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CT adding $33 million for housing developments in six communities. These are the projects.
Thursday, December 14th, 2023
via Hartford Courant (Connecticut)The agencies noted that the 'total development cost' for the six housing developments is $135 million.
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Senate passes mammoth annual defense policy bill
Thursday, December 14th, 2023
via The Kansas City Star (Missouri)The Senate on Wednesday passed the annual defense policy bill, a compromise $886 billion package that lays out how the Pentagon will be funded through the next fiscal year. The vote to approve the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)was 87-13. House lawmakers will next take up the legislation. The bill faces resistance in the...
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5 NDAA topics causing a stir as defense bill heads toward final vote
Wednesday, December 13th, 2023
via The Kansas City Star (Missouri)Republicans have agreed to strip several partisan culture war provisions from the annual defense spending bill, but there are still a handful of fights on the horizon as negotiations near the finish line. Congressional negotiators last week came to a compromise on the behemoth National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), an $886 billion measure for fiscal 2024 that includes a...
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Bill Ackman’s Campaign Against Harvard Followed Years of Resentment
Tuesday, December 12th, 2023
via The New York Times (Pennsylvania)The billionaire investor has mounted a high-profile battle against Harvard president Claudine Gay over antisemitism and threats to Jewish students on campus, but long-held personal grudges play a…
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The 2023 Responsible 100
Monday, December 11th, 2023
via City & State NY (New York)A selection of selfless New Yorkers serving the common good.
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Move to repeal ‘educational equity’ rule driven by ‘culture wars,’ USBE member says
Monday, December 11th, 2023
via The Salt Lake Tribune (Utah)Utah State Board of Education member Sarah Reale called the move to repeal an administrative rule that ensures educational equity for all students 'frustrating and irresponsible.'
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Ohio cases mentioned in national study of ‘discriminatory censorship laws’
Monday, December 11th, 2023
via Ohio Capital Journal (Ohio)A national review of laws that seek to regulate school discussions on things like racism and gender identity included Ohio cases as part of its discrediting of such laws.
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Conservatives called her artwork ‘obscene.’ She’s back in Florida for more.
Saturday, December 9th, 2023
via Orlando Sentinel (Florida)MIAMI BEACH — Very few visual artists have been the subject of a Supreme Court case. Karen Finley, 67, is one of them. A member of the so-called NEA Four, Finley — along with Tim Miller, John Fleck…
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Ethics board charges ex-LSU professor with unlawful lobbying, alleges affair with graduate assistant
Saturday, December 9th, 2023
via The Advocate (Louisiana)A former LSU professor is being accused of having an extramarital affair with his graduate assistant and using them to lobby for the Louisiana Legislature to pass laws criticizing critical
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UMN implementing race-neutral admission policy in accordance with Supreme Court ruling
Friday, December 8th, 2023
via Minnesota Daily (Minnesota)After the U.S. Supreme Court decision rejected this summer race-conscious admissions at colleges and universities reversing decades of precedent, the University of Minnesota is taking the first step…
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The 44 Percent: Art Basel, the final African American AP studies course, and digital redlining
Thursday, December 7th, 2023
via Miami Herald (Florida)It's Art Basel and Miami Art Week!
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‘Hard to stay’: Is NC a haven for public university faculty fleeing other states?
Thursday, December 7th, 2023
via The Charlotte Observer (North Carolina)As political battles over higher education intensify in Florida, some faculty have found new university homes in North Carolina. But the grass isn't always greener.
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Louisiana Ethics Board accuses former LSU professor of unlawful lobbying
Wednesday, December 6th, 2023
via lailluminator.com (Louisiana)An LSU professor denies allegations he induced a graduate assistant he allegedly had an affair with to lobby the legislature
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Conservatives Called Her Artwork ‘Obscene.’ She’s Back for More.
Wednesday, December 6th, 2023
via The New York Times (New York)Karen Finley, one of the N.E.A. Four, revisits culture wars 25 years after a Supreme Court ruling — amid today's culture wars — with a work at Art Basel Miami Beach.
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Black queer theory out, BLM made optional in final AP African American Studies course
Wednesday, December 6th, 2023
via Miami Herald (Florida)Ideas such as intersectionality and race-related concepts, however, are included in the final coursework.
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Harvard, Penn and MIT presidents face blistering criticism from Rep. Burgess Owens, other GOP House committee members
Tuesday, December 5th, 2023
via Deseret News (Utah)Owens, R-Utah, questioned what the academic leaders would do if it was determined that their universities were linked to rising levels of antisemitism. MIT President Sally Kornbluth pushed back
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Harvard, MIT, Penn presidents defend actions in combatting antisemitism on campus
Tuesday, December 5th, 2023
via The Washington Post (New York)The presidents of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say they are taking steps to combat antisemitism — and Islamophobia — on campus since the start…
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Sick of district’s ‘lip service,’ Shawnee Mission parents, students urge action on racism
Tuesday, December 5th, 2023
via The Kansas City Star (Kansas)Roughly 80 students, parents and community members attended the school board meeting to continue to demand changes after a white male student shouted racist slurs and attacked a Black female student.
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Why ‘color-blindness’ is dangerous
Tuesday, December 5th, 2023
via Wisconsin Examiner (Wisconsin)It has become popular for politicians to claim that being fair means being "color-blind." But ignoring race perpetuates inequality.
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