STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up The Hill This Week

Courtesy of Legistorm: TYLER VARNER comes aboard the staff of Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) as a Staff Assistant, after interning for Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) and the Senate Sergeant-at-Arms. Tyler is a 2021 graduate in Information Science and Systems/Information Technology from Morgan State University. And joining the staff of Maryland’s other senator, Sen. Ben…

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WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? They Say the Classics Must Go

With the onslaught throughout the American public education system of analyses based on Critical Race Theory and related claims about “white privilege,” it comes as no surprise to hear demands that “the classics” should be done away with as relics of past injustices. Whether it’s classics like Aristotle’s “Nichomachean Ethics,” Thomas Aquinas’ “Summae Contra Gentiles”…

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STAFF NEWS: Turnover Rate For House Aides Hit 20-Year High in 2021

Data compiled by Legistorm shows the highest single-year turnover rate among House staffers since the company began compiling information in 2021, according to Ketura Hetrick. “House turnover has crept upward since about 2009, but the pandemic and Capitol insurrection pushed far more staffers than usual to leave their jobs in 2021 – 55 percent more…

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STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up The Hill (Might Be Somebody You Know!)

Courtesy of Legistorm: JENNIFER PIERCY is the new Economic Development Director for Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV). Jennifer is a 2003 MA graduate in Journalism and Political Science from Marshall University and she also earned her BA from Marshall. KNOX MCCUTCHEN: Moves into the Communications Director slot for Rep. Cliff Bentz (R-Ore.) after serving stints…

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Bet You Didn’t Know This About Camels

No, camels do not store water in their hump (or humps in the case of Asian camels), so that’s not why they can go days or even months without so much as drinking a drop of water. But they can eat prickly cactus plants without injuring their mouths. The reason camels can eat cactus plants…

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THE CHOSEN: Jesus Meets the Samaritan Woman at the Well

From The Gospel of John 4:1-26 (English Standard Version) 4 Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John 2 (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples), 3 he left Judea and departed again for Galilee. 4 And he had to pass through Samaria. 5 So he came to a town of Samaria…

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