D.C. police craft plan to root out extremism
Keith L. Alexander and Peter Hermann, The Washington Post
Feb. 14, 2021
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Robert Contee III, acting D.C. police chief, seen in January.Washington Post photo by Bill O Leary
WASHINGTON - The acting chief of the D.C. police says he wants to have background checks conducted on all officers and employees to identify any who might align with extremist groups.
Robert Contee III said he is meeting with police department attorneys and is in discussions with Mayor Muriel Bowser about his plan to come up with a policy on extremist groups or ideologies that the city would deem inappropriate for police department employees to take part in. He also wants to hire an outside firm to conduct such investigations later this year.
Biden faces challenge after executive actions
Annie Linskey, The Washington Post
Feb. 14, 2021
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President Joe Biden, with Vice President Kamala Harris by his side, signs executive orders last month.Washington Post photo by Jabin Botsford
WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden launched his administration with nearly 50 executive actions, variously described in the media as a barrage, a blitz and a burst.
If the public was struck by the sheer number of orders, however, the team that spent more than six months planning them struggled with the opposite problem: resisting the temptation to craft even more orders and reverse larger chunks of former president Donald Trump s agenda.
Trumbull s Nero Hawley rose from slavery, became a businessman
Donald Eng
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A drawing made of the home of former slave Nero Hawley on display at the Trumbull Historical Society in Trumbull on Friday. Hawley was born into slavery, enlisted in Washington s army, and became a businessman and landowner in Trumbull after the war. Local teachers and THS board members Jennifer Winschel and Meredith Ramsey used the book in their primary research for class assignments during Black History Month.Christian Abraham / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
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Jennifer Winschel, a music teacher at Hillcrest Middle School in Trumbull, left, and Meredith Ramsey, a history at Wilton High School pose together with a book about Nero Hawley at the Trumbull Historical Society in Trumbull, Conn., on Friday Feb. 12, 2020. Hawley was born into slavery, enlisted in Washington s army, and became a businessman and landowner in Trumbull after the war. Winschel and Ramsey used
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