Mandan school board candidates discussed listening to teachers, the location of a new high school and how the pandemic affected the school year during a League of Women Voters open forum.
Incumbents Rick Horn and Caroline Kozojed and candidates Tom Peters and Ellie Shockley all participated in the forum Thursday evening, which was broadcast on Dakota Media Access. Stacey Bendish, who is also running for an at-large position, did not attend.
Horn is executive director of the housing authorities for Morton, Emmons and Mercer counties; he has served on the board since 2014. Kozojed was elected in 2015 and is an assistant professor at the University of Mary s Gary Tharaldson School of Business. Shockley, an education researcher and Tribune contributor, ran unsuccessfully for a spot on the board in 2020. Peters lost a bid for an open Morton County Commission seat last November. He is a former Mandan Middle School assistant principal. Bendish is a boilermaker for Boilermakers Local
A former South Ogden police detective who for years led the investigation into the August, 1985 disappearance of Joyce Yost said he believes Douglas Lovell, the man ultimately charged with and convicted of capital murder for killing Yost, might also have played a role in the unsolved disappearance of another Weber County woman.
The Socialist Equality Group’s (New Zealand) webinar included speeches by Bernie Monk, whose son was among the 29 men killed, and electrical engineer Richard Healey, who has extensively investigated the disaster.
New Zealand’s Labour-Greens government is imposing historic attacks on the working class
and the International Committee of the Fourth International on May 1.
Speech delivered by Tom Peters to the 2021 International May Day Online Rally
The Socialist Equality Group in New Zealand extends revolutionary greetings to workers listening to this May Day rally throughout the world, including everyone in the Pacific region, where COVID-19 continues to cause immense suffering. The legacy of colonial rule by Britain, Australia, New Zealand, France and the United States has left many countries in this region severely underdeveloped, often with little access to clean water, let alone decent medical facilities.
May Day Online Rally calls for formation of International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees
On Saturday May 1, the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) and the
World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) held the annual International Online May Day Rally. The rally motivated the formation of the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC).
The rally was a major international event. It attracted a global audience of over 2,000 participants from 73 countries. There were attendees from the United States, Great Britain, Sri Lanka, Australia, Canada, India, France, Brazil, the Philippines, Turkey, Thailand, Spain, Pakistan, Japan, Mexico, Iran, Israel, Russia, South Africa, Nigeria, and many other countries.