(The Center Square) – Questions persist around whether Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is or is not being vetted as a possible vice presidential candidate for Kamala Harris. President Joe Biden announced Sunday he was not seeking reelection. He later endorsed Vice President Harris to be the nominee. Democratic leaders, including Pritzker, followed suit with endorsements […]
(The Center Square) – The California Supreme Court ruled gig workers can continue to be treated as independent contractors, not employees, dealing a blow to the state legislature’s labor regulations. The ruling upheld the constitutionality of Proposition 22, a 2020 ballot initiative that classified gig workers for companies such as Uber and Postmates as independent workers. A […]
Rep. Emilia Sykes (D-OH) showed off her gymnastics skills in a campaign ad as the opening ceremony for the Summer Olympics in Paris is set to unfold Friday afternoon. The ad shows Sykes, a former state gymnastics champion, flipping off the end of a balance beam. “They’ll twist everything to scare you,” she said. “But […]
(The Center Square) – Spokane County Sheriff John Nowels took a stand on Thursday, calling on Spokane Mayor Lisa Brown to pull her sales tax increase from the ballot before it results in a massive funding cut to the jails. Nowels took to an informal newsletter thread on Thursday morning to give his two cents on the […]
(The Center Square) – With 103 days to Nov. 5, Democrats are out-fundraising Republicans in the top state-wide elections across North Carolina. These races, often called the Council of State election races, include the governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, commissioners of agriculture, insurance, and labor, the secretary of state, auditor, treasurer, and superintendent of public instruction. […]
Kamala’s path to victory Democrats’ shiny new object in the form of a new presidential candidate has been a boon. Vice President and presidential candidate Kamala Harris is boasting historic fundraising numbers, hauling in $80 million in her first 24 hours and $124 million in less than a week. Voters are excited to turn out […]
(The Center Square) — The Pennsylvania Broadband Development Authority voted Thursday to spend $20 million on more than 14,000 laptops to grow internet access in the commonwealth. The unanimous vote allows the Authority to award between 20 and 200 laptops to libraries, schools, municipalities and other groups. So far, 130 groups have applied to the […]
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) is emerging as a prominent contender to join Vice President Kamala Harris on the Democratic presidential lineup this November. President Joe Biden’s decision to drop out of the reelection campaign and endorse Kamala has sparked immediate speculation about who might join her as a running mate should she win the nomination. […]
Former President Ronald Reagan had been out of office for five years when he returned to Washington, D.C., to address a Republican National Committee fundraiser. It was three days before his 83rd birthday. Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, RNC Chairman Haley Barbour, and Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole were among those on hand for […]
Like President Joe Biden before her, Vice President Kamala Harris‘s map back to the White House is poised to go through Pennsylvania. While proper polling of Harris’s prospects against former President Donald Trump this November is only days old, the battleground state data, instead of her fundraising numbers and social media memes, underscore how Trump […]
