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(Bloomberg) Democrats in Congress are trying to increase the clout of small donors, yet a provision in their voting-rights legislation risks favoring candidates from either party who hold polarizing views and widening ideological divisions on Capitol Hill.
(Bloomberg) Democrats in Congress are trying to increase the clout of small donors, yet a provision in their voting-rights legislation risks favoring candidates from either party who hold polarizing views and widening ideological divisions on Capitol Hill.
As part of the sweeping voting-rights bill, House candidates who opt into public financing would get a 600% match for individual contributions of as much as $200, a move intended to lessen the power of deep-pocketed backers. Small-dollar donors, however, tend to give more to candidates who draw national attention as firebrands meaning the provision could end up rewarding partisanship.
Local Acton, MA Entrepreneur to Appear on Shark Tank
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ACTON, Mass., April 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Acton, MA entrepreneur, Melissa Clayton, is scheduled to appear on Shark Tank on Friday, April 9, 2021 to try her luck at getting a deal for her beauty invention, The Matte.
Melissa Clayton, Inventor of The Matte and Founder of Tiny Tags
Tired of using her toilet seat as a counter, balancing makeup on the edges of her sink, and watching expensive cosmetics fall on the floor, Melissa knew there had to be a better way. In 2015, Melissa started exploring how she could cover her sink to create a beauty counter and design something that was compact enough to store in her small bathroom. After multiple revisions, the final design was approved and Melissa found a small manufacturer for her invention which she called, The Matte.
UMass receives $1.2M donation for psychology professorship
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Robert S. Feldman, senior advisor to Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy at University of Massachusetts Amherst, and his wife Katherine E. Vorwerk. (Hoang Leon Nguyen / The Republican)
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AMHERST Robert S. Feldman says he and his wife would have preferred to remain anonymous, but the advantages of letting people know about their gift outweighed the quality of humility.
“We were ambivalent about making our names public, but we were encouraged to let other people know this happened. It might serve as an example that would cause others to donate, too,” Feldman said after he and his wife, Katherine E. Vorwerk, committed $1.225 million to the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Gen Z watches Chauvin trial with cynicism, urgency
Georgia State student Matia Wright poses in Atlanta on Thursday, April 1, 2021. (Photo for The Washington Post by Nydia Blas)
Georgia State student Matia Wright watches the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin on Thursday, April 1, 2021. (Photo for The Washington Post by Nydia Blas)
Brandon Williams wears a pendant of his uncle George Floyd during a news conference in Minneapolis on Monday, March 29, 2021. (Washington Post photo by Joshua Lott)
The casket of George Floyd exits after a memorial service in Minneapolis on June 4, 2020. (Washington Post photo by Salwan Georges)
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A Green New Deal Is Actually More Affordable in the Long Term Than Fossil Fuels
Protesters gather outside Union Station on March 31, 2021, in Washington, D.C.
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With global warming representing humanity’s greatest existential crisis, reducing carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050, as recommended by the 2018 report of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), should be one of the U.S.’s most urgent priorities. We need a Green New Deal now.
In examining the urgency of this necessity, we must recognize the current state of climate response in this country and around the world. Five years ago, the Paris Agreement on climate change was adopted. It was called “historic” because all members of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change committed themselves to limiting global warming below 2 and ideally to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2°C) compared to pre-industrial levels