By Democracy Docket A voter in Sacramento, California and a voter in Flint, Michigan mail their ballots three days before Election Day. Each ballot is postmarked three days before Election Day and arrives at their respective local election offices the day after Election Day. However, only one ballot counts. Why? Under some state laws, mail ballots …Read More
By Democracy Docket Once you have registered to vote, there are a number of ways to cast your ballot, including early voting and voting on Election Day. Another option in most states is “vote by mail” or “absentee voting,” where the state sends you a ballot in the mail. Depending on your state, you can return that ballot …Read More
By Brian Skinner, Esq. Marijuana Business Daily (MBD) reports that a study, conducted by Ohio State University Moritz College of Law’s Drug Enforcement and Policy Center, found that more than 60% of Ohio residents are dissatisfied with the state’s medical cannabis program, citing high prices as the number one reason. However, the study also showed that perceptions of …Read More
By Brian Skinner, Esq. Economists generally agree that the $600-a-week Pandemic Unemployment Compensation supplement that went to the 32 million Americans in March as part of the CARES Act, kept the economy functioning through the COVID-19 pandemic. Economists at the University of Chicago estimated that more than two-thirds of the workers on unemployment insurance …Read More
By Brian Skinner, Esq. In 2016, West Virginia experienced some of the most deadly and destructive flooding in the state’s history. Twenty-three people were killed, more than 1,500 homes and businesses were destroyed, and another 2,500 significantly damaged, while losses to highways and bridges totaled about $53 million. The National Weather Service declared that the amount of rainfall in June …Read More
By Brian Skinner, Esq. On September 1, the Trump administration issued an order that is intended to protect tenants who can’t afford to pay rent from eviction. The order comes at a time when state and local bans imposed at the beginning of the pandemic are expiring. I recently wrote about the high cost …Read More
PEW STATELINE – By Lindsey Van Ness – August 31, 2020 More than ever, Eric Harris is mindful of the elected officials around him: The school board members deciding whether his children will go back to the classroom, the sheriff influencing how officers interact with people like him, and the U.S. president steering the country’s coronavirus response. …Read More
By Brian Skinner, Esq. Last week U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh of the Northern District of California granted a request for a temporary restraining order stopping the Trump administration from winding down census operations until a court hearing later this month. Plaintiffs sued the administration over its decision last month to end the count a month earlier than …Read More
By Brian Skinner, Esq. In an important new book Heather Boushey, the Executive Director and Chief Economist at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, writes about the transformation underway in economics that is upsetting conventional wisdom about how our nation can deliver strong, stable, and broadly shared economic growth. Unbound-How Inequality Constricts Our Economy and What We Can Do …Read More
By Brian Skinner, Esq. In light of today’s press briefing in which Gov. Justice and his team tried to explain how data is compiled to color in the state’s county alert system map, I thought this story by Jenni Bergal in Stateline might be an interesting read. She writes that because of concerns about the accuracy and uniformity …Read More