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The Westside Middle School Shooting Remembered, Twenty Years Ago

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By Kimberely Blackburn – Delta Digital News Service – JONESBORO, Ark. – Before Parkland, a year before Columbine, 20 years ago this month on March 24, 1988, two Westside Middle School students — armed with seven handguns and three rifles — entered the school and pulled a fire alarm. As their teachers and classmates filed…

The World According to Trump

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By Robert Reich – The starkest difference between dictatorships and democracies is that democracies are ruled by laws, and dictatorships are ruled by dictators. The “rule of law,” as it’s often referred to, stands for laws that emerge from a process responsive to the majority, that are consistently applied, and are applicable to everyone regardless…