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Correspondent For the first in-person meeting of the Progressive Club in over a year, Jeff James welcomed 37 attendees to the pub at the Lake Monticello golf course on July 13. “That is the most I have ever seen in the eight years since the club started,” he said. Perhaps it was the intriguing subject and speaker that they came to hear. Brian Cannon, director of campaigns for the Institute for Political Innovation, spoke about a new innovative way to vote, similar to the ranked-choice votin...

X-Men Beats Batman and Fortnite in the Bleeding Cool Bestseller List Posted on Batman and X-Men go up against each other on the same week, and Batman/Fortnite: Zero Point joins in as well. But that #1 aspect for X-Men tipped it over the top. This is the Top Ten Bleeding Cool Bestseller List, as compiled by a number of comic stores from their sales on Wednesday and Thursday. It measures what is known as the "Wednesday Warriors", those who cant wait till the weekend to get this weeks comics. T...

After Simone Biles, there are 29 US women competing for four guaranteed spots in the Tokyo Olympics. It will be sorted out in next three-plus weeks.

Now that the head-scratching decisions have been made, the dubious song selections have been executed — literally, it’s sometimes seemed — and we’ve all heard the Welcome to Team Legend ditty about a bazillion times, Season 20 of The Voice has come down to the big question mark looming over the competition. No, not “How are

The Masked Dancer Recap for Five Fan Favorites Tonight is the Final Five performances on Fox’s The Masked Singer. The Chameleon, Yeti, Russian Dolls, Piglet and Black Swan will perform in the quarter finals, with only four of them making it to the next round. Nick Cannon hosts, while Jenny McCarthy, Robin Thicke, Dr. Ken Jeong and Nicole Scherzinger judge. Rob Riggle is also on hand as a guest judge. Russian Dolls: Song: I’m Still Standing by Elton John Thoughts: The performance is adorabl...

Politics and law The 2021 mayoral race is the most intriguing in recent memory. There is no incumbent candidate, nor anyone who could—or would want to—take up Mayor Bill de Blasio’s torch. The city is in a bad way after suffering pandemic lockdowns, more than 50,000 Covid-19-related deaths, riots, mass unemployment, outmigration, and budget woes. The sheer scale and scope of these problems make it difficult for voters to figure out which candidate is best suited to take the reins of leade...

Maine voters approved ranked voting in federal races in a referendum in 2016, and it was used for the presidential election for the first time in 2020. Alaska voters took the concept a step further, approving a variant called Final Four balloting: The top four finishers in a non-partisan primary advance to a general election that will be determined by rank-choice voting. The reforms weaken the hold that voters on either end of the ideological spectrum have on the process, and could help moderat...

I like Ike, but Mikes OK; ranked-choice voting gets a look MATTHEW BARAKAT, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 2 1of2FILE - This absentee ballot for the 2020 Maine general election, photographed on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020 in Falmouth, Maine, shows how Maine voters are allowed to rank presidential and senate candidates in order of ranked choice preference. An electoral reform that has taken root in the iconoclastic states of Maine and Alaska could be gaining traction nationwide. ...

Fresno Fire Department ignites change in male-dominated profession KFSN Share: The Fresno Fire Department currently has five female firefighters and a female fire chief. In a few years, all six are planning to retire. Before they do, theyre igniting a change in the male-dominated profession. Chief Kerri Donis has served with the department for nearly two decades and says the perception that women cant be firefighters is in the distant past. "We have broken a lot of barriers and shown that we ca...

After defending their team all-around Olympics title and medaling in every gymnastics event, the “Final Five” members of the U.S. women’s gymnastics team were given a memorable surprise by Hoda Kotb during a “Today” show interview on Tuesday. Heartthrob Zac Efron crashed their interview with Kotb. He came to give personal well wishes to the team and specifically to Simone... NBC Aug 12, 2016 Olympic Gymnast Simone Biles has made no secret of her love for Zac Efron and...