Good things are happening! A state supreme court gives the youth a chance to live, nurses win a union, the Garden State bans book bans, and small businesses go big.
Banning Book Bans
New Jersey became the third state to enact a ban on book bans, following the lead of Illinois and Minnesota. The law, signed by Gov. Phil Murphy (D) on Dec. 9, will prohibit public and school libraries from banning books and protect librarians from lawsuits and criminal charges for following the new mandate.
Under the new “Freedom to Read” law, public and school libraries are barred from censoring books because of the origin, background, or views of the material or the material’s author. The law allows the restriction of “developmentally inappropriate material” for certain age groups and permits local school boards and governing bodies of public libraries to establish policies for book curation.
I wonder how the Musky/Trump administration will deal with small business growth. For sure the bulk of grants and tax waivers will still go to the major donors to MAGA but small independent business is likely to be harder to corral and likely to be the backbone of resurgent small independant communities/municipalities which in due course will probably stoke independant States rights movements and THAT will certainly have an influence in rejecting corporate consolidation by the big money guys. - At least I hope that will be the case. I sense a restive movement gathering against giant corporations/financial manipulators who think they can write their own rules.