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... and since then, Spotsylvania has thrown out its Trumpist school board. The county is becoming less rural (which usually means Less Trumpist).

 

For posterity: The last Republican before Trump to lose Chesterfield County was Thomas Dewey in 1948.

 

But enough about Alma...

 

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The Observer: After Trump win in NH, be careful what you wish for


https://www.seacoastonline.com/stor...-nh-be-careful-what-you-wish-for/72320090007/

 

More elite universities settle suit over alleged ‘price-fixing’ aid policies

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/01/24/colleges-price-fixing-financial-aid-settlement/


"Nearly half a dozen of the nation’s top universities have agreed to pay a total of $104.5 million to resolve claims they conspired to limit financial aid for admitted students, according to a Tuesday court filing.

The settlements, which are pending a judge’s approval, arrive two years after eight former students filed a class-action lawsuit against 17 elite schools, including most members of the Ivy League. The students claim the colleges and universities used a shared methodology to calculate financial need in a way that reduces institutional dollars to students from working- and middle-class families — describing it as a “price-fixing cartel.” The schools have denied the charges.

In all, eight institutions have reached settlements in the case. The schools named in the lawsuit worked together in the 568 Presidents Group, a collection of highly selective institutions that collaborated on aid formulas. The group, which first formed in the late 1990s, dissolved after the lawsuit was filed.

Attorneys for the plaintiffs estimate that approximately 200,000 students have been harmed by the financial aid practice in the past 20 years.

To resolve the charges, Columbia University and Duke University have each agreed to pay $24 million, while Yale University and Emory University will pay $18.5 million each. Brown University will pay $19.5 million to settle the case, according to court documents.

A spokeswoman for Yale wrote in an email that, as families nationwide face the pressure of rising college costs and student debt levels, “Yale is proud of its 60-year tradition of need-blind admissions and its commitment to making undergraduate education accessible to students from all socioeconomic backgrounds.” The college’s financial-aid offers meet the full financial need of each student, without aid in the form of repayable loans, according to the university.

“This settlement contains no admission that Yale did anything wrong but allows the university to avoid the cost and disruption of further litigation and to continue its work in making undergraduate education more affordable for more families.”


Yeah, "The lawsuit is without merit, but settling is in the best interest of the community." Riiiight.

 

Wheee! Someone had fun writing this one.


Nikki Haley has been running to lead a Republican party that no longer exists


Nikki Haley has been running to lead a Republican party that no longer exists | Moira Donegan

"Haley, after all, had recently come into a flush of donor money at the end of 2023, as the field dwindled and she was left alone as the last almost-plausible non-Trump candidate. She’d put much of that money into New Hampshire, a state whose Republicans tend to hew more moderate. (Haley, a rabid conservative but one who does not seem to oppose the rule of law outright, is what passes for “moderate” in today’s Republican party.)"

"Hers was a campaign that talked about a generational shift and played up Haley’s relative youth (she’s 52), but which also seemed to wish for a return to the political past, attempting to proceed as if Trump had never happened. Who could look at today’s Republican party – animated by racist and misogynist zeal, in thrall to short-sightedness and bigotry, harnessed around petty grievances and functionally largely, for its base, to entertain – and think that what such people wanted was a competent, cool-headed and strategic woman of color? Only the most naive people in the world could think that. Haley, at least, was willing to take their money."

 

All lies. All. The. Time.

 

He not only won New Hampshire twice.

He won it "by a lot."

 

we knew he was dumber than 10 miles of dirt road, your party nominated him twice

 

What was the margin for Hampton Roads? Does VA Beach cover it? I would assume there was a bigger margin in Norfolk, Newport News and Hampton. Unless the Black vote was taken out by the military vote?