Despite objections, Jersey City Council approves measure to allow municipal salary hikes
By Daniel Ulloa/Hudson County View
Ward E Councilman James Solomon, Councilman-at-Large Rolando Lavarro, and Ward F Jermaine Robinson voted no.
“Voting on your own salaries are unethical. Everyone who runs for office knows what the job pays,” resident Esther Wintner said prior to the vote.
“We’re not voting on a council raise tonight,” responded Ward A Councilwoman Denise Ridley.
The salary ordinance before the council copied the language of municipal code and did not include a salary increase for council members. Rather, it included language that indicated past raises for the council members.
How these dinner conversations turned Thurgood Marshall into an icon
Tenure of first Black judge ever to serve on Supreme Court ended 30 years ago
Keith Dunlap, Digital Content Team, Graham Media Group
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Thurgood Marshall at the White House, where President Johnson addressed members of the National Emergency Committee of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency. (Getty Images)
As it turns out, random dinner conversations in a Baltimore kitchen led to a significant piece of U.S. history.
While growing up in Baltimore, the late Thurgood Marshall would go to local courts with his father to observe legal arguments, according to the website Mental Floss.
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Does the World Need Evil? This article was motivated by the philosophical question, if people indirectly, but intentionally, cause injury or death to another by the decisions or choices they make, but do so under the protection of humanly created law, will they eventually have to answer for their actions (or inactions)?
What makes this question impossible to answer is it relies upon whether heaven and hell actually exist, or if they are simply fairy tales that the rich and powerful use to control their flocks.
Naturally, if these unseen worlds do not exist, then my question becomes moot: If people are insulated by the corrupt machinations of humanly created law and there is no afterlife, then clearly there will be no punishment, save perhaps an occasional guilty conscience.
TriMet offers free rides Feb. 4 in honor of Rosa Parks’ birthday
Updated Jan 28, 2021;
Posted Jan 28, 2021
TriMet will not collect fares on Feb. 4, 2021 in honor of Rosa Parks birthday. Oregonian file photo. Beth Nakamura/staff.LC-
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TriMet will hold its first Rosa Parks Transit Equity Day on Thursday, Feb. 4, when fares will not be collected for rides on buses, MAX, WES or LIFT.
Transit partners Portland Streetcar and C-TRAN will join TriMet in not collecting fares on that day in honor of the late civil rights pioneer’s birthday.
Rosa Parks was born on Feb. 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. In 1955, she refused to give up her seat in the Black section of the bus after the driver asked her to move because the whites-only section was full. Parks’ refusal led to the Montgomery bus boycott. In 1956, a United States Supreme Court decision found that found bus segregation was unconstitutional.
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