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Article content You couldn’t have planned it, scripted it – you couldn’t have seen it coming. Fort McMurray Public School Division’s (FMPSD) Superintendent Jennifer Turner has a story for the books on how her new local career started on March 2, 2020. Just the first normal week-and-a-half full of all 16 school visits followed by a pandemic, provincial staff cuts, a beloved principal’s death, a 100-year flood, new provincial funding formulas, and so much more. No, as aforementioned, y...

Trump addressing GOP convention The BEST and WORST thing about any election night, is that the campaign for the very next election starts the VERY next day. And we’re already off to the races. Let’s “brunch” on that this week! “Senate Toss-Up” – As I’ve been mentioning for weeks, a 50-50 tie between the DEM and the GOP means the President of the Senate, Vice-President Kamala Harris is the tiebreaker for the Democrats. So, if Republicans win a net gain of just ONE Senate seat in ...

Correspondent YOUNGSTOWN — Throughout the 1960s, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. recognized how fluid, evolutionary and transformational the civil rights movement was and, many people contend, had the wisdom to adopt and shift his strategies with it for achieving a more just society. For example, it was one thing for black people to gain the right to sit at what had been whites-only lunch counters, but another for them to have greater economic power to afford what was being served. The movement ...

Jan 18, 2021 HONORING MLK: The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Scholarship Committee will host the 21st annual celebration honoring the life and legacy of King. The program “Reflect, Reset, Reach Forward” will be 9 to 10:30 a.m. today as a virtual celebration on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89259078123. There will be reflections from alumni scholars, community leaders and a panel discussion “Where Do We Go From Here?” MLK WORKSHOP: The YWCA Mahoning Valley and the MLK Planning C...

The seeing eye Jan 16, 2021 MLK COMMEMORATION: The YWCA Mahoning Valley and the MLK Planning Committee are preparing Martin Luther King Jr. Day events this weekend. The annual worship service will be held virtually 3:30 p.m. Sunday. The speaker will be the Rev. Michael Harrison, pastor of Union Baptist Church and president of the Ohio Baptist State Convention. There is a workshop set for 8:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Monday on Zoom, covering the topics criminal justice, health care and youth empowerm...

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Processes with the counter part chuck schumer to come up with a trial that is wor thithy of thee in the constitution. >> and if the democrats believe it is going to happen soon, and mitch mcconnell still controls the senate, what is the point of the delay if there is not a senate trial. is that even a possibility, withholding the articles of impeachment so that there is no senate trial? >> i dont see that. i dont see us doing what mitch mcconnell may have done to president obama with regard to t...

We theres a good bit of time going to new hampshire. we have seen this in many elections past. the democrats recognize each ones vulnerability. they get nervous and go elsewhere. the chair dance ends. we dont know where that will be yet. >> i want to expand on that. the collapse began in the october debate when you started talking about medicare for all. it cannot be fixed. >> thanks for doing it short. thank you for being here today. well be right back. rt thank you for being here today well be...

Blow after body blow after body blow. in terms of the impeachment politics, hes going out to rallies, beating up the individuals, calling out the deep state, calling out the fake news, doing what donald trump does best and giving red meat to his base. on the legislative side hes losing those battles night in and night out and i think the things are going to taek a toll on him. hes going to win 35% of the populous regardless, but those swing voters and the voters in the middle will turn away from...

Election would be gimme for any democrat. well, of course, that fell flat. so the crestfallen democrats decided to go all in on the race issue. now the angle told you this would happen, and sadly, we were right. using bogus charges of racism, the left has a goal of blunting any momentum the president may have with minority voters in 2020. now, the president condemned white nationalists, remember, in charlottesville. and he did so after el paso. but, to listen to the left, he has a goal of, what,...