IN THE NEWS--MILLIONS WORTH OF PSYCHEDELIC MUSHROOMS SEIZED IN CONNECTICUT

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GANNETT---A NEWSPAPER GIANT TRIED TO DIVERSIFY ITS STAFF, WHITE WORKERS SUED

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A newspaper giant tried to diversify its staff. White workers sued.
Story by Taylor Telford • 7h--------After more than 20 years of working for his hometown newspaper, the Democrat and Chronicle in Rochester, N.Y., Steve Bradley was laid off amid pandemic-induced cost-cutting in May 2020. He was crushed, but he eventually took a communications job for a local school district.

Then, two years later, he received a startling message.

Sitting in the bleachers at the school softball field in July 2022, Bradley took a phone call from an unknown number. He listened as J. Nelson Thomas, an employment lawyer he’d never met, presented a jarring claim: Bradley was laid off because he is White.

Now, Bradley is one of five named plaintiffs in a proposed class-action lawsuit that claims the country’s largest newspaper publisher “discriminated against non-minorities” to achieve diversity goals. Filed in August in Virginia federal court, the suit alleges that Gannett fired White employees, denied them opportunities for advancement and replaced them with less-qualified minority candidates as the company sought to diversify its workforce. MORE AT A newspaper giant tried to diversify its staff. White workers sued. (msn.com)

STATE SUPREME COURT ELECTIONS---8 VYING FOR 4 JUDGESHIPS, CROTON'S SARCONE ETAL.

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State Supreme Court elections: 8 vying for 4 judgeships in NY's 9th Judicial District--Jonathan Bandler--Rockland/Westchester Journal News---READ MORE AT State Supreme Court elections: 8 vying for 4 seats in NY 9th District (lohud.com)

IN THE NEWS---VIOLENT ANTISEMITISM FORCED CORNELL TO CANCEL CLASSES---ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

 Violent antisemitism forced Cornell to cancel classes. Enough is enough.

Opinion by Michael Masters, opinion contributor----This past weekend, Jewish students at Cornell were faced with yet another threat to their ability to participate in campus life – and exist. An online message poster threatened they were “gonna shoot up” the Jewish Living Center on campus. Other users — with handles “jew evil,” “jews need death,” and “kill jews” — piled on. The posts then went viral.  MORE AT Violent antisemitism forced Cornell to cancel classes. Enough is enough. (msn.com)

CONGRATULATIONS FATHER McSWEENEY

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Next Sunday, November 12th, St. Augustine Parish would like to congratulate our Pastor, Fr. Brian T. McSweeney, on the 35th Anniversary of his Ordination to the Priesthood. St. Augustine Parish - Ossining, New York (staugny.org)