"From the mountains, to the prairies, to the oceans white with foam…" Those familiar lyrics we all grew up singing represent the vast diversity of America’s natural grandeur, the majesty of which ...

Barbara Gruhl grew up in a conservative, Midwestern nest on a 500-acre grain and livestock farm in Illinois — “black gold farm country,” she remembers. “One of my early memories is everybody loved Ike ...

A push for nonpartisan probate court judicial elections has advanced following a majority floor vote in the Georgia House of ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. No “Rep” or “Dem” follows the names for Corpus Christi City Council candidates on the ballot — but the nonpartisan nature of the ...

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A Maricopa County, Ariz., election worker examines ballots on Nov. 9, 2022, a day after the midterm election. (Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times/TNS) America’s system of election administration has come ...

Arkansas switched to nonpartisan judicial elections in 2000 in part to take politics out of the process. Arguably, the jury is still out on whether that happened. Some say voters know less about the ...

With much attention on Washington’s secretary of state in recent weeks, lawmakers should be pondering the future of the office and recognize that citizens would be well-served if the position were ...

Deadline to return mail ballot: Postmarked by 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 5 Early voting: Saturday, Oct. 26 – Sunday, Nov. 3 Currently, three Mercer County towns hold nonpartisan elections: Trenton, ...