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As President Biden becomes more vocal about his goals on climate and clean energy policy, and cities across the US grapple with bus fleet electrification, several other issues are bubbling to the surface, especially around workforce equity.
The Eno Center for Transportation is hosting a paneled discussion to unpack how the move towards zero-emission bus fleets is connected with the “workforce landscape and issues of procurement, manufacturing, job creation, and job equity, and the opportunities for creating strong procurement policies as America builds back better in the years to come.”
The webinar will be from 2 to 2:45 pm Tuesday, April 13. Click here to register.
Former US president Donald Trump once warned Republicans it would be ""very, very stupid"" to let America's capital become a state. But after the chaos of his final weeks in office, Washington DC residents have never been more fired up to get another star a
Donald Trump s rocky departure from Washington sparks debate over making it America s 51st state
By Peter Jones and Emily Olson in Washington DC
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Washington DC may be America s seat of power, but many people who live there feel powerless.
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More than 700,000 Americans live mere kilometres from the US Capitol but have no power to elect a representative with voting power inside the building.
Residents of Washington DC are required to pay federal taxes, follow federal laws and serve in the military when drafted.
Yet their highest elected federal representative, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, cannot vote on bills and only sits on committees. Even laws passed by the DC city council are subject to congressional approval.
When Harriet Tubman died on March 10, 1913 at age 91, the storied abolitionist left the world a legacy of freedom, fearlessness and fierce advocacy for Black people, women and all Americans.
She was born Araminta “Minty” Ross in Dorchester County on Maryland’s Eastern Shore circa 1822. Tubman spent nearly three decades in bondage before escaping the inhumanity of slavery. (Watch the short film Harriet Tubman: Soldier of Freedom.)
Known as “Moses,” she repeatedly risked her life as a “conductor” on the Underground Railroad, a network of safe houses. Among those she liberated were her own beloved parents.
During the Civil War, Tubman was a spy, scout, nurse, and cook for the Union Army. She was the first woman to lead an armed military operation, the Combahee River Raid, in South Carolina in 1863, which led to hundreds of enslaved people being freed from neighboring plantations. In February 2021, Tubman was inducted into the U.S. Army Military Intelligence Corp