Montana House Sends Religious Refusal Bill To Governor Gianforte’s Desk RFRA bill similar to controversial Indiana law signed by then Gov. Mike Pence Today, the Montana House passed passed anti-LGBTQ Senate Bill 215, an expansive religious refusal bill that could grant a license to discriminate against Montanans and visitors, including LGBTQ people, people of faith, […]
DIGITALLY DISCONNECTED 13 TIPS FOR HELPING BRIDGE THE DIGITAL DIVIDE FOR CHILDREN DURING COVID-19 While social, racial, and economic disparities have always existed within the educational system, the COVID-19 pandemic is exasperating these inequities and widening gaps between students at a drastic rate. For families who can’t afford home computers, laptops, or high-speed internet access, […]
South Dakota Gov. Noem Exposes Vulnerabilities for All States Considering Anti-Trans Sports Bills On Friday, March 19th, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem issued a style-and-form veto of HB 1217, the anti-transgender sports ban bill that she had previously expressed excitement about signing. Having made several substantive changes to the legislation, including striking collegiate-level provisions from […]
USDA Announces $218 Million Investment in Land and Water Conservation Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the USDA Forest Service will invest more than $218 million to fund Great American Outdoors Act projects to conserve critical forest and wetland habitat, support rural economic recovery, and increase public access to national forests and grasslands. Leveraging the […]
By: Carly Cohen × Heather Skovlund Early this week, a tragedy had occurred in Atlanta, Georgia. A total of eight victims were killed at the Georgia spa. Six of the eight victims were Asian, and when the suspect got caught, he claimed that “his actions were not racially motivated.” It was stated that it was […]
PERFORMING ON THE 63rd ANNUAL GRAMMY’S AIRING SUNDAY, MARCH 14, 8 PM ET / 5 PM PT ON CBS NOMINATED FOR TWO GRAMMY AWARDS: BEST RAP SONG AND BEST RAP PERFORMANCE FOR THE BIGGER The Recording Academy announced that Lil Baby will perform at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards. The Awards will air on Sunday, […]
New York Governor May Not Weather This Long-Term Eric Dezenhall, noted D.C. crisis management expert and author of the new novel False Light, published a column in RealClearPolitics Tuesday, offering insight into the ongoing scandal surrounding New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo has been hit with two scandals in the last few weeks regarding COVID deaths inside nursing homes and multiple […]
Major Health, Education, and Child Welfare Organizations Oppose Anti-LGBTQ State-Based Legislation WASHINGTON, DC — Today, the nation’s leading child health and welfare groups representing more than 7 million youth-serving professionals and more than 1000 child welfare organizations released an open letter calling for lawmakers in states across the country to oppose dozens of bills that target […]
New Report: What Immigration Issues Do Americans Hold Sacred? Why has immigration moved from being a mundane policy issue into one of the most hotly-debated topics in American politics today? Why was family separation so widely rebuked by the public and why is building a border wall so divisive? Answers to these questions can be […]
On Thursday, Leader Kim Abbott, the ACLU of Montana, the Free and Fair Coalition, local Montanans, and the Human Rights Campaign detailed their opposition to two anti-transgender bills (HB 112, a bill that would ban the participation of transgender women in women’s sports, and HB 113 which would restrict transgender access to medical care) being […]
