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July 03, 2023

National News

Dangerous heat and humidity is smothering much of the South and Midwest

Dangerous heat and humidity is smothering parts of the South and Midwest. That's led local governments and charities to open cooling stations and deliver donated air conditioners to protect poor and elderly residents.

apnews.com/article/southern-heat-wave-deaths-582c231799d16659afa26c00ba71df57

Putting White Supremacy Into the Dustbin of History, Where It Belongs

With the torrent of awful rulings from a corrupt Supreme Court over the last few days, I struggled to put all my thoughts into something cogent before the day ended. So instead, I send along an excerpt from an essay I wrote in September 2020, which spelled out my hopes for a Biden Presidency:

open.substack.com/pub/simonwdc/p/putting-white-supremacy-into-the?r=2cuzj&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Where's the Proof Democracy is the Best System for America?

Is democracy — a system of decision- and rule-making that encompasses the collective wisdom of the group — a survival system every bit as important as technology, science, & economics?

open.substack.com/pub/thomhartmann/p/wheres-the-proof-democracy-is-the?r=2cuzj&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Supreme Court to decide whether Second Amendment protects gun owners subject to domestic violence restraining orders | CNN Politics

The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to review a federal law that bars an individual subject to a domestic violence restraining order from possessing a firearm, adding a major Second Amendment case to next term’s docket.

www.cnn.com/2023/06/30/politics/guns-domestic-violence-supreme-court

State News:

State’s lawyers claim Legislature can keep expenses confidential in Campbell case – Tennessee Lookout

Attorneys for the Tennessee Office of Legislative Administration argue that the House can keep information confidential.

tennesseelookout.com/2023/06/30/states-lawyers-claim-legislature-can-keep-expenses-confidential-in-campbell-case

Local News:

Etowah to receive half a million dollar TDOT grant

The City of Etowah was awarded a $578,000 grant from the Tennessee Department of Transportation to work on the historic L& N Depot.

During Monday night’s regular city commission meeting, Etowah City Manager Russ Blair informed the commission during the city manager report portion of the meeting that the city will receive the money.

“We were awarded a grant from TDOT for $578,000 to repaint the depot, work on the roof and to do a lighting project there,” Blair said. “We do have a 20% match on that ... This work has to be completed over the course of three years, so we have some time to plan and budget for that.”

According to Blair, the depot was last painted in 2012 and is in “dire need” of an update.

“The roof is going on 120 years old ... With access to this kind of money I feel it’s time that we seriously look at what it is going to take to get us another 100 years out of it,” he expressed.

The city also received another nearly $200,000 grant to aid with work on pedestrian crossings.

“Also, the last month or so we had received a traffic signal grant of $170,000 with no match to update the 8th Street intersection pedestrian crossings,” Blair said.

He noted that he had been informed by TDOT that they would be reaching out to the city over the next couple of weeks with the intention of discussing the pedestrian crossing grant

The Arts:

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Bill Freeman is Southern Progressive Newsletter

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