A number of candidates seeking to fill roles on school boards across Bedford County submitted nomination petitions this week.
The deadline to submit petitions to appear on ballots for the May 18 primary election was on Tuesday.
Bedford Area
There are six candidates seeking four seats on the Bedford Area School District school board.
In Area I, which covers a portion of Bedford Borough, Manns Choice, a portion of Bedford Township and Harrison Township, William Ross will seek re-election and appear on both ballots. There is one seat open in the area.
In Area II, which includes a portion of Bedford Borough, a portion of Bedford Township and Snake Spring Township, C. Peder Flaaen is seeking re-election on the Republican ballot, while Jerry Bagley of Bedford filed petitions on both ballots. There is one seat open.
Frank Furedi
is an author and social commentator. He is an emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Kent in Canterbury. Author of
How Fear Works: The Culture of Fear in the 21st Century. Follow him on Twitter @Furedibyte
is an author and social commentator. He is an emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Kent in Canterbury. Author of
How Fear Works: The Culture of Fear in the 21st Century. Follow him on Twitter @Furedibyte
11 Mar, 2021 14:46
Follow RT on It’s clear that gullible people do not have a monopoly on the promotion of conspiracy theories. The elite’s scaremongering about QAnon is designed to increase fear of the far right and drive demand for more aggressive policing.
Women reporters of the Vietnam War; Jessica Winter’s new novel March 09, 2021
At
The Atlantic, George Packer reviews a new book about women reporters in Vietnam. Elizabeth Becker’s
You Don’t Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War covers the work of reporters Frances FitzGerald and Kate Webb, and photographer Catherine Leroy. Packer writes of FitzGerald, a twenty-something Radcliffe graduate and daughter of a CIA official: “Sheltered all her life, she was profoundly shocked by the suffering of the Vietnamese not just the death, injury, and displacement, but the loss of identity under the crushing weight of the Americans.”
Rishi Sunak knows a budget spending spree must be paid for
on clawing back losses
“At the end of last year, the chancellor of the exchequer asked the Treasury to help him with a bit of history,” says Daniel Finkelstein in The Times. “Over the past 30 years, had his predecessors generally been tax raisers or tax cutters?” The calculation isn’t as simple as it seems”, he says, but the finding was that “raising taxes is un-Conservative and something Tories only do when departing from true doctrine”. But Sunak is no ordinary Tory chancellor as the pandemic means “we are clearly going to need to do something to start closing the gap between tax and spending”. “One of the core principles” of Conservative government in the past decade “has been that this country has to pay its bills”, Finkelstein adds. “And while people don’t like paying bills, they understand this principle and agree with it.”