AP Photo/Richard Vogel San Francisco plans to expunge thousands of marijuana convictions now that the drug is fully legal in California. Anyone with a misdemeanor marijuana conviction will have their record wiped clean. The city will also review nearly 5,000 felony cases for possible action. Californians voted to legalize marijuana for recreational use in 2016. […]
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EU leaders trying to ‘erase’ Poland’s WWII drama from historical memory of Europe – Polish minister
Polish Defense Minister Antoni Macierewicz has accused European leaders who are critical of Poland’s reparations claims, of attempts to “erase” the tragic fate of the Polish people during WWII from the “memory of Europe.” “Sulejow, destroyed villages and cities, the Polish nation, have the right to the truth of how the defense of Europe and […]
Should track and field erase its record book?
Google “women’s 800-metre world record” and you get a grainy video from a 1983 track meet in Munich. It shows the fastest 800-metre race ever run by a woman. And the most dubious. [embedded content] At age 32, a few weeks before winning gold at the IAAF world championships, Czechoslovakia’s Jarmila Kratochvilova ran two laps […]
A subway car full of New Yorkers came together to erase Nazi graffiti with hand sanitizer
Michael Semensohn / flickr On Saturday night, New York based-lawyer Gregory Locke posted on Facebook that, earlier in the night, he had entered a New York City subway car with advertisements covered in Nazi imagery. After a moment of uncomfortable silence, a fellow passenger took action. “One guy got up and said, ‘Hand sanitizer gets rid of […]