of discrimination have continued to purge voting roles at elevated rates. Other kinds of widespread abuses continue to take place at the state level, e.g. the withholding in the 2018 general election of53,000 voter registrationsby then Georgia Secretary of State (now Governor) Brian Kemp. ...
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When the calendar flipped from 2016 to 2017, Governor Cuomo rode the subway. As you may recall, this was no ordinary subway trip: It was the inaugural run of the Q along its new route, down from the 96th Street terminus of the shiny, new Second Avenue Subway. You know, a ribbon cut...
Included in the program were: keynote addresses by Jeanne Shaheen (former governor of New Hampshire), Anna Lovejoy (Senior Policy Analyst with the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices), Beth Blue Swadener (Arizona State University); a host of sessions presented by NAECTE ...
So, what of his years as a politician as the 32nd Governor of Minnesota 1967-1971? Perhaps this moderate Republican’s term could be summed up with the phrase “clarification and consolidation”. His cornerstone accomplishments sought to clarify gray areas in law, and to consolidate the structur...
in exchange for silver bullion. There was also in force a Notification of the Governor–General in Council, dating from 1868,by which sovereigns were received at Government Treasuries as the equivalent of ten rupees and four annas. This Notification, which had superseded a Notification of 1864 ...
The gravestone of Frances Haven Moss and her husband Charles, in a small cemetery adjacent to the University of Illinois campus. Honta Smalley was a member of the second chapter of Gamma Phi Beta. Upon the installation of the chapter at the University of Michigan, Honta’s brother, Syracuse ...
The gravestone of Frances Haven Moss and her husband Charles, in a small cemetery adjacent to the University of Illinois campus. Honta Smalley was a member of the second chapter of Gamma Phi Beta. Upon the installation of the chapter at the University of Michigan, Honta’s brother, Syracuse ...
There is also a great deal of uncertainty over whether President Barack Obama will lead the country for another four years or whether former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney will take the reins. It is a rarity to see a large number of corporate deals announced during an election year so my...
The gravestone of Frances Haven Moss and her husband Charles, in a small cemetery adjacent to the University of Illinois campus. Honta Smalley was a member of the second chapter of Gamma Phi Beta. Upon the installation of the chapter at the University of Michigan, Honta’s brother, Syracuse ...