higher education

City Council

Letters to the Editor — Texas A&M, preservation program, Dallas City Council, sheriff race | #citycouncil

Bonfire wrong memorial Texas A&M University is unique for many reasons. Its distinctive culture permeates every aspect of its existence. At the core of its culture is the courage to always do what is right regardless of opinion or consequences. While traditions are revered at A&M, those traditions can never supersede the dignity we accord […]

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Alabama

These Five Senators Brought Home $500 Million In College Earmarks | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

The FY 2023 federal funding bill contains scores of higher education earmarks worth hundreds of … [+] millions in new spending. getty Now that the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill has been signed, sealed and delivered just in time to meet the deadline for keeping the federal government open through next September, it’s clear that […]

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Alabama

At the U.S. Supreme Court, Race Is on the Docket | GW Today | #elections | #alabama

By Greg Varner A panel of legal experts convened Tuesday at GW Law to review cases currently on the docket of the U.S. Supreme Court and to offer educated guesses about how the court will rule. At this year’s installment of the highly anticipated annual event, held in the Law School’s Jacob Burns Moot Court […]

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Mayor

Ex-NYC Mayor de Blasio heads to Harvard as teaching fellow

NEW YORK — Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is headed to Harvard this fall as a teaching fellow at the university’s schools of government and public health. De Blasio, a Democrat who served as mayor from from 2014 to 2021, will take part in “a variety of discussions, events, and programming” at […]

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Alaska

Red states are building a nation within a nation | #alaska | #politics

CNN  —  It was a revealing sign of the times when the Supreme Court last week, in response to a lawsuit from the Republican state attorneys general in Texas and Louisiana, blocked President Joe Biden’s administration from changing a key element of federal immigration policy. The case was just the latest example of how red […]

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