San Francisco school board to REVERSE decision to strip names of Lincoln, Washington and Jefferson from school buildings after being ridiculed for labeling them racist
The San Francisco Board of Education is poised to reverse its decision to rename 44 schools named after historical figures it claimed were racist or sexist
The school board faced multiple lawsuits over its decision - including from City Hall - and was mocked for trying to cancel revered historical figures
The lack of focus on reopening schools - which have been closed since March due to the coronavirus - was slammed as comically out of touch
Column: California politicians used to out-tough each other on the death penalty No more yahoo.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from yahoo.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The death penalty runs like a sinuous thread through California politics.
The issue bedeviled two governors named Brown, Pat and his son, Jerry, whose Catholic faith weighed heavily on their stewardship of the state’s execution chamber. In 1986, a public outcry resulted in the recall of three Supreme Court justices who repeatedly barred the door and kept the chamber sealed shut.
For decades candidates vied to out-tough one another on the issue, even if it required the skills of an acrobat, professing moral opposition to capital punishment while vowing to vigorously enforce the law and ensure that California’s most heinous denizens were sent to their death. (Never mind that executions were rarer than the appearance of major comets.)
Roy Exum: Signs Of The Apocalypse Monday, February 15, 2021 - by Roy Exum
Roy Exum
There was a glorious meme (think of several pictures with delightful captions) bouncing all around the Internet on Sunday. In the first, you see the most poisonous 80-year-old woman on the planet – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi –snapping hello into a desk phone and then, in her trademark snip, yelling “Who is this!!”
The voice on the other end replies very legibly, “Owen.” Nancy immediately devours bait, hook, and sinker. “Owen who!” until the third frame shows former president Trump laughing hysterically as he delivers his knockout line, “Owen Two Baby!” the parody obvious as the Democrats are “oh-and-two” in their hate-filled attempts to impeach The Donald.