Detroit Public Schools Community District continues to field questions from the public following a series of social media videos criticizing the district.

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Detroit Public Schools Community District continues to field questions from the public following a series of social media videos criticizing the district.

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El patrimonio tiene la capacidad de convocar voluntades para avanzar hacia un propósito común. Ese fue el espíritu que dio vida a la firma simbólica de compromiso por la sostenibilidad de la Ruta Patrimonial del Salitre, que reunió a 16 instituciones del mundo público, privado, académico y organizaciones dedicadas a la conservación patrimonial para avanzar […] Este artículo Ruta Patrimonial del Salitre toma fuerza con alianza institucional fue publicado originalmente en El Diario de Antofagasta.

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El patrimonio tiene la capacidad de convocar voluntades para avanzar hacia un propósito común. Ese fue el espíritu que dio vida a la firma simbólica de compromiso por la sostenibilidad de la Ruta Patrimonial del Salitre, que reunió a 16 instituciones del mundo público, privado, académico y organizaciones dedicadas a la conservación patrimonial para avanzar […] Este artículo Ruta Patrimonial del Salitre toma fuerza con alianza institucional fue publicado originalmente en El Diario de Antofagasta.

Sign up for Chalkbeat Philadelphia’s free newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system.Philadelphia parent Hadria Leon was excited when her son started preschool in 2024, snapping a photo as Otto went off to his first day. But when she went to pick him up, the preschool staff told her Otto could no longer attend. Otto has an autism diagnosis, and preschool leaders said they didn’t have the resources to support him, Leon said.“I was devastated, I was crying,” Leon said. “I begged the director. The school refused my offers of support and my ideas for how to best support my child.”Leon was one of several parents who testified during a City Council Education Committee hearing Thursday on young kids being suspended, expelled, and excluded from Philadelphia preschool programs. The practice, often called “preschool pushout,” is difficult to quantify because many exclusions are never formally documented, and data collection is limited in Philadelphia and nationwide. But parents and advocates say excluding young kids from preschool programs in the city has taken a toll on their learning and development. They want the city to prohibit preschool exclusion and suspensions across the board and invest more in early childhood funding and training, especially to support kids with disabilities.The city prohibits any prekindergarten program that receives city funding from excluding children from the classroom or sending children home early. But Sean Perkins, chief of early childhood education in the city’s Office of Children and Families, acknowledged that “in some cases, this commitment has been challenging for providers.” The city funds around 5,000 preschool seats through its PHLpreK program, which all Philly families are eligible for. Perkins said the city has provided more coaching and paid professional training sessions meant to improve services for kids with disabilities.The Philadelphia school district runs many of the publicly funded preschool programs in the city. Diane Castelbuono, the district’s assistant superintendent for early childhood education, said it also does not permit the expulsion of preschool students. She said there are limited circumstances during which a “temporary exclusion” may happen, like if a student presents a direct threat to themselves or others.Still, families and advocates said exclusions persist across the city’s wide range of preschool programs, including those that are publicly funded, run by the school district, or privately operated. They called for a ban on preschool suspensions in all programs, as well as more funding and resources for preschool providers.“Pushout occurs across the board in both public and private preschool programs in Philadelphia, and is not the result of any single provider’s actions,” said Rose Wehrman, an attorney with the Education Law Center-PA. “These exclusions are rooted in discrimination and are both harmful to children’s development and are developmentally inappropriate for all children.”Council members appeared sympathetic to the concerns, though none at the hearing committed to pushing for specific policy or funding changes. “What I think we need is a system that says, if we’re going to ask the providers to take the child, no matter what, then there should be resources available to address the needs of the child, no matter what,” said Councilmember Isaiah Thomas, who chairs the Education Committee and called for the hearing.Councilmember Nina Ahmad acknowledged the difficulty of understanding the scope of the problem.“Pennsylvania has no system of tracking exclusion in early childhood settings, so most of it never happens in any record,” Ahmad said. “What we do not count, we cannot fix.”Educators seek resources to support kids with disabilitiesSeveral preschool providers testified during the hearing that they need more resources, including funding and training, to better support kids with disabilities.“What is being asked of childcare providers is fair,” said Taneema Fannings, who runs Christ Like Childcare Center. “But no support or resources makes it impossible.” Unlike K-12 public schools, most preschools don’t receive additional public funding when a student has a qualifying disability. Though Philadelphia families are supposed to get support services for infants and toddlers through publicly funded early intervention, they often wait weeks or months for those services. That can leave kids and preschool teachers without support when they need it.Representatives from Elwyn, the nonprofit that runs the city’s early intervention program, did not attend the hearing.“Educators need help with children with special needs,” said Natrice Johnson, who runs Candy’s Kids Learning Academy. “We don’t want to expel them. We don’t want to suspend them. But we need help, supports, so we can be able to maintain them in our classrooms.”For parents, preschool pushout is ‘devastating’ Preschool pushout can take many forms, parents said, from being asked to pick up kids early to being told that a certain program can’t meet a child’s needs.Chandell Craig-Cromwell said her son Romaine’s preschool told her the center was “no longer a good fit” for her child. Though she said she advocated for him to remain in the program, she was told the decision was final.“I carried a lot of guilt,” she said. “It felt like our only option was to keep him home again.”Another parent, Jennifer Garrison, who is Black, said she feared her son Terrell’s preschool discriminated against him because of his race and disability. Terrell is on the autism spectrum and requires support to eat and communicate.When she picked Terrell up from preschool, he was routinely hungry and thirsty, she said. She feared he did not get the support he needed during the day, leaving him without food and water. As a result, she felt she had no option but to withdraw him.“The impact on my son has been devastating,” she said. “As a Black parent of a child with disabilities, there is an added layer of concern that behaviors and needs associated with autism may be misunderstood or responded to differently.”For Hadria Leon, a few months after Otto was excluded from his first preschool, she was able to find a new program that welcomed him. Teachers there supported her son, and he later went on to elementary school. He graduated from kindergarten in June.“We are all so happy that he is improving,” Leon said. “What our family went through should not happen to anyone else.”Rebecca Redelmeier is a reporter at Chalkbeat Philadelphia. She writes about public schools, early childhood education, and issues that affect students, families, and educators across Philadelphia. Contact Rebecca at rredelmeier@chalkbeat.org.

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Sign up for Chalkbeat Philadelphia’s free newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system.Philadelphia parent Hadria Leon was excited when her son started preschool in 2024, snapping a photo as Otto went off to his first day. But when she went to pick him up, the preschool staff told her Otto could no longer attend. Otto has an autism diagnosis, and preschool leaders said they didn’t have the resources to support him, Leon said.“I was devastated, I was crying,” Leon said. “I begged the director. The school refused my offers of support and my ideas for how to best support my child.”Leon was one of several parents who testified during a City Council Education Committee hearing Thursday on young kids being suspended, expelled, and excluded from Philadelphia preschool programs. The practice, often called “preschool pushout,” is difficult to quantify because many exclusions are never formally documented, and data collection is limited in Philadelphia and nationwide. But parents and advocates say excluding young kids from preschool programs in the city has taken a toll on their learning and development. They want the city to prohibit preschool exclusion and suspensions across the board and invest more in early childhood funding and training, especially to support kids with disabilities.The city prohibits any prekindergarten program that receives city funding from excluding children from the classroom or sending children home early. But Sean Perkins, chief of early childhood education in the city’s Office of Children and Families, acknowledged that “in some cases, this commitment has been challenging for providers.” The city funds around 5,000 preschool seats through its PHLpreK program, which all Philly families are eligible for. Perkins said the city has provided more coaching and paid professional training sessions meant to improve services for kids with disabilities.The Philadelphia school district runs many of the publicly funded preschool programs in the city. Diane Castelbuono, the district’s assistant superintendent for early childhood education, said it also does not permit the expulsion of preschool students. She said there are limited circumstances during which a “temporary exclusion” may happen, like if a student presents a direct threat to themselves or others.Still, families and advocates said exclusions persist across the city’s wide range of preschool programs, including those that are publicly funded, run by the school district, or privately operated. They called for a ban on preschool suspensions in all programs, as well as more funding and resources for preschool providers.“Pushout occurs across the board in both public and private preschool programs in Philadelphia, and is not the result of any single provider’s actions,” said Rose Wehrman, an attorney with the Education Law Center-PA. “These exclusions are rooted in discrimination and are both harmful to children’s development and are developmentally inappropriate for all children.”Council members appeared sympathetic to the concerns, though none at the hearing committed to pushing for specific policy or funding changes. “What I think we need is a system that says, if we’re going to ask the providers to take the child, no matter what, then there should be resources available to address the needs of the child, no matter what,” said Councilmember Isaiah Thomas, who chairs the Education Committee and called for the hearing.Councilmember Nina Ahmad acknowledged the difficulty of understanding the scope of the problem.“Pennsylvania has no system of tracking exclusion in early childhood settings, so most of it never happens in any record,” Ahmad said. “What we do not count, we cannot fix.”Educators seek resources to support kids with disabilitiesSeveral preschool providers testified during the hearing that they need more resources, including funding and training, to better support kids with disabilities.“What is being asked of childcare providers is fair,” said Taneema Fannings, who runs Christ Like Childcare Center. “But no support or resources makes it impossible.” Unlike K-12 public schools, most preschools don’t receive additional public funding when a student has a qualifying disability. Though Philadelphia families are supposed to get support services for infants and toddlers through publicly funded early intervention, they often wait weeks or months for those services. That can leave kids and preschool teachers without support when they need it.Representatives from Elwyn, the nonprofit that runs the city’s early intervention program, did not attend the hearing.“Educators need help with children with special needs,” said Natrice Johnson, who runs Candy’s Kids Learning Academy. “We don’t want to expel them. We don’t want to suspend them. But we need help, supports, so we can be able to maintain them in our classrooms.”For parents, preschool pushout is ‘devastating’ Preschool pushout can take many forms, parents said, from being asked to pick up kids early to being told that a certain program can’t meet a child’s needs.Chandell Craig-Cromwell said her son Romaine’s preschool told her the center was “no longer a good fit” for her child. Though she said she advocated for him to remain in the program, she was told the decision was final.“I carried a lot of guilt,” she said. “It felt like our only option was to keep him home again.”Another parent, Jennifer Garrison, who is Black, said she feared her son Terrell’s preschool discriminated against him because of his race and disability. Terrell is on the autism spectrum and requires support to eat and communicate.When she picked Terrell up from preschool, he was routinely hungry and thirsty, she said. She feared he did not get the support he needed during the day, leaving him without food and water. As a result, she felt she had no option but to withdraw him.“The impact on my son has been devastating,” she said. “As a Black parent of a child with disabilities, there is an added layer of concern that behaviors and needs associated with autism may be misunderstood or responded to differently.”For Hadria Leon, a few months after Otto was excluded from his first preschool, she was able to find a new program that welcomed him. Teachers there supported her son, and he later went on to elementary school. He graduated from kindergarten in June.“We are all so happy that he is improving,” Leon said. “What our family went through should not happen to anyone else.”Rebecca Redelmeier is a reporter at Chalkbeat Philadelphia. She writes about public schools, early childhood education, and issues that affect students, families, and educators across Philadelphia. Contact Rebecca at rredelmeier@chalkbeat.org.

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The New Lede
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Republicans on Thursday voted down a proposed amendment to the Farm Bill that would have  protected consumer rights to sue pesticide manufacturers over alleged harm after the US Supreme Court recently narrowed those rights. The post Senate Republicans vote down Farm Bill amendment on pesticide liability appeared first on The New Lede.

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Republicans on Thursday voted down a proposed amendment to the Farm Bill that would have  protected consumer rights to sue pesticide manufacturers over alleged harm after the US Supreme Court recently narrowed those rights. The post Senate Republicans vote down Farm Bill amendment on pesticide liability appeared first on The New Lede.

Attorneys and families of dozens of Legionnaires’ disease victims from last summer’s Harlem outbreak said they’re suing the city and several contractors they allege failed to maintain cooling towers linked with the public health emergency in which seven people died and roughly 120 people were sickened. City health officials have said the Central Harlem outbreak […] The post Survivors and Families Sue NYC Over Deadly Legionnaires’ Outbreak in Harlem Last Year appeared first on The City Reporter.

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Attorneys and families of dozens of Legionnaires’ disease victims from last summer’s Harlem outbreak said they’re suing the city and several contractors they allege failed to maintain cooling towers linked with the public health emergency in which seven people died and roughly 120 people were sickened. City health officials have said the Central Harlem outbreak […] The post Survivors and Families Sue NYC Over Deadly Legionnaires’ Outbreak in Harlem Last Year appeared first on The City Reporter.

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Mirror Indy
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Mayor Joe Hogsett vetoed a proposal to raise Indy’s vehicle taxes that would go toward road repairs. The post Council Democrats lack votes needed to override Hogsett veto appeared first on Mirror Indy.

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Mayor Joe Hogsett vetoed a proposal to raise Indy’s vehicle taxes that would go toward road repairs. The post Council Democrats lack votes needed to override Hogsett veto appeared first on Mirror Indy.

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The committee will not meet again until receiving feedback from the federal prosecutor’s office.

A small Kentucky town has saved a piece of Black history, with a little-known Jewish connection. This summer, Sadieville, Kentucky — population 320 — opened an exhibit in a one-room schoolhouse that served Black students during segregation. Built between 1917 and 1920, the school was partly funded by Jewish philanthropist Julius Rosenwald, an owner of... The post A Jewish philanthropist funded this pioneering school for Black students. Now it’s getting a second life. appeared first on The Forward.

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A small Kentucky town has saved a piece of Black history, with a little-known Jewish connection. This summer, Sadieville, Kentucky — population 320 — opened an exhibit in a one-room schoolhouse that served Black students during segregation. Built between 1917 and 1920, the school was partly funded by Jewish philanthropist Julius Rosenwald, an owner of... The post A Jewish philanthropist funded this pioneering school for Black students. Now it’s getting a second life. appeared first on The Forward.

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Observatório da Imprensa
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O podcast “Escadaria” vem sendo produzido pelos estagiários do Núcleo Experimental de Jornalismo (Nexjor), da Universidade de Passo Fundo (UPF), desde março de 2022. O nome remete à escadaria do prédio onde funciona o curso de Jornalismo e que se tornou o ponto de encontro dos estudantes. Com periodicidade quinzenal, o podcast aborda preferencialmente pautas […] O post Uma conversa sobre as Bets: o jornalismo esportivo além do entretenimento apareceu primeiro em Observatório da Imprensa.

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O podcast “Escadaria” vem sendo produzido pelos estagiários do Núcleo Experimental de Jornalismo (Nexjor), da Universidade de Passo Fundo (UPF), desde março de 2022. O nome remete à escadaria do prédio onde funciona o curso de Jornalismo e que se tornou o ponto de encontro dos estudantes. Com periodicidade quinzenal, o podcast aborda preferencialmente pautas […] O post Uma conversa sobre as Bets: o jornalismo esportivo além do entretenimento apareceu primeiro em Observatório da Imprensa.

(The Center Square) - As the number of homes and other structures destroyed by wildfires in Spokane climbed past 900 on Thursday, state lawmakers from both parties are coming together with a plan to cut the red tape in bringing help to those who lost everything. The Senate’s leading Democrat and Republican on the state capital budget committee are pledging to work together to provide money in the upcoming 2027-29 capital budget for Spokane homeowners devastated by the Aug 1 fire and other parts of Washington. More than 900 structures have been impacted and that number is expected to rise, authorities said Thursday. The three fires together have collectively burned about 10,400 acres, or about 16 square miles. Sen. Yasmin Trudeau, the lead Democrat on the capital budget on the Senate Ways and Means Committee, and Sen. Mark Schoesler, the Republican leader for capital budget on Ways and Means, issued a press releasing indicating they will work with other legislators before and during the 2027 legislative session to ensure there is sufficient state funding and support to help residents who lost their homes to wildfires in Spokane County or elsewhere in Washington. “My district experienced it about five years ago with the Pine City Malden fires. Now we've got it on an even greater level. We also can't forget hundreds of thousands of acres burned of other lands in the state of Washington, that are some of our forests, our range land, and farmland. We've had massive fires,” said Schoesler in a Thursday morning interview with The Center Square. “My colleague, Senator Trudeau is very concerned, as housing is one of her passions, and there's a lot of houses to replace in Spokane,” he said. Schoesler noted that reducing regulations and streamlining permitting to get homes rebuilt will be key. “That's absolutely critical. I think there's pork projects that can wait while we take care of people's homes,” said Schoesler as a combine passed behind him in the dry wheat fields his family has owned since the 1880s. “Government is the problem. There is a bureaucracy that needs to join budget writers like me and Senator Trudeau in getting rid of the red tape, getting people back in their homes,” he said. The Ritzville wheat farmer noted that two years ago, Representative Mike Volz had a bill that would have reduced regulations for rebuilding after fire. “Unfortunately, a legislator acting on behalf of the extreme environmental groups gutted it and it just wasn't the help it could be,” he said. A bill did get passed, but as a release from Volz indicated, "As originally introduced, the legislation would have required local governments to allow property owners to choose which building and energy codes they used in the reconstruction of their properties." "However, the bill was amended in committee and the substitute version of the bill calls for making assistance available to local governments, businesses, and individuals to repair or replace damaged or destroyed buildings, but in a proscribed more 'climate friendly' way." “My heart goes out to all the communities being ravaged by the current wildfires,” said Trudeau in the news release. “Emergencies and disasters are not a partisan or exclusively regional issue, and the responsibility to address them should not be either. The 2027 legislative session begins in mid-January and is scheduled to last 105 days.

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(The Center Square) - As the number of homes and other structures destroyed by wildfires in Spokane climbed past 900 on Thursday, state lawmakers from both parties are coming together with a plan to cut the red tape in bringing help to those who lost everything. The Senate’s leading Democrat and Republican on the state capital budget committee are pledging to work together to provide money in the upcoming 2027-29 capital budget for Spokane homeowners devastated by the Aug 1 fire and other parts of Washington. More than 900 structures have been impacted and that number is expected to rise, authorities said Thursday. The three fires together have collectively burned about 10,400 acres, or about 16 square miles. Sen. Yasmin Trudeau, the lead Democrat on the capital budget on the Senate Ways and Means Committee, and Sen. Mark Schoesler, the Republican leader for capital budget on Ways and Means, issued a press releasing indicating they will work with other legislators before and during the 2027 legislative session to ensure there is sufficient state funding and support to help residents who lost their homes to wildfires in Spokane County or elsewhere in Washington. “My district experienced it about five years ago with the Pine City Malden fires. Now we've got it on an even greater level. We also can't forget hundreds of thousands of acres burned of other lands in the state of Washington, that are some of our forests, our range land, and farmland. We've had massive fires,” said Schoesler in a Thursday morning interview with The Center Square. “My colleague, Senator Trudeau is very concerned, as housing is one of her passions, and there's a lot of houses to replace in Spokane,” he said. Schoesler noted that reducing regulations and streamlining permitting to get homes rebuilt will be key. “That's absolutely critical. I think there's pork projects that can wait while we take care of people's homes,” said Schoesler as a combine passed behind him in the dry wheat fields his family has owned since the 1880s. “Government is the problem. There is a bureaucracy that needs to join budget writers like me and Senator Trudeau in getting rid of the red tape, getting people back in their homes,” he said. The Ritzville wheat farmer noted that two years ago, Representative Mike Volz had a bill that would have reduced regulations for rebuilding after fire. “Unfortunately, a legislator acting on behalf of the extreme environmental groups gutted it and it just wasn't the help it could be,” he said. A bill did get passed, but as a release from Volz indicated, "As originally introduced, the legislation would have required local governments to allow property owners to choose which building and energy codes they used in the reconstruction of their properties." "However, the bill was amended in committee and the substitute version of the bill calls for making assistance available to local governments, businesses, and individuals to repair or replace damaged or destroyed buildings, but in a proscribed more 'climate friendly' way." “My heart goes out to all the communities being ravaged by the current wildfires,” said Trudeau in the news release. “Emergencies and disasters are not a partisan or exclusively regional issue, and the responsibility to address them should not be either. The 2027 legislative session begins in mid-January and is scheduled to last 105 days.

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(The Center Square) – A federal desegregation case involving the Bossier Parish School Board moved closer to an end Monday after the remaining parties filed a joint stipulation seeking to dismiss the litigation with prejudice, potentially bringing more than six decades of court oversight to a close. The filing, submitted by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Bossier Parish School Board in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, relies on a recent U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit decision involving Concordia Parish. It argues that because the only remaining parties have agreed to dismiss the case, the litigation should end. The lawsuit was originally filed in 1964 and has remained under federal court oversight for more than 60 years. According to the filing, the only remaining parties are the United States and the Bossier Parish School Board. Attorneys for the original plaintiffs told the court the original parent plaintiffs have died and they have been unable to contact the individuals who were minors when the lawsuit was filed. The filing says their signatures are not required because they are no longer parties to the case. The filing also notes the court previously determined the case is not maintained as a class action and that the original plaintiffs ceased active participation decades ago, leaving the litigation to proceed between the United States and the school board. Attorney General Liz Murrill said the filing follows the Fifth Circuit's recent Concordia Parish decision, which she said reaffirmed that federal desegregation cases should end once all remaining parties agree to dismiss them. "It's long past time for these old consent decrees to come to an end," Murrill said in a statement. "These decades-old cases are expensive, ineffective, and they take power away from local communities. It's time to return that authority where it belongs." Bossier Parish Superintendent Jason Rowland called the filing "a monumental day in Bossier Parish history." "Dismissal of the case allows us the freedom to make our own decisions that are in the best interest of all students, staff, and our community, while keeping in mind the history of the past 61 years," Rowland said. The filing comes weeks after the 5th Circuit ruled that federal court oversight of the Concordia Parish School Board should end. Federal desegregation cases involving the DeSoto Parish and Plaquemines Parish school systems have also been dismissed in recent years.

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(The Center Square) – A federal desegregation case involving the Bossier Parish School Board moved closer to an end Monday after the remaining parties filed a joint stipulation seeking to dismiss the litigation with prejudice, potentially bringing more than six decades of court oversight to a close. The filing, submitted by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Bossier Parish School Board in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, relies on a recent U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit decision involving Concordia Parish. It argues that because the only remaining parties have agreed to dismiss the case, the litigation should end. The lawsuit was originally filed in 1964 and has remained under federal court oversight for more than 60 years. According to the filing, the only remaining parties are the United States and the Bossier Parish School Board. Attorneys for the original plaintiffs told the court the original parent plaintiffs have died and they have been unable to contact the individuals who were minors when the lawsuit was filed. The filing says their signatures are not required because they are no longer parties to the case. The filing also notes the court previously determined the case is not maintained as a class action and that the original plaintiffs ceased active participation decades ago, leaving the litigation to proceed between the United States and the school board. Attorney General Liz Murrill said the filing follows the Fifth Circuit's recent Concordia Parish decision, which she said reaffirmed that federal desegregation cases should end once all remaining parties agree to dismiss them. "It's long past time for these old consent decrees to come to an end," Murrill said in a statement. "These decades-old cases are expensive, ineffective, and they take power away from local communities. It's time to return that authority where it belongs." Bossier Parish Superintendent Jason Rowland called the filing "a monumental day in Bossier Parish history." "Dismissal of the case allows us the freedom to make our own decisions that are in the best interest of all students, staff, and our community, while keeping in mind the history of the past 61 years," Rowland said. The filing comes weeks after the 5th Circuit ruled that federal court oversight of the Concordia Parish School Board should end. Federal desegregation cases involving the DeSoto Parish and Plaquemines Parish school systems have also been dismissed in recent years.

المُواطَنة تاريخيًّا عند الشعوب والحضارات شبكة بيئة أبوظبي، بقلم د. حسن بحمد، العين، الإمارات العربية المتحدة، 07 أغسطس 2026 على الرّغم من أنّ مبدأ المُواطَنة كان معهودًا لدى العديد من الحضارات الإنسانية القديمة، لكنّ صيغتها المعاصرة قد خرجت عن النطاق التقليدي إلى حقّ ثابت في الحياة السياسية والاجتماعية بين الدول ومواطنيها، وذلك نتيجة التحولات التي شهدها العالم عبر التاريخ، والتي اقترنت بولادة مفهوم الدولة الحديثة؛ فلم تعُد المُواطَنة نموذجًا مثاليًّا ثابتًا يُحتذى به إلى الأبد، وإنّما باتت تاريخًا، ولم يعُد مُواطن سنوات ما قبل الميلاد، أو مُواطن العام 1789 (تاريخ الثورة الفرنسيّة)، أو غيره في مرحلة تاريخيّة ما، هو ذاته مُواطن القرن العشرين أو الواحد والعشرين. لقد فرضت الحداثة السياسية التي نشأت تدريجيًّا في الغرب، نفسها إبان الثورات التي اندلعت في القرنين السابع عشر والثامن عشر في كل من إنكلترا وفرنسا والولايات المتحدة الأميركية، وأنتجت مفهومًا حديثًا للمُواطنة مختلفًا عن ذلك الذي عرفته العصور القديمة(1)، فظهرت فكرة الأمّة ذات السيادة، وفكرة وجود حقوق أساسية للفرد العضو في هذه الأمّة كإنسان مواطن، ينالها مقابل الواجبات التي تقع على عاتقه. وبرز هذا المفهوم للمُواطَنة في إعلان استقلال الولايات المتحدة الأميركية في العام 1776، وبعدها في إعلان حقوق الإنسان والمواطن الصادر عن القوى التي قادت الثورة الفرنسية في بدايتها عام 1789. وتُعتبر هاتان الوثيقتان حتى يومنا هذا، نقطة تحوّل مهمّة في تاريخ مفهوم المُواطَنة (2). لكنّ ما وصل إليه العالم في القرن الثامن عشر، لم ينفصل عمّا أسّسته الحضارة الإغريقيّة، وبعدها الرومانية، من مبادىء حول مفهوم المُواطَنة، ولو كانت منتقَصة، والتي جاءت بدورها كنتيجة حتميّة لحركة نضال التاريخ الإنساني والاجتماعي من أجل العدل والمساواة والإنصاف، وبدأت مع الشعوب القديمة جدًّا؛ منذ قيام الحكومات الزراعية في وادي الرافدين، مرورًا بحضارات السومريّين والأشوريّين والبابليّين والفينيقيين والكنعانيين والفرس والصين والهند، والتي ساهمت في فتح آفاق رحبة لسعي الإنسان إلى إثبات ذاته وتحديد خياراته، ومنها حقّ المشاركة في صون بقائه وحياته من مختلف الجوانب (3). تُعتبر دولة الإغريق الأُولى تاريخيًّا في التوصّل إلى أساس متين لمفهوم معاصر للمُواطَنة، الذي تحدّد لاحقًا بوضوح ودقّة وشمول في القرنين السابع عشر والثامن عشر. لقد كان الإغريقي يؤمن قبل كل شيء بأنّه مواطن، وكانت المدينة (الدولة) هي محور حياته برمّتها، فقدّمت “أثينا” للعالم في القرن الخامس قبل الميلاد، مثلاً للمدينة التي يتمتّع فيها المواطنون بالحريّة، بمعنى أنّه لا يُمكن أن يكون أحد منهم عبدًا مهما كانت الأسباب، وبالمساواة، بمعنى أنّ لهم جميعًا الحقوق ذاتها سواء كانوا فقراء أو أغنياء. لكنّ مبدأ المساواة الكاملة لم يُقَرّ لجميع مواطني الدولة، فبقي البرابرة عبيدًا، وهذا ما ظهر في كتاب “السياسة” لأرسطو، حيث اعتبر أنّ الفطرة هي التي أرادت أن يكون البرابرة عبيدًا لليونان، وأنّ الآلهة قد خلقت نوعين من البشر: نوعًا رفيع المقام زوّدته بالإرادة والعقل، وهم اليونانيون بطبيعة الحال، والنوع الآخر لم تزوّده إلاّ بالقوّة الجسمانية فقط، وهم غير اليونانيّين(4). كذلك، اعتُبر الذكور في “أثينا” مواطنين فقط، وتمّ استثناء النساء والأطفال والعبيد من حق المُواطَنة، ولم يطبَّق ذلك في باقي أرجاء الأمبراطورية اليونانية، فجاء منح صفة المواطن على أساس شخصي، لا الانتماء الجغرافي. لكن، وبعد العام 212 م، وسّعت الأمبراطورية الرومانية حقّ المُواطَنة ليشمل جميع أقاليمها بموجب مرسوم إمبراطوري، إنّما هذا الحق بقي منقوصًا، وانحصر بالذّكور فقط (ما عدا العبيد) (5). مع بروز الثورات في الغرب في القرنين السابع عشر والثامن عشر، حدث تطوّر لافت في مفهوم المُواطَنة، أثّر فيما بعد على شعوب ودول متعدّدة، فزوّدت أفكار الثورة الفرنسية (1789 – 1799) بعد عقود قليلة، الحركات اليسارية العمّالية ببرامج جديدة طوّرت خطواتها الصاعدة، واستفادت منها الثورة الاشتراكية في روسيا (1917)، ولكنّ ذلك أدّى أيضًا إلى انقسام العالم حول خيار التطوّر الاجتماعي، فظهر معسكرا الاشتراكية والرأسمالية، ثمّ نشأت حالة من التوازنات الدولية تجسّدت في ظهور الأمم المتّحدة، وإقرار الوثيقة العالمية لحقوق الإنسان في جمعيّتها العمومية عام 1948، ما ثبّت مفهوم المُواطَنة وسيادة الدول. ومع انهيار المعسكر الاشتراكي وما تبعه من تطوّرات سياسية واقتصادية واجتماعية، برزت مفاهيم إضافية للمُواطَنة انطلاقًا من مفهوم العولمة الذي يغزو حاليًّا العالم بأجمعه (6). في خضم هذا العرض، لا بُدّ من التوقّف عند تاريخ مفهوم المُواطَنة عند العرب، حيث لم يتضمّن أوّل دستور عربي صادر في تونس عام 1861، كلمة “وطن” أو “مُواطَنة”، واستُخدمت كلمات مثل “تونسي”، “أهل المملكة”، “رعيّة”، و”سكّان”. بعد ذلك، جاء الدستور العثماني في العام 1876، ولم يستخدم بدوره لا كلمة مواطن ولا مُواطَنة، إنّما “الشعبة العثمانية” نسبة إلى “عثمانيون”. لكنّ مفهوم المُواطَنة تطوّر أكثر في مصر التي انفصلت انفصالاً شبه تامّ عن الإمبراطورية العثمانية في عهد محمد علي باشا (1805 – 1849)؛ ففي هذا الإطار تمّ تحديد مصر ككيان تاريخي قائم بذاته، بدءًا من الأُسر الفرعونية المالكة وصولاً إلى الأُسر الخديوية، وليس كجزء من انتماء أشمل كالعربي أو الإسلامي، واعتُبرت العروبة والإسلام جزءًا من تاريخ مصر، فرسّخ هذا التصوّر مفهوم المُواطَنة، لأنّه منحها أحد ركنيها وهو تحديد الفضاء الجغرافي (7). وقد تواصل تطوّر هذا المفهوم مع نشأة الدول ما بعد الاستعمارية، فحلّت فيها كلمة “مواطن” مكان “رعيّة”، وأخذت المُواطنة حقّها في ملازمة هذا المواطن حقوقًا وواجبات. المراجع: (1): ياسر غريب، المُواطَنة: تاريخ المصطلح وهموم الممارسات، الموقع الإلكتروني “العربي الجديد”، 11/7/2016. (2): تاريخ المواطنة، L’avenir a portee de clic (3): الموسوعة الجزائرية للدراسات السياسية والاستراتيجية، قسم مدخل علم السياسة والفكر السياسي، ملف شامل عن المواطنة، 7/3/2017. (4): محمد حلمي عبد الوهاب، المُواطَنة وتحوّلاتها في سياق تاريخي، جريدة الشرق الأوسط، العدد 12110، 24/1/2012. (5): تاريخ المواطنة، L’avenir a portee de clic (6): الموسوعة الجزائرية للدراسات السياسية والاستراتيجية، قسم مدخل علم السياسة والفكر السياسي، ملف شامل عن المواطنة، 7/3/2017. (7): د. محمد الحداد، الدين والدولة والمواطنة في الزمن الجديد، ندوة تطوّر العلوم الفقهية (فقه رؤية العالم والعيش فيه، المذاهب الفقهية والتجارب المعاصرة)، عُمان، 2013. ظهرت المقالة فصول من كتاب «الوطنيّة والمُواطَنة، الإمارات نموذجاً» (07 – 30) أولاً على بيئة أبوظبي.

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المُواطَنة تاريخيًّا عند الشعوب والحضارات شبكة بيئة أبوظبي، بقلم د. حسن بحمد، العين، الإمارات العربية المتحدة، 07 أغسطس 2026 على الرّغم من أنّ مبدأ المُواطَنة كان معهودًا لدى العديد من الحضارات الإنسانية القديمة، لكنّ صيغتها المعاصرة قد خرجت عن النطاق التقليدي إلى حقّ ثابت في الحياة السياسية والاجتماعية بين الدول ومواطنيها، وذلك نتيجة التحولات التي شهدها العالم عبر التاريخ، والتي اقترنت بولادة مفهوم الدولة الحديثة؛ فلم تعُد المُواطَنة نموذجًا مثاليًّا ثابتًا يُحتذى به إلى الأبد، وإنّما باتت تاريخًا، ولم يعُد مُواطن سنوات ما قبل الميلاد، أو مُواطن العام 1789 (تاريخ الثورة الفرنسيّة)، أو غيره في مرحلة تاريخيّة ما، هو ذاته مُواطن القرن العشرين أو الواحد والعشرين. لقد فرضت الحداثة السياسية التي نشأت تدريجيًّا في الغرب، نفسها إبان الثورات التي اندلعت في القرنين السابع عشر والثامن عشر في كل من إنكلترا وفرنسا والولايات المتحدة الأميركية، وأنتجت مفهومًا حديثًا للمُواطنة مختلفًا عن ذلك الذي عرفته العصور القديمة(1)، فظهرت فكرة الأمّة ذات السيادة، وفكرة وجود حقوق أساسية للفرد العضو في هذه الأمّة كإنسان مواطن، ينالها مقابل الواجبات التي تقع على عاتقه. وبرز هذا المفهوم للمُواطَنة في إعلان استقلال الولايات المتحدة الأميركية في العام 1776، وبعدها في إعلان حقوق الإنسان والمواطن الصادر عن القوى التي قادت الثورة الفرنسية في بدايتها عام 1789. وتُعتبر هاتان الوثيقتان حتى يومنا هذا، نقطة تحوّل مهمّة في تاريخ مفهوم المُواطَنة (2). لكنّ ما وصل إليه العالم في القرن الثامن عشر، لم ينفصل عمّا أسّسته الحضارة الإغريقيّة، وبعدها الرومانية، من مبادىء حول مفهوم المُواطَنة، ولو كانت منتقَصة، والتي جاءت بدورها كنتيجة حتميّة لحركة نضال التاريخ الإنساني والاجتماعي من أجل العدل والمساواة والإنصاف، وبدأت مع الشعوب القديمة جدًّا؛ منذ قيام الحكومات الزراعية في وادي الرافدين، مرورًا بحضارات السومريّين والأشوريّين والبابليّين والفينيقيين والكنعانيين والفرس والصين والهند، والتي ساهمت في فتح آفاق رحبة لسعي الإنسان إلى إثبات ذاته وتحديد خياراته، ومنها حقّ المشاركة في صون بقائه وحياته من مختلف الجوانب (3). تُعتبر دولة الإغريق الأُولى تاريخيًّا في التوصّل إلى أساس متين لمفهوم معاصر للمُواطَنة، الذي تحدّد لاحقًا بوضوح ودقّة وشمول في القرنين السابع عشر والثامن عشر. لقد كان الإغريقي يؤمن قبل كل شيء بأنّه مواطن، وكانت المدينة (الدولة) هي محور حياته برمّتها، فقدّمت “أثينا” للعالم في القرن الخامس قبل الميلاد، مثلاً للمدينة التي يتمتّع فيها المواطنون بالحريّة، بمعنى أنّه لا يُمكن أن يكون أحد منهم عبدًا مهما كانت الأسباب، وبالمساواة، بمعنى أنّ لهم جميعًا الحقوق ذاتها سواء كانوا فقراء أو أغنياء. لكنّ مبدأ المساواة الكاملة لم يُقَرّ لجميع مواطني الدولة، فبقي البرابرة عبيدًا، وهذا ما ظهر في كتاب “السياسة” لأرسطو، حيث اعتبر أنّ الفطرة هي التي أرادت أن يكون البرابرة عبيدًا لليونان، وأنّ الآلهة قد خلقت نوعين من البشر: نوعًا رفيع المقام زوّدته بالإرادة والعقل، وهم اليونانيون بطبيعة الحال، والنوع الآخر لم تزوّده إلاّ بالقوّة الجسمانية فقط، وهم غير اليونانيّين(4). كذلك، اعتُبر الذكور في “أثينا” مواطنين فقط، وتمّ استثناء النساء والأطفال والعبيد من حق المُواطَنة، ولم يطبَّق ذلك في باقي أرجاء الأمبراطورية اليونانية، فجاء منح صفة المواطن على أساس شخصي، لا الانتماء الجغرافي. لكن، وبعد العام 212 م، وسّعت الأمبراطورية الرومانية حقّ المُواطَنة ليشمل جميع أقاليمها بموجب مرسوم إمبراطوري، إنّما هذا الحق بقي منقوصًا، وانحصر بالذّكور فقط (ما عدا العبيد) (5). مع بروز الثورات في الغرب في القرنين السابع عشر والثامن عشر، حدث تطوّر لافت في مفهوم المُواطَنة، أثّر فيما بعد على شعوب ودول متعدّدة، فزوّدت أفكار الثورة الفرنسية (1789 – 1799) بعد عقود قليلة، الحركات اليسارية العمّالية ببرامج جديدة طوّرت خطواتها الصاعدة، واستفادت منها الثورة الاشتراكية في روسيا (1917)، ولكنّ ذلك أدّى أيضًا إلى انقسام العالم حول خيار التطوّر الاجتماعي، فظهر معسكرا الاشتراكية والرأسمالية، ثمّ نشأت حالة من التوازنات الدولية تجسّدت في ظهور الأمم المتّحدة، وإقرار الوثيقة العالمية لحقوق الإنسان في جمعيّتها العمومية عام 1948، ما ثبّت مفهوم المُواطَنة وسيادة الدول. ومع انهيار المعسكر الاشتراكي وما تبعه من تطوّرات سياسية واقتصادية واجتماعية، برزت مفاهيم إضافية للمُواطَنة انطلاقًا من مفهوم العولمة الذي يغزو حاليًّا العالم بأجمعه (6). في خضم هذا العرض، لا بُدّ من التوقّف عند تاريخ مفهوم المُواطَنة عند العرب، حيث لم يتضمّن أوّل دستور عربي صادر في تونس عام 1861، كلمة “وطن” أو “مُواطَنة”، واستُخدمت كلمات مثل “تونسي”، “أهل المملكة”، “رعيّة”، و”سكّان”. بعد ذلك، جاء الدستور العثماني في العام 1876، ولم يستخدم بدوره لا كلمة مواطن ولا مُواطَنة، إنّما “الشعبة العثمانية” نسبة إلى “عثمانيون”. لكنّ مفهوم المُواطَنة تطوّر أكثر في مصر التي انفصلت انفصالاً شبه تامّ عن الإمبراطورية العثمانية في عهد محمد علي باشا (1805 – 1849)؛ ففي هذا الإطار تمّ تحديد مصر ككيان تاريخي قائم بذاته، بدءًا من الأُسر الفرعونية المالكة وصولاً إلى الأُسر الخديوية، وليس كجزء من انتماء أشمل كالعربي أو الإسلامي، واعتُبرت العروبة والإسلام جزءًا من تاريخ مصر، فرسّخ هذا التصوّر مفهوم المُواطَنة، لأنّه منحها أحد ركنيها وهو تحديد الفضاء الجغرافي (7). وقد تواصل تطوّر هذا المفهوم مع نشأة الدول ما بعد الاستعمارية، فحلّت فيها كلمة “مواطن” مكان “رعيّة”، وأخذت المُواطنة حقّها في ملازمة هذا المواطن حقوقًا وواجبات. المراجع: (1): ياسر غريب، المُواطَنة: تاريخ المصطلح وهموم الممارسات، الموقع الإلكتروني “العربي الجديد”، 11/7/2016. (2): تاريخ المواطنة، L’avenir a portee de clic (3): الموسوعة الجزائرية للدراسات السياسية والاستراتيجية، قسم مدخل علم السياسة والفكر السياسي، ملف شامل عن المواطنة، 7/3/2017. (4): محمد حلمي عبد الوهاب، المُواطَنة وتحوّلاتها في سياق تاريخي، جريدة الشرق الأوسط، العدد 12110، 24/1/2012. (5): تاريخ المواطنة، L’avenir a portee de clic (6): الموسوعة الجزائرية للدراسات السياسية والاستراتيجية، قسم مدخل علم السياسة والفكر السياسي، ملف شامل عن المواطنة، 7/3/2017. (7): د. محمد الحداد، الدين والدولة والمواطنة في الزمن الجديد، ندوة تطوّر العلوم الفقهية (فقه رؤية العالم والعيش فيه، المذاهب الفقهية والتجارب المعاصرة)، عُمان، 2013. ظهرت المقالة فصول من كتاب «الوطنيّة والمُواطَنة، الإمارات نموذجاً» (07 – 30) أولاً على بيئة أبوظبي.

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As manifestações da cultura popular brasileira carregam histórias que ultrapassam o campo da tradição e revelam identidades, formas de resistência e modos de compreender o mundo que, muitas vezes, permanecem à margem da cobertura jornalística do dia a dia. A proposta deste episódio do Podcast Vozes, produzido pelos estudantes Cleberson Daniel, Gilmar Daniel, Isabelly Maria, […] O post Podcast preserva memórias e fortalece a representatividade ao contar história do Reinado apareceu primeiro em Observatório da Imprensa.

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As manifestações da cultura popular brasileira carregam histórias que ultrapassam o campo da tradição e revelam identidades, formas de resistência e modos de compreender o mundo que, muitas vezes, permanecem à margem da cobertura jornalística do dia a dia. A proposta deste episódio do Podcast Vozes, produzido pelos estudantes Cleberson Daniel, Gilmar Daniel, Isabelly Maria, […] O post Podcast preserva memórias e fortalece a representatividade ao contar história do Reinado apareceu primeiro em Observatório da Imprensa.

Iowa was first. In 1983, before climate anxiety became injected into the American bloodstream by Washington, D.C. consultants, Iowa passed the nation’s first Renewable Portfolio Standard. It wasn’t driven by ideology — it was pro-agriculture and smart market-hedging behavior. A farming state hedged against energy price volatility the way farmers hedge against weather: practically, locally, without waiting for permission from the federal government. The result is that Iowa today generates more than 60% of its electricity from wind and still pays roughly 13.5 cents per kilowatt-hour, well below the national average of about 18 cents. When energy policy is written by people who pay energy bills, good things happen. Christina Bohannan has a different model in mind, and it’s a model invented by people who know a lot more about making lattes in Brooklyn than bringing in the corn in Clinton County. The Democratic candidate for Iowa’s 1st Congressional District carries the endorsement of the League of Conservation Voters; the same national figures who have spent a decade-plus promising the American public a painless energy transition that was all pain and no transition. States like Massachusetts, Connecticut, and California have followed the League’s lead most faithfully. The result is that all three states now pay the highest electricity rates in the continental United States. Bohannan’s own platform calls for turning Iowa into an energy basket case under the same progressive orthodoxy that has driven costs skyward elsewhere. The voters of the 1st District are being asked to ignore the reality of the Democrat Party’s dystopian energy policy. It is worth being clear about what is at stake locally. Iowa’s average residential electricity bill sits around $110–$120 a month, industrial rates hover near 6.5 cents per kilowatt-hour, and agricultural operations — the lifeblood of the 1st District — depend on affordable, reliable power for irrigation, drying, refrigeration, and processing. When electricity prices rise, family farms get squeezed, manufacturers stop expanding, and co-ops pass higher costs straight to America’s grocery stores. Bohannan and her ilk will likely argue that more renewables are always better, and that Iowa should move from 60% renewables toward 100%. But it’s the 40% from coal and natural gas that keeps electricity from spiking when the wind isn’t blowing, and that’s the rub. In states like California still smitten with net-zero mandates, regulations are blocking dispatchable carbon generation before sufficient replacement capacity is available; tight supplies can produce wholesale prices as high as $2,000 per megawatt-hour—enough to cause a farm manager to dream of a new career. Mariannette Miller-Meeks supports policies similar to those expressed in the Affordable, Reliable, Clean Energy Security Act (ARC-ES) that will stop this risk to Iowa voters in its tracks. Bohannan’s donors, on the other hand, have misled and gaslit the country’s electorate for years regarding energy policies. They think that ‘watch the world burn’ policies will advantage them in the end, even in the face of rising utility bills in every state where they have had their way. Miller-Meeks has a record that mirrors Iowa’s practical success and common sense: She opposed President Biden’s attacks on American energy like the ban on LNG exports and the slashing of onshore drilling permits. She stood against Biden’s electric-vehicle mandate that would force Americans to ditch gasoline-powered vehicles. She led efforts to protect hydraulic fracturing from federal bans, recognizing that affordable energy and national security start with American hands-on American resources. She sponsored the Rural and Municipal Utility Cybersecurity Act to harden the grid that rural cooperatives and municipal utilities rely on. This is the critical infrastructure that keeps Iowa farms and small towns powered when the wind dies, or the sun sets. Bohannan, by contrast, opposed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s push for American energy production. She has pledged to “fight” for the same green expansion that her League of Conservation Voters backers define as rejecting fossil fuels entirely. Iowa already leads the nation in wind without that ideology. Iowa built the template for affordable renewable energy before renewable energy was a virtue signal. The question in the 1st District on Nov. 3rd is not complicated: do you want a representative who protects the energy economy and every citizen affected by it, or someone who will buckle every time a coastal donor knocks on their office door? Farmers understand hedging because they invented it. They understand that wind works only when it blows and solar works only when the sun shines. When grid purchases are forced regardless of the weather, prices start to skyrocket. ARC-ES codifies the common-sense test Iowa has already passed: Is it affordable? Is it reliable? Is it clean? Those are the only metrics that matter when the dryer is running, the tractor needs diesel, and the plant needs steady power at 3 a.m. Iowa has not yet been corrupted by 21st-century green cultism. Send a representative back to Washington, D.C., who knows how to win a fight and will always fight for energy abundance instead of energy rationing.

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Iowa was first. In 1983, before climate anxiety became injected into the American bloodstream by Washington, D.C. consultants, Iowa passed the nation’s first Renewable Portfolio Standard. It wasn’t driven by ideology — it was pro-agriculture and smart market-hedging behavior. A farming state hedged against energy price volatility the way farmers hedge against weather: practically, locally, without waiting for permission from the federal government. The result is that Iowa today generates more than 60% of its electricity from wind and still pays roughly 13.5 cents per kilowatt-hour, well below the national average of about 18 cents. When energy policy is written by people who pay energy bills, good things happen. Christina Bohannan has a different model in mind, and it’s a model invented by people who know a lot more about making lattes in Brooklyn than bringing in the corn in Clinton County. The Democratic candidate for Iowa’s 1st Congressional District carries the endorsement of the League of Conservation Voters; the same national figures who have spent a decade-plus promising the American public a painless energy transition that was all pain and no transition. States like Massachusetts, Connecticut, and California have followed the League’s lead most faithfully. The result is that all three states now pay the highest electricity rates in the continental United States. Bohannan’s own platform calls for turning Iowa into an energy basket case under the same progressive orthodoxy that has driven costs skyward elsewhere. The voters of the 1st District are being asked to ignore the reality of the Democrat Party’s dystopian energy policy. It is worth being clear about what is at stake locally. Iowa’s average residential electricity bill sits around $110–$120 a month, industrial rates hover near 6.5 cents per kilowatt-hour, and agricultural operations — the lifeblood of the 1st District — depend on affordable, reliable power for irrigation, drying, refrigeration, and processing. When electricity prices rise, family farms get squeezed, manufacturers stop expanding, and co-ops pass higher costs straight to America’s grocery stores. Bohannan and her ilk will likely argue that more renewables are always better, and that Iowa should move from 60% renewables toward 100%. But it’s the 40% from coal and natural gas that keeps electricity from spiking when the wind isn’t blowing, and that’s the rub. In states like California still smitten with net-zero mandates, regulations are blocking dispatchable carbon generation before sufficient replacement capacity is available; tight supplies can produce wholesale prices as high as $2,000 per megawatt-hour—enough to cause a farm manager to dream of a new career. Mariannette Miller-Meeks supports policies similar to those expressed in the Affordable, Reliable, Clean Energy Security Act (ARC-ES) that will stop this risk to Iowa voters in its tracks. Bohannan’s donors, on the other hand, have misled and gaslit the country’s electorate for years regarding energy policies. They think that ‘watch the world burn’ policies will advantage them in the end, even in the face of rising utility bills in every state where they have had their way. Miller-Meeks has a record that mirrors Iowa’s practical success and common sense: She opposed President Biden’s attacks on American energy like the ban on LNG exports and the slashing of onshore drilling permits. She stood against Biden’s electric-vehicle mandate that would force Americans to ditch gasoline-powered vehicles. She led efforts to protect hydraulic fracturing from federal bans, recognizing that affordable energy and national security start with American hands-on American resources. She sponsored the Rural and Municipal Utility Cybersecurity Act to harden the grid that rural cooperatives and municipal utilities rely on. This is the critical infrastructure that keeps Iowa farms and small towns powered when the wind dies, or the sun sets. Bohannan, by contrast, opposed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s push for American energy production. She has pledged to “fight” for the same green expansion that her League of Conservation Voters backers define as rejecting fossil fuels entirely. Iowa already leads the nation in wind without that ideology. Iowa built the template for affordable renewable energy before renewable energy was a virtue signal. The question in the 1st District on Nov. 3rd is not complicated: do you want a representative who protects the energy economy and every citizen affected by it, or someone who will buckle every time a coastal donor knocks on their office door? Farmers understand hedging because they invented it. They understand that wind works only when it blows and solar works only when the sun shines. When grid purchases are forced regardless of the weather, prices start to skyrocket. ARC-ES codifies the common-sense test Iowa has already passed: Is it affordable? Is it reliable? Is it clean? Those are the only metrics that matter when the dryer is running, the tractor needs diesel, and the plant needs steady power at 3 a.m. Iowa has not yet been corrupted by 21st-century green cultism. Send a representative back to Washington, D.C., who knows how to win a fight and will always fight for energy abundance instead of energy rationing.

O presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) e o senador Flávio Bolsonaro (PL-RJ) aparecem em empate técnico na disputa pela Presidência da República entre os eleitores do Distrito Federal, segundo pesquisa Correio/Opinião Inteligência Política. O levantamento foi realizado entre os dias 30 de julho e 1º de agosto, com 1.109 entrevistas em 31 regiões […] Fonte

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O presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) e o senador Flávio Bolsonaro (PL-RJ) aparecem em empate técnico na disputa pela Presidência da República entre os eleitores do Distrito Federal, segundo pesquisa Correio/Opinião Inteligência Política. O levantamento foi realizado entre os dias 30 de julho e 1º de agosto, com 1.109 entrevistas em 31 regiões […] Fonte

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Plan B, también conocida como la pastilla del día después, es un método anticonceptivo de emergencia seguro que retrasa o previene la ovulación. Esto es lo que dicen los expertos sobre cómo funciona, sus efectos secundarios y otras opciones de anticonceptivos de emergencia. The post Respuestas a preguntas frecuentes sobre el Plan B appeared first on Public Good News.

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Plan B, también conocida como la pastilla del día después, es un método anticonceptivo de emergencia seguro que retrasa o previene la ovulación. Esto es lo que dicen los expertos sobre cómo funciona, sus efectos secundarios y otras opciones de anticonceptivos de emergencia. The post Respuestas a preguntas frecuentes sobre el Plan B appeared first on Public Good News.

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Plan B, también conocida como la pastilla del día después, es un método anticonceptivo de emergencia seguro que retrasa o previene la ovulación. Esto es lo que dicen los expertos sobre cómo funciona, sus efectos secundarios y otras opciones de anticonceptivos de emergencia. The post Respuestas a preguntas frecuentes sobre el Plan B appeared first on Public Good News.

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Plan B, también conocida como la pastilla del día después, es un método anticonceptivo de emergencia seguro que retrasa o previene la ovulación. Esto es lo que dicen los expertos sobre cómo funciona, sus efectos secundarios y otras opciones de anticonceptivos de emergencia. The post Respuestas a preguntas frecuentes sobre el Plan B appeared first on Public Good News.

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A selecção cabo-verdiana de futebol feminino encerra nesta quinta-feira, 06 de Agosto, a sua participação no Campeonato Africano das Nações (CAN) diante dos Camarões.

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A selecção cabo-verdiana de futebol feminino encerra nesta quinta-feira, 06 de Agosto, a sua participação no Campeonato Africano das Nações (CAN) diante dos Camarões.

The Benson Business Improvement District reviewed its financial position and ongoing efforts to strengthen the organization during its quarterly meeting. Officials reported that about $36,500 of the district’s…

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The Benson Business Improvement District reviewed its financial position and ongoing efforts to strengthen the organization during its quarterly meeting. Officials reported that about $36,500 of the district’s…

Friends may not see themselves as caregivers, yet when they help with activities of daily living, they are crucial to a person’s independence and longevity. That, in turn, can save tax dollars by curbing the odds at nursing home care.

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Friends may not see themselves as caregivers, yet when they help with activities of daily living, they are crucial to a person’s independence and longevity. That, in turn, can save tax dollars by curbing the odds at nursing home care.