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Portland’s new battery-powered Volterra fire engine is the second electric fire truck in service in the country
The bills also make it possible for anyone sentenced for a serious crime as a child to be given the option of parole after 10 years
New standards include the use of soft restraints, rather than metal cuffs; the routine involvement of health professionals; and regular checks on restrained inmates
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“Fear, hate and attempts to divide are signatures of the Trump Administration, not New York City,” Mayor de Blasio spokeswoman Freddi Goldstein said Friday. “We are the safest big city in America because of our policies, not in spite of them.”
Each teen in the study experienced an average of five incidents of discrimination a day
“I cannot imagine what happens to transgender people if these criminal bans pass,” said the ACLU’s Strangio, a transgender man. “I don’t think we can possibly raise the alarm enough, because people are going to die.”
Rep. Bobby Scott, chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor, said the proposal “threatens the progress we’ve made toward improving nutrition in schools. For many children, the food they eat at school is their only access to healthy, nutritious meals.”
The senior counsel to the Department of Safety in Denver noted in a letter to ICE officials that the subpoenas were administrative — not issued by a judge — and there was no verifiable information on the documents to show the purpose was for law enforcement and not civil immigration enforcement.
Under federal law, all responses are kept completely confidential, and they can be used only to produce statistics.
Gov. Northam lamented that such precautions were necessary for what’s been a peaceful yearly event, but said pro-gun activists have “unleashed something larger, something they may not be able to control.”
State officials have said they’ve seen no evidence that any election-related data was compromised. But they also long refused to submit the server image for an independent examination.
Black Lives Matter activists have been protesting at his campaign events in recent days, spurred in part by his handling of the case.
Officials say their goal is to sound the alarm louder and at higher levels of government than in past years, ensuring that information about efforts to interfere in the election reaches the state officials who need it the most.