Image: Sen. Paul Bailey, R-Sparta, discusses a bill to allow school employees to concealed carry firearms in schools. Image Credit: capitol.tn.gov The Center Square [by Jon Styf] – A bill that would allow qualified employees to concealed carry firearms in a school is scheduled to be discussed by the Tennessee House on Wednesday. Senate Bill […]
Last year Texas legislators passed a bill aimed at removing DEI staff and groups from state-funded universities in Texas. After hours of contentious debate, the Texas Senate approved a bill Wednesday that would largely restrict how the state’s public universities can promote equitable access to higher education and cultivate diversity among students, faculty and staff. […]
There are some big changes coming at Veterans Affairs next year, primarily in the form of tens of thousands of people leaving the agency and not being replaced. As is so often the case, the explanation being offered by the government is as clear as mud. They are rushing to assure everyone that they aren’t […]
This certainly isn’t the kind of news you want to see if you’re a public transportation service that is running out of money and about to push for higher taxes on local residents. The Inspector General who oversees the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system has identified employees who were clocking in for overtime and […]
Pamela Price is the progressive DA of Alameda County, home to the city of Oakland. If you’re a regular reader then you already know that crime is way up in Oakland and both residents and businesses are sick of it: Robberies grew 38% last year in Oakland, according to police data. Burglaries increased 23%. Motor […]
Yesterday I wrote about the announcement that Macys was closing about a third of its stores including the flagship store in San Francisco. What I tried to point out is that even if the closure of this store had more to do with corporate problems at Macys and a general trend toward online shopping which […]
The Biden Administration is so concerned about preserving democracy and the norms that underlie it that they are, once again, ignoring Supreme Court precedents in order to do the right thing no matter how many Constitutional limits they have to blow through. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 requires that the government keep this type […]
Meta/Facebook/Instagram has knowingly been facilitating child predators purchasing sexualized content from children and they decided to do nothing to stop it. After all, there is real money to be made selling sexualized images to kids. Money for the kids, their moms, and for Instagram. New York Times too https://t.co/7pV8GfQpRl — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 24, […]
The hits keep coming for online media sites. Last year Buzzfeed News announced it was shutting down for good (though the listicles are still there). Just a few weeks later we learned that Vice News was headed for bankruptcy. It was eventually acquired at a discount price by a group of investment firms. Vice Media, […]
The backlash from the posting of a clearly anti-Semitic cartoon by several pro-Palestinian groups at Harvard is still being felt. As I described yesterday, the school immediately denounced the cartoon which showed a hand with a Jewish star and a dollar sign holding a rope around the necks of one black and one Arab man. […]
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