On today's show: Kate Hidalgo Bellows, staff reporter covering campus health and safety at The Chronicle, reports on how administrations at colleges here in New York and across the country are struggling to respond to ongoing, and growing protests over the Israel-Hamas War. Jane McAlevey, labor organizer, columnist for The Nation and the author of several books, including (with Abby Lawlor) Rules to Win By: Power and Participation in Union Negotiations (Oxford University Press, 2023), reflects...
Areas of fog are more widespread this Friday morning in Acadiana and a few areas are seeing low visibility. Temperatures are back in the lower 70s followed by highs reaching the upper 80s under partly sunny skies. The muggy air will make the hottest part of the day feel closer to 90°. Rain chances stay []
ELMIRA, N.Y. (WETM) - The Chemung County Department of Aging and Long Term Care held a public hearing April 25, 2024. Speakers spoke extensively on scams targeting older people, end of life care and setting up wills and finalizing healthcare proxies. Speakers also discussed the Older Americans Act of1965, and the New York State Elder []
Students at the American University in Cairo and Sydney University have called for a ceasefire and divestment from companies linked to Israel.
CMPD discusses crime in Charlotte from the first three months of the year.
ASHLAND, Ore. – The Bureau of Land Management is holding public meetings to discuss a new plan for managing the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument. BLM said the monument is currently split up and managed under three different plans and BLM is looking to consolidate the management into one plan. The new proposed plan will cover a […]
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Raising their textbooks and diplomas and singing the national anthem, hundreds of thousands of Argentines filled the streets of Buenos Aires and other cities on Tuesday to demand increased funding for the country’s public universities, in an outpouring of anger at libertarian President Javier Milei’s harsh austerity measures. The scale []
Echoes of the chant, “Free free Palestine” rang throughout the lawn in
Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., must have trouble tracking his views on public protest. In a 2020 New York Times op-ed, the Arkansas Republican senator called for the military to be mobilized to crush the “orgy of violence” he said was engulfing the country during the protests following George Floyd’s murder (in fact, the overwhelming majority of those protests were peaceful). Four years on, Cotton has decided that law enforcement and the military are insufficient tools to deal with protesters. It’s...
While protests in Massachusetts have been peaceful, police in New York City have arrested scores of students amid protests over the war in Gaza.
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter The Wichita school district is having four public input sessions to get feedback on a facilities master plan. The district has decided to close four elementary schools and two middle schools,
Educational institutions have but one purpose: To produce young adults with marketable skills. The students who attend those institutions have only one gainful reason for doing so: To obtain capabilities that will make them valuable in the employment marketplace.