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Effort to designate West Austin house historic fails at Council - Austin Monitor

Wednesday, November 2, 2022 by Nina Hernandez
At its regular meeting last week, City Council did not pass an item that would have designated West Austin's Delisle House a historic landmark.Before the vote, Mayor Steve Adler explained that the measure would need a nine-vote supermajority to pass on all three readings.

Austin Monitor

Effort to save lakefront estate from demolition divides Planning Commission - Austin Monitor

"To me, nothing in the historic preservation criteria lists, is this person deserving of a tax break or not?" Azhar, on the other hand, said he plans to propose a code amendment getting rid of city property tax breaks for historic properties.A complete list of donors is available here, and our code of ethics is explained here.Friday, September 30, 2022 by Jonathan Lee The Planning Commission was split Tuesday on whether to help save an eclectic lakefront estate from demolition by zoning it historic amid concerns over tax breaks and the likelihood that a previous owner participated in segregation as a business owner.

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Report shows only 22 for every 100 homes for low-income renters in Austin

Minorities are also disproportionately impacted.

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2 years ago

First Black person to jump in Barton Springs Pool and lead desegregation of iconic pool honored Saturday

Joan Means Khabele swam in Barton Springs Pool to protest the segregation of the pool.

Scary Mommy

An "Inappropriate" Black History Month Door Display Caused Controversy At A Charlotte High School

Classroom door decorations at West Charlotte High School faced backlash for a segregation theme during Black History Month.

Some saw the classroom decorations as offensive, while others believed they were educational about the realities of segregation. [ more ]

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A school in Jerusalem brings Arab and Jewish kids together to boost understanding

Hand in Hand school in Jerusalem is a bilingual and mixed school where Jewish and Arab students learn together.

Israeli society is largely segregated, with separate school systems for Jewish and Arab children. [ more ]

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High school thespians get the spotlight at Berkeley Rep festival this Sunday

Teenagers perform in Oneirononauts, a short play, during the Berkeley Repertory Theater's Teen One-Acts Festival.Credit: Kristen Pribula The Berkeley Repertory's School of Theatre is holding a one-night festival this weekend featuring mini-plays written and performed by students from five Bay Area high schools.

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Opinion | How Diversity Undermined Affirmative Action

When the Supreme Court first ruled that universities could consider race in their admissions process, in 1978's Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, the nine justices wrote six opinions between them.The court's divisions were suggestive of an enduring uncertainty in the debate about affirmative action, which will return to the Supreme Court in oral arguments next week: Even among its supporters there isn't always a consensus over what affirmation action is for.

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Segregated Texas school officially designated as a national historic site

MARFA, Texas Note: The video above is from a report on the Blackwell school on Nov. 23, 2021.

KSHB

Former students at all-Black school in Higginsville working to preserve history

HIGGINSVILLE, Mo. - For almost 70 years from the post-Civil War period, to the dawn of the Civil Rights Movement, Lafayette County and the greater Higginsville, Missouri, area had one school for Black children.

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Public health

Prisoners with severe mental health needs spending months in isolation, report finds

Prisoner spent over 800 days in segregation due to self-harm in a damning report on the use of isolation in jails for mental health needs

Prisoners with severe mental health needs should be transferred to secure hospitals within 28 days, but this target is not being met [ more ]

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NYC politics

New York City making it easier to live in affordable housing in the neighborhood of your choice

The rules for affordable housing in NYC are changing to make it easier for people to choose the neighborhood they want to live in.

A lawsuit argued that the previous preference given to neighborhood residents perpetuated segregation. [ more ]

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3 months ago

NYC politics

Op-Ed | Honoring Dr. King's Legacy by fighting for fair housing | amNewYork

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. fought for fair housing and the Fair Housing Act to combat discriminatory practices in housing.

New York City has a history of discrimination and segregation that needs to be addressed by dismantling outdated zoning laws. [ more ]

New York Post

NYC revamps housing lotto to settle lawsuit that claimed racial 'segregation' - here's what's changing

New York City has agreed to reduce the percentage of affordable housing units reserved for residents in their own neighborhoods from 50% to 20%.

By 2029, the preference for local residents will decrease further to 15%, allowing the majority of new affordable apartments to be offered to residents from other zip codes. [ more ]

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New York City

New York Settles Suit That Said Its Housing Rules Worsened Segregation

New York City has settled a civil rights case by agreeing to change its affordable housing selection process to address segregation concerns.

The city will reduce the percentage of affordable apartments prioritized for residents of the same community district from 50% to 20% until 2029, and then 15% after that. [ more ]

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New York City

Stuyvesant High School Admitted 762 New Students. Only 7 Are Black.

About 10 percent of offers to New York City's most elite public high schools went to Black and Latino students this year, education officials announced on Thursday, in a school system where they make up more than two-thirds of the student population overall.The numbers which have remained stubbornly low for years placed a fresh spotlight on racial and ethnic disparities in the nation's largest school system.

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New York City

'A Perfect Party' That Celebrates All Its Guests

Trusty Sidekick Theater Company has created an outdoor adventure for young people on the autism spectrum.

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4 months ago

Social justice

Michelle Wu's segregated Christmas party exposes the left's regressive views on race

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu defended her decision to host an 'Electeds of Color Holiday Party,' excluding white members of the City Council.

Critics argue that the party is a form of segregation and goes against the values of equality and inclusivity. [ more ]

The Nation

Social justice

Apartheid American-Style

-This city's water crisis had become a classic David and Goliath story: A predominantly Black city, led by its mayor, Chokwe Antar Lumumba, facing off with "good ole boy" Governor Tate Reeves and his predominantly white state legislature-controlled by a Republican supermajority made possible by more than a century of violent voter suppression and racist gerrymandering.

Truthout

Nearly 7 in 10 Americans Think Public School Teachers Are Underpaid

Seventy-five percent of people believe teachers are "asked to do too much work for the pay they receive."Los Angeles public school support staff, teachers, and supporters rally outside of the school district headquarters on the first day of a three day strike in Los Angeles, California, on March 21, 2023.Robyn Beck / AFP via Getty Images New polling reveals that a majority of Americans recognize the growing crisis of low teacher pay and poor treatment despite a rabid and coordinated right wing quest to vilify and attack teachers across the country.

New York Post

Biden again reminisces fondly about lunch with late segregationist Sen. James Eastland

President Biden on Tuesday reminisced about lunching with the late segregationist Sen. James Eastland while urging members of Congress to build personal relationships with one another to improve political civility.

Truthout

Virginia School Board Considers Reverting School Names Back to Confederate Generals

A school district in Virginia is considering reverting two of its schools' names back to their previous monikers, which honored Confederate Civil War generals and enslavers Stonewall Jackson, Turner Ashby and Robert E. Lee.

New York Post

Biden recalls 'the old days' of grabbing lunch with 'real segregationists' in Senate

President Joe Biden on Friday reminisced about bringing back "the old days" in the U.S. Senate when he was able to sit down for a bite with "real segregationists" in Washington, despite disagreeing with them.

Yanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News

Design

8 Peaceful New Year's Resolutions For Your Home - Yanko Design

As we usher into 2023, it's time to carry forward the tradition of making customary New Year's resolutions.Some common resolutions include weight loss goals, financial goals, eating clean, self-improvement, working out, following our passion, and so on.This year, let's focus on home improvement and make some achievable resolutions for our abodes as we are spending a lot of time indoors.

Yanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News

Design

This waste bin has a neat trick for segregation and has a surprising function - Yanko Design

We're often told to separate our trash so that biodegradable, recyclable, and other types of waste don't mix.

Yanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News

Design

Niko trash bin tips the balance towards usability and sustainability - Yanko Design

It's sometimes both frustrating and amazing how simple changes can have massive impacts.

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Real estate

Civil rights lawsuit over NYC housing lottery can go to trial, judge rules

A federal judge in the Southern District Court of New York is allowing a lawsuit over an affordable housing policy, known as community preference, to progress to trial, according to a report by the New York Times.The lawsuit, first brought in 2015, takes issue with a policy that has been in place within New York City since 1988 and reserves 50% of the units in most subsidized affordable housing developments for residents of the local community district.

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11 months ago

East Bay (California)

Saratoga works to approve its Housing Element to add 1,700 housing units

In a year that has seen California cities hit with aggressive state mandates for new housing construction, Saratoga has seen its plan to add 1,700 new units rejected twice.City officials are working to get the latest round of edits approved before May 31, after which Saratoga could see penalties that include delays or even ineligibility for state funding, and a shorter window of time to rezone.

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Games

MLB The Show 23 Review: Negro Leagues storylines is a tribute to baseball legends

The all time great Jackie Robinson, featuring his classic Monarchs uniform for MLB The Show 23's Storylines mode.Sony Interactive Entertainment Eric B. and Rakim's "I Ain't No Joke" rock my headphones when I load into MLB The Show 23.The track, with its ruthless audacity and punchy braggadocio, sets the tone for what's certainly my favorite sports video game experience to date.

www.independent.co.uk

Double rapist Isla Bryson enrolled at college while facing charges

A transgender woman convicted of raping two women while she was a man was enrolled on a college beauty course involving spray tan sessions while facing charges, it has emerged.The Daily Record reported that Isla Bryson enrolled on a beauty therapy course at Ayrshire College's Kilwinning campus in 2021, and former students claimed they often had to take their clothes off to act as models for demonstrations of spray-tanning and waxing.

Medium

UX design

Learn from my mistakes: A rejected UI/UX assignment from a unicorn sales start-up

Although the online shopping experience has changed by leaps and bounds in the last decade, there's a lot of room for improvement regarding shopping in the real world.Finding products, knowing their availability, and the checkout experience - all of these can be rethought.Identify such problems and provide a design solution that talks about how you can make the in-store shopping experience better.

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DevOps

Three is the Magic Number: Planning and Executing a Successful DevOps Project

By: Szymon Piasecki on
Diligent preparation, clearly defined workflows and watchful monitoring are key to delivering a high-performing DevOps project.DevOps is one of the hottest buzzwords in programming, but everyone seems to have their own ideas when it comes to structuring and deploying a DevOps team.

FanSided

National Football League

Washington Post publishes photo of Jerry Jones at racist Little Rock Six confrontation

The Washington Post published a Jerry Jones photo showing the Dallas Cowboys owner in the crowd of the North Little Rock Six incident in 1957.An image floating around for 65 years has come back to haunt Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones.This isn't a photo that was taken in private or secret that has been used for blackmail, but instead an Associated Press photo of the North Little Rock Six incident in which racist white students tried to prevent Black classmates from entering their school following the desegregation of schools in the south.

Coindesk

11 months ago

Binance Japan Will Start Operations After June

Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange by trading volume, is set to begin operations in the Japanese market, according to a notice published on Friday.In November last year, Binance acquired regulated crypto exchange Sakura Exchange BitCoin (SEBC).Existing services on SEBC will be terminated on May 31 and a new service under the provisional name "Binance Japan" will launch after June 2023, the notice said.

Coindesk

Coinbase Aims to Stay in Canada, While Binance Looks Poised to Exit Amid Regulatory Shakeup

Coinbase is in talks with regulators about remaining in Canada, according to a person familiar with the matter, as the country tightens rules for cryptocurrency exchanges, while larger rival Binance looks likely to exit.Coinbase, which is based in the U.S., is discussing getting the appropriate license to keep doing business in Canada, according to the person, who requested anonymity.

www.independent.co.uk

Prison service chief not at liberty to say' who made Isla Bryson decision

The head of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) is not at liberty to say who made the decision to send a transgender double rapist to a women's prison, she has claimed.Isla Bryson was convicted in late January and was taken to Cornton Vale Scotland's only all-female facility to be held in segregation to await sentencing.

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UK politics

Trans violent offenders banned from women's prisons in England and Wales

Rules barring some transgender women from female prisons in England and Wales are to come into force on Monday, the justice secretary has announced.Dominic Raab had already announced in October that trans women with male genitalia or who had committed sexual offences would not be allowed in women's prisons.

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UK politics

UK can take lead in averting mass atrocity crimes, MPs' report says

The UK can take a lead in trying to forecast and avert mass atrocity crimes, MPs suggest in a report published on Monday.The report also says the government, in making decisions on trade, human rights, arms exports, education and humanitarian access migration, needs to have the risk of mass atrocities in mind.

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Europe politics

'I'm always looking over my shoulder': anxiety among Estonia's Russians

ather Grigory Borisov offers a prayer for Ukraine every day in a special liturgy at the Lasnamäe church, a towering, whitewashed place of Russian Orthodox worship in the centre of the most populous suburb of Estonia's capital, Tallinn, where a majority are Russian speakers.

www.independent.co.uk

Charles Bronson parole board explains why it won't release notorious prisoner

The Parole Board has refused the latest bid for freedom by Charles Bronson, one of the UK's longest-serving prisoners.The independent body announced its decision on Thursday, nearly one month after Bronson made his case at a hearing.Since 1974, Bronson has spent the majority of his life behind bars.

www.independent.co.uk

Isla Bryson case review findings to be published this week Sturgeon

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails The findings of an urgent review into the handling of the case of a double rapist placed in a women's prison will be published this week, Nicola Sturgeon has said.

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Campaigners stage protest against transgender criminals in women's prisons

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Protesters have gathered outside Holyrood to urge Scottish ministers against placing transgender criminals in female prisons.Women's rights campaigners with For Women Scotland joined with reform group Keep Prisons Safe and chanted shame at the decision to place prisoners who have self-identified as female in Cornton Vale, Scotland's only all-female jail.

www.independent.co.uk

Poll shows slump in support for SNP and Scottish independence

Support for the SNP at Holyrood and Westminster has dropped, a new poll suggests.The YouGov survey for the Sunday Times of 1,088 Scottish voters shows support for the party dropped from 50% to 44% in the Holyrood constituency vote and from 40% to 36% in the regional list, when compared to the results of the same poll in December.

www.independent.co.uk

Publish Isla Bryson case review in full, Scottish Government urged

The Scottish Government has been urged to publish the urgent review into the Isla Bryson case in full.Bryson was last week convicted of raping two women while she was a man called Adam Graham and was initially housed in segregation in Cornton Vale prison near Stirling the only all-female jail in Scotland before being moved to the male estate.

www.independent.co.uk

Stephen Lawrence killer referred to police after taking selfies from cell'

One of Stephen Lawrence's killers has been referred to police for investigation after he is said to have taken selfies in his prison cell and sent them to friends.

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US news

Randall Robinson, Anti-Apartheid Catalyst, Is Dead at 81

Randall Robinson, a self-described pained victim of stolen identity raised in segregated Virginia who grew up to galvanize Americans against apartheid in South Africa and champion reparations for the descendants of slaves, died on Friday in Basseterre, on the Caribbean island of St. Kitts, where he had lived in self-imposed exile from the United States for more than two decades.

www.independent.co.uk

Transgender woman will serve sentence in male prison after stabbing partner

A transgender woman will serve her sentence in a male prison after stabbing her partner before tying her up and leaving with her bank card.Zara Jade was jailed for nine years with an additional three years on licence after pleading guilty to six offences including false imprisonment, assault and robbery, West Yorkshire Police said.

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Ban on transgender women in female prisons extended

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails New rules banning some transgender women from female prisons in England and Wales will be extended in scope when they come into force on Monday, the Justice Secretary has announced.

Truthout

"The Death Penalty Is Immoral": Oregon Governor Commutes All Death Row Sentences

"Justice is not advanced by taking a life," Democratic Gov. Kate Brown said.Oregon Gov. Kate Brown speaks at an Axios News Shapers event on February 22, 2019, in Washington, D.C.Shannon Finney / Getty Images Outgoing Oregon Gov. Kate Brown announced this week that she is commuting the death sentences of every person on death row in the state as one of her final acts in office, citing the cruelty of the death penalty.

Truthout

Cornyn Faces Backlash After Tweeting "Now do Plessy vs Ferguson/Brown vs Board of Education"

Republican Sen. John Cornyn (Texas) recently wrote a tweet in support of the Supreme Court's anti-abortion decision in which he appeared to advocate for far right justices to reexamine cases on racial segregation as well.

Chicago Tribune

Chicago

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot will seek a second term; will announce re-election bid to supporters tonight

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot will ask voters to send her back to City Hall for a second term as head of the nation's third-largest city, her campaign told donors and supporters ahead of a Tuesday night fundraiser.

Miami Herald

Miami

New Martin Luther King statue unveiled at former segregation site in North Miami Beach

North Miami Beach FL- March 19, 2023 - North Miami Beach elected officials and residents of the Washington Park neighborhood in North Miami Beach gaze up at the newly unveiled statue of Dr. Martin Luther King at MLK Linear Park on 15th court and NE 153rd terrace in North Miami Beach.jiglesias@elnuevoherald.com
A new statue honoring Martin Luther King Jr. was unveiled on Monday in North Miami Beach, standing on a strip of land that previously divided Black and white residents.

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Arts

'Poverty, By America' shows how the rest of us benefit by keeping others poor

After Matthew Desmond won the Pulitzer for Evicted, about families struggling to stay housed, the Princeton sociologist realized he still didn't understand why the U.S. has more poverty than any other advanced democracy.His new book Poverty, By America, provides a provocative and compelling answer: It's because the rest of us benefit from it, and act to keep it that way.

Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles

A Black couple settles lawsuit over a home valuation that rose when a white friend posed as the owner

A Black couple has settled a lawsuit against a real estate company that appraised the value of their Marin City, Calif., home nearly half a million dollars higher when a white friend posed as the property owner.Tenisha Tate-Austin and Paul Austin bought the home in December 2016, then made a series of renovations.

Streetsblog USA

SF politics

Op-Ed: To Heal Historic Highway Harms, Sec. Buttigieg Needs Bold Thinking

In 1966, the day after Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Louisiana Department of Highways bulldozers came for Claiborne Avenue's century-old oak trees.

Chicago Tribune

Chicago

Elizabeth Blasius: Wrecking the Century & Consumers buildings is 'Durbin Renewal,' not urban safety

Federal money has been allocated for the demolition of the Century & Consumers Buildings, two early 1900s skyscrapers at the corner of State and Adams streets in Chicago's Loop.

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London

Souls Grown Deep Like the Rivers review art of poverty and resilience from the US south

Narratives of the great migration and the Harlem renaissance have dominated conversations around African American art in the 20th century, but a new exhibition, Souls Grown Deep Like the Rivers, which opens at the Royal Academy in London this week, invites us to consider the cultural contribution of artists from the American south.

Brooklyn Paper

Brooklyn

SUNY Downstate hosts talk on colonial legacy in neurosurgery * Brooklyn Paper

SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University held a talk on the racist legacy left by the colonial mindset that continues to harm neurosurgical outcomes for Black communities, both in the United States and around the globe.Gathered at the Flatbush school's campus, SUNY Downstate's Division of Neurosurgery Chief Ernest Barthélemy, along with Claire Karekezi, a trained neurosurgeon currently practicing in Rwanda, gave their perspectives on the ways in which the history of colonialism has left major disparities in public health outcomes that disproportionately harm non-white citizens in western nations.

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US news

Hundreds of newspapers drop Dilbert' comic strip after racist tirade from creator Scott Adams

Newspapers across the country dropped the Dilbert comic strip over the weekend after the creator of the satirical cartoon went on a racist tirade, calling Black Americans a hate group and suggesting that White people should get the hell away from them.The USA Today Network, which operates hundreds of newspapers, said it had pulled the plug on the long-running comic strip.

BBC News

Soccer (FIFA)

'Thank you, King': Brazil lights up in honour of Pele

Brazil has woken up to its first day without footballing legend Pelé."The King", who won three World Cups and was widely considered the greatest footballer of all time, died at the age of 82 in São Paulo on Thursday.Overnight, Pelé's face shone on buildings across the South American nation and landmarks were lit up in his memory.

www.nytimes.com

NYC music

Anita Pointer, Frequent Lead Singer of Famed Sister Act, Dies at 74

Anita Pointer, the sweet and occasionally sultry lead vocalist on many hits of her family band the Pointer Sisters in the 1970s and '80s, died on Saturday at home in Beverly Hills, Calif.She was 74.The cause was cancer, her publicist, Roger Neal, said.The Pointer Sisters occupied a middle point in pop history between the doo-wop innocence of the Ronettes and the stilettoed girl power of Destiny's Child.

kvue.com

Austinites concerned I-35 project could worsen mobility for minorities

Advocates worry the expansion plan would make traffic worse, and make it even harder for minorities to get access to the city.

Austin Monitor

Debate intensifies over owner-opposed historic zoning of lakefront estate - Austin Monitor

Monday, July 11, 2022 by Kali Bramble

Chicago Tribune

Chicago

Sofia Ali-Khan: When my family and I looked for a home in Chicago's suburbs, we kept finding the color line

I was a stranger to Chicago, really the entire Midwest, when I relocated there with my husband.

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US Treasury's Yellen Says Crypto Doesn't Have Adequate Regulation Calls FTX Collapse 'a Lehman Moment' Regulation Bitcoin News

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says that the collapse of crypto exchange FTX shows that the crypto industry really needs to have adequate regulation.She added: It's a Lehman moment within crypto, and crypto is big enough that we've had substantial harm with investors.Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on FTX Implosion and the Need for Adequate Crypto Regulation U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen talked about the need for adequate crypto regulation following the collapse of crypto exchange FTX at an event hosted by the New York Times Dealbook Wednesday.

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Yellen Says FTX Collapse Shows Weaknesses of Entire Crypto Sector Fed's Brainard Pushes for Strong Regulation Regulation Bitcoin News

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Federal Reserve Vice Chair Lael Brainard have stressed the need for strong crypto regulation.Yellen said the FTX collapse shows the weaknesses of the entire crypto sector while Brainard cautioned that failures from one platform are spilling over into elsewhere.

Washington Post

Business

Analysis | FTX Offers a Master Class in Crypto's Flaws

In one sense, investors and regulators should be grateful to Sam Bankman-Fried, the erstwhile head of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange.The spectacular flameout of his virtual empire has evolved from a cautionary tale into a master class on everything that's wrong with crypto markets.As customers and creditors sort through what remains of the failed exchange's holdings, and as the repercussions spread throughout the crypto realm, here are four lessons that stand out:
* Beware of assets denominated in crypto.

The New Yorker

Business

A Year Inside a Divided Brooklyn High School

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Coronavirus

Two German states stop enforcing mandatory Covid-19 isolation

One German state has announced it will not continue the mask requirement on buses and trains beyond the end of the year.But will other Bundeslander follow suit?Published: 14 November 2022 10:45 CET Updated: 14 November 2022 12:27 CET On long-distance trains in Germany, there is a nationwide obligation to wear an FFP2 mask.

www.independent.co.uk

Inquiry launched after Stephen Lawrence killer sends selfies from cell'

One of Stephen Lawrence's killers has been placed in segregation in jail after he reportedly got hold of a mobile phone and sent selfies of himself in his cell to friends outside.

Washingtonian - The website that Washington lives by.

Washington DC

Things to Do in DC This Weekend: Festivals, Fashion, Farms

Happy weekend, everyone!

Autumn has arrived, but there are some last-minute summer events to enjoy before the fall season sets in.

The New Yorker

Humor

Keeping Score: A Year Inside a Divided Brooklyn High School

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Nearly seventy years after the Brown v. Board of Education decision, our public schools effectively remain segregated.

Nytimes

Television

'Recipes for Love and Murder' That Are to Die For

Set in a picturesque South African town, this series stars Maria Doyle Kennedy as a columnist who serves up mouthwatering dishes while solving murder mysteries.

Streetsblog USA

SF politics

Talking Headways Podcast: How Zoning Broke American Cities

This week, Nolan Gray talks about his new book, " Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It." How were cities regulated before zoning - and should zoning abolition be the ultimate goal?

Nytimes

Girls

The Abortion Decision, Haunted by Brown v. Board of Education

The justices cited the landmark 1954 decision banning segregation in public schools 23 times, debating its meaning and methods.

Nytimes

2 years ago

Girls

Black women in law eagerly await Jackson's confirmation with pride - and a sigh of relief.

ATLANTA - Black women in law from around the country eagerly awaited the Senate's final roll call on Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation to the Supreme Court.

Marlin Maniac

Miami Marlins

Miami's Rich Baseball History

When most baseball fans think of the city of Miami, they visualize the Miami Marlins and a recent baseball franchise as the town's baseball story.

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Arts

Buffalo's poet laureate calls for change

Jillian Hanesworth, the poet laureate of Buffalo.

New York Daily News

Anonymous donor pays off student loans for all new graduates at Texas HBCU Wiley College

More than 100 graduating seniors at Wiley College walked out Saturday with a diploma - and no student debt.

The Independent