New post: Opinion: Immigrants Are the Winners of This Legislative Session https://www.marylandmatters.org/2021/05/07/opinion-immigrants-are-the-winners-of-this-legislative-session/
Glad to see that the school board has tabled this depraved proposal, which should be withdrawn.
It’s unconscionable to publicly shame students simply because their parents are poor. In one of the wealthiest places *ever*, the least we can do is provide universal lunches to kids.
As public pushback mounted on Thursday, the Montgomery County Board of Education tabled a proposed policy on handling student meal debt from its Tuesday meeting agenda. https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools/mcps-tables-proposal-for-alternate-meals-for-students-with-unpaid-lunch-bills/
60 years ago today, eighteen Freedom Riders left for New Orleans from Washington, D.C. to desegregate the South's Jim Crow interstate buses.
Here are some of those who were arrested.
Hank Thomas, Washington, D.C., 19
Alex, Finn, and I took a trip to Harper’s Ferry over the weekend and paid our respects to an American hero. o7
(Finn also got a toy car out of it.)
Money speaks for money, the devil for his own.
Who comes to speak for the skin and the bone?
What a comfort to the widow, a light to the child.
There is power in a union.
All power and glory to the working class. Happy May Day! ✊️
Labor Day is is a somewhat sanitized recognition of the struggle for worker’s rights. #MAYDAY honors the radical defiance of 300,000+ workers protesting capitalists in solidarity. Celebrate #InternationalWorkersDay #workersolidarity 🦾
SUCH GREAT NEWS https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1387896399837208580
WATCH: Pres. Biden is interrupted by protestors calling for the end of detention centers.
"Private detention centers should not exist and we are working to close all of them" https://cbsn.ws/3vtVv3R
Live now discussing renters' issues and the 2021 legislative session's progress and disappointments
with @RentersRights @BrianFrosh @WilliamJRob @Willcsmithjr @DelegateStewart. TUNE IN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M14v2G5UsaQ
🤔 https://twitter.com/zach_hudson/status/1386835375662960644
Well, you don't see this every day! @GovLarryHogan
https://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/news/2021/04/26/hogan-estate-purchase-11m-davidsonville.html
