April 19, 2024

OR woman to get $1M in damages after gas station worker tells her ‘I don’t serve Black people’

A jury has awarded an Oregon woman $1 million in damages after finding she was discriminated against by a gas station employee who told her, “I don’t serve Black people.” The Multnomah County jury’s award this week to Portland resident Rose Wakefield, 63, included punitive damages of $550,000. Wakefield’s lawyer, Gregory Kafoury, said she stopped […]

Texas Governor Seeks Survey of Property Damages Caused by Migrant Crisis

Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Thursday urged landowners in border communities affected by the influx of unlawful immigration to complete a Self-Reporting Damage Survey administered by the Division of Emergency Management’s iSTAT tool. Abbott’s urged in a statement, “I strongly encourage Texas landowners along the border to report any personal property damages they incur due…

When Partisan Lying by the Press Damages a Nation

A Special Report from the AIM Center for Investigative Journalism The Founders counted on an adversarial press to keep America’s politicians honest and accountable. If our media won’t investigate the backgrounds of our candidates on a bipartisan basis, our entire constitutional system is in jeopardy. Remember how in 2012 The Washington Post dug into the […]

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