September 1: Alaska rejects Palin, Mississippi confronts a crisis
b"It's a shocker in Alaska as Democrat Mary Peltola won Alaska\\u2019s special election on Wednesday, making her \\u201cthe first Alaska Native in Congress,\\u201d the Anchorage Daily News\\u2019 Iris Samuels reports. Peltola is also the first person elected via the state\\u2019s new ranked-choice voting system. \\n\\n\\u201cPeltola topped Republican former Gov. Sarah Palin after ballots were tallied and after votes for third-place GOP candidate Nick Begich III were redistributed to his supporters\\u2019 second choices. Peltola, a Yup\\u2019ik former state lawmaker who calls Bethel home, is now slated to be the first woman to hold Alaska\\u2019s lone U.S. House seat.\\u201d Peltola, Palin and Begich will face off again in November for a full term.\\n\\nWhile Washington chews on headlines about President Joe Biden's pre-midterm road blitz and former President Donald Trump's legal jeopardy, an American city of more than 150,000 people is struggling to deliver clean drinking water to its residents.\\n\\nThere\\u2019s no clear end in sight to the crisis in Jackson, Miss., which was sparked by record rainfall that flooded the Pearl River but is rooted in much more persistent issues of public disinvestment, political neglect and racial inequity. As with Hurricanes Katrina and Harvey, as well as the water crisis in Flint, Mich., majority-Black communities are left bearing the brunt of the dysfunction \\u2014 not just during a crisis, but for years before and after."