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Feb 14 2013
News
What California Comeback?
As Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown would have it, things in California are going absolutely hunky-dory thanks to November's voter-approved tax hike. Or are they?
For only the second time in the past decade, the state is projecting a balanced budget and may even run a surplus. Revenues last month exceeded projections by about $5 billion, though the Legislative Analyst's Office attributes the
Allysia Finley (Wall Street Journal)
Jan 29 2013
Opinion
In California, Son Gets Chance to Restore Luster to a Legacy
During a 1960s renaissance, Californias public university system came to be seen as a model for the rest of the country and an economic engine for the state. Seven new campuses opened, statewide enrollment doubled, and state spending on higher education more than doubled. The man widely credited with the ascendance was Gov. Edmund G. Brown, known as Pat.
New York Times (News)
Jun 24 2022
Analysis
How facts and stories can shape democracy: an interview with journalist Anne Applebaum
Fact-checkers don’t like to talk about themselves. They pride themselves on staying out of the limelight and reporting the truth about readers’ communities. But this week at GlobalFact 9, the annual conference held by the International Fact-Checking Network, the attention is in an unfamiliar spot: on the journalists — and their relationship to democracy.
In a keynote session, Poynter
Poynter Fact Check
Jun 21 2021
Opinion
Don’t Kill Remote Learning. Black and Brown Families Need It.
Remote instruction. Virtual learning. School-by-Zoom. Whatever you want to call it, it has kept this Black man — along with my wife and 7-year-old son — safe from Covid over the last year, even if it hasn’t been easy on anyone. Each day, as my son sits at his desk in our home near Washington learning about bar graphs on a laptop screen, I am comforted by the knowledge that he’s not sitting in
New York Times (Opinion)
Nov 19 2021
News
Antonio Brown accused of obtaining fake Covid vaccination card, prompting NFL review
The NFL said it is looking into a report that Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Antonio Brown allegedly obtained a fake Covid-19 vaccination card to evade league protocols.
"We are aware of the report and have been in contact with the club," an NFL spokesperson said. "We will review the matter."
Steven Ruiz, the former live-in chef for the NFL player, made the claims in an
NBC News (Online)
Aug 08 2020
News
Liberty University’s Jerry Falwell Jr. taking leave of absence after photo with pants unzipped
RICHMOND, Va. – Jerry Falwell Jr. has agreed to take an indefinite leave of absence from his role as president and chancellor of Liberty University, the school announced Friday.
The private evangelical Christian university gave no reason for the departure in its one-sentence statement. But the announcement came after Falwell apologized earlier in the week for a photo he posted on social
USA TODAY
Jun 14 2022
News
Dramatic video shows Montana house collapsing into Yellowstone River after record flooding
Startling video shows the moment a large waterfront house in Gardiner, Montana, collapsed into the Yellowstone River as the region was battered by historic floods.
The home fell Monday when its stilts, partially standing in the fast-moving water, appeared to break. The home was seen perilously leaning into the water before falling into the current.
“That is insane. Holy s---,” a
NBC News (Online)
Jun 10 2022
News
3 former DOJ officials to testify in the next Jan. 6 hearing
Three former officials with the Department of Justice will be witnesses at the Jan. 6 hearing next Wednesday, according to a new letter sent to the Jan. 6 committee.
Why it matters: The officials will discuss former President Trump's efforts to use the Justice Department as a weapon to stay in power, the New York Times writes.
Driving the news: Attorney Reginald Brown wrote in a
Axios
Sep 30 2021
Analysis
Missing White Woman Syndrome: Media Obsess Over Some Cases as Black, Brown & Indigenous Women Ignored
Wall-to-wall coverage of the case of Gabby Petito — a 22-year-old white woman and blogger who went missing while traveling with her fiancé Brian Laundrie and whose remains were found in a national park in Wyoming — has renewed attention on what some call “missing white woman syndrome,” the media’s inordinate focus on white female victims and the disparity in coverage for women of color. We
Democracy Now!
Jun 08 2022
Opinion
Matt Walsh Stumps the Left with One Simple Question
Matt Walsh’s hilarious yet hard-hitting documentary, What Is a Woman?, addresses an issue that is at the center of the culture war: transgenderism. Throughout the film, which premiered on June 1 exclusively for Daily Wire subscribers, Walsh struggles to find anyone who can answer what would appear to be a simple question. But given that incoming Supreme Court justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
National Review