Monthly Archives: June 2021

Guest columnists: ‘Parents deserve opportunity to decide what’s best for their own kids’

Guest columnists: ‘Parents deserve opportunity to decide what’s best for their own kids’

In the legal battle over educational options for needy students, it’s déjà vu all over again. Kentucky’s Council for Better Education has filed a lawsuit challenging the commonwealth’s landmark Education Opportunity Accounts (EOAs) that will deliver school choice to thousands of Kentucky parents. Unfortunately for the council, the lawsuit reads as if legislators and courts…more »

How kind is America? We commissioned an academic study to find out

How kind is America? We commissioned an academic study to find out

How kind is America? What are the kindest acts you can do for others? As part of its “A Call for Kindness” campaign, Verizon worked with Kindness.org, a non-profit whose mission is to educate and inspire people to choose kindness, to commission a first-of-its-kind academic research study to find out the state of kindness in…more »

Rep. Gallagher calls for probe into 2019 Wuhan Military Games and athletes who got sick

Rep. Gallagher calls for probe into 2019 Wuhan Military Games and athletes who got sick

Members of Congress are calling on the Biden administration to launch an investigation into whether an international competition in Wuhan, China, involving thousands of athletes from around the world in October 2019 was the ​world’s ​first coronavirus “superspreader” event, according to a report on Wednesday. ​ More than 9,000 athletes, including a delegation of 280…more »

Laurel Hubbard is the first transgender athlete to compete in Olympics

Laurel Hubbard is the first transgender athlete to compete in Olympics

A New Zealand weightlifter—who has competed in men’s events in the past– will become the first transgender competitor to qualify to be on the country’s women’s weightlifting team for Tokyo 2020. “I am grateful and humbled by the kindness and support that has been given to me by so many New Zealanders,” Laurel Hubbard, 43,…more »

Catholic foster care agency wins Supreme Court verdict

Catholic foster care agency wins Supreme Court verdict

In another victory for religious groups at the Supreme Court, the justices on Thursday unanimously sided with a Catholic foster care agency that says its religious views prevent it from working with same-sex couples. The court said the city of Philadelphia wrongly limited its relationship with the group as a result of the agency’s policy.…more »

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