win99 slots game Women will for the first time make up a majority of state legislators in Colorado and New Mexico next year, but at least 13 states saw losses in female representation after the November election, according to a count released Thursday by the Rutgers Center for American Women and Politics. While women will fill a record number of state legislative seats in 2025, the overall uptick will be slight, filling just over third of legislative seats. Races in some states are still being called. “We certainly would like to see a faster rate of change and more significant increases in each election cycle to get us to a place where parity in state legislatures is less novel and more normal,” said Kelly Dittmar, director of research at the CAWP, which is a unit of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University. As of Wednesday, at least 2,450 women will serve in state legislatures, representing 33.2% of the seats nationwide. The previous record was set in 2024 with 2,431 women, according to the CAWP. The number of Republican women, at least 851, will break the previous record of 815 state lawmakers set in 2024. “But still, Republican women are very underrepresented compared to Democratic women,” Debbie Walsh, director of the CAWP, said. From left, House Maj. Whip Reena Szczepanski, D-Santa Fe, Rep. D. Wonda Johnson, D-Church Rock and Rep. Cristina Parajon, D-Albuquerque, talk July 18 before the start of a special session, in Santa Fe, N.M. States with gains By the most recent count, 19 states will have increased the number of women in their state legislatures, according to the CAWP. The most notable increases were in New Mexico and Colorado, where women will for the first time make up a majority of lawmakers. In New Mexico, voters sent an 11 additional women to the chambers. Colorado previously attained gender parity in 2023 and is set to tip over to a slight female majority in the upcoming year. The states follow Nevada, which was the first in the country to see a female majority in the legislature following elections in 2018. Next year, women will make up almost 62% of state lawmakers in Nevada, far exceeding parity. Women in California’s Senate will make up the chamber’s majority for the first time in 2025 as well. Women also made notable gains in South Dakota, increasing its number by at least nine. Four of South Carolina’s Sister Senators, from left, Sen. Margie Bright Matthews, D-Walterboro, Sen. Mia McLeod, I-Columbia, Sen. Katrina Shealy, R-Lexington, and Sen. Penry Gustafson, R-Camden, stand in front of the Senate on June 26 with their John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage award in Columbia, S.C. States that lost At least thirteen states emerged from the election with fewer female lawmakers than before, with the most significant loss occurring in South Carolina. This year, the only three Republican women in the South Carolina Senate lost their primaries after they stopped a total abortion ban from passing. Next year, only two women, who are Democrats, will be in the 46-member Senate. No other state in the country will have fewer women in its upper chamber, according to the CAWP. Women make up 55% of the state’s registered voters. Half the members in the GOP dominated state were elected in 2012 or before, so it will likely be the 2040s before any Republican woman elected in the future can rise to leadership or a committee chairmanship in the chamber, which doles out leadership positions based on seniority. A net loss of five women in the legislature means they will make up only about 13% of South Carolina’s lawmakers, making the state the second lowest in the country for female representation. Only West Virginia has a smaller proportion of women in the legislature. West Virginia stands to lose one more women from its legislative ranks, furthering its representation problem in the legislature where women will make up just 11% of lawmakers. Why it matters Many women, lawmakers and experts say that women’s voices are needed in discussions on policy, especially at a time when state government is at its most powerful in decades. Walsh, director of the CAWP, said the new changes expected from the Trump administration will turn even more policy and regulation to the states. The experiences and perspectives women offer will be increasingly needed, she said, especially on topics related to reproductive rights, healthcare, education and childcare. “The states may have to pick up where the federal government may, in fact, be walking away,” Walsh said. “And so who serves in those institutions is more important now than ever.” November 7, 2024: Trump Victory Respond: Write a letter to the editor | Write a guest opinion Subscribe to stay connected to Tucson. 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The Scarlet Knights saw their losing streak against ranked teams reach 41 games after taking a 17-9 halftime lead and a 24-15 advantage early in the fourth. --Field Level MediaWell, that was the week that was — and the weeks that were — and, like so many Americans, I’m wondering what to make of them. Vice President Kamala Harris staged a hopeful campaign, one full of optimism, righteousness of purpose, and a promise to make life better for so many of us, with a goal to bolster the middle class, the latter so necessary to help keep power in check and ensure that our democracy will last. History tells us, for example, that England’s political institutions began with the Magna Carta of 1215 when King John guaranteed the privileges of the nobles, the merchant class, and the church against the monarchy and assured the jury trial, that is the rule of law. 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Looking directly at Biden, she said, “I was that little girl” who benefited from busing to her school. A former prosecutor, California attorney general, and U.S. Senator, Harris, in that memorable moment, reminded me of a friend’s general comment about a female friend of hers: “She don’t take no mess from no man.” In Bizet’s opera, Carmen is like that, a flirtatious, proud and seductive young woman working in a Seville cigarette factory, discounting true love, flitting from one man to the next, whoever suits her preference in any particular moment. What we like about “Carmen,” are the many hit tunes, among them the “Habanera” and the “Toreador Song,” the former a song that Swiss mezzo-soprano Eve-Maud Hubeaux, portraying Carmen in the San Francisco production, sings: “L’amour est un oiseau rebelle” (Love is a rebellious bird). With its West African rhythms and Spanish colors — and Bizet so adept at depicting character through music — Hubeaux becomes the uncompromising, modern woman who fights against subjugation by the men in her world. In the end, of course, when she rejects the strapping young corporal Don Jose (sung by Chilean-American tenor Jonathan Tetelman), it leads to her death, with her declaring, just before he stabs her, that she was born free. But it is British soprano Louise Alder, as the sweet-natured peasant girl Micaela, who is truly in love with Don Jose. She steals the show by adding a creamy vocal sheen to her knockout Act 3 aria “Je dis sue lien ne m’epouvante” (I say nothing scares me). In that brief moment, she commanded the stage with a graceful power and fervor, prompting a vigorous round of applause. In a production directed by Francesca Zambello, conductor Benjamin Manis gets the most out of the French composer’s score, beginning with the lively overture, a musical snapshot of what’s to come over 2 and 1/2 hours, to the final Act 4 scene outside the bullring, when the crowd shouts the praises of bullfighter Escamillo, portrayed with a steady manliness by American bass-baritone Christian Van Horn. Still, when I left the opera house, I couldn’t help but desire to see and hear again one of the great Carmens of our time, mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves. She was a Carmen for the ages, sultry and tempestuous, the bad girl a lot of young men desire and can’t resist. For tickets, $10 to $426, visit sfopera.com or telephone the War Memorial Opera House box office, 301 Van Ness Ave., at (415) 864-3330. Unlike Harris, who channels a bit of Carmen’s feistiness, the so-called “bros” — while not overlooking some of the women who may wield some influence in the White House — are headed to the West Wing on Jan. 20. However, the 2026 midterms will be another chance to gauge the political temperature of America and perhaps envision a clearer path that works for everyone, not just the top 1 percent, who — like Trump and his billionaire supporters soon to belly up to the federal trough — control more wealth than the bottom 90 percent of Americans. For most reading The Reporter — that’s you, me, school teachers, school-support employees, police and firefighters, government workers, active-duty and retired military, small-business owners, restaurant and hospitality workers, taxi drivers, mail carriers, tech employees, day care workers, the friendly shoeshine man at the airport, and so many more — more than half are living paycheck to paycheck, according to a report from cnbc.com. Given the election’s outcome, I prefer going forward while recalling Benjamin Franklin’s 1782 statement: “Don’t curse the darkness — light a candle.” Richard Bammer is a Reporter staff write r.