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Month: April 2021

EPA replaces Trump-era chemical guidance, calling it ‘compromised’ by politics

The Biden-led Environmental Protection Agency says Trump administration political officials “compromised” an assessment of chemical dangers and has replaced it with a new one they say “upholds the tenants of scientific integrity.” “The assessment posted today fixes the errors in the version issued earlier this year, was developed by EPA career scientists, and upholds the

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Officers greeting students at schools prompts some concern; police asked to leave campuses

Click here for updates on this story     ALBANY, Oregon (KPTV) — When police officers were seen at Albany public schools Monday as students returned to classrooms, reactions were mixed, with some in the community expressing perspectives against the presence of law enforcement. According to Greater Albany Public Schools Superintendent Melissa Goff, GAPS has a long-standing

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What the Founders would say about mass shootings

Every time America suffers a mass shooting, I wonder how James Madison would have reacted. Despite the grinding familiarity of gun massacres, today’s America seems to have developed strategies of denial. Many on the right would arm everyone except “felons” and “the mentally ill,” and the left teaches a version of the same dichotomy: The

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‘Them’ taps another vein of horror in the Black experience of the 1950s

“Them” inadvertently serves as a reminder of how deftly Jordan Peele threaded the needle of social commentary and horror with “Get Out,” and how elusive that target can be. Comparisons are inevitable to Peele’s films and HBO’s “Lovecraft Country,” but this 10-part Amazon anthology series proves provocative and bingeable while taking some questionable detours en

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Willie Nelson Fast Facts

Here’s a look at the life of Grammy Award-winning musician Willie Nelson. Personal Birth date: April 30, 1933 Birth place: Abbott, Texas Birth name: Willie Hugh Nelson Father: Ira Nelson Mother: Myrle (Greenhaw) Harvey Marriages: Ann Marie D’Angelo (1991-present); Connie Koepke (1971-1988, divorced); Shirley Collie (1963-1971, divorced); Martha Matthews (1952-1962, divorced) Children: with Ann Marie

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