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The tension had been building for weeks. Hours before the meeting, a group of students, retired teachers, and parents held a small demonstration at the high school, expressing their discontent with just one person: school board member Amy Facchinello. Depending on who you ask, she’s either a QAnon sympathizer who poses a threat to the …

Rep. Louise Stutes, R-Kodiak, speaks during a House Floor Session on March 27, 2017. (Photo by Skip Gray/KTOO) Kodiak Republican Rep. Louise Stutes was elected Alaska House speaker today, breaking a deadlock on the 24th day of the legislative session.  Eagle River Republican Rep. Kelly Merrick broke the deadlock by voting for Stutes, which will …

CAMBRIDGE, Md. —  Andrew Bradshaw will be Cambridge’s newest mayor after defeating incumbent, Mayor Victoria Jackson-Stanley in a run off election. Election officials say Bradshaw received 57.41% of votes with 1,643 votes to Jackson-Stanley’s 1,219 votes. Bradshaw says some things he’s focusing on are youth development and bringing new ideas to the table. Bradshaw who …

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Earlier this month, the Electronic Health Record Association (EHRA) announced its annual Executive Committee elections, including the newly elected Vice Chair David Bucciferro, Senior Advisor at Foothold Technology. EHRA is a trade association of 30 companies that serve the vast majority of hospitals and ambulatory care organizations that use electronic health records (EHRs) …

Peel & Holland’s Associate Vice President of Business Insurance and Employee Benefits Jessica Jeffress has been elected as board chair for a national insurance technology organization known as NetVU. The Network of Vertafore Users (NetVU) is an independent, national member organization committed to providing industry advocacy, world-class education and networking to more than 30,000 insurance …

SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – City Councilman Chris Ward, State Senate President Pro Tempore Toni G. Atkins, Assemblyman Todd Gloria and North Park Main Street Executive Director will break ground Thursday on San Diego’s newest park. The groundbreaking at the half-acre “mini-park” behind North Park Theater — now known as the Observatory — is the next …

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — The NFL’s 100th season has a Hall of Fame class fit for the celebration. Two of the best safeties to play in the league, a record-setting wide receiver, a fiercely-competitive offensive lineman and a do-it-all running back were selected Saturday to be enshrined into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Former …

When the politicians are mad — so mad that they have shut down all policymaking to impeach the President of the United States on what constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley called “wafer thin” evidence —Trump is winning. You have to remember: Donald Trump wasn’t elected to fit in with these people — the political, intellectual class …

Former Vice President Joe Biden’s son also pledged that he wouldn’t work for any foreign-owned companies or serve on their boards should his father be elected President. “Hunter always understood that his father would be guided, entirely and unequivocally, by established U.S. policy, regardless of its effects on Hunter’s professional interests,” the statement said. “He …

Administrators in a German village have unanimously elected a member of a neo-Nazi party as council head because he was the only person interested in the job, prompting an outcry from politicians who demanded the vote be annulled. The seven-member council of Waldsiedlung, a small community near Frankfurt in the western state of Hesse, voted …