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Silicon Valley Bank collapse concerns founders of color
In the hours after some of Silicon Valley Bank’s biggest customers started pulling out their money, a WhatsApp group of startup founders who are immigrants of color ballooned to more than 1,000 members. Questions flowed as the bank’s financial status worsened. Some desperately...
New Arizona hotline sees few calls about race-based lessons
PHOENIX (AP) — Only a handful of complaints out of hundreds of calls to a new state hotline for reporting race-based lessons have warranted investigation, Arizona’s top education official said Friday. State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne told radio station KTAR...
FACT FOCUS: Claims blame ‘woke’ policies on bank’s demise
As Wall Street reels from the swift demise of Silicon Valley Bank — the biggest American bank failure since the 2008 financial meltdown — some social media users are honing in on a single culprit: its socially aware, or “woke,” agenda. But the Santa Clara-based...
How the last banking tumult fuels today's populist politics
WASHINGTON (AP) — Mike Pence and Bernie Sanders are hardly political allies. But in the aftermath of two large bank failures, the conservative former vice president and the democratic socialist senator are striking remarkably similar tones. Pence, a Republican, bemoaned that “we...
Editorial Roundup: South Dakota
Yankton Press & Dakotan. March 13, 2023. Editorial: The State Tackles Cryptocurrency If nothing else, Gov. Kristi Noem’s veto of House Bill 1193, which would enact changes in South Dakota’s commercial code, will likely bring much more public attention to a...
Ohio higher ed bill would ban diversity mandates, China ties
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ending diversity and inclusion training requirements, bans on relationships with Chinese universities and mandated courses on American history are all packed into a multifaceted GOP higher education bill introduced in Ohio's Republican-dominated Senate Wednesday. ...
SC House's $13.8B budget debate slowed by Republican battle
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The debate in the South Carolina House over the state's $13.8 billion spending plan for the next fiscal year didn't go as smoothly as previous years. But the conflict wasn't over how much of a raise to give state employees and teachers or how much to spend on...
Five years after Rio councilwoman slain, questions and hope
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Relatives and supporters gathered Tuesday in Rio de Janeiro to mark five years since the assassination of Black, bisexual city councilwoman Marielle Franco amid hope that investigations into her death will accelerate under Brazil’s new leftist president. ...
North Carolina GOP again seeking to limit racial teachings
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A previously vetoed proposal advancing in the North Carolina House would restrict how teachers can discuss certain racial topics in the classroom amid a national GOP crusade against ideas they associate with “ critical race theory." The bill, which passed...
DeSantis bills on diversity, gender pass Florida committees
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Republicans on Monday advanced two key initiatives of Gov. Ron DeSantis as he prepares for an expected presidential run — banning gender affirming care for minors and eliminating diversity programs in colleges. The proposals have cleared separate...
