Day: March 25, 2022

By Ken Epstein The financial austerity arm overseeing public education in California, the Fiscal Crisis Management and Assistance Team (FCMAT), has performed a behind-the-scenes role determining budgets, repeated cutbacks, layoffs, and the closures of 21 schools since they moved into Oakland along with the state receiver in 2003. One district, West Contra Costa Unified, recently …

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3/25/2022, 5:20:29 PM Ukraine denies Turkish claims of progress with Russia on ‘four points’ of peace plan Roman Olearchyk in Lviv and Laura Pitel in Ankara Ukraine played down comments made by Turkey’s president, who has adopted the role of mediator in the war, suggesting Kyiv and Moscow have made progress on four points of …

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In April of 2017, the U.S. leader of the Society of Jesus stood before cameras at Georgetown University and apologized for the Jesuits’ sale of 272 slaves to three Louisiana plantations in 1838. “We have greatly sinned,” said the Rev. Timothy Kesicki. Georgetown rechristened a campus dormitory once named for the long-ago school president who …

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| Asheville Citizen Times ASHEVILLE – Developers and local governments need to leverage more resources. Existing stock needs to be preserved. Approval processes need to be streamlined. Those are all strategies discussed by a panel of experts March 23 at a Leadership Asheville Forum to address one of the area’s largest issues: affordable housing. Buncombe …

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Good Thursday morning. Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will appear in Sarasota Thursday night to accept the local GOP’s Statesman of the Year award. With a war in Europe, tensions in Asia, and a high interest in global affairs, Republicans in Sarasota expect an insightful event. “He was peacekeeper of the U.S. and the …

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Hello, everyone! So the licenses are out and the market is starting to take shape. A market is nothing without licenses and how these new businesses fare will set the tone for the rest. Innovation will be created, difficulties encountered, and hopefully, throughout all of the struggle, good cannabis will emerge. One of the largest …

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