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Quick updates from across Amarillo for Monday, July 6, 2026. The post In Brief: July 6, 2026 appeared first on Amarillo Tribune.

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Alabama politicians spent over $40 million during the 2026 primary and primary runoffs for state and federal offices.  Richard Fording, a political science professor at The University of Alabama, said in an interview Wednesday the spending during this election cycle could be tied to a national shift against the Republican Party. “I think what we […]

AFP’nin İstanbul ve Ankara bürolarında çalışan gazeteciler, toplu iş sözleşmesinde işverenin resmi enflasyonun altında kalan zam teklifine karşı greve çıktı. Hayat pahalılığını yıllardır haberleştiren gazeteciler, bu kez kendi geçim mücadelesini anlatıyor. Sabahın erken saatleri… Kafe ve mağazalarla dolu Nişantaşı sokakları henüz günün telaşına teslim olmamış. Esnaf vitrinlerini düzenliyor, kafeler işe gitmeden kahvesini içmek isteyen ilk […] The post AFP Türkiye ofisi grevde: Gazeteciler bu kez kendi ücretleri için direniyor appeared first on Journo.

As North Carolina expands the number of statewide remote charter schools, lawmakers are proposing to change how those schools receive state funding.  A provision in the proposed state budget would replace a funding method based on the school district where a statewide remote charter school’s administrative office is located with one based on the statewide […]

委內瑞拉兩次強震造成的災情持續擴大。根據委內瑞拉信息部公布的最新數據，地震已造成至少3342人死亡，16470人受傷，另有17345人無家可歸。這場災難也正演變為一場政治考驗。

委内瑞拉两次强震造成的灾情持续扩大。根据委内瑞拉信息部公布的最新数据，地震已造成至少3342人死亡，16470人受伤，另有17345人无家可归。这场灾难也正演变为一场政治考验。

A 12-month data center moratorium in Texas Township is set to take effect on July 5, MLive’s Aya Miller reports. The Kalamazoo County community joins neighboring Portage and Oshtemo Township in putting a pause on data center development, with the Texas Township Planning Commission expecting to use the period to evaluate the facilities’ impacts on […]

La Organización Meteorológica Mundial ha comunicado que se han instaurado condiciones de El Niño en el Pacífico tropical y que se prevé su rápida intensificación en los próximos meses, lo que aumentará la probabilidad de olas de calor, sequías, lluvias intensas y clima extremo en muchas partes del mundo.

Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. Sign up for Votebeat Wisconsin’s free newsletter here.For years, Mequon election workers employed an unusually strict standard for judging the validity of witness addresses on absentee ballot envelopes — a standard not apparently used elsewhere in Wisconsin and that the Wisconsin Elections Commission has now said is illegal.Under that standard, Mequon officials rejected absentee ballots if the witness address did not include a state or ZIP code and the municipality name was not unique nationwide. That’s despite the fact that Wisconsin’s absentee ballot envelope no longer specifically asks witnesses to provide the information Mequon treated as essential: a state or ZIP code.But a Votebeat review of hundreds of April 2026 absentee ballot envelopes, the dozens of ballots Mequon at least initially rejected since 2024, and scores of city records found that the city’s strict standard was applied unevenly — and, in some cases, resulted in the initial rejection of ballots that did not appear ambiguous at all.In April, election workers accepted several ballots with the same missing witness-address information as ballots they moved to the reject pile. In one case, poll workers appeared to override the city’s own recommendation to reject a ballot. And of the ballots Mequon rejected because officials said the witness address listed a municipality name shared by other places in the country, about a third were actually from uniquely named municipalities. All the rest had unique combinations of street number, street name, and municipality, even without a state or ZIP code.Across several recent elections between 2024 and 2026, the city rejected at least 27 absentee ballots while allowing others with the same missing witness-address information to count. In the Wisconsin Supreme Court election this April, Mequon initially intended to reject five more ballots before the commission ordered city officials to count them — and to stop applying the unusual standard in elections moving forward. Mequon followed the commission’s order to count the votes in April. But when Votebeat asked whether the city would abandon its practice in future elections, the city attorney was less definitive, leaving open the possibility that it could return.Mequon officials have defended the rejections by saying voters are responsible for following the rules. Nancy Martin, a chief inspector at a Mequon polling place, said that she is unequivocally supportive of the city’s witness-address policy. She invoked a state law calling absentee voting a privilege, not a right.Because of that law, she said, “you need to make sure that you’re doing your job as a voter, and I don’t think that sending incomplete information is doing a complete job as a voter.”How Mequon’s standard clashed with state practiceWisconsin law requires absentee voters to have a witness sign the ballot envelope and provide an address. But state law does not define how complete that address must be. In a lawsuit filed by Rise, Inc., a nonprofit advocacy organization, a court in 2024 sided with the group’s more lenient view, ruling that an address is sufficient as long as a clerk can reasonably discern where the witness lives. The Wisconsin Elections Commission has since said that means clerks should not reject ballots simply because the witness address does not include a state or ZIP code. In fact, the WEC-approved state absentee ballot envelope doesn’t specifically designate spaces for a witness to provide their state or ZIP code. Mequon has taken a stricter view than WEC in rejecting ballots that do not provide that information. Around August 2024, Mequon officials discussed the state commission’s witness-address standard at a training for chief inspectors. City records pertaining to that meeting show that City Attorney Brian Sajdak expressed that he disagreed with the commission on what constitutes a valid address. Since then, the city has repeatedly rejected ballots the commission deemed properly witnessed. Sam Liebert, the Wisconsin state director of All Voting is Local and a former municipal clerk, said it’s normal for city attorneys to be in touch with clerks to decide or interpret election policies.“But in Mequon, it is pretty alarming and jarring that an attorney would so blatantly not be in agreement with WEC’s interpretation of the Rise ruling,” he said.Sajdak and Mequon City Clerk Caroline Fochs didn’t respond to multiple requests for comment about who came up with the controversial policy, though a letter from a chief inspector endorsing the policy says they both played a part. Inconsistencies within polling places that rejected ballotsThe unevenness showed up even within the same polling places.Mequon officials at the same polling places who initially rejected the five ballots from the April election counted six others in that same election — three from Cedarburg, one from Waukesha, one from Rib Lake, and another from Shorewood — even though their witness addresses were also missing ZIP codes and states, and the municipality names were not unique nationwide.In this rare instance, Mequon poll workers appeared to override a suggestion to reject a ballot.In one instance, poll workers even appeared to override a city official’s instructions to reject a ballot from Shorewood that didn’t list a ZIP code or state. It arrived at the precinct with a handwritten note affixed to it saying “Reject — multiple ‘Shorewoods’ in US.” There is a Shorewood near Mequon and others in Illinois and Minnesota. In different handwriting, an election worker wrote that the street name listed on the address, Farwell Avenue, was in the nearby Shorewood, and accepted the ballot. Mequon’s controversial practice came to light in April 2026 as a result of a letter to Fochs from Law Forward, a liberal law firm, warning that the city’s policy may be wrongfully disenfranchising absentee voters.In response, Sajdak said the city’s ballot rejection practice is a “policy of last resort utilized only when all other reasonable attempts have failed.”But it appears that city officials did not use simple techniques that would have shown that the witness address provided on each of the rejected ballots was unique.All rejected ballots did have unique addressOf the 32 ballots Mequon initially rejected in recent elections, about a third did not meet even the city’s own standard for rejection: They came from uniquely named municipalities, like Fox Point and Chicago.All the rest were also traceable to unique addresses. Even without a state or ZIP code: The street number and street name on those ballot envelopes pointed to only one location in the United States, even though the municipality name wasn’t unique.Votebeat sought to better understand the process by which Mequon officials rejected those ballots, which the city has described as extensive. But the city has provided little transparency about what specific steps are actually taken to verify witness addresses.In response to a records request for election workers’ online searches, Mequon initially said it had no responsive records. After Votebeat explained how to export browser history, the city produced records showing that Mequon officials searched Google on April 6 and 7 — Election Day and the day before it — for whether there were multiple cities in the United States named Baltimore and Verona.The records do not show that the searches went further. Had city officials entered the complete street names and numbers, they would have found that both addresses were unique to just one of those cities. Ballots from both cities were rejected before the commission ordered Mequon to count them.Fochs did not answer follow-up questions about whether she took other steps to determine whether the addresses were sufficient.“I do what I can, and we do go through a lot of hoops,” Fochs said in an earlier April interview, saying the clerk’s office contacts voters with insufficient witness addresses when time allows.But Liebert, from All Voting Is Local, saw it differently: “It does seem sort of just like a lack of due diligence.”Mequon election workers appear split on city policyAlisha Campbell, who was an assistant chief inspector at a Mequon polling place in April, said that every absentee ballot went through the clerk’s office before being delivered to an individual ward. The general instruction from her chief inspector, Campbell said, was to reject the ballots that the clerk’s office suggested rejecting. She also said she was told by her chief inspector that ZIP codes were paramount, and that if a ballot is missing a ZIP and the municipality name isn’t unique, poll workers could not count it. While Votebeat found instances in which pollworkers overrode a decision by the central election offices, Campbell said most were generally just following the instructions of the city clerk’s office rather than making decisions on the fly.Campbell would not say whether she agreed with the city policy.“What you think independently isn’t always what you are told to do,” Campbell said. “I will leave that at that.”Martin, the Mequon chief inspector who defended the city’s policy, took a different view. In her letter supporting the policy, which five other Mequon chief inspectors signed, Martin expressed hope that the election commission would “correct their position” by calling for a state and ZIP code in the witness address field.Instead, the commission did the opposite. In its new manual, published in June, the commission said using the same witness address standard that Mequon employed would constitute “an abuse of discretion.”Martin said she was disappointed in the commission’s new language and plans to write to her local legislators asking them to change the law to require ZIP and state. She was noncommittal on how she would handle the address standard moving forward, but said she will largely rely on the clerk’s office’s guidance.Liebert questioned whether other cities and towns in Wisconsin were implementing policies that don’t follow state law or court decisions. Wisconsin has the most decentralized election system in the nation, with 1,850 municipalities each running elections at the local level.But he said the commission’s intervention in Mequon this year shows a silver lining. While Mequon had rejected ballots against WEC guidance in several recent elections, the commission went further by ordering the city to count the initially rejected ballots from the April election. All five were included in the final results. “It’s disappointing what happened in Mequon, but I think also at the end of the day, the system shows that it works,” Liebert said, adding that the commission vote to count those ballots was bipartisan. “That should give voters confidence in the system and that people are looking out for them.”Alexander Shur is a reporter for Votebeat based in Wisconsin. Contact Alexander at ashur@votebeat.org.

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The Hennepin County union representing paramedics and EMTs recently voted ‘no confidence’ in EMS leadership amid ongoing concerns around staffing and the weight of their responsibilities. The post Too few workers, too many emergencies, take toll on EMS providers’ mental health appeared first on MinnPost.

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Records show the Mequon city attorney appeared at least partially behind a city policy that the Wisconsin Elections Commission said was illegal. How inconsistent standards led to dozens of disenfranchised voters in Mequon is a post from Wisconsin Watch, a non-profit investigative news site covering Wisconsin since 2009. Please consider making a contribution to support our journalism.

The United States is using the full power of the federal government to restrict gender-affirming care for transgender youth.  The American Psychological Association has accused the Trump administration of ignoring science and undermining mental health through its anti-trans policies. Groups including Planned Parenthood, AIDS United and the Human Rights Campaign see these tactics as a […]

The history of America is written not only in its great cities and skyscrapers. It can be found in Appalachian hollows, along the banks of the Mississippi, in southwestern deserts and on the prairies of the High Plains. Small towns and rural communities have contributed much to the epic narrative of our nation. As we […] The post America 250: Ten Small Towns That Made Us Who We Are appeared first on The Daily Yonder.

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You paid less for groceries in May and June. You probably didn’t notice. I sure didn’t. As far as I could tell, our food was as expensive on Wednesday as it was on April 30. But yes, there was a small break. The Legislature this spring approved a two-month suspension of the state portion of […]