Representative Terri Sewell, the lone Democrat in Alabama's congressional delegation, told reporters that she expected the state will redraw its districts before the 2024 election. Some reliably Democratic voters will likely get shifted from her district to the new seat, she said. "Thi...
In numerous legislative districts won by President Barack Obama in 2008, voters shifted away from the Democratic incumbents, preferring a strong crop of fresh new Republican candidates. In Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania, for example, there were dozens of House Democrats who voted for larger state ...
The electoral college should be one vote per county, not one vote per representative as it is now. Trump won Michigan in 2016 with 73 or 74 counties. In 2020 Trump 177 counties Biden 15 yet somehow winning more counties, Trump still lost the state. I do see a problem here. That’s ...
and Crazy Horse was chosen as a representative of multiple nations. The project was started in 1947 by Korczak Ziolkowski, a New England-sculptor who had worked on Mount Rushmore, who answered the call of Chief Henry Standing Bear to create a monument of Crazy Horse in the Black Hills. Toda...
Spirit Airlines was formed in 1980 as Charter One, it originally offered charter tours from Michigan to popular destinations including the Bahamas and Las Vegas. It was in 1990 that it started to offer a scheduled service. In May 2992 it purchased its own jets and got the name of Spirit Ai...
Kellogg's, based in Vorva's home state of Michigan, owns one of the two com- panies that bake Girl Scout cookies. So Vorva and her team—with support from hundreds of thousands of people—began communicating with Kellogg's to persuade the company to use deforestation-free palm oil. Not...
The son of a landed Irish family, Stafford began farming sheep in New Zealand (1843), was elected superintendent of Nelson province (1853) and representative from Nelson to the General Assembly (1855), and formed his first ministry in 1856. During this five-year term as premier, Stafford neg...
The administration of the romanized part of the province, while nominally subject to the governor of all Britain, was practically entrusted to local authorities. Each Roman municipality ruled itself and a territory, perhaps as large as a small county, which belonged to it. Some districts formed ...
(Pulau Pinang), off Malaya’s northwest coast, from the sultan of Kedah. The island soon became a major trading entrepôt with a chiefly Chinese population. British representativeStamford Rafflesoccupied the island ofSingaporeoff the southern tip of the peninsula in 1819 andacquiredtrading rights ...
Michigan Senate candidate Mike Rogers said he had “never seen anything like the Biden-Harris open border policy.” And House Majority Leader Steve Scalise accused Biden and Harris of wanting to allow “illegals” to vote. But the attacks on Harris weren’t just about the border. Ne...