Whether Missourians vote in a referendum on congressional redistricting could turn on the question of what happens to the Aug. 4 primary results, arguments Wednesday in a Cole County courtroom showed. Candidates were nominated in Missouri’s eight districts but six of those districts were redrawn as part of the gerrymandered map passed in 2025 to […]
Over the past couple of years, New Hampshire lawmakers have taken a few stabs at regulating artificial intelligence. The National Conference of State Legislatures, which has created a database to track AI-related legislation, lists seven bills filed by New Hampshire lawmakers during the most recent session. Those proposals run the gamut from the narrow, such […]
It may or may not be apocryphal, but there is an infamous World War II era quote attributed to Russian dictator Josef Stalin in which he responded to the suggestion that the leader of the Catholic church might be able to use his moral influence to help resolve a portion of the conflict. “The Pope?” […]
Requiring congressional district boundaries to hew closely to county lines could help end the redistricting wars, writes Brad Van Arnum. (Photo by Ashley Murray/States Newsroom)
While the nation faces various stress tests for the rule of law upon which our country was built, Missouri courts are facing their own stress test in the hot mess of our current congressional redistricting. Our Legislature redrew our congressional maps in 2025 at the insistence of President Donald Trump. The chief aim was to […]
The Missouri Supreme Court wants a quick resolution in lower courts of a lawsuit that will decide if voters will see a congressional redistricting referendum on the Nov. 3 ballot. In a Monday letter to Cole County Circuit Judge Daniel Green, Chief Justice William Brent Powell noted that state law requires the case to be […]
The campaign seeking a public vote on Missouri’s gerrymandered congressional map is asking a Cole County judge to do more than put the referendum on the November ballot — it wants the court to prohibit the state from using the map at all this fall. What that would mean for the candidates nominated Tuesday in […]
ANNAPOLIS — Legislators returned to Annapolis on Monday for a special session on redistricting, an issue that affects all Marylanders, but Eastern Shore residents in particular.
(The Center Square) — A good government group is blasting New York Democrats for pushing a plan to upend the state's redistricting process, calling it a "cynical power grab" by lawmakers.
MISSOULA, Mont. - Independent Senate candidate Seth Bodnar has released his policy reform agenda, giving us a deeper look at what he hopes to change in Washington if elected.Bodnar now formally says he will not caucus with either party in the Senate. That’s different than other Independent that currently hold off.Senator Bernie Sanders, an Independent from Vermont, caucuses with the Democrats and previously used their party infrastructure to run for president, Senator Angus King of Maine another Independent also caucuses with the Democrats.In a sit down with NonStop Local, Bodnar explained that he will work with other independent-minded Senators to pull our extreme partisan politics back toward solutions. He went on to he use a football, reference saying that he believes most Americans are on the 30 yard line, and that most politicians seem to be on the 5 yard line; He’d like to see that change.Major policy points for him include, ending “Citizens United,” not giving lawmakers paychecks while the government is shut down and a policy that would invoke term limits, with Bodnar saying he believes lawmakers should only serve three terms.You can watch here, Seth Bodnar's sit down with NonStop Locals Bradley Warren after his announcement that he would be running.
