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Orlando police revamp crisis response after officers shot, killed suicidal woman

Wednesday, September 4th, 2024

via WESH (Florida)

Orlando police will implement new measures for crisis calls after a grand jury reviewed a deadly shooting involving officers and a suicidal woman.

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Gloria Romero: Memo to My Party

Wednesday, September 4th, 2024

via California Globe (California)

As a lifetime Democrat, I am horrified to see a Democratic Party I once revered—a party that sent us to the moon and back and inspired a new generation of youth like me with messaging replete with…

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JD Vance’s Catholicism helped shape his views. So did this little-known group of Catholic thinkers

Wednesday, September 4th, 2024

via The Washington Post (New York)

Ohio Sen. JD Vance's 2019 conversion to Catholicism helped shape his political worldview

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Takeaways from AP’s report on JD Vance and the Catholic postliberals in his circle of influence

Wednesday, September 4th, 2024

via The Associated Press (Washington)

Ohio Sen. JD Vance's 2019 conversion to Catholicism put him in close touch with a Catholic intellectual movement known as postliberalism.

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Moms for Liberty fully embraces Trump and widens role in national politics as election nears

Tuesday, September 3rd, 2024

via WABE (Georgia)

In her welcoming remarks at Moms for Liberty's annual gathering in the nation's capital on Friday, the group's co-founder, Tiffany Justice, urged members to 'fight like a mother' against the…

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The Nazi of Oak Park

Tuesday, September 3rd, 2024

via Chicago magazine (Illinois)

It was a stunning revelation: A respected high school custodian had been a concentration camp guard. This excerpt of a new book examines how the disclosure of a dark secret in the early '80s divided a…

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Maine Commercial Real Estate Transactions: August 2024

Tuesday, September 3rd, 2024

via Portland Press Herald (Maine)

Broker submitted sales and leases for land, industrial, office, retail and more.

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Politico Writes Hit Piece on Moms for Liberty for Exposing Education Deep State Grift

Monday, September 2nd, 2024

via California Globe (California)

The captain blames a sailor who pointed out a hole in a sinking boat. A house is burning, yet its dwellers trample on the one who pulled the fire alarm on their way out. With the help of biased media…

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With his 1776 Commission on patriotism, Trump helped spark a culture war

Monday, September 2nd, 2024

via The Washington Post (Florida)

Trump attempted to use federal power to define how America's history is taught -- and promises to try again

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Gambit’s Thumbs Up / Thumbs Down for Sept. 2

Sunday, September 1st, 2024

via The Times-Picayune (Louisiana)

The heroes and zeroes of the last week or so.

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Free and cheap things to do in Denver in September

Sunday, September 1st, 2024

via The Denver Post (Colorado)

Larimer Square is hosting a Bananasfest on Sept. 7.

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Trump leans into culture wars with Moms for Liberty at D.C. summit

Saturday, August 31st, 2024

via Detroit Free Press (Michigan)

Moms for Liberty said it plans to spend more than $3 million in key battleground states ahead of the presidential election.

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CT youth prison to eliminate disciplinary isolation

Saturday, August 31st, 2024

via Hartford Courant (Connecticut)

'We know that isolation can cause real harm to children — increasing risk of depression, anxiety, self-harm and suicide,' authorities said.

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Care.com misled caregivers and families — and made it ‘impossible’ to cancel, FTC claims • Louisiana Illuminator

Friday, August 30th, 2024

via Louisiana Illuminator (Louisiana)

Care.com will pay more than $8 million to settle claims from the Federal Trade Commission alleging that the website deceived caregivers and families.

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Teaching about race is good, actually. States need to stop banning it. • Ohio Capital Journal

Friday, August 30th, 2024

via Ohio Capital Journal (Ohio)

Neither white students nor students of color will benefit from laws designed to censor their understanding of history, critical thinking, and open dialogue in the classroom. Teaching about race is…

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Local parents take anti-racism case to Virginia Supreme Court

Friday, August 30th, 2024

via The Daily Progress (Virginia)

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‘We’re going to win Pennsylvania’: Trump declares during Johnstown rally

Friday, August 30th, 2024

via TribLive (Pennsylvania)

Former President Donald Trump was back in Western Pennsylvania for the first time since an assassination attempt injured him last month in Butler County, and he is hoping his visit will rally his MAGA base to boost him to a Pennsylvania and national victory come November. Trump took the stage

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Librarian’s wrongful termination lawsuit against Llano County can move forward, judge rules

Thursday, August 29th, 2024

via Austin American-Statesman (Texas)

Former Llano County librarian Suzette Baker alleges the county fired her in 2022 because she refused to remove books.

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State employees PAC endorses Stein in hotly contested governor’s race

Thursday, August 29th, 2024

via Winston-Salem Journal (North Carolina)

Group also announces endorsements for Council of State and legislative seats.

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