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Port Authority Police Buy Uniforms For Newark Girls Soccer Players Port Authority Police Buy Uniforms For Newark Girls Soccer Players
Port Authority Police Buy Uniforms For Newark Girls Soccer Players The players from East Side High School's girls varsity soccer team were in desperate need. Fortunately, some law enforcement officers based at Newark Liberty International Airport pitched in to help.  Coach Juan Alvarez created an account on Donorschoose.org, where educators and students can post requests for funds for school-related needs. When Officer Manual Martinez of the Port Authority police came across the request online and reached out to Alvarez, he learned that the girls were in desperate need of new uniforms.  The Port Authority command at Newark Liberty banded together…

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by Paul Milo
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After Racist Comments Surface, Calls For Renaming Elizabeth's Reagan Academy After Racist Comments Surface, Calls For Renaming Elizabeth's Reagan Academy
After Racist Comments Surface, Calls For Renaming Elizabeth's Reagan Academy A college student and Democratic Party activist has started a petition calling for the Ronald Reagan Academy in Elizabeth to be renamed after a recording of the 40th president referring to Africans as "monkeys" emerged a few weeks ago.  Ricky Castaneda, 21, launched the petition on Change.org and hopes to have it signed by 1,000 people in time for the next Elizabeth Board of Education meeting Aug 22.  "In [the] wake of the damaging October 1971 racist phone conversation between Governor Ronald Reagan and President Richard Nixon that recently surfaced, outraged human/civil rights a…

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by Paul Milo