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10 May 2024, 7:45 am
"The Shenandoah County School Board voted 5-1 to call the schools Stonewall Jackson High School and Ashby Lee Elementary School, four years after the board — under different members — changed the names of the institutions due to their ties to Confederate leaders Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. [read post]
19 Apr 2024, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Red States Threaten Librarians with Prison – As Blue States Work to Protect Them MSN – Hannah Natanson and Anumita Kaur (Washington Post) | Published: 4/16/2024 Legislation advancing nationwide seeks to do things like prohibit book bans or forbid the harassment of school and public librarians, the first such wave in the country, said John Chrastka, director of library advocacy group EveryLibrary. [read post]
22 Mar 2024, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
The court ruled in two cases involving lawsuits filed by individuals who were blocked after leaving critical comments on social media accounts belonging to school board members in Southern California and a city manager in Michigan. [read post]
18 Mar 2024, 6:43 am by Dan Bressler
‘The fact that Lee was on the Harvard board while his firm and he represented the school violates no rule.'” “WilmerHale ensuring that no compensation went to Lee from the case appears to show the firm was ‘bending over backwards to ensure there is no issue at all,’ said Scott Cummings, a UCLA School of Law professor. [read post]
15 Mar 2024, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
An email sent to a county election official trying to phish logins to its voter database. [read post]
19 Jan 2024, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Florida – Lubby Navarro Spent Lavishly on Ex-Boyfriend’s Restaurant and Him, Investigators Say Yahoo News – David Goodhue (Miami Herald) | Published: 1/13/2024 Former Miami-Dade School Board member Lubby Navarro was arrested on grand theft and fraud charges stemming from $92,000 worth of illegal purchases on her school district credit card and another $9,000 on her district-issued travel card. [read post]
15 Dec 2023, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Attorneys representing Republican legislative leaders are asking Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Timothy Ryan to issue a preliminary injunction to block the law. [read post]
5 Dec 2023, 9:43 am by Leland Garvin
In Lee, Collier, and Charlotte Counties, about 25%-35% of kids take the bus. [read post]
28 Jul 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
If the surrounding county was a reliable source of Democratic votes in the past, it is a landslide county now. [read post]
7 Jul 2023, 1:03 pm by Ryan Goodman
Bauer (Assistant Professor, Department of Journalism and Creative Media, The University of Alabama) Expert Statement  Lee Bebout (Professor of English, Arizona State University) “Weaponizing Victimhood in U.S. [read post]
9 Jun 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Prosecutors Scrutinize Political Nonprofit Groups for Fund-Raising Fraud DNyuz – David Fahrenthold, William Rashbaum, and Tiff Fehr (New York Times) | Published: 6/1/2023 Federal prosecutors are scrutinizing at least 10 political nonprofit groups seeking to determine if the organizations defrauded donors, according to subpoenas. [read post]
28 Apr 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
On Eve of Trial, Discovery of Carlson Texts Set Off Crisis atop Fox Seattle Times – Jim Rutenberg, Jeremy Peters, and Michael Schmidt (New York Times) | Published: 4/26/2023 The day before Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation trial against Fox News was set to begin, the Fox board of directors and top executives made a discovery that helped lead to the breaking point between the network and Tucker Carlson. [read post]
7 Apr 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Nashville Shooting Exploited by Right to Escalate Anti-Trans Rhetoric MSN – Fenit Nirappil (Washington Post) | Published: 3/30/2023 Conservative commentators and Republican politicians unleashed a new wave of anti-trans rhetoric following the shooting at a Nashville Christian school that killed six people, escalating a broader backlash to the rising visibility of transgender people in public life. [read post]
31 Mar 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
The focus is on curriculum documentation or the contents of emails between school board members, as concerns have spread over what public schools are teaching about race, gender and sexual orientation. [read post]
17 Mar 2023, 10:06 pm by Jeff Gittins
Previously, the Utah County Council of Governments appointed eight board members, one of whom was an individual designated by a chamber of commerce in Utah County and four of whom were elected officials from municipalities immediately adjacent to the Authority boundary. [read post]
17 Mar 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Ron DeSantis’s campaign against what he describes as “woke indoctrination” in public schools, particularly when it comes to race and gender. [read post]