Preview of what's coming in the Friday Feb. 28, 2025 edition of Down Ballot
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Good morning. It's Friday, February 28, 2025 and in this morning's edition we're covering a Texas GOP legislator that filed a bill that would ban DEI in the state's K-12 public schools, South Carolina's housing authority offering builders money to increase affordability, Maryland legislature makes cuts to youth mental health amid fiscal crisis, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry commits to more permanent domestic violence funding, New Orleans' ongoing short-term rental saga, City of Clarksdale asks Mississippi judge to dismiss lawsuit against newspaper, Wyoming politicians support recent purge of federal employees while those recently laid off pick up the pieces, how state courts can shape and check federal power and a lot more.
Media outlets and others featured in this edition: The Texas Tribune, South Carolina Daily Gazette, Mississippi Free Press, Capital News Service, Louisiana Illuminator, Verite News, Mississippi Today, Maryland Matters, WyoFile, State Court Report
To continue reading the rest of each article, please click the link at the end of the excerpt.
A new resource from the State Democracy Research Initiative makes the current text of all 50 state constitutions available and searchable on one site. This was from State Court Report.
If you're a North Carolina resident and voted in the N.C. Supreme Court race that is still not certified, please check the list of over 60,000 votes that Jefferson Griffin is trying to discard after narrowly losing to Allison Riggs.
Stephen Whitlow from Triangle Blog Blog has more information. Readers can also visit the Orange County, N.C. group's website The Griffin List to search names and more.
For more about the GOP challenger, check out The Assembly’s article by Jeffrey Billman and Michael Hewlett.
