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VA School Board to Pay Damages to Teacher Fired for Refusing Pronouns

The West Point, Virginia, school board has agreed to pay $575,000 in damages and attorney fees to a teacher who was fired for refusing to refer to a transgender student by his preferred pronouns. French teacher Peter Vlaming was unanimously fired by the West Point School Board in December 2018 for refusing to use pronouns […]

Cops Called to Illinois Democrat Mayor Tiffany Henyard’s Out-of-Control Board Meeting

One of the most controversial mayors in the country is in trouble again after Tuesday evening's public board meeting in Thornton Township, Illinois, went completely off the rails and the police were called. Tiffany Henyard, Democratic mayor of Dalton Village and Thornton Township supervisor, got into an argument with the board's attorney, accusing the board […]

Election integrity WIN: Georgia board votes to require hand-count of ALL ballots

The Georgia State Election Commission announced on Friday rule The bill would require all counties to count ballots by hand in the next election. The proposal would require a manual count at polling stations in addition to the machine count already in place. A poll manager and two poll workers would be tasked with opening […]

Ga. Election Board Votes To Require Ballots Be Hand-Counted

People hold up voting stickers during early voting for the midterm elections at Ponce de Leon Library in Atlanta, Georgia on November 4, 2022. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images) Stephenie Meyers of OANFriday, September 20, 2024 1:38 PM Georgia's Republican-controlled elections board passed a resolution requiring election officials to count ballots by hand on […]

23andMe board quits over plans to take DNA testing company private

All seven independent directors on 23andMe's board resigned on Tuesday, citing differences over the CEO's plan to take the company private. The departures leave the board with just one current member: Chairwoman Anne Wojcicki, who co-founded the genetic-testing company in 2006 and serves as its chief executive officer. Wojcicki submitted a proposal to take the […]