Alan Miller is one of six U.S. prisoners who have survived their execution in the modern death penalty era. “It’s like déjà vu,” he told Bolts staff writer Lauren Gill as he braced for a second execution attempt.
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“Agony” and “Suffering” as Alabama Experiments with Nitrogen Executions - Bolts
Alabama said Alan Miller’s execution by lethal gas would be “more humane.” He writhed and gasped for air in his final moments.
Advocates in Bozeman, Montana are using a once-in-a-decade chance to reshape local government structure to create more equitable representation and, eventually, more affordable housing policy. NEW in Bolts:
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To Tackle Housing Crisis, These Organizers Want to First Change How City Hall Works - Bolts
Advocates in Bozeman, Montana are using a once-in-a-decade chance to reshape local government structure to create more equitable representation and...
Pennsylvania tosses thousands of ballots over small errors. A county official told us in February he wanted to create an “ice cream truck” for voting, sending out election workers to help people correct mistakes. His county unveiled this van yesterday:
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How an ‘Ice Cream Truck’ for Voting Could Stop Pennsylvania Ballots from Being Tossed - Bolts
This pivotal swing state rejects thousands of votes a year over minor mistakes. A new official in Montgomery County wants to make those ballots cou...
Two seats are up for grabs on the Michigan Supreme Court, and the results could flip control to the GOP. A summertime ruling that handed a win for direct democracy shows what is at stake.
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Direct Democracy Scores a Win in Michigan's High Court. Can It Survive November? - Bolts
Michigan progressives gathered enough signatures in 2018 to put two labor measures on the ballot: one to raise the minimum wage, another to mandate...
33 states are holding supreme court elections next month. While partisan control of the court is on the line in just Michigan and Ohio, many more courts could see their ideological balance affected, including in Kentucky, Montana, and Texas:
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Your State-by-State Guide to the 2024 Supreme Court Elections - Bolts
The article was updated in September 2024 to reflect summer primaries, filing deadlines, and new developments in Georgia, Louisiana, Michigan, Mont...
Michael Broadway died from an asthma attack on a scorching day inside an Illinois prison. Witnesses said a nurse didn't want to climb the stairs to his cell. A friend in a nearby cell put it plainly: “staff in these prisons DO NOT see us as human beings.”
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In Illinois, a Private Prison Company's Long Trail of Deaths and High-Dollar Contracts - Bolts
This year, Illinois again picked Wexford Health Services for prison health care despite longstanding claims of neglect. A judge has since extended ...
Our cheat sheet of more than 500 elections and ballot measures contains explanations of why they matter and how they could affect national and local power and policy. We will update the page with the results once they are known, so be sure to bookmark it.
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Your Cheat Sheet to the 2024 General Elections - Bolts
Bolts guides you through more than 500 elections up and down the ballot, and why they matter.
Public office can learn from public health, says the scientist leading Sacramento's mayoral race: “It's about maximizing the number of years in your life & the quality of life in your years—I see that as the major charge of every public-facing institution.”
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The Epidemiologist Running for Mayor to Bring Public Health to Sacramento Politics - Bolts
Flojaune Cofer, the epidemiologist and leading candidate in Sacramento’s mayoral race, will always remember watching her father die from congesti...
Native leaders say ranked choice voting has opened the door to more candidates to run in Alaska, and they worry its repeal would limit that diversity.
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Native Leaders Organize to Defend Alaska's Ranked Choice Voting System - Bolts
The Alaska Federation of Natives is hoping to defeat a November ballot measure that would repeal the state’s new election rules, adopted just fou...
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell and billionaire Richard Uihlein are supporting some local conservative candidates in Florida who are trying to take over local elections offices.
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Six “America First” Candidates, Vying to Take Over Florida Elections, Advance to November - Bolts
Editor’s note (Nov. 7): Members of this coalition won the general elections in Monroe and Seminole counties, and lost in the other counties i...