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Just before Veterans Day, the Lucerne Valley Unified School District recognized a group of district employees who served in the U.S. military.

VA History Office  Refugees crossing behind U.S. Army lines, circa 1862. Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress.  The American Civil War began in April 1861 as a response to preserve the United States. Within a month, enslaved African Americans seeking shelter behind Union lines shifted the war’s objectives. Many U.S. Army leaders, such as Major General Benjamin Butler, were unwilling to return these individuals to their disloyal enslavers. Hoping to deny the Confederacy of its labor force, U.S. officials recognized these self-emancipated people and harbored them as “contraband of wa...

90.5 WESA's "The Confluence" for Monday, March 1, 2021 On today's program: PublicSource reporter Rich Lord explains why some tenant advocacy groups are looking for ways to grow renters’ political influence in his latest story about “Tenant Cities”; and the Pittsburgh Union of Regional Renters has been recruiting volunteers to help those experiencing evictions with everything from remembering their hearing date to filling out paperwork.    (0:00 — 9:45)  An eviction moratorium ordered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been extended through March, but some tenant ...