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Internet Association Opens Texas Office And Hires State Government Affairs Southern Region Director

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Hines will also cover Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia, which include an additional 1,366,000 American internet sector jobs.

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Design Group Pushes Back on North Carolina’s HB2

Associations Now

In the days leading up to a large-scale North Carolina furniture tradeshow, the American Society of Interior Designers is pressuring the state to repeal a new law that prevents local municipalities from expanding discrimination protections for LGBT people. North Carolina is not alone in this controversy.

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Walking Through History with Norman Rockwell

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The North Carolina Museum of Art exhibit, American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell , i ncludes 47 years of his covers for The Saturday Evening Post plus dozens of other paintings. Norman Rockwell took me on a trip through American political and cultural history earlier this week. Sometimes the sensory experience is enough.

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NCAA Tightens Rules Against LGBT Discrimination

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The strategy arose in response to a set of recent laws in North Carolina, Mississippi, and Tennessee that have been seen as discriminatory against gay and transgender individuals. Last year in Indiana, a religious-freedom law similar to North Carolina’s passed but was later revamped.

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New Journalism Society Launches With Goal of Boosting Diversity

Associations Now

Wells, born into slavery in Mississippi just months before the Emancipation Proclamation was issued, grew into an uncompromising journalist who investigated the horrors of lynching. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting hopes to help improve diversity in the reporting sphere.

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New Battlefront: Same-Sex Spouse Benefits and the National Guard

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Politicians in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Mississippi have worked to block gay and lesbian National Guard members’ spouses from receiving benefits based on state law not recognizing same-sex marriage. Despite this, the Department of Defense says that no spouses have been denied benefits.