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Joyce Smith was sworn in as Nassau County’s Acting District Attorney Wednesday. She is the county’s first Black DA.
Smith was appointed by the previous district attorney, Madeline Singas, who was just confirmed as a judge to New York’s top court. District attorneys are usually elected by voters, so Smith will have to be elected in a special election. That is, unless Governor Andrew Cuomo appoints Smith or someone else.
She was a former Assistant District Attorney in Queens before joining Nassau in 2018. She’s worked in community relations, immigrant affairs, as well as a post at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
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The ribbon-cutting for the Seaweed Shelter was attended by, from left, artist David Wilson, Portland Mayor Kate Snyder, Dinah Minot of Creative Portland, artist Eric Hopkins and Greg Jordan of Greater Portland Metro.
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Community leaders and elected officials celebrated new bus shelter art by Maine
artist David Wilson at an informal ribbon-cutting June 1.
The installation titled “Seaweed Shelter” – a gothic seaweed fantasy at the Portland Transportation Center at 100 Thompson’s Point Road – was inspired by Maine’s rockweed-covered coast and the elaborate wrought-iron gate work found in Portland’s West End.
The artist was born in Kirkintilloch, Scotland, and moved to Maine in the ’70s. A painter, printmaker and designer, Wilson earned an MFA in Painting from Syracuse University in New York.
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By Hans Bader | June 8, 2021 | 4:37pm EDT
Students learn in a classroom. (Photo credit: Robert Daemmrich Photography Inc/Corbis via Getty Images)
Does anyone seriously doubt that boys misbehave more than girls in school? Until recently, no one would have disputed that, since surveys of students show that boys get into fights at twice the rate girls do. In those same surveys, conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics, blacks say they get into fights at more than twice the rate whites do on school grounds.
But the nation s Democratic attorneys general either don t know about, or don t believe, these surveys. Instead, they seem to believe that every racial or sexual group misbehaves at exactly the same rate. Every single Democratic state attorney general in America all 24 of them recently cited the higher discipline rates of blacks and boys as causes for alarm in a May 24 letter to the Education Secretary and U.S. At