NUMBER TWENTY-FOUR, FOR OUR FAITH BASED READERS---AND HISTORY BUFFS TOO--PASADENA CHURCH WINS PARTIAL VICTORY, AND SAN FRANCISCO SCHOOL RE-NAMING MADNESS, THE TRAINWRECK INTERVIEW

For our faith-based readers and history buffs too---NUMBER 24-- one of our most widely traveled and very popular series here at Everythng Croton: 

#1---Churches, including a Pasadena location that filed suit, have won a partial victory against California's ban on indoor worship services during the coronavirus pandemic. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled late Friday that the ban on indoor worship violated First Amendment guarantees, clearing the way for churches in the state to reopen their doors to parishioners. MORE AT https://laist.com/latest/post/20210206/pasadena-california-church-supreme-court-lawsuit-indoor-services-covid

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#2---The president of San Francisco’s school board defiantly defended the district’s decision to strip 44 “racist” names from its schools without hearing from a single historian in a trainwreck new interview.

Gabriela López talked in circles as she was grilled by the New Yorker on the lack of history experts and on a report that found that the board’s controversial move was based, in part, on misinformation and “casual Google searches.” MORE AT https://nypost.com/2021/02/09/san-francisco-school-board-president-defends-renaming-plan/

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SEE THE LAST EDITION OF THIS SERIES---NUMBER TWENTY-THREE, FOR OUR FAITH BASED READERS AND HISTORY BUFFS TOO---CARDINAL DOLAN: THE RADICALS WHO DEFACED ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL ARE PURE BIGOTS---AT https://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2021/01/number-twenty-three-for-our-faith-based.html