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The effort to make Washington, D.C. the 51st state became even longer odds on Friday as Senator Joe Manchin once again became the fly in the Democratic ointment

By Erica Thomas, managing editor TRUSSVILLE — A Jefferson County judge ruled in favor of the Jefferson County Personnel Board after over a year and a half of back-and-forth between the board and the city of Trussville. The legal battle began in April of 2019 when the city passed an ordinance (2019-020 (ADM), to create its own civil service system for city employees and to hire its own Director of Personnel. This, after decades of operating under the Jefferson County Personnel Board. According to court documents, the city notified the JCPB of its intentions. Peggy Polk was appointed to the p...

The Martha's Vineyard Times A proposed amendment to the Steamship Authority’s Enabling Act by State Sen. Susan Moran, D-Falmouth, that would change the weighted votes for Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket on the SSA board was met with immediate and vocal opposition — and we need to keep those voices strong and united. Moran’s bill aims to provide “parity” on the SSA board — giving the five member ports an equal vote at the table. Right now, both the Vineyard representative and the Nantucket representative have a supermajority with weighted vo...

Coordination and Decomposition Gregory Hood, American Renaissance, April 9, 2021 We’re at a turning point in our history. America has practically adopted an official state ideology: Critical Race Theory (CRT), which holds that white privilege and racism are embedded in all institutions and cause inequality. Thus, practically unlimited government intervention is justified to remove racism. In practical terms, this means attacking whites, the group that created and sustains the United States. One of President Joe Biden’s first acts was to eliminate the patriotic education project of the “...

Does the Enabling Act for the Steamship Authority hold the Town of Falmouth hostage? Few citizens are familiar with the act, or even know it exists. The Massachusetts Legislature passed this law in 1960 in order to ”provide adequate transportation of persons and necessaries of life for the islands of Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard….” In carrying out this mission, the Authority is charged with exercising its powers “for the benefit of the people of the commonwealth, for the increase in their commerce and prosperity, and for the improvement of their health and living c...