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Rep. Brian Mast, R-Fla., accused the Biden administration of blocking the annual Rolling to Remember motorcycle rally, a 30-year-plus Memorial Day tradition for veterans that has always been staged in the Pentagon parking lot. We are blessed beyond words to be citizens of the greatest country on Earth, and only live free thanks to the men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice, Mast said in a statement. But the Biden Administration seems intent on restricting that freedom, and now, even restricting Memorial Day ceremonies. Preventing a tradition like Rolling to Remember flies in the face of the freedoms that so many have died to protect.
Altoona Railroad Museum
What resulted, the Pennsylvania railroad, at one point was the largest corporation in the world.
“If you can imagine from west of Bellwood through Altoona to Hollidaysburg where the y switches are in Duncansville,” said Executive Director Joe Defrancesco. “that was the approximate area of the Pennsylvania railroad.”
It’s there where the K4 locomotive, a standard in the railroad industry was built, and one is now being restored at the Railroader’s Museum in Altoona.
“It is a symbolic piece of railroad history,” Defrancesco said. “It’s one of two and the only one in operational service. At some point, everybody can relate to the steam era, and it’s our goal to make it a symbol of that area.”
The firing of two trainers who used racist slurs at the police academy
Most recently, the organization has criticized Barton’s decision to transfer Officer Shanette Hall out of the recruitment division and put her back on patrol. Hall is a board member of the Ethical Society and recently gave interviews to national media outlets talking about the racism Black women face on the force.
Barton said Thursday she was transferred 12 times during her 40-year career with the department and not one of them was by her choosing.
“I can say that under my realm as chief, there have never been any retaliatory transfers, discriminating transfers made here,” she said. “Not everybody is going to be pleased with transfers that are made, but they have to be made based on what s best for the police department and for the efficient and effective operation of this department.”