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Good Politics vs Cooperation: change requires collaboration, not competition

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Budget director Mick Mulvaney told the Associated Press on Thursday that "elections have consequences" and that the Trump administration wants wall funding in the overall spending bill, as well as a $30 billion military and a supplemental.
Being “pro-science” has become a bizarre cultural phenomenon in which liberals engage in public displays of self-reckoned intelligence as a kind of performance art. -- 

Laura Pitts, Scottsboro, Ala., public-library director: “In the past four years we have increased our summer participation from 150 children to over 500, and the number continues to grow, all because we have had the funds available to us through the LSTA and IMLS to develop new projects, new learning and new literacy initiatives for families to take part in.”

 “New Kids’ Book Helps Parents Approach ‘The Talk’ About Police Brutality,” from HuffPost: “In the black community, ‘the talk’ with your children isn’t just that of the birds and the bees ― it’s the one where you explain to them how their skin tone may one day make them a police target. It’s a conversation so difficult that mother, former social worker … Sanya Gragg wanted to help fellow parents navigate it with her recently released book Momma, Did You Hear The News? Gragg, 46, said … her decision to go forth with it came after the police killing of Terence Crutcher last September. ‘I knew there would be many families having ‘the talk’ with their children,’ [said] Gragg … ‘It confirmed that this was my assignment.’ Gragg, who now has two grown sons and a 3-year-old daughter, said that the hardest part of having the talk with her sons was knowing it could only guarantee that they might practice greater caution when confronted by police.” “The most difficult part for me is knowing my sons and yours can do everything right and still end up in a tragic situation,” she said.





NOTE: The news sources here vary.  Not all sources have the same credibility, but in an effort to share some different perspectives, they are included here.  This compendium itself cannot claim to be unbiased.  Please take into consideration where these different perspectives originate in assessing their value.  Thank you.




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