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Over the weekend, the last undecided race for North Carolina’s appellate courts was resolved when Chief Justice Cheri Beasley conceded the race to Senior Associate and Chief Justice-Elect Paul Newby. The race was extraordinarily close, with Chief Justice-Elect Newby ultimately prevailing by a margin of 50.0037% to 49.9963%.
After two rounds of recounts, and with various protests still pending, Chief Justice Beasley and Chief Justice-Elect Newby announced the amicable resolution on socialmedia. The Justices’ dignified and measured responses to this most unusual scenario over the past several weeks reflect the high degree of professionalism for which our Supreme Court is known.
KENNETT SQUAREâEvery fall, Kennett High Schoolâs Humanitarian Club holds a food drive to benefit the Kennett Area Community Service (KACS) food cupboard. This year, due to the economic impact of COVID-19, the need for donations was significantly greater. For that reason, club members chose to step up their efforts.
Lisa Teixeira, Humanitarian Club advisor, said, âIn recognition of all of the community support that the KHS Humanitarians and Mini-THON committee have received over the years, the club leadership decided to focus all of their activities during our first semester on helping the KSQ community.â
Motivated by the generous spirit of the local community, then, Humanitarian Club co-presidents Emma Henderson, Gavin Maxwell, and Grace Pruitt, along with food drive chairs Carly Cicconi, Julia Dahms, and McKenna Norton, developed a strategy that involved several different fundraisers. The creativity, dedication, and passion behind their ideas resulted in a cont
A Global Americans review of American Foreign Policy in the English-Speaking Caribbean
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Samantha S.S. Chaitram’s
American Foreign Policy in the English-Speaking Caribbean is an admirable and ambitious effort to cover U.S. foreign policy in the English-speaking Caribbean from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. The book is well-written, concise, and packs a lot of information into its 134 pages. The author recently earned her Ph.D. in International Studies from the University of Miami and is a Lecturer at the Trinidad and Tobago Police Training Academy as well as an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of the West Indies. This is her first book.
Kinjal Shah, a Senior Associate at San Francisco-based
Blockchain Capital LLC, a VC and private equity firm that’s focused on the blockchain or distributed ledger technology (DLT) sector, notes that research shows that only around 34% of Americans still have a “fair amount of trust” in the US Federal Reserve.
Shah, a Quantitative Economics, Entrepreneurial Leadership Studies graduate from Tufts University, points out that the unemployment rate in the United States reached historic levels as the world’s largest economy has experienced serious challenges since March 2020, when awareness about the COVID-19 pandemic became more widespread.
Although the US economy is projected to grow next year, it will definitely be negatively affected due to the Coronavirus crisis. The Blockchain Capital team notes that COVID has disrupted the longest expansion of the US economy which had been growing steadily for the past 11 years and had been adding new jobs for 113 straight months.
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Frazier Healthcare Partners’ special purpose acquisition corporation, Frazier Lifesciences Acquisition Corporation, announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 12,000,000 units, at a price to the public of $10.00 per unit, for aggregate gross proceeds of $120,000,000. Each unit consists of one Class A ordinary share and one-third of one redeemable warrant, with each whole warrant entitling the holder thereof to purchase one Class A ordinary share. The units are expected to begin trading on the Nasdaq Capital Market on December 9, 2020 under the symbol “FLACU”. The offering is expected to close on December 11, 2020, subject to customary closing conditions.
Frazier Lifesciences Acquisition Corporation, sponsored by a Cayman Islands affiliate of Frazier Life Sciences X, L.P., is a newly incorporated blank check company, incorporated as a Cayman Islands exempted company for the purpose of eff