Recent accomplishments: Along with a coalition of stakeholders, Suffolk County is in the process of accomplishing a goal that has been decades in the making, the establishment of a subwatershed wastewater plan and unified sewer district. With legislation moving through the Senate and...
legislators, answerable to a Republican primary electorate that skews in the same direction. “I think Greg is ambitious, and I want my governor to be ambitious,” said John T. Montford, a former conservative Democratic state senator and an Abbott loyalist. “In his heart I think he’s a...
Mark Steven Ferrandino (born August 9, 1977) is a former legislator in the U.S. state of Colorado and former Speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives. Appointed to the legislature in 2007, Ferrandino represented House District 2, encompassing south central Denver from 2012 to 2014. He...
“Kamala is what she is today because of her mother,” one of her aunts toldIndia Abroadafter she was elected to the Senate in 2016. “The credit doesn’t go to any other person. It is my sister, her mother, who brought her up like this.” The first Black woman elected to th...
The four women are actually the family members of Anderson’s close friend. Anderson himself is engaged and has no children. Virginia’s 7th District is open because Democratic Rep. Abigail Spanberger is retiring to run for governor next year. Anderson, a former Army Green Beret, faces ...
Former Michigan House Speaker Craig DeRoche. He is now the president of the conservative Family Policy Alliance and was summarizing a message Republican legislators and governors are sending to members of the incoming Trump administration — namely, that they are not waiting for Donald Trump to take...
district. Furthermore, these elections will be non-partisan. A Wake Democratic representative asked other members, “If we vote for our county commissioners to be nonpartisan, what’s to say that this won’t happen in your county?” The GOP legislator sponsoring the bill says its intent is ...
Richer lost to Justin Heap, a state legislator who has questioned certain aspects of how elections are run, in a three-way GOP primary that ended Tuesday. While Richer will remain in office through the November election, his exit early next year will signal the end of a term wracked ...
1968: Shirley Chisholm is elected to Congress In 1968, voters from a redrawn district of New York elected Democrat Shirley Chisholm to the U.S. House of Representatives. In 1972, Chisholm became the first Black woman to seek the nomination of president for a major party. She was originally...
In a joint press conference on Monday night, leaders including Blair County District Attorney Peter Weeks and Shapiro provided an update on the case afterMangione was arraigned on several chargesunrelated to Thompson's death. According to court documents, Mangione is facing a list of charge...