This year we’ve seen a number of conservative personalities, including the late evangelical leaders Marcus Lamb and Jimmy DeYoung, who succumbed to Covid-19 after minimizing the risks of the disease or making disparaging remarks about the vaccines. What is such opposition if not an arrogant attempt to put God to the test, no less problematic,…Continue Reading
Nikole Hannah-Jones (Alice Vergueiro/Abraji via Wikimedia Commons) Nikole Hannah-Jones, creator and curator of the New York Times’s 1619 Project, said she did not “understand this idea that parents should decide what’s being taught” in schools, during an appearance on Meet the Press on Sunday. “I’m not a professional educator. I don’t have a degree in social…Continue Reading
Sean Baker’s Red Rocket asks why we keep falling for charming but horrible rogues. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE S ean Baker might be the best American indie filmmaker you’ve (probably) never heard of. Working on such tight budgets that his features are essentially home movies — he not only wrote and directed his latest film, but…Continue Reading
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) speaks to the media on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., May 16, 2018. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Democrats shoot themselves in the foot to make their displeasure with Joe Manchin clear. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he Democrats love the poor. The Democrats hate the poor. And the poor in West Virginia? They’re at…Continue Reading
To Pete Boland, the co-owner of two Florida taverns in downtown St. Petersburg, it seems like just about all of his business costs spiked in the past year, some more than others. They took chicken wings off their menus for a while after a national shortage caused prices to skyrocket. They charged $20 more per…Continue Reading
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A new study has concluded that licensed child care centers in Connecticut have been missing out on millions of dollars in federal funds for food and nutrition. UConn’s Rudd Center for Food Policy and Health surveyed more than 230 centers in 2019 about a U.S. Department of Agriculture program that…Continue Reading
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — As lawmakers ready for a February session to redraw Louisiana’s political districts, advances in technology have added a new wrinkle to the once-a-decade debates, with advocacy groups and people interested in the work submitting their own fully designed map proposals. In prior redistricting years, the software needed to draw districts…Continue Reading
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The city of Richmond is approaching the most homicides recorded by police since 2004, a total marked by the fact that both the victims and suspects have been getting younger and younger, authorities said.The Richmond Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office says there have been 90 homicides in 2021, the most of any year…Continue Reading
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