understand their needs have been ignored for decades. now it is time to create good-ing paying jobs, millions of good-paying jobs addressing health care, housing, infrastructure. joining me yow is jessica levenson, professor of law at loyola law school, and host the passing judgment podcast. great to have you with us. great to be back. so fresh off his summit with russia s president putin, the u.s. president is now working on his infrastructure bill, and trying to get some sort of compromise with republicans. now likely is it that this can be done, and done soon? well, i think that is the big question here. and i think the answer is how much president biden is willing to compromise. so we ve gotten over the initial thresholds now of covid relief. we passed covid relief. we rolled out the vaccines. and there has been a lot of success in that, meaning the kind of big emergencies.
is people getting gas. it s painful. a little over $4.20 average in l.a. county. one man in a chevy silverado truck telling us it s costing about $100 to fill up. it s costing me about almost $100. it s hard, especially now that there s not that many jobs, you know, and we re in a bad situation economy wise, so i feel like it s too overpriced. back on this lake, looking forward to the coming weeks when we are going to have a further easing of restrictions in los angeles, but for now people taking in echo park lake, just enjoying a picture perfect postcard memorial day in los angeles. joining me now is professor of epidemiology at the ucla fielding of public health.
joining me now is jessica levenson, a professor of law at loyola law school and the host of the passing judgment podcast. good to have you with us. good to be back. the state of texas has been debating one of the most restrictive voting bills in the country that would create challenges for voters of color, particularly. is that what this is all about, shutting out black and latino voters? yes. i wish i could say otherwise, but the answer is yes because they tend to vote for democratic candidates. this is not about trying to make our elections safer or have more integrity. this is about voter suppression. there s simply no evidence to indicate that these are true solutions. there s plenty of evidence to indicate that this is just voter suppression because the demographics in states like texas are changing and we have seen what happens when higher
Northborough-Southborough Votes To Retire Tomahawk Imagery From Algonquin Regional High School
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The Northborough-Southborough Regional School Committee voted on Wednesday night to drop the use of Native American imagery for Algonquin Regional High School s sports teams.
In a 9-0 decision, the ten-member committee agreed to follow the recommendation of a study group made up of students, the school principal and other community members to stop the using Tomahawks as their logo and nickname, which has been in place since the school s inception. One member was not present at the time of the vote.
oh yeah, we re good. democrats on capitol hill have reached a significant backpack and before the alleged we re good. killing took place. terminix. defenders of home. milestone. so there are for the time being a majority of the u.s. house of an awful lot of holes. representatives now, 118 so far we have not seen or heard from the teens themselves, apart from have come out in favor of a their witness statements, their confessions that were contained formal impeachment inquiry. in the documents that have not too long ago, only a handful already been given to the press were making that argument there, on the morning of their arrest. live video here from hong but is no indication yet that we ve heard very little from house speaker nancy pelosi is on their lawyers and we ve heard board. kong. this the ninth week in a row of very little from their families. that s why in a sense, and protests, and it s taking place let s talk more about it with this one of the most crowded jessica levens