By Edit Team, Kingfisher Times & Free Press

“As the Oklahoma House of Representatives considers Senate Bill 131 this week, a coalition of health care organizations called on the Oklahoma Legislature to vote to stop what they are calling a “flawed” plan to privatize health care for 1 million Medicaid recipients.”

By Walter Orenstein, MinnPost

“Ever since, Democrats who control the Minnesota House have been pushing additional plans to further reshape policing and criminal justice in the state, even as Republicans who control the state Senate have opposed many of those ideas.”

By Iliana Hagenah, Scalawag Magazine

“Ryan Thoreson, a researcher at the LGBT program of the Human Rights Watch, said that strict photo ID laws and other structural barriers, like poverty, homelessness, and limited access to healthcare, have made voting disproportionately more difficult for the trans population.”

By Kevin Krause, The Dallas Morning News

“Kevin Massey first gained notoriety by detaining immigrants on the Texas-Mexico border. When he got out of prison, he absconded and became a fugitive, threatening a war with the government. That message resonated with other extremists, who continue to see him as a martyr in the fight against tyranny.”

By Tamar Hellerman, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

“To some, the violence on March 16 was a reminder of their status as perpetual outsiders in a part of the country where race is so often discussed in terms of Black and white.”

Produced by editor Molly Harbarger, reporters Sydney Brownstone and Scott Greenstone, and engagement editor Anna Patrick, The Seattle Times

Project Homeless is a Seattle Times initiative that explores and explains the region’s complex, troubling problem of homelessness. With strong watchdog reporting and vivid storytelling, Project Homeless seeks to spotlight what is working, and what is not working, in responding to homelessness.

By Sam Russek, Scalawag Magazine

“‘Our strategies have to be rooted in the South,’ said Frank Southall of the New Orleans Renters Rights Assembly. ‘There’s no route that involves copying what’s done in New York.’"

By Gabriel Sandoval and Hiram Alejandro Durán, THE CITY

“‘Thousands of New Yorkers depend on the LIHTC program to provide them with safe, stable and affordable housing,’ [State Attorney General Letitia James] said in a statement Thursday. ‘For private investors to try and skew the terms of this affordable housing program for their own financial gain is as harmful as it is unethical.’”

By Rommel Ojeda, Documented

“As of December of 2020, 61 million adults in the United States have some type of disability according to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). That translates to 1 in 4 Americans. In New York that figure is 1 in 5, according to a Department of Health Survey.”

By Darian Aaron, The Reckoning

“In Georgia, there are currently seven HIV-specific criminal laws in effect. And according to a report by the Williams Institute UCLA School of Law, 543 people came in contact with the Georgia criminal system under an HIV-specific law between 1988-2017, with 74 convictions, all of which required no proof of conduct likely to transmit HIV, with Black Georgians disproportionately on the receiving end of these laws.”

By Ramsey Archibald, AL.com

“AL.com analyzed every Birmingham homicide from 2017 to 2020. Each case was different, with its own set of causes and complications. But many of the victims had a lot in common - such as where and how they died.”

By Michael Overall, Tulsa World

“Implementing the strategic plan last year, local agencies increased outreach efforts with teams searching the streets seven days a week to offer services to people. Officials opened a landlord-tenant resource center to offer information about the eviction process and alternatives to it. And a 68-room “quarantine hotel” provided a short-term place to stay while officials found permanent housing for more than 930 people.”

By Woojae Julia Song, Borderless Magazine

“With insufficient federal financial relief, restaurants like Uptown’s Golden House have had to lay off staff, adapt to constantly changing policies, risk their health daily and make painful decisions in an effort to stay open.”