Kevin Warren responds to Bears stadium plan’s exclusion from spring legislative budget originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago In late May, the Illinois House passed a $53 billion state budget as part of their spring legislative session. However, the Chicago Bears‘ plans to acquire public funding for their lakefront stadium project weren’t included in the […]
More than 40 high school students walked out of class in central Minnesota last Wednesday in response to their school board denying a tribal drum group the right to perform at their upcoming graduation ceremony. In response to a Hinckley-Finlayson High School student drum group’s request for the second year in a row to perform […]
The trial for a Clermont County father accused of killing his three young sons has been delayed. Chad Doerman’s trial was originally scheduled for July, but the date has now been vacated, our news partners at WCPO in Cincinnati reported. >> PREVIOUS COVERAGE: Attorneys for Ohio father accused of killing his 3 young sons ask […]
Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price said all of the California county’s death penalty cases are under review after a member of her office found evidence that prosecutors in a 30-year-old case had excluded Black and Jewish people from the jury. “When you intentionally exclude people based on their race, their religion, their gender or […]
Here is this week’s letter to the editor of the Oshkosh Northwestern. See our letters policy below for details about how to share your views. Give up fear for Lent “When I am afraid, I put my trust in you, God.” — Psalm 56:3 There are times we need to pay attention to our fear. It […]
Howl about that? Mutant wolves who roam the human-free Chernobyl Exclusion Zone have developed cancer-resilient genomes that could be key to helping humans fight the deadly disease, according to a study. The wild animals have managed to adapt and survive the high levels of radiation that have plagued the area after a nuclear reactor at […]
A group of artists in Sweden, this year’s Eurovision host country, are requesting that Israel be barred from participating in the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest over the nation’s “brutal” war in Gaza. In an open letter signed by more than 1,000 Swedish musicians published in the Swedish paper Aftonbladet, the artists decried the “humanitarian disaster” […]
President Joe Biden commemorated the 80th anniversary of the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act, which barred Chinese laborers from entering the country. In a White House official statement released Sunday, Biden said the legislation, enacted in 1882, was a measure that “weaponized our immigration system to discriminate against an entire ethnic group.” It was […]