Year: 2025

  • Voters to decide if Musk's SpaceX will get its own hometown

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    Welcome to the Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025, Brew.  By: Lara Bonatesta Here’s what’s in store for you as you start your day: A comprehensive look at 124 years of ballot measures in Oregon  Ballotpedia's Historical Ballot Measure Factbook will document nearly 200 years of direct democracy in the United States. This ongoing research effort will…

  • Democratic state financial officers support ESG in letter to regulators

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    In this week’s edition of Economy and Society: In the states Democratic state financial officers support ESG in letter to regulators What’s the story? Seventeen Democratic state financial officers sent a letter to the acting heads of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Department of Labor (DOL), asking them to not restrict the…

  • St. Louis will pick its next mayor with approval voting

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    Welcome to the Tuesday, Feb. 25, Brew.  By: Briana Ryan Here’s what’s in store for you as you start your day: St. Louis will pick its next mayor with approval voting Incumbent Mayor Tishaura Jones, Michael Butler, Andrew Jones Jr., and Cara Spencer are running in the nonpartisan primary for Mayor of St. Louis, Missouri…

  • Four candidates are running in the nonpartisan primary for Mayor of St. Louis, Missouri on March 4

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    Incumbent Tishaura Jones, Michael Butler, Andrew Jones Jr., and Cara Spencer are running in the nonpartisan primary for Mayor of St. Louis on March 4, 2025. St. Louis Public Radio's Lara Hamdan and Rachel Lippmann wrote, "The next mayor of St. Louis will come into office with crime numbers mirroring the national downward trend...But he…

  • Robe & Gavel: SCOTUS concludes February 2024 sitting

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    Welcome to the Feb. 24 edition of Robe & Gavel, Ballotpedia’s newsletter about the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) and other judicial happenings around the U.S. The caged bird sings   with a fearful trill   of things unknown   but longed for still   and his tune is heard   on the distant hill   for the caged bird   sings of freedom. -Maya Angelou Follow…

  • Ballot measure campaigns in 2024 raised more than the last three even-year election cycles

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    In 2024, campaigns supporting and opposing the 159 ballot measures that appeared on statewide ballots received more than $1.3 billion in contributions—more than each of the last three even-year election cycles. Campaigns in 2020 raised the second-highest amount ($1.2 billion) despite having the fewest number of ballot measures—129. Campaigns behind the 11 measures in California…

  • Total partisan composition of state legislatures changed by less than one percentage point in 2024

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    Welcome to the Monday, Feb. 24, 2025, Brew.  By: Lara Bonatesta Here’s what’s in store for you as you start your day: Total partisan composition of state legislatures changed by less than one percentage point in 2024 As lawmakers around the country meet in the 2025 legislative sessions, we’re continuing our analysis of the elections…

  • The Ballot Bulletin: Ballotpedia's Weekly Digest on Election Administration, Feb. 21, 2025

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    Welcome to The Ballot Bulletin: Ballotpedia’s Weekly Digest on Election Administration. Every Friday, we deliver the latest updates on election policy around the country, including nationwide trends and recent legislative activity.  In this week’s Ballot Bulletin, we cover 349 bills state legislatures acted on in the past week. Weekly highlights The big takeaways from the…

  • ICYMI: Top stories of the week

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    Republican-led election policy bills advance in Kansas legislative session  State lawmakers have introduced more than 2,300 election administration bills so far this year. In Tuesday’s Brew, we looked at an example of what lawmakers in Kansas are doing in this policy area. As of Feb. 12, Kansas lawmakers had introduced 26 election-related bills, four of…

  • Test scores and immigration policy in schools cause infighting in Oklahoma

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    Welcome to the Friday, Feb. 21, Brew.  By: Briana Ryan Here’s what’s in store for you as you start your day: Test scores and immigration policy in schools cause infighting in Oklahoma The Trump administration's push to curb undocumented immigration through greater enforcement has had a number of ripple effects on state and local governments.…