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Memorandum on Redressing Our Nation’s and Federal Government’s History of Discriminatory Housing Practices and Policies
The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Background and Policy. Diverse and inclusive communities strengthen our democracy. But our Nation’s history has been one of great struggle toward this ideal. During the 20th century, Federal, State, and local governments systematically implemented racially discriminatory housing policies that contributed to segregated neighborhoods and inhibited equal opportunity and the chance to build wealth for Black, Latino, Asian American and Pacific Islander, and Native American families, and other underserved communities. Ongoing legacies of residential segregation and discrimination remain ever-present in our society. These include a racial gap in homeownership; a persistent
to such splendid weather before the traffic
crashed back over us again in torrents
and I lost you in the slanting rearview mirror.’’ From “A Break in the Weather,’’ by Paul Mariani (born 1940), an American poet and professor emeritus of literature at Boston College
“It is not the function of our government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.’’
Robert H. Jackson (1892-1954), U.S. Supreme Court justice and solicitor general and perhaps best known as the chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals, which served as a coda to a long stretch of Fascist brutality. Now we face less coherent but violent actions from American Neo-Fascists led by Trump.
The Colorado Department of Transportation’s massive project to reconstruct a 10-mile stretch of Interstate 70 is creating concerns for nearby residents in the Globeville and Elyria-Swansea neighborhoods. (Video by Skyler Ballard & Katie Klann)
On Sept. 12, 1964, hundreds crowded across freshly-painted highway stripes to watch the dedication of a new $12.5 million, 2.6-mile stretch of Interstate 70 designed to ease traffic congestion on what had been a four-lane street.
City and state officials joined highway engineers as an enormous ribbon was cut and onlookers applauded the first ever segment of I-70. Shortly after, the first vehicles poured through the section, headed to destinations east and westbound on a freeway that connected Jackson Street to the Valley Highway (present-day Interstate 25). The new interstate would make room for 38,500 vehicles and replace 46th Avenue, roundly criticized as the biggest traffic headache in the Denver Metro area.
Illustration by Adrià Fruitós.
There is a story that Washington policy-makers like to tell about America’s relationship with China, a narrative of the betrayal of naive hopes that is closer to a fairy tale than a sober analysis of history. The fable goes something like this: Once upon a time, there was a hermit kingdom called China, poor, angry, and isolated. Two visionary statesmen, Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, visited this unhappy land and opened it up to the world. With diplomacy and trade, successive American leaders helped build up China, with the dream that, as it grew richer, it would join the United States in upholding a harmonious global order. But engagement proved a false dream: As China grew richer, it remained despotic, undercutting America with sharp trade practices, repressing its own people, and threatening its neighbors. Suddenly America found itself confronting a monster. Shortly before he died in 1994, Nixon told
Recognizing the Profit Opportunities in Internet Outages Imagine if sustained, India-style internet outages were commonplace here in the U.S. By Eric Fry, Editor, Fry s Investment Report Jan 7, 2021, 3:20 pm EDT January 7, 2021
On Tuesday, a massive three-hour outage on the workplace collaboration tool Slack frustrated companies and workers all over the world.
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Then on Wednesday, another workplace-communications tool, the Zoom-like RingCentral, experienced problems in North America. Folks stuck at home had to reschedule virtual meetings or download some other tech communication software and learn it on the fly.
On a normal workday, these sorts of slowdowns are vexing. But during a pandemic, when so many of us are working from home, they’re beyond aggravating and can cause major loss of revenue.