School Board Blocks Private-Meeting Recording The Moore County Board of Education recently adopted a policy revision prohibiting attendees of closed-session meetings from taking photos or recording proceedings. 04/23/2024 - 2:12 am | View Link
$53.5 million plan to build new school in MSAD 51 district to be presented to residents The MSAD 51 School Board has approved a $53.5 million school proposal and they're presenting it to Cumberland and North Yarmouth residents on Tuesday. 04/22/2024 - 11:29 pm | View Link
Cumberland County departments discuss rising costs for services During Wednesday’s finance meeting, the board held open discussions with fiscal departments, including Aging & Community Services and the Drug & Alcohol Commission. 04/22/2024 - 1:15 am | View Link
Facing national criticism, Cumberland Valley School Board to hold special meeting; might re-instate Pancholy speech Facing national pressure and a rebuke from their own top administrators, Cumberland Valley School Board members have agreed to hold a special meeting to ... 04/19/2024 - 11:51 am | View Link
Cumberland Valley leaders contradict school board bosses: Pancholy’s ‘assembly should have been allowed’ In a rarely-seen act of solidarity with their subordinates and contradicting their bosses, the Cumberland Valley School District’s superintendent and nine other top leaders told school-level ... 04/18/2024 - 1:22 pm | View Link
Five migrants including a child have died while attempting to cross the English channel, French authorities said on Tuesday. The news comes hours after the U. K. passed a controversial bill that would allow the government to deport some migrants who enter the country illegally to Rwanda.
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The deaths took place after an overcrowded boat carrying around 110 people set out to cross the busy shipping lane from France to England.
It’s common to meet the idea of intuition with an eye roll. We tend to value reason over everything else, using expressions like “think before you act,” “think twice,” and “look before you leap.” We don’t trust intuition. In fact, we believe it’s flawed and magical thinking, either vaguely crazy or downright stupid.
Israel’s war in Gaza has roiled college campuses across America, as students have set up encampments and rallied against Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, sparking free speech debates and creating sharp divisions with members of government, alumni, donors, other students, and some faculty amid accusations of antisemitism.
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Emerging as one of the most prominent and controversial figureheads of the opposition to pro-Palestinian protesters is Columbia Business School assistant professor Shai Davidai, who is Jewish and Israeli American and has recently found himself barred from parts of Columbia’s New York campus amid the latest flareup in tensions.
PEN America has canceled its prestigious 2024 awards ceremony after nearly half the writers nominated for a prize withdrew their work in protest of the organization’s stance on the war in Gaza.
The group, which is dedicated to free expression, announced on Monday the cancellation of the April 29 awards in New York City.
A white family in Atlanta, Georgia today has 46 times as much wealth as a Black family; a racial wealth gap that is exactly the same as it was nationally in 1863 when Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation ending the era of legalized enslavement. Over forty years of neoliberal economic policy have profoundly exacerbated income and wealth inequality especially across racial lines.
The U. S. Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear a case on whether Idaho can enforce its near-total abortion ban in medical emergency situations under a federal law that requires most hospitals to treat patients with life-threatening conditions.
The case marks the second abortion-related challenge to come before the Justices this term, following the Court’s decision in Dobbs v.