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  The need for a robust and responsive Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) is as timely and urgent as it was 26 years ago when we arrived at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to begin implementing the original law.  Since then, VAWA's 19 grant programs and $9 billion expended in grants and cooperative agreements have served millions of survivors in Indian Country, the 50 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. territories. Being gender neutral — while recognizing that women have been disproportionately harmed — VAWA has served victims of domestic and dating violence, sexual assau...

Trombly pre-K tuition program to return next year Shutterstock image GROSSE POINTES — The Trombly pre-K tuition program will return for the 2021-22 school year. At the March 22 Grosse Pointe Public School System Board of Education meeting held at Brownell Middle School, the school board voted 5-1 for the program. Trombly is located in Grosse Pointe Park. The school closed as an elementary school at the end of the 2019-20 school year. The Trombly Early Childhood Center opened in September 2020 and was intended to be a one-year pilot program. President Joseph Herd, Treasurer Colleen Worden, S...