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Fight Fire with . . . a Bill? You can’t stop wildfires with a law. Or can you? California state legislators, facing a second year of record-level wildfire destruction, are trying to do just that. One proposal is to pass laws requiring a more rigorous emergency alert system, to give more people time to evacuate. […]
New Justice Department Memo Threatens Transgender Rights
This week, over on the Election Central Web site, the main story examines Attorney General Jeff Sessions memo that targeted Obama-era protections for transgender citizens. Because of a new memo from the U.S. Justice Department, transgendered people will no longer be legally protected from workplace discrimination. Here, btw takes a look at what happened, what […]
Transgender Bathroom Rights Rollback
This week, over on the Election Central Web site we examine President Trump’s recent efforts to revert former president Barack Obama’s protection of transgender access to bathrooms. Last Wednesday, in the latest development in the so-called “bathroom debate,” President Trump rolled back protections for transgender students that allowed them to use whichever bathroom corresponds to their […]