MONDAY | MAY 20, 2013
EDITOR’S NOTE — It’s Election Day. Associated Press reporters and photographers around the country are capturing the stories of families making a historic choice. From the storm-battered New York metro area to a California city hobbled by foreclosure, and in precincts large and small, people are voting. Here are some of their stories: A Century [...]
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PHOENIX – As Election Day looms, a series of stunning errors, misstatements and misinformation by public officials in Maricopa County, Arizona’s largest county, has some wondering if years of work to encourage Arizona Latinos to vote is being undermined before the election. Three weeks before the high-stakes national and local elections, the Maricopa County elections [...]
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Tayna Fogle is a grandmother, basketball player extraordinaire, and former addict who spent nearly part a decade in prison. In order to stand up for the issues that were important to her family, she had to bravely defend against harsh drug sentencing policies and learn to navigate bureaucratic mazes to regain her right to vote. [...]
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I was blessed to grow up in the Beasley family. Our too-small car for a family of eight could be heard coming from a mile away and smelled for hours after we departed. My siblings and I did not shop for clothes at a store but from trash bags of decades-old clothing. We didn’t have [...]
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The Marguerite Casey Foundation, with support from K & L Gates, is hosting a panel discussion on tax reform and low-income Americans featuring four of the nation’s leading tax policy experts from the Heritage Foundation, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the American Enterprise Institute, and the Center for American Progress. The [...]
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OAKLAND, Calif. – In the heart of a struggling, working class neighborhood, dozens of East Bay clergy and community leaders will hold a speak-out and candlelight vigil to get out the vote and raise awareness about what is at stake on Election Day. They will march through neighborhoods in East Oakland and call on citizens [...]
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SPOKANE, Wash. – Since her resignation from the U.S. State Department nearly 10 years ago in opposition the Iraq War, Col. Ann Wright has been writing and speaking out for peace. She will be speaking in Spokane, Wash. next week as part of the Peace and Justice Action League’s event, just days after she meets [...]
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CHICAGO – The Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR) will deliver more than 26,000 voter registrations to Cook County Clerk David Orr on the eve of the presidential debate to remind both candidates that comprehensive immigration reform needs to be a top priority during their administration. ICIRR’s New Americans Democracy Project (NADP) has [...]
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CLARKSTON, Ga. – The face of America is changing, with more people of color throughout the country, and more refugees and recent immigrants living in rural communities than many might expect. In the PBS “Need to Know” Election Special “America by the Numbers,” Maria Hinojosa explores this demographic shift through the eyes of families in [...]
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More than 5,000 supporters of Chicago’s teachers gathered outside the Hyatt Regency Thursday at the fourth day of the teachers’ strike, then marched down Michigan Avenue in a show of solidarity with the Chicago Teachers Union. The crowd had a strong message for Penny Pritzker, the billionaire member of the Chicago Board of Education whose [...]
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