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“I think sports can be a grief ritual,” Erica Hill, the owner of Sparrow, said. “Maybe there are people coming because they always watched the Knicks with their person and their person isn’t here.”
If you ever needed an example of what it means for the NY Times to not be a local paper.
People are being very mean to De'Aaron Fox tonight, but if the Knicks had lost, everyone would be saying the same stuff about Josh Hart. Instead nobody's talking about it.
Sometimes you fuck up. How'd you do at your job this week?
Among the sites whose history Americans want to preserve were Japanese American incarceration sites such as Amache in southeast Colorado. I wrote about the students protecting those stories amid uncertain times for the National Park Service.
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More on how Chicago Public Schools CEO Macquline King handled the questioning, from my new Chalkbeat colleague @makseminera.bsky.social
Congressional Republicans interrogated three progressive superintendents during a lengthy hearing that included a demand for the Chicago schools CEO to specify which abortion method she prefers and a "yes it does/no it doesn't" debate about what Title IX requires. www.chalkbeat.org/2026/06/10/s...
There's a bit of unraveling happening with Education reEnvisioned, the controversial Colorado education cooperative that approved a "public Christian school" and dramatically expanded homeschool enrichment programs.
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The Monument-based group that started the controversial Riverstone Academy lost one of its school district members Tuesday and could lose the other one by the end of June.
There seems to be a bit of confusion about this, but the federal tax credit scholarship program has *always* explicitly allowed the funding to go towards public school students.
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The Trump administration last year issued a plea to visitors at U.S. national parks: Report any displays or exhibits saying “negative” things about Americans living in the past or present.
But most people who responded instead weighed in to criticize the effort itself
Some really crazy cases in here
- cop looked up ex-girlfriend and family in Flock 100+ times
- cop stalked wife giving "test" as reason
- cop searched one plate 395 times in 10 months; was later fired
Cops keep getting arrested for using Flock to stalk people
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Since the start of the second Trump administration, Republican officials have zeroed in on school districts that they believe are violating federal law and parents’ rights. On Wednesday, members of Co...
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At a funeral home in Brooklyn, a group of more than 70 people spanned a range of ages, backgrounds and hometowns. But they were united by at least two things: Their love of the Knicks and, in most cases, the loss of a loved one.
“I think our country is strong enough to understand the history of our nation in its totality, and I think that anything less than that makes us weak,” wrote one Amache visitor.
Inspired by the words of Karl-Anthony Towns, Sparrow Funeral Home in Brooklyn, hosted a watch party for basketball fans and grieving neighbors alike.
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The Trump administration last year issued a plea to visitors at U.S. national parks: Report any displays or exhibits saying “negative” things about Americans living in the past or present.
But most people who responded instead weighed in to criticize the effort itself
Chicago Public Schools’ relationship with the Trump administration was already strained before the hearing, leaving a fine line for CEO Macquline King to thread in front of lawmakers.
OG Anunoby saved Knicks teammate Josh Hart from ‘a lifetime of regret’ in wild Game 4 finish.
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Chicago Public Schools’ relationship with the Trump administration was already strained before the hearing, leaving a fine line for CEO Macquline King to thread in front of lawmakers.
