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School curriculum, book bans and parents’ rights: Who should decide? | Opinion
Tri-City Herald via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoSome insist what is taught in schools undermines what is taught at home. In fact, since the 1920s,...
Nick Gillespie: Keep America's Borders Open
Reason.com via Yahoo News· 7 days ago(including India) and sharply limited newcomers from Europe based on their country of origin. Under the new law, for instance, just 4,000 Italians were...
Opinion: Never forget past U.S. racist immigrant law passed out of fear, nativism, bigotry
Tulsa World· 15 hours agoIn 1924, the U.S. Congress approved a bill that shaped American policy for decades. Named for the men who engineered its passage, it was a nasty, draconian piece of legislation that carefully ...
Mike Johnson and the troubled history of recent Republican speakers
NPR· 6 days agoAlthough Longworth was speaker for only a little over five years, he was well-regarded and symbolic...
The Klan's 1920s' resurgence was felt in north country
Watertown Daily Times, N.Y. via Yahoo News· 6 days agoApr. 27—The first Ku Klux Klan meeting in Northern New York that was open to the public began with a prayer. The main speaker then "brought forth a small, silk American flag, which he carried ...
George Johnson, who built a real estate empire and lived a life of controversy, dies at 92
AZCentral | The Arizona Republic via Yahoo Finance· 2 days agoThose predictions have yet to come to pass. But parts of Pinal County are still rapidly growing....
They called it ‘mashing’ and ‘spooning.’ You could once get arrested for it in Fort Worth
Fort Worth Star-Telegram via Yahoo News· 6 days agoIn other words, giving them “the eye.” It was left up to the beat cop to enforce the new law, though...
Robert Furnas: Meet the Troy native who helped make Arbor Day a national holiday
Dayton Daily News, Ohio via Yahoo News· 7 days agoApr. 26—Robert Furnas, born in Troy on May 5, 1824, became a Civil War officer and one of first governors of Nebraska before helping originate Arbor Day across the country. Early years Furnas ...
City celebrates Arbor Day
Martinsville Bulletin· 4 days agoIn recognition of Arbor Day, the city of Martinsville planted a tree on Friday at the Martinsville Sheriff’s Office at 13 Moss St. The origin of the...
What’s bothering Pritzker
Politico· 4 days agoTODAY’s QUESTION: Who were th native Illinoisans who won Oscars in consecutive years? Political consultant and former Democratic State Central...
