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The same year the Missouri Chamber of Commerce funded the campaign against the Clean Missouri Act, fixing campaign finance and ethics loopholes and ending gerrymandering. And in North Dakota, the main opponents to the 2018 “voters’ right to know…

representatives will govern.”. In North Dakota, a team of “badass grandmas” led a campaign to enact sweeping anti-corruption measures that promote greater transparency and accountability in the state government. “I think we cleverly packaged a label, a…

Method Coming to St. Louis? In 2018, Fargo, North Dakota, made history by becoming the first city to adopt approval voting for local elections. Approval voting is an alternative voting method that gives voters the option to choose as many candidates on the…

candidates on the ballot as they want and the candidate with the most votes wins. In terms of alternative voting methods, it doesn’t get much simpler. Fargo, North Dakota became the first jurisdiction in the United States to adopt approval voting in 2018, part of…

Up Next. Opinion. Two Reasons to be Cheerful About Lobbyists. January 2, 2019. In December, I wrote an article on a particularly egregious case of the famous legislative "revolving door." After sixteen years in the South Dakota Legislature, Senator Deb…

Up Next. Legislation. Tulsi Gabbard: US Regime Change Policies Undermine North Korea Talks. February 26, 2019. US Rep. Tulsi Gabbard believes that the US's response to the sociopolitical crisis in Venezuela could prevent successful negotiations with North…

Shawn Griffiths. Shawn is the editor for IVN.us. He studied history and philosophy at the University of North Texas, and joined the IVN team in 2012.…

Steve Goodale. A dual US/UK citizen since birth, Steve grew up in Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina before moving to London as an adult. He now works as a digital marketing consultant and in his spare time is the webmaster and World Editor for News Growl.…

the runway and all of the transportation link are on the north side. How convenient to have two train lines, the Coaster (serving the coastal area from downtown to the north) and the Pacific Surfliner, (a link to Los Angeles’ Union Station and points beyond…

as a three-judge panel had ordered in May. The Supreme Court had put the panel’s ruling on hold ahead of its rulings, issued the next month, in two major gerrymandering cases from Maryland and North Carolina. The justices in June dealt a major blow to…