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Stories from the Politics desk, newest first.
Politics
Gerald Worthington III follows the legal credential dispute into the National Office of Professional Standing and finds a press office qualified to route the question, if not to answer it.
Politics
Tomas Reyes reports what a correction cost the city the error was costing, reads the brief the budget office wrote against it, and concedes the brief is right.
Politics
June Hardaway rules on a membership nobody can identify, finds one load-bearing vertebra where a ribcage should be, and declines to call the result a movement.
Politics
Odell Marsh concedes the one point the complaint gets right, explains why the registry cannot record who raised it, and reports what the organization's own form put on the envelope.
Politics
Odell Marsh reads the form, finds the one required field, and reports what it means that the anonymity only faces outward.
Politics
Tomas Reyes is assigned to report what a federal misclassification cost El Paso, and files the answer, which is that it paid.
Politics
Odell Marsh publishes the range map, establishes the flush distance, and reports that the variable is not how close the lens is but how many birds are in the frame.
Politics
A long-pending records request comes back withheld in full under an exemption the office's own index defines as unsolicited favorable assessment.
Politics
The Spine Desk's quarterly screening detects ossification in three officials, each onset correlating precisely with district polling shifts.
Politics
The politics desk checks the replacement theory against a welding shop, a delivery route, and a grandmother with a list.
Politics
The Spine Desk debuts its Spine Index after dozens of officials produce statements condemning nothing in particular at every available opportunity.
Politics
Gerald Worthington III reviews, with appropriate concern, a naming proposal built around the distinction between Make America Great Again and Made America Great Again.
Politics
Odell Marsh files a field report on a march for Western civilization conducted entirely by men unwilling to be recognized by their aunts.
Politics
Tomas Reyes talks to supporters who say the wins are real, appreciated, and beginning to require a shared calendar.
Politics
Marcus Webb reads the files four times and reports that the declassified materials contain almost nothing anyone can use for the original argument.
Politics
The 47th President, known here for legendary humility under protest, reportedly asked the orphanage to tell nobody before leaving three separate notes about how to reach his press secretary.