by Jim Heath | Nov 3, 2021 | Headlines
Seventeen months after George Floyd’s murder led to nationwide calls to abolish or defund the police, voters in the city where the movement began soundly rejected a proposal Tuesday to replace its troubled police department in an election likely to have national...
by Jim Heath | Nov 3, 2021 | 2022, Headlines
Republicans claimed the governorship of Virginia for the first time in more than a decade today, electing the businessman Glenn Youngkin and presenting their party with a formula for how to exploit President Biden’s vulnerabilities and evade the shadow of Donald Trump...
by Jim Heath | Oct 9, 2021 | Headlines
Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis adopted the slogan “Make the Czech Republic great again” in his reelection effort. But he lost the Czech Republic’s parliamentary election, a surprise development that could mean the end of the populist billionaire’s reign in power....
by Jim Heath | Sep 22, 2021 | 2024, GOP, Headlines
One leading candidate seeking to become Georgia’s chief elections official, Republican Jody Hice, is a Congressman who voted to overturn Democrat Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential win in the hours after the Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol. Hice had posted on social...
by Jim Heath | Sep 14, 2021 | Election Night, Headlines
A Republican-led bid to recall California Gov. Gavin Newsom ended in a crushing defeat tonight, as Democrats in the nation’s most populous state closed ranks against a small grass-roots movement. With nearly 70 percent of the vote in, Newsom led with 5,619,538 votes,...
