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Just what is a 'divisive concept'? Without real answers, educators are concerned about their implications on public education

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — When Conor Collins teaches his Advanced Placement U.S. History class, he asks students to think about some of the challenges Black people could have faced during Reconstruction after American enslavement was abolished.

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Churchill Downs Agrees To Acquire Peninsula Pacific Entertainment Assets For ~$2.5B

Churchill Downs Inc (NASDAQ:CHDN) has agreed to acquire substantially all of the assets of Peninsula Pacific Entertainment LLC (P2E) for $2.485 billion. The acquisition will include all of P2E's assets in Virginia and New York and the operations of its Sioux City casino property. The transaction is expected to close by the end of 2022. "This…

Benzinga

Jushi To Launch Various Cannabis Brands And Products In Massachusetts

Jushi Holdings Inc. (CSE:JUSH) (OTCQX: JUSHF) is launching a series of branded cannabis products in Massachusetts, beginning with the debut of its flower brands, The Bank and Sèchè.

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Editorial: The ERA, hotly controversial in the 1970s, should be an easy lift today

After all the epic upheaval in the 1970s over the Equal Rights Amendment, some are arguing that the constitutional amendment declaring, simply, that women must be afforded the same rights as men officially became law last month — two years after Virginia ratified it and put it over the 38-state…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Born without legs, Virginia HS wrestler Adonis Lattimore wins championship

Adonis Lattimore has no right leg and only a partial left leg, but the Virginia high school wrestler capped his season with a championship.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Tyler Cowen: Wokeism has peaked

I’m calling it: Wokeism has peaked. Yes, it will remain a highly influential movement, and it will probably continue to spread globally. But in the U.S. at least, wokeism and the woke will ebb.

Tribune News Service

Virginia attorney general moves to withdraw from ERA lawsuit

Republican Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares wants the state to withdraw from a lawsuit that seeks to force the federal government to recognize Virginia’s 2020 vote to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment

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Virginia House passes five public-sector union bills

On Feb. 15, the Virginia House of Delegates passed five Republican-sponsored bills dealing with public-sector union policy. The bills are now in committee in the Senate, where Democrats hold a majority.

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AdvanSix Stock Slides After Mixed Q4 Results; Agrees To Acquire U.S. Amines For $100M

AdvanSix Inc (NYSE:ASIX) reported fourth-quarter FY21 sales growth of 24.6% year-over-year to $424.06 million, beating the consensus of $408.30 million. The sales increase was driven by a 25% favorable impact of market-based pricing and 12% higher raw material pass-through pricing, partially offset by lower volume. Sales volume in the quarter decreased ~12% driven…

Benzinga

His journalist daughter was killed. Now he wants to ‘fix’ big tech in Congress

Andy Parker says he is ‘honoring’ his daughter Alison Parker’s death by fighting for a congressional seat to regulate big tech

The Guardian - US

At the Races: Cracking the midterms - Roll Call

The CQ Roll Call newsroom tracks campaigns nationwide, sharing the best stories, with some extras, in the At the Races newsletter.

Roll Call

Sanity evaluation ordered for college shooting suspect

A Virginia judge has ordered a mental health evaluation for the man charged in the fatal shooting of two campus officers

The Independent UK

School apologises for ‘poor judgement’ in book cancelling culture war

Principal of Virginia high school taking ‘appropriate action’ after being accused of ‘doubling down on big FU to parents’

The Independent UK

Virginia adopts plan to end school mask mandates March 1

Virginia’s General Assembly moved swiftly to put the final legislative touches on a bill that bans local school systems from imposing mask mandates on students

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Masking battles show how issue that buoyed Biden in 2020 won’t help party in midterms

WASHINGTON — The official transcript of President Joe Biden’s 20-minute speech about lowering the cost of health care last week in Virginia Rep. Abigail Spanberger’s district was more than 3,300 words. “Masks” was not one of them, even though the administration decided just weeks earlier to make high-quality masks available…

Roll Call

Masking battles show how issue that buoyed Biden won’t help party in ’22

Attacks tying Democrats to unpopular mask mandates show how Republicans plan to try to tap pandemic fatigue in the midterms.

Benzinga

Virginia Senate Approves Bill, Rec Weed Sales Could Begin In September Via Current Medical Cannabis Dispensaries

Adults in Virginia will be able to legally buy cannabis starting on Sept.

The Independent UK

Bird Flu spreads to Kentucky and Virginia

Countries including Mexico have banned or limited poultry imports from Indiana following discovery of the virus there

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Youngkin looks to root out critical race theory in Virginia

Virginia's Department of Education is conducting a review designed to root out critical race theory in schools

The Independent UK

Virginia lieutenant governor uses high heel to gavel Senate to order

Iconic moment occurred after ‘prankster’ took gavel

Benzinga

Alphabet's Drone Delivery Unit Promotes CTO To CEO Role

Alphabet Inc's (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Wing unit promoted its longtime CTO to the CEO role. Wing seeks to expand its drone delivery operations rapidly, including the Dallas suburbs. Adam Woodworth replaced James Ryan Burgess as the CEO, who stepped aside from most of his duties following a health issue. Burgess will remain an adviser…

The Conversation

Old statues of Confederate generals are slowly disappearing – will monuments honoring people of color replace them?

With most of the legal challenges resolved after the violent Unite the Right rally, and the statue of Robert E. Lee removed from its lofty pedestal in downtown Charlottesville, Virginia, local lawmakers in December 2021 voted to do the unimaginable – donate the statue to the local Jefferson School African…

The Guardian - US

Embrace or avoid? Midterms dilemma for Democrats as Biden’s ratings plunge

For Democrats in tight re-election races, being photographed with a president whose approval rating hovers at 40% is a risk

Reason

Life Gets Better for Sports Bettors

But placing a wager on your favorite team is still illegal or too complicated in many states.

Reason

Funny Oral Argument Moments

In my Persuasion class, we started with clips from oral arguments, and one was the famous "orthogonal" exchange, at 21:54 in Briscoe v. Virginia (2010)—instructive, but also a bit amusing. A student asked if I could recommend some other funny exchanges, or perhaps exchanges that the participants thought were funning,…

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