Huntington Beach will mark LGBTQ pride by flying rainbow flag
The American flag, California state flag and Huntington Beach city flag currently fly at City Hall.
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The Huntington Beach City Council voted unanimously Monday night to fly the LGBTQ rainbow flag for six weeks each spring.
Additionally, the city will officially recognize June as LGBTQ Pride month.
The agenda item submitted by Mayor Kim Carr and Councilman Dan Kalmick passed 6-0, with Councilman Erik Peterson absent from the meeting.
Carr, who has spoken often about making Surf City a city of inclusion since she was appointed mayor last December, said she had received many emails in support of the measure. The flag will be raised at City Hall on May 22 each year Harvey Milk Day and stay up through the end of June.
Departing Superintendent DePatsy talks about his tenure in Saco, future plans
An ad hoc committee of the Saco School Board is interviewing candidates for a short term interim superintendent through June 30 and will make a recommendation to the full board. Once that decision is made, the School Board will look to fill the position for a year on an interim basis.
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Saco School Superintendent Dominic DePatsy, who is departing the district April 20, talked about his tenure in Saco in a recent interview, and what he’ll be doing next.
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SACO Saco School Superintendent Dominic DePatsy said his early departure pegged for April 20 rather than the June 30 date he originally planned to leave the district is a result of a mutual agreement between him and the Saco School Board.
Can Lawyers and Traumatized Clients Learn to Trust Each Other?
Teaching the legal profession to understand the effects of trauma.
Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by golubovy/iStock/Getty Images Plus.
Kelly Young, a white law student at Temple University Law School in Philadelphia, comes from a neighborhood where “everybody pretty much has a house, has a job, has enough,” she said.
So when one of her university’s law clinic clients shared a harrowing and complex narrative about how she had been physically and sexually abused, Young admits she felt “lost” about her next steps in the case.
Her client, a diminutive Black woman, sat in one of the clinic’s tiny rooms, crying as she delved into a story plagued by gaps in logic and facts. The woman’s husband had physically and sexually abused her, then pimped her into prostitution so he could feed his cocaine addiction. In all that abuse, she had self-medicated with drugs, too, she revealed in a quiet tumble of words.
Unfunded Pension Liabilities ‘Crowding Out’ City Budgets in Orange County
The significant burden of unfunded pension liabilities is severely affecting municipal budgets throughout Orange County, California, officials say, with some cities faring better than others.
When cities are forced to spend more to cover pension costs, something else has to be cut from local budgets, according to former state Sen. John Moorlach.
“It has impacted them with a problem that’s referred to as ‘crowding out,’” Moorlach told The Epoch Times. “You’re seeing a lot of cities making considerable staffing reductions,” including public safety staff.
Public employee pension fund deficits are one of the most daunting problems faced by local governments. While some cities in Orange County have made substantial efforts to pay down these unfunded liabilities, others have not and are struggling to remain solvent.