Jan 30, 2025 · In 2024, Politics Is Local. Bolts covers the nuts and bolts of power and political change, from the local up. We report on the places, people, and policies that shape public policy. We focus on criminal justice and voting rights, and delve further in …

1 day ago · San Diego’s Commission on Police Practices began reviewing SDPD’s policy on chases in December 2023 following a fiery crash caused by a high-speed police pursuit that killed two young brothers. The boys Malikai, and Mason Orozco-Romero, aged 8 and 4, respectively, were passengers riding in the backseat of their mother’s Honda on an off-ramp of Interstate 805 when it was rear-ended by a ...

14 hours ago · In 1999, Dawn Jackson took a plea deal and was sentenced to 30 years in a New Jersey prison for killing her step-grandfather, Robert McBride. As told in the New York Times Metro section that summer, Jackson, then 27, stabbed him in the chest and stole money to buy cocaine.. But over the next 25 years, Jackson told her side of the story, which was not as clear-cut as it once had seemed.

6 days ago · Alonzo Bland Jr., of Richmond, did everything the state asked of him following his felony conviction: He served time in state prison, completed a term of probation upon release, and paid off all court debts. Still he cannot vote, because the governor, Glenn Youngkin, who has sole discretion over ...

Jan 28, 2025 · After losing his reelection bid last summer, Georgia State Court Judge Stephen Yekel turned to a loophole in state law that could have erased the result and blocked the winner from taking office.. In Georgia, if judges announce they’ll quit at some point before the end of their term, they hand the governor the ability to choose their replacement for the next two years.

Jan 24, 2025 · Voters in Grants Pass, Oregon, elected a new mayor and four new city councilors with far-right politics in November. The GOP-backed bunch was sworn in on Jan. 6, 2025, and called a special meeting the following afternoon, at which it doubled down on the type of anti-homeless policies that made Grants Pass famous last year when its case was heard by the highest court in the land.

Bolts is the new home of “What’s on the Ballot,” a platform that since 2018 has offered cheatsheets and databases to organize the chaos of U.S. democracy. “What’s on the Ballot” is now continuing to help readers follow elections small and big, local and national, by producing more cheatsheets and information.

Nov 22, 2024 · Who Runs Our Elections? Our Bolts resources compile, state-by-state, the local and state offices responsible for administering elections, and those responsible for counting and certifying results.These sleepy offices hold a great deal of discretion over our democracy.

Nov 22, 2024 · Powered by Native Voters, Ranked-Choice Voting and Open Primaries Survive in Alaska. Alaska’s predominantly Native regions delivered huge margins against repealing the state’s new elections system, despite facing continued logistical challenges to voting.

Oct 23, 2024 · Our team at Bolts has spent much of the last year reporting on the stakes of the 2024 elections. Then last month, we turned the mic over to you: As part of our series “Ask Bolts,” we invited you to send us your questions about what is brewing in November. I answered six of your questions in the first part of our mailbag two weeks …