Category: Newsletters

  • Documenting America’s Path to Recovery #215: December 9, 2021

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    Welcome to Documenting America’s Path to Recovery. Today we look at the federal government’s contractor vaccine mandate, a Maryland Board of Education policy allowing school districts to end mask mandates in some circumstances, and other news since Dec. 2. We’ll also give the latest tracking on: Lawsuits about state actions and policies  Vaccine distribution State-level…

  • New maps from the Pacific Northwest

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    Welcome to the Thursday, December 9, Brew.  By: David Luchs Here’s what’s in store for you as you start your day: Washington Supreme Court accepts redistricting commission’s maps, Oregon’s maps finalized With vote-counting still underway, recall of Seattle City Councilwoman Kshama Sawant appears too close to call SCOTUS holds second week of December argument session…

  • Economy and Society: SEC preps businesses for new ESG disclosure standards

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    Economy and Society is Ballotpedia’s weekly review of the developments in corporate activism; corporate political engagement; and the Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) trends and events that characterize the growing intersection between business and politics. ESG Developments This Week In Washington, D.C., and around the world SEC preps businesses for new ESG disclosure standards…

  • A sneak peek at 2022 local elections

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    Welcome to the Wednesday, December 8, Brew.  By: Samuel Wonacott Here’s what’s in store for you as you start your day: Local elections in 2022—a sneak peek The Department of Justice sues Texas over its congressional, state legislative maps Biden’s Article III judicial nominations    Looking ahead to 2022 local elections Last week, we looked at…

  • Revisiting the 2015 SCOTUS decision allowing redistricting commissions

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    Welcome to the Tuesday, December 6, Brew.  By: Douglas Kronaizl Here’s what’s in store for you as you start your day: In 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that voters could use initiatives to create redistricting commissions Kshama Sawant recall today in Seattle, Wash. 54.2% of the nation’s state legislators are Republicans In 2015, U.S.…

  • Robe & Gavel: Federal Judicial Vacancy Count released for December 1

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    Welcome to the Dec. 6 edition of Robe & Gavel, Ballotpedia’s newsletter about the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) and other judicial happenings around the U.S. Happy holidays, gentle readers! Let’s gather together one last time in 2021, for Auld Lang Syne’s sake, to review the latest from SCOTUS and the federal judiciary.…

  • As we enter the midterms…let’s review the history of wave elections

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    Welcome to the Monday, December 6, Brew.  By: Samuel Wonacott Here’s what’s in store for you as you start your day: Defining wave elections U.S. House elections with multiple incumbents Learn about petition blocking An introduction to wave elections As we draw closer to the 2022 midterm elections, you might encounter the term wave election.…

  • The State and Local Tap: New York enacts new COVID-19 disaster emergency

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    Our weekly summary of state & local news highlights New York’s new COVID-19 disaster emergency and the Atlanta mayoral runoff results. Read all about it in this week’s edition of the State & Local Tap. Ballot Measures Update 2021 review Voters in nine states decided 39 statewide ballot measures on four different election dates in…

  • The Federal Tap: Federal court blocks Biden administration’s healthcare worker vaccine requirement

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    Our weekly summary of federal news highlights a federal court blocking the Biden administration’s healthcare worker vaccine requirement and SCOTUS’ December argument sitting. Read all about it in this week’s edition of the Federal Tap. Congress is in session Both the House and Senate are in session next week. Click here to see the full…

  • Weekly Brew: December 3, 2021

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    Sixteen seats changed party control, including 14 incumbents who lost in state legislative general elections Sixteen state legislative seats changed party control in the 2021 election. Fifteen seats changed from Democratic to Republican control and one seat changed from Republican to Democratic control. Fourteen incumbents lost general elections, all of them Democrats. By state, nine…