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There’s long been a fierce debate about the effect of Black Lives Matter protests on the lethal use of force by police. A new study, one of the first to make a rigorous academic attempt to answer that question, found that the protests have had a notable impact on police killings. For every 4,000 people who participated in a Black Lives Matter protest between 2014 and 2019, police killed one less person.
Travis Campbell, a PhD student in economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, released his preliminary findings on the Social Science Research network as a preprint, meaning the study has yet to receive a formal peer review.
Four in running for two South Hadley School Committee seats
Candidates for School Committee in South Hadley, clockwise from top left: Danielle Cooke, Jennifer Matos, Brian Morris and Roxanne Sprague. SUBMITTED PHOTOS
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Candidates for School Committee in South Hadley, clockwise from top left: Danielle Cooke, Jennifer Matos, Brian Morris and Roxanne Sprague. SUBMITTED PHOTOS
Published: 4/8/2021 8:53:48 PM
SOUTH HADLEY With town elections approaching next Tuesday, four candidates are vying for two open seats on the School Committee.
Residents Danielle Cooke, Jennifer Matos, Brian Morris and Roxanne Sprague are the four candidates seeking office on the five-member School Committee.
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Physicists are this week giddy with excitement after a decade-long experiment looking at the inner-workings of a muon, a type of particle similar to the electron, hints that there may be another fundamental particle or force waiting to be discovered.
The Muon g-2 experiment, spun up at the US Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in 2011, appears to support what researchers have suspected for a long time: the Standard Model of particle physics may be incomplete.
Taxpayers would fund the project, which activist groups claimed would ultimately cost at least $3.5bn. The contract had been awarded and money promised. Justice reform organizersâ years-long efforts to halt construction and reallocate funds toward housing, education, and community-based services had failed.
But the battle wasnât over.
That year, grassroots activists regrouped and rebranded, forming a broad coalition based on six organizations
they called JusticeLA. They devoted themselves to shutting down the jail construction plan. Then they held their first direct action, an art installation in front of an administrative building where the Los Angeles county board of supervisors had greenlit the jail project. Activists set up 100 homemade jail bed replicas, creating a simulated jail dormitory for the public. More than 200 supporters showed up wearing orange shirts that read âI am not the property of L.A. County jail.â The action diverted traffic for more than
One could well image Republican political consultants, especially at the state level, drawing up hit lists as to the issues they would leverage planning for the 2022 Congressional and state elections. At the top of the list is stopping increased voter turnout. Republicans know that more voters, especially among people of color, equals more Democratic victories. So, as evident in the 2020 election, particularly in Georgia, Republican-controlled state legislatures are moving aggressively to restrict voter participation. The Brennan Center reports that as of March 24, legislators have introduced
361 bills with
47 states.
A second top issue that Republican strategist will likely further exploit is the war against a woman’s right to an abortion. An increasing number of women live in counties without health and reproductive clinics or are being blocked from securing a “legal” abortion.