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Apr 19 2024
News
The Cannabis Civil War: Hemp vs. Marijuana
With federal legalization of pot indefinitely stalled, hemp products have bloomed into a $28 billion gray industry determined to get America high—legally. a building formerly owned by the pharmaceutical company Roche, in an industrial neighborhood of Indianapolis, Indiana, a state where marijuana is still illegal, a former high school quarterback with a college degree in biochemistry is
ForbesMay 04 2024
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The legacy of Thatcher's Right to Buy
Early this year, a biography by the Tory peer Lord Ashcroft of Angela Rayner, Labour's deputy leader, accused her of failing to pay a capital gains tax bill when she sold her former council house in Stockport 2015. (Rayner claims that she was not liable because the house was her principal private residence.) However, a secondary charge levelled by Ashcroft was of "hypocrisy": like many on the
The Week - NewsJan 16 2024
News
U.S. Civil Rights Commission: Illegal Immigration Makes Black Americans Poorer
Mass immigration, and primarily illegal immigration, disproportionately makes black Americans poorer by reducing wages and crowding out the workforce, the United States Civil Rights Commission detailed in a briefing report from 2010.
The bombshell report, conducted in 2008 and published in 2010 by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, interviewed several experts and researchers reviewing
Breitbart NewsApr 12 2024
Opinion
Civil War Strikes Back at America
That old political reprimand “Have you no decency?” has lost its force. Politicians and media folk show no compunction about lying and tyrannizing, which is how we get Alex Garland’s shameless new movie Civil War. You can’t trust Garland, one of the least of the demi-Kubricks. His topical subjects are less outré than Yorgos Lanthimos’s; plus, he’s less of a craftsman than David Fincher,
Armond WhiteJan 31 2024
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Iowans cheer as bill removing gender identity from civil rights law fails
DES MOINES — Iowa House lawmakers will not advance a bill that would have removed gender identity protections from the Iowa Civil Rights Act. All three members of a House Judiciary subcommittee said they will not sign off on moving the bill forward, following roughly an hour of testimony from transgender Iowans, school safety advocates, attorneys and civil rights activists. Individuals packed
Cedar Rapids GazetteJan 31 2024
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Iowans erupt in cheers as lawmakers kill bill removing gender identity as a civil right
Iowans waved rainbow pride flags and erupted in cheers in the Iowa Capitol hallway Wednesday afternoon as lawmakers announced they would were killing a bill that would have removed gender identity protections from the state's civil rights law. All three members of an Iowa House subcommittee that considered House File 2082 Wednesday said they would not advance it to the full House Judiciary
Des Moines RegisterApr 22 2024
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“No one can work in civil engineering alone”
Growing up in Colorado Springs, at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, Mikayla Britsch was encouraged to care deeply about the area’s natural resources and the people who lived there. She followed the news from a young age, as did her parents, who were vocal about current events and worked in “people-centric” positions that served members of the public. Britsch knew that she, too, wanted her work
MIT NewsMar 22 2020
Background
Civil Rights History
Americans reflected on Martin Luther King's legacy of racial equality and peace on a national holiday that marks what would have been the slain civil rights leader's 78th birthday. Here is a timeline of the modern civil rights movement.
May 17, 1954 School segregation is widely accepted throughout the United States until the U.S. Supreme Court makes a landmark decision in Brown v. Board
CBS News (Online)Apr 11 2024
News
Reviews For The Easily Distracted: Civil War
Ha ha! Why, I'd never do something so hacky and predictable! [rips upliner notes]{WAR}: f(nothing) = |nothing|3.5 J&R Whiskey Liquor Lads out of 5."Welcome to the frontline.""One upside: hardly any traffic."In the waning days of the Second American Civil War, veteran photojournalist Lee (Kirsten Dunst) and fellow reporter Joel (Wagner Moura) leave for Washington, DC hoping to interview the
Houston PressSep 26 2023
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Plans announced for opening of Louisiana Civil Rights Museum
NEW ORLEANS, La. - Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser on Tuesday announced the opening of the Louisiana Civil Rights Museum. More than 30 years in the making, the museum will honor Louisiana’s unique place in the national Civil Rights movement as well as its heroes, demonstrating their impact and significance today. The Louisiana Civil Rights Museum is part of the ongoing Civil Rights Trail efforts led
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