Thursday, June 14, 2018

In the news, Saturday, May 26, 2018


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from LifeZette (& PoliZette)
Media/News Company in Washington, D. C.

She Passed Herself Off as Black for Years — Now, She’s Slammed for Welfare Fraud
Rachel Dolezal, the white woman who “passed” as black for years while heading up a Washington state chapter of the NAACP, is facing charges of welfare fraud, according to The New York Times and other outlets. Dolezal helped introduce the word “transracial” into the public lexicon when she was “outed” as a white woman in 2015. Today, she’s in trouble for posing as “transpoor,” as Frontpage Mag humorously called her, after passing herself off as a struggling mom who needed food stamp assistance. Dolezal, who changed her legal name to Nkechi Diallo in 2016, received public assistance while at the same time cashing lucrative checks based on a book deal and the Netflix documentary “The Rachel Divide,” according to multiple reports. She collected thousands in public welfare and was nailed when an investigator learned of her book deal, which can net an author $10,000 or more, as Spokane, Washington, NBC affiliate KHQ reported.

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from Space.com (& CollectSpace)

Alan Bean: From Astronaut to Artist
Alan Bean, Jr., the Apollo 12 moonwalker who also flew to Skylab and later drew inspiration from his spaceflights in his art, died May 26, 2018 after an illness. He was 86.

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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

The Ferry County Rail Trail rides on
The Ferry County Rail Trail project is up and riding again after county commissioners approved the next stage of the project at a meeting earlier this month.

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