Newly called General Authority Seventy Elder Clark G. Gilbert still remembers the first time he received a testimony of the restored Church. He was a high school student about to run a track race in Scottsdale, Arizona, an area with a good number of Latter-day Saints, when he spotted a familiar face.
“I was at a track meet way across the valley, and I was stretching my tight hamstrings and listening to some highly motivational music getting ready to run my race,” Elder Gilbert recalls over three decades later. “I looked across the track and I saw Brother Butler [my Young Men leader] standing there. And the Spirit said, ‘This Church is true or there’s no way he would be here at your track meet.’”
A Most Admired Diplomat, Gone Corporate
Nicholas Burns, Bidenâs likely ambassador to China, is entangled in tech and the arms business.
Burns held several corporate roles while advising the Biden campaign last year.
China will affect every aspect of President Bidenâs approach to the world. He is expected to nominate diplomat R. Nicholas Burns as ambassador to help him navigate the administrationâs biggest global challenge. Burns is respected by Democrats and Republicans alike, and in contrast to some of the other strange names floated as ambassadors, like Rahm Emanuel for Japan and Morgan Stanley vice chairman Tom Nides for Israel. But even this widely admired career civil servant fits the pattern of Biden hiring diplomats turned business consultants.
As House Republican leaders actively try to oust a member of their own leadership team – No. 3 Rep. Liz Cheney – the congresswoman isn’t fighting the move.
Prof. of Philosophy
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A legacy of slavery, the subminimum wage for tipped workers forces a mostly female workforce of waitresses, largely in very casual restaurants, to struggle with the highest rates of poverty and sexual harassment of any workforce, because they must tolerate inappropriate customer behavior to feed their families in tips. Join us for a panel discussion with preeminent experts researching gender-based discrimination and violence.
Panelist Bios:
Saru Jayaraman: As the President of One Fair Wage and Director of the Food Labor Research Center at Univ. of California, Berkeley, Saru Jayaraman has spent the last 20 years organizing and advocating for raising wages and working conditions for restaurant and other service workers. Saru is a graduate of Yale Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She was listed in CNN’s “Top10 Visionary Women” and recognized as a Champion of Change by the White House in 2014, and a James Beard Foundation
Former State Senator joins Worthington Scholarship Foundation Wed, 05/05/2021 - 4:30pm
Justin Chenette. (Photo courtesy Worthington Scholarship Foundation)
ROCKLAND The Worthington Scholarship Foundation, with a mission to create a pathway to college for students throughout Maine, has hired Justin Chenette, of Saco, as its new program director.
Chenette spent nearly a decade in public office having served eight years in the legislature, with two terms in the Maine House of Representatives and two terms in the Maine Senate. At the time, Chenette was the youngest lawmaker in the entire country at age 21. Prior to that, Chenette made history as the first high school student appointed to the Maine State Board of Education and in college, was a congressional intern, according to the Foundation, in a news release.