Connecticut Post: State must end race-based school quotas

Connecticut parents and education reformers recently marked a major victory after the state, facing a legal challenge by black and Hispanic parents in Hartford, announced it would at last end its longstanding policy of race-based quotas that penalize marginalized children of color in Hartford’s interdistrict magnet school system.

Gwen Samuel is the president and founder of the Connecticut Parents Union and a client in Connecticut Parents Union v. Wentzell. In the Connecticut Post, Gwen explains that while the victory is cause for celebration, the demand for educational freedom shouldn’t stop there.

California’s DMV strays from its own lane to act as speech police

To Chris Ogilvie’s military friends, he’s known as OG—a nickname stemming from boot camp. To his friends back home, Chris is known as Woolf. So, upon his honorable discharge following four tours overseas, including Iraq and Afghanistan, the Army veteran bought a car and applied for a personalized license plate that spelled, “OG WOOLF.”

The DMV rejected his application, however, because its guidelines consider “OG” to mean “original gangster,” which is—by the DMV’s standards—too offensive for motorists. Chris and four other motorists are challenging arbitrary, biased, and unjust censorship of their speech by California’s DMV bureaucrats.

Governments’ misguided battle threatens California fishermen and their way of life

Swordfish is a very popular seafood and one of the most abundant types of fish on the West Coast. It is also a primary source of income and way of life for many California families.

But recent legal changes at the state and federal levels threaten to wipe out longtime family-owned businesses, as well as the entire domestic swordfish supply.

To preserve an industry that’s fed Californians and supported their livelihoods for generations, swordfishing families are fighting back against this government overreach.

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