As millions tuned in to watch the Super Bowl in New Orleans this month, outside the Superdome in the central French Quarter, ...

This article was published in collaboration between Bolts and New York Focus. Central New York’s Tompkins County, home to ...

Connecticut lawmakers are considering legislation to make it illegal to participate in the death penalty, following news that ...

Who are the local and state officials responsible for counting, canvassing, and certifying elections? On this page, Bolts maps out each state’s system. It lays out who is responsible for the different ...

This page compiles, state-by-state, the local offices that administer elections at the state, county, and municipal level. It lays out who oversees the preparation and conduct of the election, from ...

T.R. Edwards grew up with stories from his grandmother Kathleen about her struggle to vote as a Black woman in Wisconsin: A child of the Jim Crow south, she’d moved... Read More ...

There are nearly 500 elections for prosecutor and sheriff scheduled in 2023. Below is our Bolts database of those local elections. States that are not listed on this page have no regularly-scheduled ...

In 1999, Dawn Jackson took a plea deal and was sentenced to 30 years in a New Jersey prison for killing her step-grandfather, Robert McBride. As told in the New York Times Metro section that summer, ...

Julia Rock is a reporter for New York Focus. Her work has appeared in the Guardian, the Intercept, the Lever, and the New York Times.