Year: 2021

  • Documenting America’s Path to Recovery #285: July 29, 2021, 2021

    Posted on

    Welcome to Documenting America’s Path to Recovery. Today we look at: We are committed to keeping you updated on the government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic affecting your daily life—from mask requirements to vaccine-related policies and beyond. To see epidemiological COVID-19 data, visit these sources: Our World in Data, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,…

  • Voters to decide mayor, city council primaries in Seattle on Aug. 3

    Posted on

    Seattle holds top-two, nonpartisan primaries for mayor, two at-large city council seats, and city attorney on Aug. 3. Races for the mayor’s office and one city council seat are open. Incumbent City Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda and City Attorney Pete Holmes are seeking re-election. Mayoral primary Fifteen candidates are on the mayoral primary ballot, with six…

  • Redistricting review: New Jersey Republicans request clarification from secretary of state about how to count incarcerated individuals

    Posted on

    On July 26, the New Jersey Globe reported that the Republican leaders of New Jersey’s redistricting commissions had requested clarification from Secretary of State Tahesha Way (D) on how incarcerated people in the state should be counted in reapportionment and redistricting processes. Under S758, passed in 2020, New Jersey must count incarcerated individuals at their…

  • The Daily Brew: 11 candidates running for Republican nomination in OH-15

    Posted on

    Welcome to the Thursday, July 29, Brew. Here’s what’s in store for you as you start your day: Voters to decide special Republican primary in Ohio’s 15th Congressional District on Aug. 3 Redistricting review: New Jersey Republicans request clarification from secretary of state about how to count incarcerated individuals Georgia voters to decide in 2022…

  • Primary election set for Aug. 3 in Tucson, Arizona

    Posted on

    The municipal primary in Tucson, Arizona, is scheduled for Aug. 3, 2021. Candidates are competing to advance to the general election scheduled for Nov. 2. The filing deadline to run passed on April 5. Candidates filed for three seats on the six-seat city council. In Ward 3, Kevin Dahl will face Juan Padres in the…

  • 29 candidates file for 14 school board seats in Manchester, New Hampshire

    Posted on

    On July 23, the filing deadline passed to run for elected office in the Manchester School District in New Hampshire. The primary is scheduled for September 21, and the general election is scheduled for November 2, 2021.  Candidates filed for all 14 of the school district’s Board of School Committee seats–two at-large seats and 12…

  • U.S. Supreme Court issues decision in donor disclosure case. What comes next?

    Posted on

    U.S. Supreme Court issues decision in donor disclosure case. What comes next? On July 1, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Bonta, striking down a California policy that required nonprofits to disclose their donors’ identities to the state’s attorney general.  What comes next in the wake of this…

  • Jake Ellzey wins special runoff for Texas’ 6th Congressional District

    Posted on

    Jake Ellzey (R) defeated Susan Wright (R) in a special runoff election in Texas’ 6th Congressional District. With 98% of precincts reporting, Ellzey received 53% of the vote and Wright received 47% of the vote. Ellzey will fill the vacancy left when the previous incumbent, Ronald Wright (R), died from COVID-19 related complications on Feb.…

  • Voters to decide special Democratic primary in Ohio’s 11th Congressional District on Aug. 3

    Posted on

    Thirteen candidates are running in the Aug. 3 special Democratic primary for Ohio’s 11th Congressional District. Former incumbent Marcia Fudge (D) vacated the seat to become secretary of housing and urban development in President Joe Biden’s (D) administration. The Hill‘s Julia Manchester wrote that the race “has become a proxy battle for the Democratic Party…

  • Oklahoma Gov. Stitt appoints state supreme court justice

    Posted on

    Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) appointed Dana Kuehn to the Oklahoma Supreme Court on July 26. The appointment filled a vacancy on the court caused by former Justice Tom Colbert’s retirement on Feb. 1. Kuehn is Stitt’s third nominee to the nine-member supreme court. Under Oklahoma law, state supreme court justices are selected by the…