Charles Gresham News Today

This week marks 80 years since the dedication of the Molly Marine statue in downtown New Orleans. The work of noted sculptor Enrique Alferez, the life-sized statue at Elk Place

The Whig was a newspaper published in Jonesborough, which was spelled that way in 1841. May 12, 1887: The Comet reported, “On the 21st of May, 1887, an excursion to Cranberry over the E.T. & W.N.C. R.R. under the management of Mr. S.H. Pouder for the benefit of the Y.M.C.A. of Johnson City. The occasion will no doubt be a pleasant trip out and out, and we hope everybody will go. Round trip tickets sold at half rates.” There was no mention of the price of the tickets, nor when the trai...

FGA Files SCOTUS Amicus Curiae Brief Supporting Work Requirements Share Article Today, the Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA) filed an amicus curiae brief, or friend of the court brief, with the Supreme Court. FGA has now joined with 18 other state attorneys general to say Arkansas is allowed to set work requirements for some of its Medicaid recipients, which is the question at hand. FGA logo "Congress expressly granted states the rights to adopt commonsense reforms to experiment wi...

© getty Can Wisconsin require that able-bodied and childless adults work, or engage in work-related activities, as a condition of receiving BadgerCare benefits? The U.S. Supreme Court likely will answer that question when it decides Azar v. Gresham later this term.  The specific issue presented by that case might appear to be, at least initially, dry and technical:  Whether a work requirement would “assist in promoting the objectives” of the Medicaid program. Just under the surface, howe...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Trial has been delayed for a man charged with first-degree murder...

PARRIS ISLAND, SC -- Seventy seven years ago, the statue known as ‘Molly Marine’ was originally commissioned by Marine Technical Sgt. Charles Gresham, a recruiter, in hopes to increase enlistment of females into the military during World War II. At that time, American service men needed to be out in battle. Women were beginning to join and take over their jobs on the home front to “free a man to fight”. Molly Marine was the first statue of a woman in uniform, and it was erected on Nov....