Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement The City Council of Fort Bragg, a small Northern California city named after Braxton Bragg, a Confederate Army general and slave owner, is pondering putting a town name change on the November ballot.The move by the Mendocino County town of nearly 7,400 comes in response “to many requests (some local and many not) that the city of Fort Bragg, California change its name to avoid any connotation associated with Confederate Army General Braxton Bragg,” a post on the read, as first reported by the . The discussion is set for June 22. The...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement The City Council of Fort Bragg, a small Northern California city named after Braxton Bragg, a Confederate Army general and slave owner, is pondering putting a town name change on the November ballot.The move by the Mendocino County town of nearly 7,400 comes in response “to many requests (some local and many not) that the city of Fort Bragg, California change its name to avoid any connotation associated with Confederate Army General Braxton Bragg,” a post on the read, as first reported by the . The discussion is set for June 22. The...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement USC is dealing with an outbreak of the coronavirus spread across the university’s Greek row.The school has detected around 40 positive COVID-19 cases involving individuals living on 28th Street, where many fraternity groups associated with the university are based, said Dr. Sarah Van Orman, USC’s chief student health officer.“A significant number of the cases were associated with four fraternity houses,” Van Orman said. To date, around and employees have tested positive. USC and other universities have adapted in an effort to keep...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement USC is dealing with an outbreak of the coronavirus spread across the university’s Greek row.The school has detected around 40 positive COVID-19 cases involving individuals living on 28th Street, where many fraternity groups associated with the university are based, said Dr. Sarah Van Orman, USC’s chief student health officer.“A significant number of the cases were associated with four fraternity houses,” Van Orman said. To date, around and employees have tested positive. USC and other universities have adapted in an effort to keep...WW…

Impartial journalism is an impossible ideal. That is, at least, according to Julie Mastrine. “Unbiased news doesn’t exist. Everyone has a bias: everyday people and journalists. And that’s OK,” Mastrine said. But it’s not OK for news organizations to hide those biases, she said. “We can be manipulated into (a biased outlet’s) point of view and not able to evaluate it critically and objectively and understand where it’s coming from,” said Mastrine, marketing director for , a media literacy company focused on “freeing people from filter bubbles.” That’s why she created a media bias chart. As...…Impartial journalism is an impossible ideal. That is, at least, according to Julie Mastrine. “Unbiased news doesn’t exist. Everyone has a bias: everyday people and journalists. And that’s OK,” Mastrine said. But it’s not OK for news organizations to hide those biases, she said. “We can be manipulated into (a biased outlet’s) point of view and not able to evaluate it critically and objectively and understand where it’s coming from,” said Mastrine, marketing director for , a media literacy company focused on “freeing people from filter bubbles.” That’s why she created a media bias chart. As...WW…