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Dec 28 2023
News
Democratic Jacksonville mayor removes Confederate statue, skirting City Council approval
Democratic Jacksonville, Florida, Mayor Donna Deegan announced on Wednesday the "Tribute to the Women of the Southern Confederacy" statue in the city was removed. The statue, which had been in place at Springfield Park in Jacksonville since 1915, has become the latest Confederate statue to be removed from a public area. Deegan, who was elected to the mayor's office earlier this year, said in a
Washington ExaminerJun 02 2023
News
Fort Bragg Renamed Fort Liberty to Erase Confederate Namesake
Fort Bragg shed its Confederate namesake Friday to become Fort Liberty in a ceremony some veterans said was a small but important step in making the U.S. Army more welcoming to current and prospective Black service members. The change was part of a broad Department of Defense initiative, motivated by the 2020 George Floyd protests, to rename military installations that had been named after
Newsmax (News)Dec 13 2023
News
‘This is monumental:’ Youngkin announces plans to bring Capitals, Wizards to Virginia
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (WWBT) - Governor Glenn Youngkin announces plans to bring two of Washington D.C.’s pro sports teams to Virginia. During a press conference on Wednesday, Gov. Youngkin will announce a $2 billion entertainment district in Alexandria at Potomac Yard. “The Commonwealth will now be home to two professional sports teams, a new corporate headquarters, and over 30,000 new jobs – this
NBC 12 WWBTDec 11 2023
News
Va. lawmakers approve plan to bring Monumental teams to Potomac Yard
In a meeting Monday, Virginia lawmakers voted to approve a plan that could bring teams owned by Monumental Sports & Entertainment from D.C. to a new complex in the state, multiple news sources have reported. The deal was approved by 12 state lawmakers as part of the state’s Major Employment and Investment Project Approval Commission, according to The Washington Post who initially broke the
WTOPJun 05 2020
Opinion
Confederate Statues Defaced, America Disgraced
On Sunday evening, demonstrators protesting the death of George Floyd defaced and toppled a statue of Confederate officer Charles Linn, which had stood in a public park in Birmingham, Alabama, since being installed in 2013 by a charity.
The destruction of this Confederate monument is but one in a sequence of such vandalisms that have swept the nation’s southern states in the past week
The American SpectatorDec 20 2023
News
Reversing earlier decision, judge allows removal of Confederate memorial at Arlington Cemetery
A federal judge on Tuesday allowed the Arlington National Cemetery to remove a century-old Confederate memorial one day after blocking the removal over a report that gravesites were disturbed.
At a hearing in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, U.S. District Judge Rossie Alston said he issued the temporary injunction Monday after receiving an urgent phone call from the memorial’s
PoliticoJan 21 2024
News
Feds look to drastically cut recreational target shooting within Arizona's Sonoran Desert monument
PHOENIX (AP) — The federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is looking to drastically reduce an area open to recreational target shooting within Arizona’s Sonoran Desert National Monument. The agency announced Friday that a proposed resource management plan amendment would allow target shooting on 5,295 acres of the monument and be banned on the monument's remaining 480,496 acres. Currently,
KGUNDec 19 2023
News
Removal of Confederate memorial from Arlington Cemetery halted and more Va. headlines
• “A Democratic candidate has come forward to challenge Republican nominee Eric Phillips in the Jan. 9 special election for a House of Delegates seat that covers Martinsville and parts of Henry County.”—Cardinal News • A federal judge on Monday granted a temporary restraining order to stop the removal of a Confederate soldiers memorial from Arlington National Cemetery.—Associated Press •
Virginia MercuryJan 03 2024
News
True the Vote Wins 'Monumental' Election Case Against Stacey Abrams' Fair Fight
Election integrity group True the Vote declared a legal victory Tuesday against Stacey Abrams’ Fair Fight after a federal judge ruled their mass challenges of the eligibility of voters in the 2021 Senate runoff elections in Georgia did not violate the Voting Rights Act.
In a 145-page order, U.S. District Judge Steve Jones, an Obama appointee, said Fair Fight failed to show TTV’s
TownhallNov 14 2023
News
Confederate ammo, other artifacts recovered from South Carolina river
Hundreds of artifacts, including Confederate ammunition dumped by Union soldiers in the Civil War, were recovered during a cleanup of the Congaree River in Columbia, South Carolina. The multiyear, $20 million project was declared complete by Dominion Energy Monday. A predecessor had operated an unclean gas plant around a century ago, the company said, and had in the process dumped a material
Washington Times