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Alice Te Punga Somerville cleans up the myth of Captain Cook's legacy 15 Jan, 2021 03:00 AM 5 minutes to read By: Alice Te Punga Somerville Scholar and poet Alice Te Punga Somerville was asked to contribute a piece for a journal to mark the 250th anniversary of Captain Cook's arrival in Aotearoa – that article is now published as Two Hundred and Fifty Ways to Start an Essay about Captain Cook, in the BWB Texts series. In this extract, Te Punga Somerville explores pushing back against Cook's global colonial legacy. 34. By pushing back One of the projects of Indigenous people is to p...
Do you believe these high-capacity magazines should be legal in the state of ohio? should there be a ban? >> i've always been a long proponent of the ban on assault weapons. when your city is the 250th mass shooting that has happened in this year, i think it has to beg the question what are we going to do? it is not a -- in highland, they agreed on background checks and 90% ohioans agree on that so actions could be taken that are not being taken. and, look, i have calls from dozens of mayors across the country because we've all been through this and the question is when are we going to have en...
Get all the facts and we had can start having those discussions. >> reporter: in fairness i think the mayor said this is the 250th -- it's the 216th day of the year. it's more than one a day at this pace. at what point has time expired that you before before the next one? >> with all derespect you've asked several questions at the same time. let me say there will be ample time to discuss the lessons learned from what happened today. let's first get the facts and get all the facts out. there will be time to have those discussions. each one of us in public office has an obligation to take what f...
Already exists. this happened overnight. on the front of the healthcare.gov website, you can see it there for yourself, it demonstrates the fact that people can apply online or apply by phone. that's different. the president will certainly make the case that the health care law is about more than just botched, at least at this point, a flawed website, it's about affordable health care. they will point out among other things that 50% more agents are available at call centers to help people that want to apply right now. among the things that critics of health care website and of the health care ...