10 days remain until the last ballots are cast in the 2018 elections
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What’s coming up on Sunday Kos…
- The heroes fighting voter suppression, by Sher Watts Spooner
- American political terrorism has always been part of our national fabric, by Frank Vyan Walton
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Mental vacillation about Midterm 2018 is exhausting but a resolution is near, by Egberto Willies
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Donald Trump is a historically weak president who is undermining America's national security, by Laurence Lewis
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Democrats are the party of diversity, and Latinas are becoming a bigger part of it, by Denise Oliver Velez
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There is no room for nationalism in the promise of America, by Mark E Andersen
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Book review and five questions for co-author of 'Identity Crisis,' a new book on the 2016 election, by Ian Reifowitz
• Puerto Rico ponders move to 100% renewable energy sources:
Puerto Rico lawmakers are considering legislation to restructure the island's energy sector and move to 100% renewable energy by 2050.
The proposal includes ending the monopoly status of Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA), the island's bankrupt utility that is still rebuilding after Hurricane Maria destroyed Puerto Rico's electric grid more than a year ago. While power has since been restored, the island is just beginning its broad rebuilding that will include modernization and integration of more renewable sources.
• After four days of early voting in Texas, the count of people who had cast ballots was nearly equal to the total of two weeks’ worth of early voting in 2014.
MIDDAY TWEET
• Scientists discover cosmonauts’ brains lost as much as 3.3% of their gray matter after time on the ISS: The study, led by University of Antwerp neuroscientist Floris Wuyts, was published Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine. MRI scans of 10 cosmonauts were made before they left for the International Space Station and nine days after their return. Seven of the 10 were also studied approximately 200 days after their return. They had a mean age of 44 and averaged 189 days in space. The imaging showed a loss of as much as 3.3 percent of gray matter, essential for processing information, and an increase in cerebrospinal fluid. The scientists don’t know if these changes affected the cosmonauts’ cognitive ability or behavior, nor do they know why the changes occurred.
• California, Feds agree to truce on net neutrality fight for the moment:
The Trump administration and California pressed pause in their battle over net neutrality, with the state agreeing Friday to delay implementing its new net neutrality standards until a decision in a separate lawsuit.
California won’t enforce its new law until the D.C. Circuit and potentially the U.S. Supreme Court weigh in on a case filed by more than 20 state attorneys general over the Federal Communications Commission’s decision to nix Obama-era net neutrality rules. Oral arguments begin at the appeals court on Feb. 1.
• Oklahoma prosecutors oppose effort to provide alternatives to prison for non-violent offenders:
Since the days of frontier justice, lawmakers in conservative Oklahoma have viewed harsh prison sentences as the politically expedient solution to crime, including nonviolent offenses.
That approach has imposed a high price, leaving the state with the nation’s highest incarceration rate, overcrowded prisons and skyrocketing costs. Now, after years of steady debate, there’s growing agreement — even among conservatives — that changes are needed.
But the fragile consensus has crashed headlong into a towering obstacle: the entrenched ideology of the state’s top prosecutors, many of whom have made political careers out of padding their conviction rates.
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