[ad_1] Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor. County workersdemand equitable pay As of July 1, county employees who were considered “essential” and worked throughout the pandemic are working without a contract. Every day we work without a new contract we are losing money. The county is
Month: July 2022
[ad_1] By the time Highland Park police arrived at Robert Crimo III’s home in September 2019, there had already been several signs of trouble. A reported suicide attempt. Domestic violence calls to his family home. And then someone contacting police to say they heard Crimo had threatened people at the house, and that he had
[ad_1] Today marks the initial signature collecting deadline for Initiative Petition 17. The petitioners claim to have gathered enough signatures to qualify it for the ballot this November. The Secretary of State will now have to certify if the signatures are sufficient. IP 17 would: – require a permit to purchase a firearm – ban magazines over 10
[ad_1] After more than 300 mass shootings (4+ people injured or killed, not including the shooter) in the first 186 days of 2022, including massacres in Buffalo, Uvalde, and Highland Park, and the cherished American holidays of Memorial Day and Fourth of July infected by the same plague, we are fed the thin gruel served
[ad_1] Next week, the Greenwood Village City Council will vote on the final passage of Ordinance 07-22, which will infringe on your Second Amendment rights by prohibiting firearm sales from home businesses. Your chance to express your opposition to this anti-gun ordinance is Monday, July 11th, at 7:00 pm, during the public hearing period for Ordinance
[ad_1] D. R. Mayer: Environment: We have an obligation to the planet As wildfires and heatwaves and so on hit the planet, including Boulder, we Boulderites can try to help ease the greenhouse gas crisis. And its attendant sixth great extinction of species on Earth, currently underway. Indeed, it is our moral obligation to do
[ad_1] Flag-waving and fireworks. Bocce ball and beer. Marching bands — and murder. This has become the American Independence Day routine. It’s the quotidian things that hurt the most. Every good reporter knows this, and on July Fourth, the journalists for the Chicago Sun-Times gave us some real doozies: Abandoned baby strollers. A klezmer band
[ad_1] Jacqueline Smetak | Press-Citizen opinion writer Back when people were still reading Jorge Borges, there was a thing called “Baroque Worry.” In an era of free-floating anxiety, when you had nothing real to worry about, you could always make stuff up. These days, we don’t live in an era of anxiety. We live in
[ad_1] ATLANTA — While mass shootings and gun violence continue to plague the country and spark debate over gun laws, Georgia and Alabama are among several states that have not or are likely not to impose firearm restrictions at the state level. As early as 1837, Georgia passed a law banning handguns, which was later
[ad_1] Mayor Jim Kenney of Philadelphia said the quiet part out loud during his unprompted commentary on the shooting during the city’s traditional Benjamin Franklin Parkway Fourth of July celebrations. An insensitive coda set reporters and potential candidates for mayor pouncing on Kenney, but what got ignored in the pile-on was the truth-telling about the
[ad_1] The high court’s decision invalidated a law giving New York broad discretion over concealed carry permits, a framework used by five other states and Washington, D.C. But Democratic lawmakers believe the ruling allows them to bolster the vetting process and prohibit concealed firearms in a variety of public locations. New York has already enacted
[ad_1] New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signs gun laws after string of shootings Gov. Kathy Hochul signed 10 gun-related bills, including one which will prohibit New Yorkers under the age of 21 from buying semi-automatic rifles. Patrick Colson-Price, Associated Press Imagine this scenario: It’s 4:30 p.m. A busy work day is ending and another evening
[ad_1] There were over 1 million opportunities for someone to buy a gun from a licensed dealer without a completed background check in 2020 and 2021, according to an FBI report released last month. In all, 1,002,274 background checks — or 4.2 percent — took longer than three business days in 2020 and 2021, a higher share
[ad_1] Voters might not know it from Sen. Ron Johnson’s congressional or campaign issue webpages, but the Wisconsin Republican has spent his two terms in the Senate opposing virtually every gun safety proposal that has been introduced. Last month, he even opposed the bipartisan compromise gun bill that passed in the wake of the mass
[ad_1] Illinois Democrats are working behind-the-scenes to drum up support to ban assault weapons and large-capacity magazines — as Gov. J.B. Pritzker and state lawmakers also look at ways to fix shortcomings in the state’s firearm owner identification card system and pass other gun control measures. The goal in the aftermath of the July Fourth
[ad_1] In the two years documentary filmmakers shadowed former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, the most jarring moment for them was in the kitchen of her Tucson, Arizona, home. As cameras were rolling, she and her husband, Sen. Mark Kelly, nonchalantly opened the freezer. Kelly grabbed a plastic container and revealed it holds the piece of Giffords’
[ad_1] Opinion editor’s note: Star Tribune Opinion publishes letters from readers online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. ••• LANGUAGE DEFINING WOMEN Well-meaning — and problematic The July 5 commentary “A second front in the war on women” should not have put the left’s well-meaning, inclusive language on the same footing as
[ad_1] Raleigh, North Carolina; Mexico City; Basel, Switzerland; and Toronto As a commercial pilot certified to carry a gun while he flies, Paul Valone has had training on how to use a firearm to neutralize mass shooters and thwart terrorists. It’s not with glee that the North Carolinian had to learn how to unjam a
[ad_1] This week, the Boulder County Commissioners unanimously voted – without allowing public comments – to pass a gun control package to infringe on your Second Amendment rights. Citizens will finally be given the opportunity to comment on the five, anti-gun ordinances at a public hearing on August 2nd. The County Commissioners will consider oral
[ad_1] Editor’s note: This is the third of four stories in a series on the gun culture in the nation and state written by Tribune reporters Kim Dunlap and Carson Gerber, as well as other CNHI reporters from across the nation. Part 4 titled “Second Amendment interpretation central to national debate over firearms, public safety”
[ad_1] Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) called on CEOs of major gunmakers to appear at a congressional hearing later this month after a string of mass shootings including the bloody attack on a Fourth of July parade. Accusing the three weapons manufacturers of flooding America with “weapons of war” on Thursday, the liberal lawmaker, representing parts
[ad_1] Even though Highland Park, Illinois, mass shooter purchased his guns in-state, MSNBC’s The 11th Hour made it sound on Tuesday night like he might have gotten them from another state where it’s easier to buy guns with MSNBC anchor and weekend pundit Ali Velshi complaining about guns being brought in from other states. As The 11th Hour host Stephanie Ruhle set up the
[ad_1] NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The National Rifle Association has responded to Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker telling the group to “leave us the hell alone” by calling out rising crime in Chicago and the rest of the state. “Citizens of Illinois may be better served if Gov. Pritzker spent his time
[ad_1] Perhaps the most heart-rending story coming out of the July 4 massacre in Highland Park, Ill., is that of Aidan McCarthy, the 2-year-old boy found at the scene of the tragedy looking for his parents. They were among the seven people killed by a rooftop sniper as they watched an Independence Day parade. Aiden
[ad_1] Comment on this story Comment The US Supreme Court’s decision last month to strike down an 111-year-old New York law mostly prohibiting the concealed carry of firearms has not won a lot of admirers in legal academia. Saul Cornell of Fordham called it “one of the most intellectually dishonest and poorly argued decisions in
[ad_1] The House Oversight Committee is ramping up its investigation into gun manufacturers and has requested that CEOs of three major gun manufacturers appear before Congress at the end of the month in the wake of a string of harrowing mass shootings involving assault-style rifles that have killed and injured scores of Americans. Rep. Carolyn
[ad_1] It’s unlikely that provisions in the gun bill President Joe Biden recently signed would have stopped the mass shooting at an Independence Day parade in Highland Park, Illinois, if they had been enacted sooner, according to gun law experts. “It’s very, very hard to have any law that would stop someone who is willing
[ad_1] HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. — The Republican nominee for governor of Illinois, Darren Bailey, once held a campaign fundraising event at which he raffled off a Smith & Wesson AR-15, a weapon nearly identical to the type used in the Fourth of July parade massacre here this week. A 2019 video posted to Bailey’s campaign
[ad_1] HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (WTVO) — Illinois Governor JB Pritzker responded to critics of Illinois gun laws. The National Rifle Association tweeted about Monday’s Fourth of July shooting in Highland Park, saying that “since 1950… 94% of mass public shootings occurred in gun-free zones.” Highland Park bans owning assault rifles. Pritzker countered with “100% of
[ad_1] Submitted photo Don Samuels Divisiveness in the interest of democracy Former Minneapolis City Councilmember Don Samuels has his sights set on Congress after gaining national recognition for his stance on public safety. The longtime North Minneapolis resident spoke to the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder (MSR) about his bid for Congress and why he believes that the
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