The owners of a Dairy Queen building on Centre Street North will be permitted to rebuild the restaurant, destroyed in a 2019 electrical fire, in the same location and with a drive-thru.
‘The conversation has to start someplace’
Police reform. Police agencies throughout Orange County police departments have started to release their police reform recommendations made by local advisory panels after Executive Order 203. Orange County Sheriff’s Department in Goshen, N.Y. Photo by Hanna Wickes
After Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd last May, Black Lives Matter protests, petitions, fund raisers and social media campaigns pressured police departments throughout the country to reform.
Chauvin was found guilty on three counts of murder. President Biden is pushing the Senate to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, which would create a national standard. It calls for greater police accountability, and would stop problem officers from moving from one department to another and end certain police practices. The bill cleared the House in March.
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When it comes to memorialization, nothing beats a martyr even when your culture has done the martyring. So it has seemed, anyway, in a nation where no fewer than twenty-six states along with countless towns, sports teams, summer camps, and recreational vehicles bear names meant to evoke those humans who came before. Between 1492 and the American Revolution, this continent’s indigenous populace declined from an estimated ten million to a tenth of that. One of the genocide’s lesser-known effects was linguistic. Perhaps a quarter of the earth’s languages in the fifteenth century, linguists say, were American. Lost to us now are millions of words, in thousands of tongues, that Natives used to describe the grasslands and gullies and peaks of the lands that they inhabited. And yet many settlers were keen on borrowing these words, even as they killed the people who coined them. Hundreds of proper names and place-words, or misconstruals thereof, were placed