Category Archives: civil rights

Sen. Thayer On Felon Voting Rights: “If It Ain’t Broke…”

October 14, 2009 – 4:53 pm

So State Senator Damon Thayer, R-17, wrote an editorial in the Georgetown News-Graphic expressing exasperation over why some people believe that Kentucky’s current system of felon voter rights restoration is outmoded and inefficient. Yet his argument — that the system is fine as it is — is rife with enough oversimplifications and inaccuracies to warrant [...]

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Labor Pains

April 6, 2009 – 4:45 pm

I was digging around the C-J’s website for more information on Infield Barbie, when one of those obnoxious Flash advertisements (not eXtenze) caught my eye.
“Everyday we lose more jobs,” the ad implored, “And some in Congress want to take away workers’ rights to secret ballots and contract negotiations.”
Silhouetted “workers” began multiplying like bacteria, filling the [...]

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Lunchbox: Hanging Mr. Hope

October 30, 2008 – 12:00 pm

$2.28: The price for a gallon of gas at my pit stop. Tanking the American economy is one way to lower gas prices.
Grand(iose) jury: A Marshall County grand jury will decide — probably late next week — whether criminal charges are warranted in Recorder-gate, the faux controversy sparked when a GOP operative stashed an audio [...]

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Countdown to E-Day: The ‘Warrior of Troy’ Remembers

October 20, 2008 – 11:03 am

 
(Editor’s note: LEO Weekly columnist Ricky L. Jones will be sending us weekly reports until Election Day. Enjoy.)
Message to the People

By Ricky L. Jones 
It is 1957.  John Lewis, one of 10 children reared on a small farm without electricity or plumbing in Troy, Ala., is graduating high school.  He is the first member of his family to do so.  He [...]

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Tennyson’s JRC responds

August 25, 2008 – 7:13 pm

Saying they have no animosity towards Mattie Jones & Co., the Rev. James Tennyson, the new interim director of the Justice Resource Center, promised that the work of the Rev. Louis Coleman would continue at the organization he founded and would not be derailed in the wake of a recent split between him and Jones.
“There [...]

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Tennyson’s JRC responds

August 25, 2008 – 7:13 pm

Saying they have no animosity towards Mattie Jones & Co., the Rev. James Tennyson, the new interim director of the Justice Resource Center, promised that the work of the Rev. Louis Coleman would continue at the organization he founded and would not be derailed in the wake of a recent split between him and Jones.
“There [...]

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Attack of the Activist 2

August 22, 2008 – 3:41 pm

Before 8am this morning, my cell phone had several new text messages saying Mattie Jones had been ousted as interim director of the Justice Resource Center. The C-J did a piece covering some aspects of the story, but ignored the context in previous LEO articles.
Later this morning a press conference was held in front of [...]

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