Safe Passage, DeKalb-based domestic violence survivor and advocacy shelter, recently requested $2.5 million in federal aid to help pay for its new 24/7 emergency shelter, a proposal now backed by U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood.
U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood (D-Naperville) announced projects in the 14th Congressional District submitted for consideration of funding in the 2024 budget, including a $1.5 million proposal for Ottawa to build a new fire and ambulance station.
“They tried to get rid of us, and they’re not very good at it,” Zahr said. “They said the old will die and the young will forget .There are 3 and 4-year-old little Palestinian kids here today that’ll tell you the name of the village their grandparents got kicked out of. See, we didn’t forget, they thought we would they hoped we would, that’s the only way they can win.”
Hundreds marched through Dearborn’s east side both Sunday and Saturday, which marked the 73rd anniversary of al-Nakba meaning “The Catastrophe” in Arabic when more than 700,000 Palestinians were forcefully displaced by Israeli forces. .
November 10, 2020 at 10:45am
In the 2020 presidential election, Fairfax County voters cast a record number of votes 600,238 but the overall turnout was not record-breaking.
This year, 78.8 percent of the county’s 761,753 active registered voters took part in the election, down from the 2016 presidential election when turnout was 82.5 percent and roughly 563,000 votes were cast.
In the 2012 general election, the turnout rate was 80.5 percent
“This election year was unlike any other we have ever seen,” Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Chairman Jeff McKay said. “Our turnout throughout the process was truly encouraging and spoke to our residents’ faith in the democratic process.”
Fairfax County voters strongly favored Democrats in this year’s election, supporting Joe Biden over incumbent President Donald Trump and reelecting Sen. Mark Warner, Rep. Don Beyer (8th District), Rep. Jennifer Wexton (10th District), and Rep. Gerry Connolly (11th District) to