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Colvin Bats Back Lincecum For Win

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May 13, 2014

San Francisco, CA – Two days ago he was called up from Triple-A Fresno prior to Saturday’s game against the Los Angeles Dodgers. Tyler Colvin made his first start in a Giants uniform and in his first at-bat he hit his first career home run that “splashed” into McCovey Cove.

Colvin drove in a pair of runs when he tripled in the seventh and helped San Francisco defeat the Atlanta Braves 4-2. He became the first Giants player with at least one home run and a triple in his first home game since Darrell Evans did it on June 23, 1976.

“To be apart of a winning ball club and get the hits I did right there is pretty high up there,” Colvin said. “To help Timmy out, he pitched a great game. I feel pretty good about it.”

Tim Lincecum pitched his best game of the season. He held the Braves hitless through 4 1/3 innings and finished the night yielding two hits, one run, four walks and fanned eleven. His 11 strikeouts were the most by a San Francisco pitcher this season.

“It was vintage Timmy the way he had his good secondary pitches going along with the fastball,” said Giants manager Bruce Bochy. “He was using both sides, all quadrants. He was going up with the ball and had a good curveball, changeup, slider and mixed it up well.”

“I was able to keep my pitch count down relatively and that allowed me to have that leash to get out there in the seventh and eighth innings, which I’ve been looking for,” Lincecum said.

He made it through six innings for the first time this season. Lincecum’s night ended in the eighth when he issued his last free pass to Jason Heyward. He walked off the mound to a thunderous ovation from the sellout crowd at AT&T Park.

“That guy has [an arsenal],” said Atlanta’s manager Fredi Gonzalez. “Today he had his fastball going, slider and a split. We couldn’t figure out when he was going to throw all of those pitches. But to me he had some pretty good weapons and he had them all working tonight.”

B.J. Upton was the only Braves player to get two hits off Lincecum. Upton tied the game 1-1 in the fifth when he blasted a solo shot to left field. Then his one-out double in the seventh accounted for the other hit but when he stole third the play was challenged and overturned.

Colvin’s two-run triple, followed by Brandon Hicks RBI single gave San Francisco a 4-1 lead bottom of the frame. Atlanta’s next and final hit came in the ninth off Javier Lopez when Freddie Freeman also “splashed” in McCovey Cove cutting the lead in half.

The Giants who are coming off a 7-3 road trip and have gone 11-5 at home this season, winning six of their last seven home games and nine of their last eleven. Michael Morse made his first start at first base for the first time this season.

He played 55 games at shortstop with the Seattle Mariners during his rookie year in 2005. Bochy said that Morse would get the bulk of the playing time at first while Brandon Belt is out recovering from thumb surgery. Morse admitted to having some concerns playing first for the first time this season.

“It’s baseball, man… Everything concerns me,” said Morse. “We’ve got such a great infield, these guys can put the ball right on the money, so I’m just going to put my glove out there and let them hit it.”

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Poll Shows Support for Policies That Help Families Afford Child Care

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — New national polling shows persistent voter concern about the affordability and availability of child care for working parents, alongside broad support across key demographic groups for federal child care policies that help families afford care.

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March 2, 2026

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By First Five Years Fund

New national polling shows persistent voter concern about the affordability and availability of child care for working parents, alongside broad support across key demographic groups for federal child care policies that help families afford care.

The national survey was conducted by UpOne Insight on behalf of the First Five Years Fund from January 13–18, 2026.

Key findings include:

• Parents need help: 80% of voters say the ability of working parents to find and afford child care is either in a state of crisis or a major problem.

• This is an affordability issue: 82% believe federal child care funding will help lower costs for working families — including 69% of Republicans, 84% of Independents, and 94% of Democrats.

• And there continues to be strong support (62%) for the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG), a federal program that makes it possible for hundreds of thousands of families to afford safe, quality care for their children while parents work or go to school, including a majority of Republicans, 63% of Independents and 72% of Democrats.

• Support for funding child care programs remains strong: 75% believe child care funding should be increased or kept at current levels — including 75% of Republicans, 85% of Independents, and 97% of Democrats.

• 74% say funding for child care is an important and good use of tax dollars, including a majority of Republicans, three-quarters of Independents, and nine in ten Democrats.

FFYF Executive Director Sarah Rittling said, “Voters across the country are sending a clear message: federal child care and early learning programs work. These investments help parents stay in the workforce, strengthen families, and support healthy child development. They have also long had strong bipartisan support in Congress. At a time when affordability is top of mind for families, continued federal funding is essential to ensure child care remains accessible and within reach.”

First Five Years Fund works to protect, prioritize, and build bipartisan support for quality child care and early learning programs at the federal level. Reliable, affordable, and high-quality early learning and child care can be transformative, not only enhancing a child’s prospects for a brighter future but also bolstering working parents and fostering economic stability nationwide.

We work with Congress and the Administration to identify federal solutions that work for families with young children, as well as states and communities. We work with policymakers to identify ways to increase access to affordable, high-quality child care and early learning programs for children. And we collaborate with advocacy groups to help align best practices with the best possible policies. http://www.ffyf.org

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Trump’s MAGA Allies are Creating Executive Order Plan to Steal the 2026 Midterms

NNPA NEWSWIRE — The document that could lead to an executive order proposes using the claim that China interfered with the 2020 elections as grounds to “declare a national emergency.” The move would be an unprecedented step that would grant Trump new authority over the voting systems in the U.S.

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By Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire Correspondent

A group of MAGA pro-Trump activists, who say they are working in coordination with the White House, are circulating a 17-page draft executive order that would claim without evidence that China interfered with the 2020 presidential election. Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential to President Joe Biden by over 7 million votes. Since Trump lost to Biden in 2020, he has repeatedly claimed that the election was “stolen” without evidence. The report of a group of “Trump allies” preparing an executive order to give Trump power over elections was first reported by The Washington Post.

The lies around the right-wing campaign that pushed falsehoods that the 2020 election was stolen was trafficked through right-wing media, particularly Fox News. Fox News was then sued for defamation for the claims by Dominion Voting Systems. Fox lost the case and had to settle for the largest defamation amount on record of $787.5 million in April 2023.

The document that could lead to an executive order proposes using the claim that China interfered with the 2020 elections as grounds to “declare a national emergency.” The move would be an unprecedented step that would grant Trump new authority over the voting systems in the U.S.

The story in The Washington Post arrives as Trump increasingly signals that he may take actions that would alter the result of the 2026 midterms. The Republicans are widely expected to lose as their approval ratings plummet as a result of a failing economy under Trump. Over 50 members of Congress have announced they will retire this year and not return in 2027.

The Trump Department of Justice, which now has a large image of Trump on the side of it, “sued five new states Thursday [Feb. 26, 2026] demanding access to their unredacted voter rolls — escalating a campaign that has been rejected by multiple federal courts and faces resistance from Republican-led states as well,” according to Democracy Docket, a group that works to protect voting rights.

Trump claimed back in late 2020, the last year of his first term, that he had the authority to issue an executive order related to mail-in voting for the 2020 elections — which he would then lose. But the Constitution states that control of elections lies with the states. As the GOP works to place hurdles in front of voting, Democrats worked to make voting easier.

In March 2021, President Biden signed an executive order calling on federal agencies to expand voting access as part of the Biden Administration’s effort “to promote and defend the right to vote for all Americans who are legally entitled to participate in elections.”

Trump’s focus is clearly on altering the November 2026 midterm elections. Trump’s polling numbers and the elections and special elections that have taken place around the U.S. over the last year clearly indicate that Republicans are about to be hit by a blue wave of Democratic victories.

Lauren Victoria Burke is an independent investigative journalist and the founder of Black Virginia News. She is a political analyst who appears on #RolandMartinUnfiltered and hosts the show LAUREN LIVE on YouTube @LaurenVictoriaBurke. She can be contacted at LBurke007@gmail.com and on twitter at @LVBurke