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Georgetown College discharges president

The News-Enterprise 04 Nov 2021
GEORGETOWN — The Board of Trustees of Georgetown College terminated the employment of William A. Jones as president of the college amid allegations of inappropriate conduct, the school announced Tuesday. The college learned Oct ... The committee took immediate action to dismiss Jones. The full Board of Trustees affirmed the action at a meeting Monday ... Dr ... .
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Program Associate, Communities in Transition Division

Reliefweb 04 Nov 2021
is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer (gender/race/disability/veteran) and provides equal opportunity to all individuals regardless of their race, color, creed, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by state, federal, or local law.
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Saginaw man heads to federal prison on child porn charge

Michigan Live 04 Nov 2021
BAY CITY, MI — A Saginaw sports writer is to spend the next several years in a federal prison for having a cache of child pornography. Jason T. Marcoux, 51, on Wednesday, Nov. 3, appeared before U.S. District Judge Thomas L ... “He acknowledges the wrongfulness of his actions and he has taken affirmative steps to avoid recidivism.”. Read more. ... ....
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Anti-vax anger boils over into racism at supervisors meeting: ‘The comments today are hate speech, ...

Penn Live 04 Nov 2021
5 with Fletcher adding it to a list of five other actions listed on the board’s agenda ... Tuesday’s actions included a 3-2 vote to “cure and correct” the situation by rescinding the previous vote. But supervisors also affirmed the fact that Helen Robbins-Meyer, the county’s chief ...
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Adolfson & Peterson Construction Announces Results of Company-Wide Day of Giving

Mesabi Daily News 04 Nov 2021
MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Adolfson & Peterson Construction�(AP), a leading national construction management firm and general contractor, today announced the results of its first-annual company-wide "Day of Giving" program ... About Adolfson & Peterson Construction. ... AP is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer ... .
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Expect to see more Republicans using CRT as racial boogeyman to activate white voters

The Grio 04 Nov 2021
OPINION. Touré writes that Glenn Youngkin’s win in Virginia is part of a GOP playbook to stoke white fears in order to win elections ... Yes, it’s a boogeyman ... The questioning of former president Barack Obama’s citizenship and the attacks on affirmative action are other ways that white fear around race is stoked to activate voters. U.S ... .
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COP26: UAE wants to unlock economic benefits of climate action

Gulf News 03 Nov 2021
The UAE has called for an inclusive approach to unlock the economic opportunity in climate action and said it would support progress towards practical, commercial and scalable solutions if affirmed as hosts of COP28 in 2023 ... Climate action should not become an economic burden on developing nations ... If UAE is affirmed as the COP28 host in 2023, Dr.
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Voters weigh new rights on food, worship and elderly visits

Idaho Statesman 03 Nov 2021
Pandemic policies were put to the test ...
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SE Texas voters weigh in on worship and elderly visits

Beaumont Enterprise 03 Nov 2021
Pandemic policies were being put to the test Tuesday in several states where ballot measures sought to rebuke or affirm actions taken by officials trying to fight COVID-19 ....
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If Virginia and New Jersey are the measure of anything, it is that the country ...

Democratic Underground 03 Nov 2021
not as liberal as some would like to believe. Buffalo choose the write-in candidate, who was the Democrat who lost in the primary to the Democratic Socialist candidate, running as the Democratic nominee, and won by double digits ... VP Harris addressed that by saying it should be in the form of affirmative action programs ... .
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CHAREN: Will critical race theory sink McAuliffe?

Odessa American 03 Nov 2021
The right way tells the unvarnished truth about slavery, racism and Jim Crow, while also emphasizing the success of the civil rights movement, affirmative action and other efforts to combat the legacy of racism and discrimination.
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Local Eco-Hero award presented by UUCAS

Morning Times 03 Nov 2021
The Eco-Hero awards are part of UUCAS work as a Green Sanctuary, a commitment of UUCAS since 2011 to “affirm our congregation’s commitment to continue growing in awareness and action to honor and protect the interdependent web of existence of which we are a part.” ... All interested in volunteering are welcome to help envision the 2022 growing season.
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Anybody got a list of phrases the Republicans have used over the years to substitute ...

Democratic Underground 03 Nov 2021
They use these phrases because they don't want to use the "N" word. Yet they want to scare the whites into voting for them. I can think of a few. Obviously this year it is "critical race theory - now abbreviated "CRT." ... "Affirmative Action" was in there for some time, using LBJ's program as a lightning rod ... .
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New York nurses fighting state's vaccine mandate take case to U.S. Supreme Court

Ashe Post & Times 03 Nov 2021
On Day One, I pledged as Governor to battle this pandemic and take bold action to protect the health of all New Yorkers,” she said. “I commend the Second Circuit’s findings affirming our first-in-the-nation vaccine mandate, and I will continue to do everything in my power to keep New Yorkers safe.”.
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Senior Technical Advisor - Human Security (LAC)

Reliefweb 03 Nov 2021
is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer (gender/race/disability/veteran) and provides equal opportunity to all individuals regardless of their race, color, creed, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by state, federal, or local law.
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