Most people think of urban open spaces in terms of grand parks—Chicago’s Millennium Park or New York’s Central Park or San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. These are our iconic parks—our sublime spaces. They serve as the “lungs” of our cities, […]
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A Democrat, John Ewing Jr., appeared on track to win Omaha’s mayoral race on Tuesday, unofficial county results showed, a victory that would end a long period of Republican leadership in a politically divided city that has outsize importance in
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The Kansas Supreme Court, made up mostly of jurists appointed by Democrats, has long served as a check on the Republican-dominated Legislature. The justices have established a statewide right to abortion. They have told Republican leaders that they were not
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The Justice Department moved on Friday to dismiss its Biden-era challenge of an Iowa law that made it a state crime for some undocumented immigrants to enter the state, a victory for Iowa Republicans as the Trump administration pursues an
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Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, last year’s Democratic nominee for vice president, took another step back onto the national political stage on Friday when he hosted a town hall in front of a friendly audience in Des Moines, the latest
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The lieutenant governor of Michigan, Garlin Gilchrist II, announced on Tuesday that he is running for governor, joining a competitive Democratic primary field at a time of uncertainty for the party in that swing state and beyond. Mr. Gilchrist, a
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A federal judge in Missouri found the Chinese government responsible for covering up the start of the Covid-19 pandemic and hoarding protective equipment in a ruling on Friday. He entered a judgment of more than $24 billion that Missouri officials
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Iowa’s Republican governor signed into law on Friday a measure that ends state civil rights protections for transgender people, a move that L.G.B.T.Q. rights advocates said made the state the first to eliminate such broad and specific protections for transgender
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Eighteen years ago, when Democrats controlled state government in Iowa, Gov. Chet Culver signed civil rights protections for gay, lesbian and transgender people into law. “We send a message that Iowa is a welcoming place that values each of its
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Hanan Shaheen walked to the front of an Illinois courtroom on Tuesday and described how, in a matter of days her landlord turned on her and her 6-year-old son. For two years, Ms. Shaheen testified, she had no major problems
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