Marysville students release salmon into Belle River "I think this gives them a real-life opportunity to experience nature and science outside of the classroom," said science teacher Cherie Westrick. 04/28/2024 - 10:24 pm | View Link
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New bar, restaurant at The Banks will aim to 'bring the outside in,' serve Good Plates Eatery menu The Park, a new bar and restaurant at The Banks, is expected to open in June 2024. The bar will sit in between in the former BurgerFi location next to Jimmy John's and Fishbowl at The Banks. 04/26/2024 - 1:16 am | View Link
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) has raised a whopping $18.3 million dollars this election cycle to help GOP incumbents and candidates — putting him ahead of his leadership opponent Sen. John Thune (R-S. D), Axios reports.
“Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sought to make the case on Sunday that he can do something no third-party or independent candidate has come close to doing in modern U. S. history: win a presidential election. Although polls show him far behind, both major-party campaigns, those of President Biden and former President Donald Trump, view Mr.
“Nearly seven months after the Israel-Hamas war began, the demonstrations convulsing college campuses nationwide are exposing fresh tensions within the Democratic Party over how to balance free speech protections and support for Gazans with concerns that some Jewish Americans are raising about antisemitism,” the New York Times reports.
“From New York and Los Angeles to Atlanta and Austin, a surge in student activism has manifested in protest encampments and other demonstrations, drawing significant police crackdowns and sometimes appearing to attract outside agitators.
“Japan’s ruling party lost a special election Prime Minister Fumio Kishida had described in part as a judgment on himself, months ahead of a party leadership vote,” Bloomberg reports.
“Public anger over a slush fund scandal helped the main opposition candidate Akiko Kamei defeat the Liberal Democratic Party’s Norimasa Nishikori by about 83,000 votes to 58,000 in what had been a party stronghold in Shimane prefecture.”
“Rishi Sunak has spent 18 months as prime minister fending off internal Conservative Party criticism and rumors of plots to oust him. So far it’s come to nothing — though his team is taking nothing for granted this week,” Bloomberg reports.
“His critics on the Tory right have spent months gearing up for Thursday’s local and mayoral elections across England as their final chance to oust Sunak.
This is wild stuff.
Thank you, Larry Smoot.
Holotile is being developed by Lanny Smoot, the Disney Research Fellow, and Imagineer behind special effects used in the Haunted Mansion and Star Wars lightsabers. Disney announced Smoot is being inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame
Will brain dead Sen. Marsha Blackburn claim Holotile is Disney's latest attempt to groom your school children to change their sexual identity?
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