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Honoring Mothers Must Include Environmental Justice and Raising Wages
Juthaporn Chaloeicheep, 44, and son Douglas Jones, 5, stand for a portrait in the courtyard of Arnett Watson Apartments, a permanent supportive housing community where they reside in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco, California, on March 16, 2021.
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One hundred and fifty years ago, in the bloody wake of the Civil War, the abolitionist Julia Ward Howe issued a “Mother’s Day Proclamation.” The world, she wrote, could no longer bear such terrible violence and death. She called on women across the country to “rise up through the ashes and devastation” and come together in the cause of peace. Forty years later, her daughter Anna Jarvis created Mother’s Day.
At least for now, Genesee County won’t fly ‘Thin Blue Line’ flag
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Genesee County Commissioner Shaun Shumaker, R-Fenton Twp., speaks during a meeting of the county Board of Commissioners on Wednesday, May 12. Behind him is a Thin Blue Line flag that Shumaker proposed be flown over county buildings in May in recognition of Police Appreciation Month. The resolution to do that was referred to a committee of the board.
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GENESEE COUNTY, MI A resolution to declare May as Police Appreciation Month and to fly a “Thin Blue Line” flag over county buildings has been knocked off track, sent to a committee for further study by the county Board of Commissioners.