It's a pretty simple and short amendment - as amendments to the U.S. Constitution go - the 19th, ratified on August 18, 95 years ago: "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States, or by any state, on account of sex."
Suffrage for women didn't come easy. The fight began in earnest 67 years earlier, when in 1848 three hundred men and women gathered at Seneca Falls, New York, for the nation's first women's rights convention. A march in Washington for the movement in 1913 was jeered by many men.
"Women were jeered, tripped, grabbed, shoved and many heard 'indecent epithets' and 'barnyard conversation,'" according to a story on the Library of Congress website. "Instead of protecting the parade, the police seemed to enjoy all the ribald jokes and laughter and part participated in them."
It turns out the rude treatment brought about support for the movement, and the proposed amendment passed Congress in 1919, to be ratified within the next year.
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This week was also significant for African Americans gaining the right of education. Fifty-two years ago, James Meredith became the first black to graduate from the previously segregated University of Mississippi.
Meredith's enrollment as a transfer student from all black Jackson State College a year earlier set off riots, and the 29-year old former U.S. Air Force serviceman had to be escorted to class by U.S. Marshals.
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It's a breakfast club, sort of - not with Emilio Estevez, Molly Ringwold and Ally Sheedy - but Republican Senators Ed Gaunch, Chris Walters and Democrat Corey Palumbo, and Charleston Main Streets Director Ric Cavender.
"Drawing better connections and improving communication between state lawmakers and leaders in Charleston's East End and West Side is the goal of a series of breakfast meetings that kicked off Tuesday," reported the Gazette-Mail's Matt Murphy.
Like the 1985 comedy drama, attendees at this Breakfast Club may realize they have more in common than they would have expected.
It's nice to see local legislators reach out. Makes one wonder how often that happened when Democrats controlled the Legislature.
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"How many workers does it take to change an incandescent light bulb in California?" asks the Wall Street Journal in an Aug. 18 editorial. "Two. One to install its energy-efficient replacement, and another to ensure the job complies with government regulations."
The joke is in reference to a 2012 Green Energy ballot initiative that California passed to force companies to build green.
Supporters of the initiative said it would create tens of thousands of new jobs and generate $1.5 billion in new revenue by now.
Instead, the initiative has raised less than a third of that and much of the "energy" expended by recipients went to spending millions of dollars completing paperwork - energy surveys, audits, data analytics - to meet California Energy Commission's guidelines. Schools have spent more than half of the $297 million that they've received through the program on consultants and auditors.
Sounds amazingly similar to how the EPA's Clean Power Plan is likely to work out.