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Montana Supreme Court fight continues over SB 140; Legislature subpoenas emails Traci Rosenbaum, Great Falls Tribune
A Montana Supreme Court battle over a 2021 senate bill allowing Gov. Greg Gianforte to choose his own interim judges continued Monday as the court temporarily struck down a subpoena requesting emails from the Office of the Court Administrator.
The subpoena, filed Thursday by the Montana State Legislature, was issued to Acting Director of the Department of Administration Misty Ann Giles. Gainforte appointed Giles to the position in December 2020. She has not yet been confirmed by the Senate.
It required Giles to produce all emails and attachments sent and received by court administrator Beth McLaughlin and any recoverable deleted emails sent and received by McLaughlin between Jan. 4 and April 8.
With in-person services shuttered amid the pandemic, countless American Jews prepared to celebrate the High Holidays over Zoom last September. Behind the scenes, one rabbi was in a race against the clock to make that possible.
“It was really almost at the 11th hour,” said Rabbi Joshua Heller, the spiritual leader of Congregation B’nai Torah in Atlanta. “We were about three weeks out from the High Holidays when finally we got to the right person and finally we got to ‘Yes.’”
The “Yes” Heller had been hoping for was for Zoom to expand their maximum possible meeting time beyond 24 hours to accommodate synagogues, particularly in the Conservative movement, who wanted to keep their virtual space open without interruption through Rosh Hashanah – a two-day holiday when active technology use, in more traditional observance, is forbidden. Their need would expand to 72 hours when a two-day Jewish festival occurred immediately before or after a Sabbath.
Fuller Craft Museum is closed, but online offerings abound
By Robert Knox Globe Correspondent,Updated January 29, 2021, 11:55 a.m.
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Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton recently acquired Melting Pot II from self-described potter Robert Lugo. One side of the pot depicts Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos.Fuller Craft Museum
Responding to the surge in COVID-19 cases last month, Brocktonâs Mayor Robert Sullivan returned the city to Phase 2 of the stateâs reopening plan, effectively requiring indoor gathering spaces such as Fuller Craft Museum to close their doors.
The museum, which had reopened to the public in September after an earlier closure, shut its doors for a second time on Dec. 16.