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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 leadership. A poll conducted last month showed a wide-open race. Only two of the Democratic candidates, A...

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 moderate Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who's up for re-election in 2022. In a closed primary, pro-Trump R...

I like Ike, but Mike's 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. After decades of theoretical discussions among policy wonks, advocates of ranked-choice voting are ...

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, they're 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 can't be firefighters is in the distant past. "We have broken a lot of barriers and shown that we can do the job just like anyone else," Donis said. In 2019, the department launched an aggressive 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 the 2016 Olympics proved Efron is a fan of hers too. Biles first confessed her crush on the “High...