At Monday’s meeting of the Arizona House Health and Human Services Committee, members heard testimony in favor of a bill that would add spina bifida to the list of developmental disabilities. Concerns emerged regarding unclarified details of the bill and its potentially hefty price tag.
House Bill 2540’s sponsor, Rep. Jennifer Longdon, says spina bifida leads to harmful developmental delays. Including spina bifida on the list of developmental disabilities would make individuals with spina bifida eligible for crucial medical support, she said. Currently, children with spina bifida stop receiving support from the Department of Developmental Disabilities after age six.
U of U Police investigating reports of telephone harassment at campus libraries
Caller urged employees to repeat book title containing racial epithet
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and last updated 2021-02-10 09:35:36-05
SALT LAKE CITY â University of Utah Police is investigating a series of troubling phone calls placed to three of the university s libraries over the last few months.
According to an alert sent to library employees, the Marriott Library s main information line received one of the calls on the afternoon of January 28.
The caller requested that the library employee look up a book whose title contains a racial epithet, then repeat the title aloud multiple times.
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As of January 12, 2021, Palm Beach County’s equal employment ordinance has been amended to cover smaller businesses. Companies in Palm Beach County with between 5 and 14 employees (Federal and State civil rights acts normally cover companies with 15 or more employees) will now have to comply with the County’s equal employment ordinance.
Palm Beach County’s equal employment ordinance is also broader than the Florida Civil Rights Act and covers discrimination based on an individual’s race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, familial status, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or genetic information. Employees in Palm Beach County covered by the expanded ordinance will now have an avenue to file a charge of discrimination with the County’s Office of Equal Opportunity (“OEO”). The OEO will undertake an investigation or conciliation efforts in much the
US Prof Faces Cancellation For Teaching Students to Question Propaganda Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
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Hostility to dissenting perspectives has become increasingly recorded over the past few years, but particularly since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus. One apparent victim of this shrinking space for differing views is a US professor who teaches a class on propaganda in New York City.
For years, Mark Crispin Miller, professor of media studies at New York University, has been teaching a course on propaganda, during which he encourages students to question dominant ways of thinking being pushed by media and via the government. However, Professor Miller has recently found his post at NYU to be under threat, despite having a secured tenured position, after he was accused of discouraging students from wea
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