Kinda want to frame this quote from an #IVF mom I interviewed for today's Stateline story: “I think we forget how much power we have. Regardless of what happens with the presidency, we have so much control over what happens in our state.” 🔥 stateline.org/2024/08/12/pot…

Via Anna Claire Vollers and Stateline: Critics warn that abortion trafficking laws could have grave implications not only for interstate travel, but also for personal speech and communication between friends, or between children and adults they trust. alabamareflector.com/2024/08/25/hel…

Pedestrians die at highest rates not in brightly lit big cities where sidewalks are crowded, but in rural areas where people often must walk on dark country thoroughfares never meant for foot traffic, Tim Henderson reports. stateline.org/2024/08/30/dar…

Stateline crisscrossed MI and WI to interview dozens of voters, local election officials and activists to understand how the voting, tabulation and certification processes could be disrupted in November: stateline.org/2024/09/03/swi… via Stateline

Helping my fourth-grader write his speech for class representative tonight while we watch the presidential debate. He’s including the names of our dog and all of our cats. We had to stop and google whether Trump or Harris have pets. (We didn’t find any)

As Donald Trump and Kamala Harris debate over abortion in the US, check out our latest coverage on how some states have made it illegal to help a minor travel for an abortion from Anna Claire Vollers. #Debate2024 stateline.org/2024/08/23/hel…

#Debate2024: Potential threats to IVF access have become an election-year issue, pushing many political novices toward involvement and activism. Read it here from Anna Claire Vollers: stateline.org/2024/08/12/pot…

#Debate2024 on Elections: Preventing people who are not US citizens from casting a ballot has reemerged as a focal point in the ongoing Republican drive to safeguard “election integrity,” as mentioned in tonight's debate. Read more from Matt Vasilogambros here: stateline.org/2024/05/06/tho…

every journalist made the same joke at the same time

Measures that would protect abortion access are on track to appear on the ballot in 10 states in November, but abortion opponents are engaged in last-ditch legal maneuvering to try to prevent voters from weighing in on the proposals, Anna Claire Vollers reports. stateline.org/2024/09/13/abo…

Can’t wait to see all Amy will do in this next stage of her career. ProPublica is getting one of the best!

This is a fantastic explainer. Alander Rocha takes an complex & unsexy issue (Alabama's bottom-of-the-barrel Medicare wage index) and shows why it matters to our health care & our rural hospitals. Y'all go read it: alabamareflector.com/2024/09/17/ala… Alabama Reflector

An American journalist is being threatened with jail over a Pulitzer Prize winning series that dug up a scandal headlined by Brett Favre and a former governor espn.com/nfl/story/_/id…

A new report details more than 200 cases of women charged criminally for their behavior while pregnant in the year after the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision that dismantled the constitutional right to abortion. via Stateline Anna Claire Vollers newsfromthestates.com/article/200-wo…

Via Anna Claire Vollers and Stateline: Facing financial and federal regulatory pressures, many insurers are pulling their Medicare Advantage plans from counties and states they’ve deemed unprofitable. alabamareflector.com/2024/10/21/1-m…

"The [Alabama] Secretary of State’s office says the number of inactive voters went from 225,166 in 2020 to 407,706 this year, an 81% increase."

Alabama, take notice.

“Somebody hears something and then they tell people, and it’s the worst game of telephone tag there ever is." How local election officials are dispelling election disinformation in the final days of the election. (Matt Vasilogambros) stateline.org/2024/10/24/fir…

200+ women faced criminal charges over pregnancy in year after Dobbs, report finds dailymontanan.com/2024/10/27/200… via Daily Montanan Stateline Anna Claire Vollers

Don't miss today's piece from Nada Hassanein who is so good at keeping people and communities at the center of their own stories, while while also exploring the systems that benefit at their expense. via Stateline stateline.org/2024/10/31/inv…