Kelly McFarland Stratman, interim co-CEO and chief of staff for the League of Women Voters of the U.S., pictured in the offices of the LWV of Ohio. (Photo by Susan…
Photo of a voting booth by WEWS. More than 150,000 Ohio voters could potentially not be eligible to vote in the upcoming Presidential election. Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose…
The entrance of the Long Creek Youth Development Center in South Portland, Nov. 18, 2019. (Jim Neuger/Maine Morning Star) For decades, state legislators and criminal justice advocates have worked to…
Getty Images. Let me first preface this by stating that I am a transgender individual, who is seeking to provide education to all regarding the LGBTQ+ community. When I first…
Protesters gather in Milwaukee to march on the Republican presidential debate in August 2023. (Isiah Holmes | Wisconsin Examiner) The Coalition to March on the RNC has sued the city…
One of the hundreds of white nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the “alt-right” who marched during the “Unite the Right” rally Aug. 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Virginia. The Southern Poverty…
A man pulls a boat through a flooded neighborhood in Barataria, La., in August 2021 after Hurricane Ida hit the area, one of several storms that have battered Louisiana in…
Students at Sacramento’s McClatchy High School learned last month that if officialdom feels uncomfortable, it will trample on free speech. The Prospector, McClatchy’s student newspaper, published a random collection of…
Imagine an overwhelmingly popular public policy that universally improved the lives of our K-12 students in both measurable and immeasurable ways. Imagine it reduced local taxes, school suspensions, student stigmas,…
AS LEGISLATORS ASSESS priorities in the sprint to the end of the legislative session on July 31, we urge them not to overlook an important bill that could make a…