More than two years later, Lermon Jones still doesn t know what happened to his son. Many others suspect foul play, and supporters nationwide have pitched in so the family can fund an independent investigation.
On Sunday, a virtual remembrance and fundraising event, “Below the Surface,” will celebrate Lermont’s life and feature local musicians and an online art auction.
“This has been the hardest thing I have ever went through in my life, and I’m still going through it,” Jones told the
Observer. “No parent should ever have to go through this. None.”
Lermont’s death came before last summer’s Black Lives Matter protests, which surged nationwide after Minneapolis police killed George Floyd. Now, the Denton teen’s family hopes renewed attention will pressure authorities to reopen his case, which Jones believes was riddled with inconsistencies.
Colette Nies never expected her volunteerism to turn into a philosophical battle that could change the city of New Braunfels.
Nies, a Democrat fresh off losing to Precinct 3 Commissioner Kevin Webb last November, applied for a mayoral appointment to the city Housing Authority Board of Commissioners for a term ending in January 2023.
âAffordable housing was part of my election platform,â she said. âI used to testify before the Texas House and Senate on those issues â it was in my wheelhouse.
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âMy latest board position was up and felt I could make a difference being on another board (Heritage Commission), which is why I applied for the housing board.â
There may be an Election Thief in Arizona. Her name is Kelli Ward
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The plot thickens in the quest to find out if any shenanigans occurred when Republicans at the their winter meeting on January 23, 2021, took two ballots to barely reelect Kelli Ward as their party chairperson.
As reported by outlets like CNN, the Hill, and this Blog, Republicans, citing irregularities, are demanding an audit of the vote.
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In her quest to win the Arizona Political Hypocrite of the Year Award, Ward, the one that demanded an audit of the Grand Canyon State Presidential Election results, is not interested in practicing what she preaches.
May 1961, and one tune was sitting pretty atop both the R&B and pop charts: Mother-in-Law became the first hit by a New Orleans artist to rule black and white airwaves alike. Ernie K-Doe was only twenty-five years old, and his reign was just beginning. Born in New Orleans s Charity Hospital, K-Doe came of age in a still-segregated South. He built his musical chops singing gospel in church, graduating to late-night gigs on the city s backstreets. He practiced self-projection, reinvention, shedding his surname, Kador, for the radio-friendly tag K-Doe. He coined his own dialect, heavy on the hyperbole, and created his own pantheon, placing himself front and center: There have only been five great singers of rhythm and blues Ernie K-Doe, James Brown, and Ernie K-Doe! Decades after releasing his one-and-only chart-topper, he crowned himself Emperor of the Universe. More than ten years after his death, lovers of New Orleans music remain his loyal subjects. In its broad outlines, K-Doe s st
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