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Lima mayoral candidates share their visions Hardesty Swanson Lima’s mayor candidates for the 2021 primary are, from left, Elizabeth Hardesty, Joshua Hayes, Sharetta Smith and Autumn Swanson. ONLY ON LIMAOHIO.COM See past coverage of the Lima mayoral race at LimaOhio.com/tag/limamayor. The Lima News will share the four Lima mayoral candidates’ answers to a different question each week through the May 4 primary. Candidates were given up to 200 words to explain their answer, and they had fo...

Miami, May 3, 2021 – Miami Book Fair, in partnership with Sosyete Koukouy of Miami, Inc., will host the Little Haiti Book Festival Online featuring four days of presentations by authors from Haiti and the Haitian diaspora, panel discussions, performances, storytelling for children and more! Events will be free and livestreamed via Crowdcast. The annual Little Haiti Book Festival is a vibrant cultural experience that introduces and promotes writers, booksellers and performers from the isla...

Mayor Angie Sword Heath is challenged by Will Garcia. Gordon Gauss, Kelly Castleberry and Douglas Miller are the three commissioner candidates.

Lord Acton: Libertarian Hero [Originally published April 4, 2006, at LewRockwell.com] “You would spare these criminals, for some mysterious reason. I would hang them higher than Haman, for reasons of quite obvious justice; still more, still higher, for the sake of historical science.”1 Thus ends a long passage of a letter from John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, First Lord Acton (1834–1902) in which appears his famous aphorism regarding power’s tendency to corrupt its possessor. In a few...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Philadelphia is set to join a small but growing list of jurisdictions (including Nevada and New York City) that prohibit employers from testing prospective employees for marijuana. The proposal, which was recently approved by city council and is expected to be signed by the mayor, will prevent most employers from rescinding a candidate’s job offer due to the presence of marijuana in a pre-employment drug test. Nothing within the bil...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: School’s Policy Prohibiting the Presence of a Transgender Student in the Restroom That Matches Their Gender Identity May Be Unlawful Discrimination School boards have long known that gender stereotyping is not allowed under Title IX of the Education Amendment’s prohibition on discrimination “because of sex.” However, there has been some confusion over whether this prohibition also covers discrimination based upon gender identi...

Christian and his friend, Will, pose in front of their chalk drawings. Driveways, sidewalks and windows in the neighborhood surrounding Manhattan Beachs Polliwog Park were adorned with posters and chalk art voicing support and condemning acts of hate against Asian American and Pacific Islander community members Saturday, April 2. (Hunter Lee, Press-Telegram/SCNG) Hunter Lee

Minneapolis police watch a crowd of protesters, May 27, 2020 / Image: Chad Davis A century of failed liberal attempts at policing reform in Minneapolis supports the view that none of the city council’s current proposals will prevent there from being another George Floyd. The trial of Derek Chauvin has concluded with a guilty verdict. But the police killing of Daunte Wright in a Minneapolis suburb only weeks ago drives home that one guilty verdict doesn’t go nearly far enough...

A government whistleblower who was the subject of an internal investigation launched by one of Donald Trump’s most controversial political appointees has been cleared of all wrongdoing, according to a Tuesday press release from the Government Accountability Project (GAP). The investigation was initiated by Michael Pack, who was appointed to lead the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM). Pack, a conservative filmmaker and ally of former White House chief strategist  Steve Bannon, was confir...

Government Whistleblower Investigated and Fired by Trump Administration Has Been Cleared of Wrongdoing and Reinstated Jerry Lambe A government whistleblower who was the subject of an internal investigation launched by one of Donald Trump’s most controversial political appointees has been cleared of all wrongdoing, according to a Tuesday press release from the Government Accountability Project (GAP). The investigation was initiated by Michael Pack, who was appointed to lead t...