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Jun 20 2022
News
Texas Law Enforcement Is Aggressively Fighting Public Records Requests About the Uvalde Mass Shooting
In the aftermath of the school shooting in Uvalde Texas, news outlets around the country have filed scores of public records requests trying to uncover more information about the delayed police response, but law enforcement agencies are fighting to reject those requests.
Last week, a law firm representing the city of Uvalde sent a letter to the Texas Attorney General's Office asking it
ReasonApr 08 2022
News
Appeals Court Restores Biden’s Federal Employee Vaccine Mandate
The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday removed a lower court injunction that halted President Joe Biden’s nationwide Covid-19 vaccine mandate for federal employees, empowering the government to penalize or terminate workers who fail to get vaccinated.
The appellate court voted 2-1 to remove Texas-based district court Judge Jeffrey Vincent Brown’s preliminary injunction issued
ForbesMay 07 2022
News
Sanders Says 'No Corporation That Breaks the Law Should Get a Federal Contract'
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Friday reiterated his call for the Biden administration to prohibit all union-busting corporations from receiving federal contracts, citing the National Labor Relations Board's fresh complaints against Starbucks and Amazon over their attempts to crush worker organizing.
"This is what oligarchy and corporate greed are all about," Sanders, the chair of the Senate
Common DreamsAug 21 2022
Data
Many Americans say they have shifted their priorities around health and social activities during COVID-19
The coronavirus outbreak has transformed many aspects of public life since 2020, including how Americans work, go to school and attend religious services. More recently, restrictions on public activities in many places have been lifted, and Americans are increasingly more comfortable with returning to normal activities.
To gain insight into how Americans view the impact of COVID-19 in
Pew Research CenterJul 27 2022
News
Uvalde aftermath: In this policing era, what does leadership look like?
In high school, Joel Shults’ friendship with the mayor’s son led to an offer from a local police officer: “‘Why don’t you come along for a ride?’
“I did a ride-along with a crusty old sergeant, and it was the most amazing, brilliant, beautiful thing that I’d ever seen,” says Mr. Shults, author of “The Badge and the Brain.” “I just got eaten up with wanting to be a police officer.”
Christian Science MonitorMay 05 2021
News
Atlanta cop who shot and killed Rayshard Brooks reinstated
Garrett Rolfe, the fired Atlanta cop who shot and killed Rayshard Brooks outside a Wendy’s restaurant last year, has been reinstated — even as he still faces murder charges in the case.
The Atlanta Civil Service Board said Rolfe should get his job back because city officials were too quick to terminate the cop without giving him a chance to defend himself, WXIA-TV reported Wednesday.
New York Post (News)Sep 02 2022
Opinion
How the Big Lie Ended Up in a Sixth-Grade Classroom in Florida
Today’s lesson is how the Big Lie made it onto a world history study sheet handed out by a substitute teacher in the sixth grade at the R. Dan Nolan Middle School in Bradenton, Florida, on Wednesday.
It was a take-home sheet headed “How Does a Historian Work?” and it was meant to prepare students for a test on Thursday. One mother proceeded to quiz her child on its list of vocabulary
Daily BeastMay 27 2022
News
Gun owners, protesters and Donald Trump converge on Houston for NRA event
Thousands of gun owners, throngs of protesters and some prominent Republican politicians are expected in Houston for the National Rifle Association's annual meeting Friday, just three days after 19 children and two adults were shot to death at an elementary school in South Texas.
The event, which is being held in the George R. Brown Convention Center and will last through Sunday, "will
NBC News (Online)Jan 27 2022
Fact Check
Was a Teacher Fired for Not ‘Meowing at Student Who Identifies as a Cat’?
In January 2022, right-leaning websites and observers responded with outrage and bemusement to the story of Bridget Maas, a substitute teacher in California, reporting that she had been “fired” because she failed or refused to “meow” at a student who, reportedly, identified as a cat.
For example, on Jan. 16 the website Newspunch posted an article with the headline “Woke School Fires
SnopesSep 14 2020
News
Trump campaign courts Latino voters in Arizona, historically Democrats. Here's what that looks like
In a south Phoenix strip mall near a Chinese restaurant and cell phone store, sits a new office designed to mobilize Latino voters and convince them to vote for President Donald Trump in November.
Outside the front doors, the words "Latinos for Trump" are written in chalk on the sidewalk.
The windows of Latinos for Trump are adorned with photos of Latinos and core values the
USA TODAY