Moricz is a plaintiff in a lawsuit filed against the state of Florida challenging the “Parental Rights in Education” act, notoriously known as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill (the “Bill”), which was passed a couple of months before his graduation. As a student activist for LGBTQ rights, he quickly became one of the Bill’s most prominent public opponents, immediately organizing a walkout at Pine View as well as a rally in Sarasota to protest the Bill’s dangerous implications for silencing and suppressing LGBTQ students’ identities in schools.
Online Investment Apps: Friend or Foe?
The American education system does not focus on financial literacy in any significant way. Only 21 states actually require some form of financial literacy education and even fewer require this education to be in a designated course. As such, many young investors are not well-versed in the securities market and its many offerings.
Creating an Anti-Racist Model of Traffic Policing
While it was only the final, fatal traffic stops of black drivers Sandra Bland and Philando Castille that made headlines, both drivers had long suffered in America’s racist system of traffic policing. Both had been frequently stopped and harassed by police for minor violations, issued tickets, and then overwhelmed by traffic fine debt and license suspensions.
Urban Dictionary Should be SFW in American Courts
For years, Urban Dictionary has been thought of as nothing more than a fun, if not crude, website frequented by middle schoolers looking for colorful new ways to insult their friends or refer to NSFW topics. But it is 2022. We are living in a time when the ridiculous has become credible. Where the joke is reality. Internet culture is mainstream culture. And in these modern, changing times, Urban Dictionary has been pulled out of middle school and dropped into the American Court system. Judges across the nation are turning to Urban Dictionary for the definitions of slang terms that appear in litigation.
Locked Out: How Closed-Door Contract Negotiations Increase Police Spending and Keep Taxpayers in the Dark
The Mayor of New York City and union representatives gather periodically to define a new contract for the NYPD. New York City taxpayers are noticeably absent when police contracts are negotiated despite the fact that the police budget is funded entirely through taxpayer dollars. What occurs during contract negotiations is undisclosed to the public, and only the final, ratified contract is available for New Yorkers to examine. Therefore, the public is left blind as to what or how their representatives are negotiating at these closed-door meetings as government representatives make and reject offers without public criticism.