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The vegan cheese demanded during a now-infamous state business trip to Philadelphia four years ago is well past its expiration date. But the state ethics investigation that found “probable cause” for ethical misconduct by former Director of Administration James Thorsen is still active. A quasi-judicial public hearing before the Rhode Island Ethics Commission slated for […]

فەرماندەیی نێوەندیی ئەمەریکا (سێنتکۆم) ڕۆژی دووشەممە ڕایگەیاند، هیچ کەشتییەکی ئێرانی لە کەنداوی عوماندا نەماوە. سێنتکۆم لە ڕاگەیاندنەکەیدا دەڵێت "دوو ڕۆژ پێش ئێستا ڕژێمی ئێران 11 کەشتی لە کەنداوی عومان هەبوو، ئەمڕۆ هیچیان لەوێ نەماوە." دەشڵێت "ڕژێمی ئێران دەیان ساڵە کەشتییە نێودەوڵەتییەکان لە کەنداوی عومان هەراسان دەکات و هێرشیان دەکاتە سەر. ئەو ڕۆژانە بەسەرچوون. ئازادی هاتووچۆی دەریایی بۆ ماوەی زیاتر لە 80 ساڵە بنەمای گەشەسەندنی ئابووریی ئەمەریکا و جیهانی بووە. هێزەکانی ئەمەریکا...

As Crossover Day approaches, the Georgia General Assembly must pass legislation in its originating chamber to have a chance of becoming law this year, with key issues such as data center regulation, environmental protection, literacy, healthcare, and tax relief still being debated. The Current is an inclusive nonprofit, non-partisan news organization providing in-depth watchdog journalism for Savannah and Coastal Georgia’s communities.

لەم دیدارە تایبەتەدا ڕەزا کەعبی، سکرتێری گشتی کۆمەڵەی زەحمەتکێشانی کورستان باس لە دواین پەرەسەندنەکانی ناوچەکە دەکات و دەڵێت،" خۆمان بۆ ڕاپەڕینی سەرتاسەری ئامادەکردووە و ڕژێمی ئێران توانای نەماوە و تەنیا بەرگری دەکات."

Menor em público, mas afiada na estratégia, mobilização da extrema direita escancara o projeto de dominar o Legislativo em 2026. E também impõe um desafio de comunicação e linguagem política que a esquerda ainda tem dificuldades para decifrar The post Uma anatomia do novo ato bolsonarista appeared first on Outras Palavras.

A shooting on West Sixth Street brought carnage to one of the Austin’s liveliest bar districts early Sunday morning, resulting in three deaths and injuries to 14 other people. Some of the injured remain in critical condition. The Austin Police Department confirmed Monday that Ryder Harrington and Savitha Shan were among those who died. The shooter was […] The post Texas Tech and UT Austin students identified as victims in West Sixth shooting appeared first on Austin Current.

Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to get essential news about NYC’s public schools delivered to your inbox. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants to change the role of parent coordinators in the city’s schools — making each one “a meaningful organizer of parents, rather than an administrative coordinator reporting to a principal.” Chalkbeat asked parent coordinators how they see their roles and what they want the mayor to know. We heard from nearly 360 current parent coordinators, a number that represents nearly 20% of the positions in the city. You can read a sampling of what they had to say below, but one message was clear: Parent coordinators want to be heard and included in the decisions made about them. And they have lots of ideas for making schools and communities stronger. Their most important job, they said, is serving as a bridge between parents and schools. Several wrote that their work is especially important for newly arrived families, who may be afraid to engage with government agencies, and for families of students with disabilities. “When parents trust the school and feel confident reaching out, students benefit academically, socially, and emotionally,” wrote Melissa De Los Santos, a parent coordinator in Brooklyn. Many parent coordinators said that because the city does not clearly define their roles, they end up taking care of a myriad of loose ends at their schools. They are de-facto tech support, attendance monitors, public health messengers, and counselors for parents and kids. When asked if they were adequately paid, the response was an emphatic and overwhelming “absolutely not” — often in all caps. In the words of Mariela Chevry, a parent coordinator in Manhattan, “Love doesn’t pay the bills.” The city created the role of parent coordinator in 2003, a year after the state legislature implemented mayoral control, transferring authority over New York City school budgets, curriculums, and closures from elected community school boards to the mayor. Then-chancellor Joel Klein told the first-ever cohort of parent coordinators that their jobs were proof that the city was committed to parental involvement. Now, with Mamdani calling to extend mayoral control under his own tenure, his administration is pointing to parent coordinators as essential players once again. “We need to build the capacity of our parent coordinators,” said schools chancellor Kamar Samuels at a Feb. 10 City Council hearing on mayoral control. “We need to invest more in our parent coordinators and their training.” Here are parent coordinators’ top suggestions for the Mamdani administration. 1) Clarify the job description and consider alternative supervision structures Parent coordinators are often pulled between their responsibility to parents and their accountability to principals, who have significant control over their workloads, salaries, and time off. One of their primary jobs is to help parents bring concerns and complaints to school staff, which can get tricky when administrators and parents disagree. Because their contracts are vague, parent coordinators say their time often gets eaten by administrative tasks outside of the scope of their jobs. “If I had [to] describe my role it would be closest to a school aid, handling all tasks I’m asked to do even though they don’t relate to my title directly ... Both the contract and role and responsibilities documentation are very vague.” — Dilyon Stanislaus “We are expected to listen to the concerns of every parent we come across as well as providing resources, creating activities, bring up parent engagement numbers, have answers to all questions, be the face of the school, advocate for parents, all while being asked to do the work of others just because we are support staff and because our contract doesn’t specifically say what we are allowed to say no to.” — Jennifer Colon “Clear protections, expectations, and respect for the role would allow parent coordinators to focus on what we do best — supporting families, advocating for students, and helping schools function effectively.” — Madelin Lopez “We are the backbone of the relationship between DOE/admin/faculty and families ... a tenuous relationship for sure. We are treated like customer service representatives when in fact we are community stewards.” — Fernando Maneca 2) Improve pay and benefits, making time off comparable to other full-time school staff Salaries for new hires start at $44,000 a year, going up to just under $74,000 for those who have already worked for the city for two years. Unlike most school staff, parent coordinators work year-round, with no summers off. They often need to be available early mornings, evenings, and weekends. “We need decent pay that adjusts to [the] cost of living.” — Sergio Borrero “Higher pay and summers off. We are overworked and undervalued.” — Jackie Cartagena “Not only are we not paid well … it feels like we are a dumping ground. If this group can’t do it, doesn’t want to do it, just have the [parent coordinator] figure it out … Since we are on the appreciation topic, we have teacher appreciation day, we have principal and AP appreciation day. PC appreciation day? We don’t have that. Give us our flowers, we work hard and schools would fall apart without us." — Mariela Chevry 3) Elevate respect and include parent coordinators in decisions about their schools and districts Parent coordinators want to be treated like professionals. Many want formal training and opportunities to move forward in their careers. Despite being the school staff most in touch with parents’ concerns, they are often excluded from decision-making about their schools and districts. The parent coordinator position has historically been treated as an underdog role in schools, and many principals already fail to show the respect the position deserves." — Vanessa Murray “Parent coordinators are more than the bridge that connects parents to the admin and school. We are a lifeline to many in our school community ... We need to be seen and heard and deserve so much more respect.” — Illiana Rosario-Urban “I would love for the mayor to sit down with parent coordinators from the different districts so he can hear directly from us — both our passion for the work and the challenges we face.” — Lynette Bradshaw “Parent Coordinators should be afforded clearer pathways for advancement and professional development. This could include access to at least two paid classes per semester, greater schedule flexibility, and guaranteed summers off. There is little justification for requiring Parent Coordinators to work throughout the summer performing duties unrelated to family engagement, often … without meaningful choice or autonomy.” — Madelin Lopez Abigail Kramer is a reporter in New York City. Contact Abigail at akramer@chalkbeat.org.

(The Center Square) - As the Wisconsin Senate prepares to act on a sports betting bill that passed the Assembly, the Sports Betting Alliance is continuing its push to have the legislation changed to include SBA’s members. That could mean changing the framework of the bill or making it a constitutional amendment that would go on a statewide ballot, Sports Betting Alliance President/CEO Joe Maloney told reporters Monday afternoon. The current bill, which resembles legislation previously passed in Florida, would create a hub and spoke model to enable the state’s tribes to conduct online sports wagering, an extension of their current ability to take sports wagers on tribal land. The tribes would pay Wisconsin a percentage of revenue that would still be negotiated. “Wisconsin voters definitely want to have a say in this policy and they haven’t gotten that opportunity,” Maloney said. SBA, which represents DraftKings, FanDuel, BetMGM, Fanatics and Bet365, is pushing for a framework to allow those companies to operate and pay the state taxes on revenue like it does is many other states. Maloney said that those wagering will see less competitive deals if the tribes control wagering through what he called a monopoly. Complicating the matter is that Fanatics, FanDuel and DraftKings now operate prediction markets on sports events that are federally overseen and do not pay taxes to states. “The entry of prediction market platforms is a very dynamic topic, of course,” Maloney said in response to a question from The Center Square. “For so long, we’ve communicated about the illegal and unregulated market that are targeting, in this instance, Wisconsinites, taking their business and pushing them into offshore markets or unregulated settings without consumer in place, without responsible gaming controls and without tax dollars going back to the state.” Maloney said that prediction markets are now operating in Wisconsin from billion-dollar companies that are advertising to residents. “We have another competitive entrant, an entirely different category of gaming or trading and it is a very dynamic entry into the overall debate right now. So, leaders in Wisconsin have to contemplate now not just illegal and unregulated targeting the residents of their state but also this entirely new category and this federally registered, federally regulated framework that is sidestepping some of the state controls that we see in the traditional online sportsbook model, specifically which grant and deliver millions of tax revenue.” Maloney criticized the Assembly’s choice to take a voice vote to pass the bill rather than having a recorded vote, calling it “backroom dealing” that voters are beginning to reject. SBA reported that it spent 64 hours of lobbyist time lobbying against the effort in the second half of 2025. Only the Forest County Potawatomi Community (92 hours) and Ho-Chunk Nation (100 hours) did more lobbying.

(The Center Square) – State lawmakers gathered with victims, parents and advocates in support of a bill requiring Illinois schools expel any student who commits or attempts to commit sexual assault for a minimum of one year. State Sen. Steve McClure, R-Springfield, introduced the bill last year, after hearing of a case within his district, which alerted him to a lack of such protections in the Illinois school code. The bill was introduced again in the current legislative session after not making it to the Senate floor previously. “The survivors of such violence deserve to go to school without fear of running into their rapist. Other students should not have to fear being the next victim,” McClure said. “And the students who commit such acts should go to an alternative learning center, like a safe school, where they can get treatment and be around staff who can ensure that everyone is protected.” The legislation as presented will treat sexual assault similar to a violation involving a weapon being brought to school, where school boards and superintendents may modify their response on a case-by-case basis. Multiple stories of sexual assaults in schools, with little-to-no action being taken by school districts against alleged attackers, were shared by victims and family members. Springfield educator Ashley Peden said it took multiple court orders before she was able to get a similar outcome for her 10-year-old daughter. “After several meetings with several different levels of the school administration and multiple court orders, the student was finally removed from the public school and sent to an alternative school setting,” Peden said. She also emphasized that the school district initially provided a safety plan to separate her daughter from the offender, but it did not provide safety from the offender to other students. “Ultimately, it was the court system, not the school district that provided a resolution,” Peden said. “This begs a haunting question. If the legal system clearly recognizes the danger of this individual that he poses to our children, why is our school system still failing to see it?” The bill currently has 36 co-sponsors and was assigned to the Senate’s Criminal Law committee. McClure said he hopes the bill will pass into law later this year.

Everyone made fun of Marjorie Taylor Greene when she said that Rothschild-funded space lasers had caused forest fires. But, as it turns out, the space lasers are real. Well, sort of. They aren’t starting forest fires or causing major weather events, as Greene claimed in her post. Israel does, however, have a laser that shoots... The post The Jewish space lasers are real — well, kind of appeared first on The Forward.

País vive no limiar entre a benção e a maldição. Organismo vivo, o solo abundante é pisoteado pelo agronegócio, morto por fertilizantes e cobiçado por minérios raros. Falta estratégia e pressão para proteção contra ameaças. A luta indígena pode inspirar The post Das terras raras às terras áridas appeared first on Outras Palavras.

Brooklyn: Rachel Martin didn’t quite believe that anybody had figured out the economics of audio. “If anyone claims they know how to do it, they’re lying,” she said. “A couple of people are making money, but they’re not here.” It was the opening session of On Air Fest, a two-day audio festival spread across a...

La agencia estatal de noticias de Irán, IRNA, reportó que en medio de los bombardeos iniciados por Estados Unidos e Israel el 28 de febrero de 2026,...

A Congressional primary that had already set all-time records for outside spending in North Carolina got even more expensive over the weekend. Federal Election Commission records show independent expenditure groups added more than $278,500 in last-minute spending, all of it in support of Allam.  NC Newsline reported Feb. 27 that political action committees and super […]

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A 2023 law opened the door for lopsided victories in high school sports. Lawmakers are trying to close it. After three years of lopsided wins, lawmakers seek to change high school sports transfer rule appeared first on Mountain State Spotlight, West Virginia's civic newsroom.

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Жена президента США Мелания Трамп впервые председательствовала на заседании Совета Безопасности ООН, которое проходило в Нью-Йорке 2 марта.

(The Center Square) – The Cincinnati City Council this week could consider a proposal to spend $5 million in tax revenue from marijuana sales on reparations for housing discrimination in the city. The program would be called The Cincinnati Real Property Reparations Program under the proposal by Vice Mayor Jan-Michell Lemon Kearney and council member Scotty Johnson. The purpose would be to “create the opportunity for Cincinnati's residents to build wealth by having the means to own and preserve ownership in real property,” the proposed ordinance states. The funds could be used for commercial or residential property, for down payment assistance, delinquent property taxes or emergency repairs. It would be available to residents in 15 neighborhoods, low- to moderate-income residents or “to any individual or family members of an individual who was prevented from buying a home due to discrimination.” Cincinnati has a long history of discrimination in housing, the legislation’s sponsor said. In the 1920s, the Cincinnati Real Estate Board issued an edict that “no agent shall rent or sell property to colored people in an established white section,” the sponsors said in a statement. In the 1930s, the federal government engaged in a practice of “redlining,” which singled out Black neighborhoods as high risk, limiting home ownership in those areas, the sponsors said. In 1944, many black veterans were denied loans under the G.I. bill passed by Congress in 1944, according to the sponsors. “Now is the time to repair the damage done by racial and income-based housing discrimination,” the sponsors wrote. The proposal could be considered at Wednesday’s meeting of the Cincinnati City Council. If it passes, Cincinnati would be the latest city to adopt a reparations policy for housing. The Chicago suburb of Evanston, adopted a housing reparations program in 2019. It also uses funds from the cannabis tax to fund the program. “Reparations, and any process for restorative relief, must connect between the harm imposed and the City,” Evanston says on its website. “The strongest case for reparations by the City of Evanston is in the area of housing, where there is sufficient evidence showing the City’s part in housing discrimination as a result of early City zoning ordinances in place between 1919 and 1969, when the City banned housing discrimination.”

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