BOURNE: Welcome to Beltway Insider. I’m Les Bourne. At the top of the order tonight is a story that, like so many in this day and age, has many Americans ready to rejoice and many ready to revolt. Just yesterday, President Sheppard signed Executive Order 16461, titled “Protecting Our Petrol Prices from Yielding to Crude […]
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United States Senate candidate Jacob Russo’s polling in the Oregon Democratic primary hasfallen precipitously after a gaffe Sunday that journalists have called “electoral suicide.” Russo,who last week led second-place opponent Maribel Bonilla-Fuentes by a whopping 56 points,now trails her 7 to 93.Trade unionist Russo’s blunder took place when he was asked at a Portland campaign
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The history of the meaning of the adjective “woke” is a rather unique one. In the United States, there are few words that are comparably divisive. What all major English dictionaries and most English speakers once agreed meant “alert to injustice” is now up for interminable partisan debate. Largely, Americans who are left of center
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Grammy nominated rapper Cash Codie, whose real name is Cody Mason, will no longer be hosting the American Music Awards next month after being accused of significantly ramping up his “blaccent,” a portmanteau of the words “black” and “accent,” in recent weeks. Mason, the white 26-year-old artist behind the Billboard smash hit “Different Kinds,” is
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Recent statements by Maryland governor and Democratic presidential candidate Antonia Lee, along with some help from a particular newspaper of record, have accidentally spawned the nation’s hottest buzzword: “Lee-sawing.” To Lee-saw on an issue, a term popularized by a recent New York Times headline (“Lee-Saw: Maryland Governor Keeps Buttering Bread on Both Sides”), is to
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Industry leading truck manufacturer Hardy Truck and Motor Company has lost influence with much of its consumer base after a string of poorly received marketing decisions. Hardy, which manufactures and distributes light, medium, and heavy duty trucks, and is one of the few automotive companies in the world that sells both semi trailer and pickup
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His first solo studio album in eleven years, Killer Mike’s MICHAEL is the Atlanta rapper’s most personal endeavor to date. The fourteen-track record is an ode to both nativity and naiveté, its narrative being just as personal to him as it is to all those experienced in underprivileged Black life. From front to back, nothing
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A South Carolina high school teacher made headlines last Wednesday for a controversial choice of disciplinary action. On Tuesday, his school district took a vote on whether he would face disciplinary action. Under South Carolina Board of Education regulations, public school teachers facing disciplinary action or termination maintain the right to appeal the reversal of
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Activism in the twenty-first century is unlike the activism of any previous era. Its most unique characteristic, of course, is the use of technology and social media to accomplish its goals. Surely, the Bolsheviks and Jacobins would’ve liked to have Instagram Live, but alas, thanks to social media, Internet search engines, and text messaging, the
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Looking out like a sentinel over the interior of Brightwood Park’s HR Records is a complex and imposing mammoth of an art piece. Composed of acrylic, collaged images, found objects, polyurethane, vinyl, and cassette tapes, “33 and a Third of Soul” by local artist Ellington Robinson is as busy as it is meaningful. Naturally, the
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