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Protesters walked the streets of Minneapolis over the weekend calling for justice for Amir Locke, who was fatally shot by police last Wednesday. Beyond accountability at the city level, some demonstrators urge state lawmakers to take comprehensive action. Locke, a Black man, was shot by a Minneapolis SWAT team while sleeping on a couch. ...
Protesters are staging weekly vigils around a facility in a northwest Washington town that they say is a short-term holding facility for immigration law enforcement. The organization Community to Community Development, or C2C, discovered the facility - an unmarked building in Ferndale - through public records and testimony from community members. Liz Darrow, legislative advocate with C2C, said in January, they believe a restaurant worker from Bellingham was taken to the building before being transferred to the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma. ...
For Ras Smith, running for governor "exposed a drastic disconnect between the current political system and the people."
Art Hackett proposes a "secret weapon" that could help a Democratic candidate for governor in Iowa.
Unless things change dramatically, Kim Reynolds will be able to use most of her war chest to help down-ballot Iowa Republicans.