29) and agree with everything written in the article. It was spot on, as were the letters by senior citizens relating the problems in securing […]
The last year has been one for forget for millions given the coronavirus pandemic, an economic meltdown and the social cost of being away from friends and family amid national and local lockdowns. It was also a year that featured a divisive presidential election and nationwide protests for racial justice […]
Each year we ask more than 50 leaders and luminaries from literature, business, politics and the arts to name the best books they’ve read during the year. You could spend all day reading the full list—and all year reading the books. The best part about rereading Chekhov at a moment […]
Gov. Jared Polis and a cadre of lawmakers on Tuesday morning talked about the flow of traffic and money in northern Colorado, as the region hopes to keep the long-needed improvements for Interstate 25 on track. “Northern Colorado is a driver in our state’s economy,” Polis told the Northern Colorado […]
(BPT) – The election season is a lot to handle no matter where you land on the political spectrum. It can be draining on many levels, which is why now is the perfect time to escape the political drama and make up your own political fun at home. Idea 1: […]
Belize — seen here in a view of Placencia — sure looks nice right now. (Photo: Getty Images) If you’re disheartened enough by the U.S. political and cultural divide to declare, “I’m moving to Canada!” you are far from alone right now. Online search traffic around how to permanently join […]