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There are no seasons in Florida. People say that about other places, they say that about southern California, but I've lived through some freezing nights in Los Angeles. I've snuck around people's homes there and turned the thermostat up to eighty degrees because I've been so cold, especially in the canyons. But here in Florida the ground is flat, the terrain is absolute, it is always warm, it is always bright. The Christmas lights strung on the houses along the highway look ridiculous. Today there was a tornado in Miami. They showed the twister in the skyscrapers on the evening news. No one was hurt. The only way I can tell the passage of time is how long I can go between pills. Five minutes, maybe. It used to be longer, fifteen minutes, a half hour. But that was months ago. Or maybe weeks. Time passes slowly, or too fast, or it makes no difference.

—Elizabeth Wurtzel, More, Now, Again published 2002

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LYONS TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL G. H. WILKINSON, PRINCIPAL LA GRANGE, ILLINOIS March 7, 1916 To the Honorable Laurence [struck through] W. [/struck through] Y Sherman, Washington, D. C. Dear Sir: We the undersigned, students of the Civics classes in Lyons Township High School, having studied the merits of the Keating-Owen Child Labor Bill, feel that we should like to aid in some small measure such a worthy cause. We therefore respectfully petition that you use your influence and vote in favor of the bill, as such action on your part would give us great satisfaction and also greatly endure you to this community. [handwritten names] Florence Bratt H. J. Ryan Esther Christie Al. Tiffany. Norton Conklin S. W. Bilby Mildred Dahlieu Alex S. Carlson Merton Dull Dorothea W. Clover Nina Gilbert Esther Cummings Ralph French Everett W. Davis Newell Ford Clover L. Kline Maurice Dopp Edmond F. Shulsberg Webster Hawley Wallace E. Fey Harry Holmes Mildred Fililing [?] Elschieu [?] Hoberman Josephine Farrell R. L. Kilts [?] F. C. Meyer Ruth McKay R. F. Murphy. Regina Murphy

source: [Letter from Lyons Township High School Students Supporting Keating-Owen Child Labor Bill]

Keating-Owen Child Labor Act (1916) This act limited the working hours of children and forbade the interstate sale of goods produced by child labor. The Supreme Court later ruled it unconstitutional.

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2 Union soldiers awarded Medal of Honor for Confederate train hijacking

July 4th, 2024 U.S. Army Pvts. Philip G. Shadrach and George D. Wilson were captured by Confederates and executed by hanging. Biden recognized their courage 162 years later with the country's highest military decoration, calling the operation they joined “one of the most dangerous missions of the entire Civil War.” Shadrach and Wilson are being recognized for participating in what became known as the Great Locomotive Chase. A Kentucky-born civilian spy and scout named James J. Andrews put together a group of volunteers, including Shadrach and Wilson, to degrade the railway and telegraph lines used by Confederates in Chattanooga, Tennessee. On April 12, 1862, 22 of the men in what was later called Andrews' Raiders met up in Marietta, Georgia, and hijacked a train named The General. The group tore up tracks and sliced through telegraph wires while taking the train north. Confederate troops chased them, initially on foot and later by train. The Confederate troops eventually caught the group. Andrews and seven others were executed, while the others either escaped or remained prisoners of war. Shadrach, born on Sept. 15, 1840, in Pennsylvania, was 21 years old when he volunteered for the mission. He was orphaned at a young age and left home in 1861 to enlist in an Ohio infantry regiment after the start of the Civil War. Wilson was born in 1830 in Belmont County, Ohio. He worked as a journeyman shoemaker before the war and enlisted in an Ohio-based volunteer infantry in 1861.

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Congressional Republicans are looking to unwind President Biden’s diversity, equity and inclusion efforts within federal agencies, with lawmakers suggesting the administration’s push has led to discrimination in federal hiring. Biden is unlikely to sign into law any measure that undermines one of his signature initiatives to reform workforce policies within the federal government, but the bill—which won broad support within the Republican caucus—illustrates the legislation lawmakers will prioritize if former President Trump is reelected. Republicans have for years blasted DEI efforts in both the public and private sectors and sought paths to prohibit them.  The Dismantle DEI Act, introduced by Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, would rescind not just Biden’s 2021 DEI executive order, but several other orders and memoranda related to discrimination based on sexual orientation; advancing opportunities for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders; establishing a White House Gender Policy Council; and other initiatives aimed at ending discrimination. All agencies would be forced to shutter their DEI offices, the Office of Personnel Management would have to close its Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility, and no federal funds could be used on such efforts.  Biden in 2021 signed a sweeping order to improve recruitment, retention and professional development of underserved communities, including providing more comprehensive health coverage to LGBTQ+ federal workers, boosting protections for feds with disabilities and pushing agencies to transition from unpaid to paid internships.

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Appalachian Regional Commission

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