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Blind man files discrimination suit against Lee County after not being hired Bill Smith, Fort Myers News-Press A legally blind man has filed suit against Lee County claiming that he was discriminated against because of his disability when he was not hired for a position at the Pine Island branch library. Michael Phelps filed suit Feb. 15 in U.S. District Court, claiming violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Florida Civil Rights Act. The action claims that h...

Pecoraro Announces Bid for North Tonawanda Mayor By: Staff Reporter North Tonawanda City Council President Bob Pecoraro announced his candidacy for Mayor of North Tonawanda today. Pecoraro stated that he would seek endorsements of the Republican and Conservative committees. “North Tonawanda is on the upswing as economic development can be seen across our city, and our efforts at revitalization are paying off,” said Pecoraro. “I believe I am the right candidate to continue this renaissance...

by Provost Peggy Agouris |  February 19, 2021 Provost Peggy Agouris sent the following message to the campus community on Feb. 19, 2021. - Ed. Dear Colleagues, I write to share the news that Leonard G. “Len” Schifrin, Chancellor Professor of Economics, Emeritus, died peacefully at home on February 4, 2021. He was born in Monticello, NY on December 18, 1932. His late parents were Isidore and Sophie Diamond Schifrin, both of w...

BYU-Pathway Worldwide Offers Online, Higher Education Thursday, February 18, 2021 - by Phil Smartt BYU-Pathway Worldwide provides “access to spiritually based degrees completely online at an affordable price” for those in the greater Chattanooga area and around the world.   The story begins some 50 years ago when Henry B. Eyring (now a member of the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) was inaugurated as the president of Ricks College (now BYU-Idaho)....

Communications was supposed to be a key ingredient of Floridas vaccine rollout. Until it wasnt. A three-month vacancy in top communications personnel only deepened the continued lack of transparency that has plagued the states response to the pandemic since the beginning, say lawmakers and government watchdog groups who receive hundreds of calls from Floridians each day searching for answers. “These are crucial positions. That, combined with concerns these offices are slow-walking public re...

Tweet Chief John DrakePhoto: Eric England When John Drake was announced as the new chief of the Metro Nashville Police Department in November, the news was met in some corners with — at best — skeptical optimism. Activists, community organizations and an increasing number of Metro councilmembers had been agitating for the ouster of longtime MNPD Chief Steve Anderson for several years. Anderson was widely seen as an obstacle to reform, and his tenure had recently included two h...

Congratulations and thank you, Albany City Council member Marilyn Smith.

Aja Beckham From This couple, once incarcerated for decades, is dedicated to helping those who are either headed down the wrong path or striving to turn things around. They credit their union, in part, as the reasoning they are able to do this work. Aja Beckham /WAMU/DCist toggle caption Aja Beckham /WAMU/DCist Lashonia Thompson-El, 48, says it was love at first sight when her now-husband, Sean Thompson-El, 56, arrived at Washington Dulles Inter...

State Rep. Sandra Scott, D-Rex, recently introduced House Bill 9, legislation that would authorize the state to develop guidelines specifically for mental and behavioral telehealth services for students in Georgia

Lee is the co-chair of the San Diego Asian Pacific Islander (API) Coalition and executive director of Pacific Arts Movement (presenter of the San Diego Asian Film Festival), and lives in Mira Mesa. The Asian Pacific Islander (API) community commemorated Lunar New Year on Friday, almost one year after the United States reported its first case of COVID-19 community transmission. Yet long before the pandemic’s inevitable spread, API communities were already dealing with another insidious diseas...