Education advocates in Massachusetts say state lawmakers could help counter the Supreme Court s recent decisions to end affirmative action and student-loan forgiveness. Supporters of the Cherish Act say it provides a blueprint for high-quality, debt-free education to every resident of the Commonwealth. Massachusetts Teachers Association President Max Page said eliminating student debt is an essential investment and a step toward achieving racial and economic justice. .
The Last Campaign is a documentary feature film about the 2004 campaign for re-election of Justice Warren McGraw for the West Virginia Supreme Court, dubbed the "nastiest" judicial race in 2004, if not the most expensive. The US Chamber of Commerce is suspected of funneling millions of dollars to support ad campaigns against McGraw in the primary and the general election in a successful effort to defeat Justice McGraw as a part of what Forbes magazine described as a "secret war" against judges. The Chamber's shadowy efforts were joined in the general election by a group calling itself "For the Sake of the Kids" which spent millions supplied by a coal company executive in West Virginia to wage a smear campaign against McGraw alleging that he let a sexual predator loose to work in a school. That coal company executive has a pending $60 Million judgment against his company on appeal before the West Virginia Supreme Court, an appeal that will now be heard
Author: H.W. Brand H.W. Brands’ “The Last Campaign” follows the lives and battles of General William Tecumseh Sherman and Apache warrior Geronimo to tell the story of the Indian Wars and the final fight for control of the American continent. Over the course of the 1870s and 1880s these two war chiefs would confront each other in the final battle for what the American West