A New York Police Department lieutenant apologized to fellow officers for taking a knee with George Floyd protesters in Manhattan, and the president of the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police said Thursday he will not tolerate officers kneeling with George Floyd protesters.
New Hampshire’s food services industry will be entering phase 2 of reopening June 15, which will allow some restaurants to seat people indoors.
“Most Americans are cordial to their neighbors. They work cross aisles, racially and ethically, on projects at work and other places. So we need to not buy into the narrative that we’re hearing from on high now … that America is systemically racist. This is not true.”
A large group of demonstrators reportedly took control of an area around Seattle’s East Police Precinct. Activists fenced in the six-block span of the city and named it the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone.
During a debate over mail-in voting Wednesday, the chair of the House Committee on Government Operations said Vermont law does not prohibit ballot harvesting, a controversial practice in which third parties collect and submit ballots on behalf of others during an election.
America sucks at listening. My America. Your America. “Their” America. Me. You. Black. White. Liberal. Conservative. Poor. Rich. We’re suffering a full-blown pandemic of willful deafness.
The acclaimed fiction writer spoke out in a Wednesday blog post where she laid out her reasoning on why she continued to defend biological sex, as well as her anxieties over the number of young women who are seeking to transition to men.
“Something terrifying has descended on America. Terrible ideas suddenly have free reign. And why? Because no one pushes back.”
News of Floyd’s death prompted many to peacefully protest police brutality and violence, but spurred others to commit acts of looting, rioting and violence against police officers.
More Vermont restaurants are saying they are not going to survive if Gov. Phil Scott’s coronavirus-related economic restrictions continue much longer.
In a spectacular example of fiddling while Vermont burns, the Senate Finance Committee voted 6-1 to advance a bill, S.227, to “to prohibit the provision by lodging establishments of personal use products in small plastic bottles.”
Lawmakers are voting on vote-by-mail, role of Fish and Wildlife, surface water, ivory trafficking, recovery home guidelines, probation and parole, and a ban on little plastic bottles in hotels.