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Advocates applaud opportunity for public input on I-94 East-West project, but new environmental review process still needed WisDOT commits to additional public input and data review on controversial highway expansion project with major racial inequity and climate impacts By Press Release - Apr 15th, 2021 05:14 pm MADISON — After calls for broader public input and a better review, WISDOT Secretary-designee Craig Thompsonannounced Thursday that the state plans to undertake a supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on the Interstate 94 expansion project i...

Walk past Alliance Morgan McKinzie High School in East Los Angeles and you might notice a striking image of a muscled man shielding himself from a rain of swords. It's one of 19 sections in "The Story of Our Struggle," an eleven-foot-high, five-foot-long fired-ceramic tile mural that charts Chicano history from pre-Columbian times to the present. In rich jewel tones, it depicts Aztec civilization, the Spanish conquest of Mexico and the loss of Mexican land to the United States. Although sweeping in its subject matter, the work is as much a personal reckoning as a cultural one. The mural was c...

Employees in Fairfax County, Va. — just outside of Washington, D.C. — are officially prohibited from working with federal immigration agents, in a move to help illegal immigrants who reportedly avoided getting help during the COVID-19 pandemic for fear of being deported. The long-standing practice known as the “Trust Policy” was formally adopted in a 9-to-1 vote by the county’s Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, the Washington Post reported. The rule bars any county employees from pursuing or sharing information about an individual’s immigration status, unless required by state or f...

COVID-19 2nd wave:  PLWNCDs urges FG to prioritise pandemic response On By Chioma Obinna With over 70, 000 COVID-19 cases in the country, People Living with Non-Communicable Diseases, PLWNCDs, have expressed worry that the second wave of coronavirus infections may drastically impact the population, calling on the Federal government to prioritise response to the pandemic. According to experts, the PLWNCDs are more vulnerable and susceptible to the COVID-19  and it has been confirmed that they are at a substantially higher risk of becoming severely ill and die as a direct consequence of this...