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- A Trump Judge Called Mail-In Ballots a Threat to Democracy
On Wednesday, the conservative Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a ruling blocking key measures of Texas’ sweeping voter suppression law, SB 1. A lower court previously ruled that the law, which effectively made it harder for people to vote with assistance, violated disability civil rights laws. It also created more barriers to voting by mail. “It has long been established that mail-in ballots are prone to fraud,” Judge Andrew Oldham wrote, according to Democracy Docket. “That is why voting by mail jeopardizes election integrity and democracy itself.” There is no evidence that mail-in ballots are “prone to fraud.” An analysis from the Brookings Institution found an “average total mail voting fraud percentage across the 2016, 2018, 2020, and 2022 general elections of only 0.000043 [percent].” Or, about 4 votes per 10 million votes. Mail-in voting can be very important for disabled and aging people, who otherwise may have to deal with accessibility challenges with getting to the polls and access issues when voting itself. One of the plaintiffs of the initial lawsuit, La Union del Pueblo Entero v. Abbott, filed in 2021, is the historically Black sorority Delta Sigma Theta. One of its members, Candace Wicks told me in 2024 that she was frustrated about the barriers disabled people faced while voting since SB. 1. Disabled people, Wicks said, “face barriers every day in terms of discrimination in our daily lives.” SB1, which she sees as a form of disenfranchisement, is to her just one example. “We need to make our democracy accessible to everybody, regardless of our ability,” she said. Research from the Brennan Center found that SB 1 in Texas had devastating impacts when many of its provisions in effect. A 2025 research paper found that thousands of Texans, disproportionately people of color, had their ballots rejected in the 2022 primary due to SB. 1. People whose ballots were rejected were less likely to vote in the 2022 general election in November and also were less likely to vote in 2024. Wednesday’s ruling could impact turnout for the 2026 Texas Senate race, where Democrat James Talarico has a shot at flipping that Texas Senate seat Blue in a contest against Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 days ago - Kennedy Center board votes to put Trump’s name back on building
The board on Thursday also voted to proceed with a two-year closure for proposed renovations, which was earlier blocked by a federal judge. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 days ago - ‘I lost $14,000 in a month’: Investors hit by Korean stock market...Some traders are reeling from heavy losses after a brutal correction in South Korea's stock market. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 days ago
- DRM Can Be Embedded in Earbuds and Other Products
Matthew Phillips This is one in a series about trends in global radio. Matthew Phillips is product director at the U.K.-based IC supplier CML Micro and a vice-chairman of Digital Radio Mondiale. Radio World: What is the company’s involvement with DRM? Matthew Phillips: CML Micro has developed a highly integrated and low-power DRM-capable receiver module for DRM radio manufacturers to use. The DRM1000 module is the technology core of a consumer DRM-capable radio receiver and can be used by any manufacturer to develop and produce DRM receivers quickly. The device has many leading technical features, and we hope that by making DRM radio attractive to use, simple to operate and cost-effective we can make DRM available to a worldwide audience regardless of income or location. This interview is from the free ebook “Global Radio Update.” RW: What are the most important broad recent changes or trends for radio transmission and technology platforms around the world? Phillips: Understanding how radio broadcasting and internet audio streaming coexist and flourish in their own strengths together is a major challenge. Internet streaming has its uses for on-demand type services. On-demand services require a user’s active selection and attention. However what is sometimes ignored is that curated content — put together more intelligently that random playlists made by machine algorithms — that we can consume while busy, or mass society uniting content such as sports events free to air, are much better delivered over broadcast radio. Truly reaching all the world’s population and indeed reaching populations in times of crisis are again the province of radio. Radio needs to make this case forcefully to not be damaged by the rise of digital “slop content.” RW: What do you consider the key recent advancements for DRM? Phillips: The use of DRM for remote education or so-called e-learning is of great social importance. I hope we will see a much wider understand across emerging nations of the power of DRM to bring education to millions of children who currently miss their schooling for many reasons. Education is the key to a stable better future for all of humanity, and DRM can help that process. The vital support that DRM-based radio can bring to emergency and crisis management is needed urgently, particularly as the climate crisis shows its effect more frequently each year. Finally the fact that DRM receivers have now become small enough, low-power enough, and cost-effective… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 days ago - Kids learn about farming, cooking, and food at camp
Children who live in area cities are learning about sustainable food, where it comes from, plus getting hands on experience cooking some meals they can enjoy. They’re taking part in the Learn to Live Local Youth Day Camp. It’s hosted by the Mormon Coulee 4-H through a grant from the La Crosse Area Community Foundation. Kaarina Dunn, Project Coordinator Kaarina Dunn, the project coordinator, said most of the kids haven’t learned these skills in school. “Most of the kids aren’t exposed to this at all. They’re so excited about cutting up things for the tacos we’re making later or going grocery shopping for fruit and learning about how different fruits can go into the foods that we eat. And so, a really special thing about this is seeing the kids spark like when they learn something like, ‘Whoa, that’s how that works’, or ‘Whoa, that’s why I do this’. It that specialness, honestly, what makes this the best part of the camp.” Dunn says the camp gives them confidence to take the skills they learn and share them at home. “Giving these kids this information at a young age, it really makes them start thinking about the world around them and how the little choices that they’re making each day affects the greater world, honestly.” They spent the morning at the People’s Food Coop in La Crosse making taco seasoning that they can take home at the end of the day. Rainy weather canceled a trip to a local farm on Thursday. About 40 children have participated in the Live to Learn camps this summer. Many are from La Crosse, Onalaska, and La Crescent. The post Kids learn about farming, cooking, and food at camp appeared first on WIZM 92.3FM 106.7FM 1410AM. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 days ago
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On Wednesday, the conservative Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a ruling blocking key measures of Texas’ sweeping voter suppression law, SB 1. A lower court previously ruled that the law, which effectively made it harder for people to vote with assistance, violated disability civil rights laws. It also created more barriers to voting by mail. “It has long been established that mail-in ballots are prone to fraud,” Judge Andrew Oldham wrote, according to Democracy Docket. “That is why voting by mail jeopardizes election integrity and democracy itself.” There is no evidence that mail-in ballots are “prone to fraud.” An analysis from the Brookings Institution found an “average total mail voting fraud percentage across the 2016, 2018, 2020, and 2022 general elections of only 0.000043 [percent].” Or, about 4 votes per 10 million votes. Mail-in voting can be very important for disabled and aging people, who otherwise may have to deal with accessibility challenges with getting to the polls and access issues when voting itself. One of the plaintiffs of the initial lawsuit, La Union del Pueblo Entero v. Abbott, filed in 2021, is the historically Black sorority Delta Sigma Theta. One of its members, Candace Wicks told me in 2024 that she was frustrated about the barriers disabled people faced while voting since SB. 1. Disabled people, Wicks said, “face barriers every day in terms of discrimination in our daily lives.” SB1, which she sees as a form of disenfranchisement, is to her just one example. “We need to make our democracy accessible to everybody, regardless of our ability,” she said. Research from the Brennan Center found that SB 1 in Texas had devastating impacts when many of its provisions in effect. A 2025 research paper found that thousands of Texans, disproportionately people of color, had their ballots rejected in the 2022 primary due to SB. 1. People whose ballots were rejected were less likely to vote in the 2022 general election in November and also were less likely to vote in 2024. Wednesday’s ruling could impact turnout for the 2026 Texas Senate race, where Democrat James Talarico has a shot at flipping that Texas Senate seat Blue in a contest against Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. [TheTopNews] Read More.
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The board on Thursday also voted to proceed with a two-year closure for proposed renovations, which was earlier blocked by a federal judge. [TheTopNews] Read More.
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Some traders are reeling from heavy losses after a brutal correction in South Korea's stock market. [TheTopNews] Read More.
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Matthew Phillips This is one in a series about trends in global radio. Matthew Phillips is product director at the U.K.-based IC supplier CML Micro and a vice-chairman of Digital Radio Mondiale. Radio World: What is the company’s involvement with DRM? Matthew Phillips: CML Micro has developed a highly integrated and low-power DRM-capable receiver module for DRM radio manufacturers to use. The DRM1000 module is the technology core of a consumer DRM-capable radio receiver and can be used by any manufacturer to develop and produce DRM receivers quickly. The device has many leading technical features, and we hope that by making DRM radio attractive to use, simple to operate and cost-effective we can make DRM available to a worldwide audience regardless of income or location. This interview is from the free ebook “Global Radio Update.” RW: What are the most important broad recent changes or trends for radio transmission and technology platforms around the world? Phillips: Understanding how radio broadcasting and internet audio streaming coexist and flourish in their own strengths together is a major challenge. Internet streaming has its uses for on-demand type services. On-demand services require a user’s active selection and attention. However what is sometimes ignored is that curated content — put together more intelligently that random playlists made by machine algorithms — that we can consume while busy, or mass society uniting content such as sports events free to air, are much better delivered over broadcast radio. Truly reaching all the world’s population and indeed reaching populations in times of crisis are again the province of radio. Radio needs to make this case forcefully to not be damaged by the rise of digital “slop content.” RW: What do you consider the key recent advancements for DRM? Phillips: The use of DRM for remote education or so-called e-learning is of great social importance. I hope we will see a much wider understand across emerging nations of the power of DRM to bring education to millions of children who currently miss their schooling for many reasons. Education is the key to a stable better future for all of humanity, and DRM can help that process. The vital support that DRM-based radio can bring to emergency and crisis management is needed urgently, particularly as the climate crisis shows its effect more frequently each year. Finally the fact that DRM receivers have now become small enough, low-power enough, and cost-effective… [TheTopNews] Read More.
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Children who live in area cities are learning about sustainable food, where it comes from, plus getting hands on experience cooking some meals they can enjoy. They’re taking part in the Learn to Live Local Youth Day Camp. It’s hosted by the Mormon Coulee 4-H through a grant from the La Crosse Area Community Foundation. Kaarina Dunn, Project Coordinator Kaarina Dunn, the project coordinator, said most of the kids haven’t learned these skills in school. “Most of the kids aren’t exposed to this at all. They’re so excited about cutting up things for the tacos we’re making later or going grocery shopping for fruit and learning about how different fruits can go into the foods that we eat. And so, a really special thing about this is seeing the kids spark like when they learn something like, ‘Whoa, that’s how that works’, or ‘Whoa, that’s why I do this’. It that specialness, honestly, what makes this the best part of the camp.” Dunn says the camp gives them confidence to take the skills they learn and share them at home. “Giving these kids this information at a young age, it really makes them start thinking about the world around them and how the little choices that they’re making each day affects the greater world, honestly.” They spent the morning at the People’s Food Coop in La Crosse making taco seasoning that they can take home at the end of the day. Rainy weather canceled a trip to a local farm on Thursday. About 40 children have participated in the Live to Learn camps this summer. Many are from La Crosse, Onalaska, and La Crescent. The post Kids learn about farming, cooking, and food at camp appeared first on WIZM 92.3FM 106.7FM 1410AM. [TheTopNews] Read More.
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