Defunding Police Movement Dwindling as Crime Surges in U.S. Cities
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1 Jun 2021
One year after the defund police movement took off after the death of George Floyd while in police custody, leaders of U.S. cities are walking back plans to slash police budgets in the wake of surging crime across the country.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is planning to reinstate $92 million to build a new precinct cut from the budget last year. From January 1 through May 23, 2021 there were 531 shootings in the city, up from 295 during the same period last year.
In Baltimore, Mayor Brandon Scott, who as a city councilman led efforts to cut the police budget by $22 million, is now proposing a $27 million increase.
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CHEERS & JEERS: Hot Dry Times, Meet Big Dollars
May 7, 2021
JEERS for the vaccines not doing as advertised. We were promised these vaccines would sterilize us, and it turns out they don’t, so we’re stuck still spending on birth control. The youngins, knowing that things yelled into microphones by angry-smug people aren’t always true, are already onto this. With “hot vax summer” trending on social media, condom sales have increased 23.4% so Trojan marketing chief (and we’re not making this name up) Britta Bomhard, tells CNN, “18 to 24-year-olds can’t wait to get their social lives back.”
WE WAIT WITH BATED BREATH to see if the City approves a new $181 million budget. Because revenues have increased a bit, Corvallis is thinking to hire some new wastewater/stormwater help, and an equity and inclusion leader. Meetings are upcoming, and citizen-folk which is you can testify or observe… how to do that, and the budget, are here.
ECHS Director Evelyn Edney named 2021 Delaware Principal of the Year
Delaware News Desk
The National Association of Secondary School Principals has named Evelyn Edney, director of Delaware State University’s Early College High School, as the 2021 Delaware Principal of the Year.
Edney is the second director of the ECHS, assuming the school’s top post in 2015 one year after its founding. Since then, she has overseen the graduation of the first three graduating classes of ECHS students, which totaled 201 graduates.
While some of those graduates went on to be accepted in universities across that country, more than half of them stayed in the First State to enroll at Delaware State University. And because ECHS students also take college courses and earn the credits for them before they receive their high school diploma, three from the ECHS Class of 2018 have already graduated from DSU.