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Transgender activist Jessica Yaniv has filed another human rights complaint against a Canadian beauty salon after workers refused to wax Yaniv’s male genitalia.

The latest complaint comes against She Point Beauty Studio, which offers Brazilian bikini waxes and leg waxes. The salon is run by East Indian women who are part of the Sikh religion. They rejected Yaniv’s request for waxes based on religious and cultural reasons, according to the Justice Centre, which is defending the women.

“Women have a constitutional right not to be compelled to touch biological males in an intimate or highly personal manner if they are not comfortable doing so,” Jay Cameron, an attorney with the Justice Centre, said in a Tuesday statement. “Like male genital waxing, our client does not offer male leg waxing services to the public, and we intend to vigorously defend against this targeted harassment on behalf of our client.”

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Joe,

Word on the street is that there was a body found in Salisbury at the self storage on Naylor Mill Road.  I think that is the building behind/beside Vernon Powell. 

Editor’s note:  We have checked Facebook and Twitter  and there has been nothing posted by the Salisbury Police Department.

The Democrat presidential candidate and former New York City mayor likes a lot of what he sees in the Golden State and thinks its efforts on climate change, gun control and criminal justice reform sets a benchmark for other states to emulate.

�I think that California can serve as a great example for the rest of this country,� Bloomberg told supporters at the opening of his Angeles headquarters.

Yes, there are problems, including homelessness, struggling public schools and scarce, costly housing. But California �is something the rest of the country looks up to,� Bloomberg said. �California has been a leader in an awful lot of things.�

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Joe,
I learned this week from Employees @ Sam’s Club on 13 in Salisbury the following.

Employees who report to duty at 6 to 7am and employees who close that store bw 9 and 11pm have been threatened and harrassed.

Most recently on Wednesday January 8, 2019 at 630am
Five men Identified as of Muslim descent, were hanging out in the back parking lot of Sam’s, attempting to lure Sam’s employees to come near to their vehicle; as others circled around one Sam’s employee.

That Sam’s employee thwarted the robbers by saying he was armed, and quickly moved to get into Sam’s door.

I wanted to let readers know, they must be aware of their surroundings in the parking lots of Sam’s and surrounding areas as you shop.

With three Police Agencies in the region;

Sherrif office on Naylor Mill Road,
State Police on Route 13,
and Salisbury Police ,
as citizens and employees of Sam’s Club,

WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO RIDE THROUGH THOSE AREAS, AND ID THOSE WHO APPEAR TO BE UP TO NO GOOD AT 6AM OR 10 PM IN AND AROUND DARK AREAS OF THE STORE PARKING LOTS FOR SAFETY REASONS.

Respectfuly,
Daily Reader

ANNAPOLIS, MD�Governor Larry Hogan today directed Attorney General Brian Frosh to pursue legal actions against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in order to protect Chesapeake Bay restoration efforts. Since his campaign for governor in 2014, Governor Hogan has repeatedly called on upstream states�including Pennsylvania�to step up and take responsibility for sediment and debris that pours into the Chesapeake Bay via the Susquehanna River.

�We have a generational responsibility to protect the Bay, and we simply cannot afford to fall short of these shared obligations,� writes Governor Hogan. �Therefore, I ask that you commence litigation against the EPA and Pennsylvania, and in close coordination with the Maryland Department of the Environment.�

Read the governor�s letter to the Attorney General here.

In August, after watershed states submitted their final Chesapeake Bay clean-up plans to the federal administration, the governor expressed �alarming concerns� about Pennsylvania�s lack of progress on clean water goals and called on the EPA to use its robust oversight powers to hold states accountable.

�Pennsylvania, which is under �enhanced� or �backstop� federal oversight due to failed pollution reduction efforts, has proposed a draft Phase III Watershed Implementation Plan (WIP) under which it would fall drastically short of its agreed-upon 2025 pollution reduction targets,� writes Governor Hogan. �The EPA currently appears to have no intention of taking the necessary action to ensure Pennsylvania�s compliance with its commitments.�

Governor Hogan is serving his second term as chairman of the Chesapeake Executive Council, which consists of the governors of the six watershed states, the mayor of the District of Columbia, the chair of the Chesapeake Bay Commission, and the EPA administrator. As governor, he has committed an historic $5 billion toward wide-ranging Bay restoration initiatives, and was recently successful in securing an increase in federal funding for Bay cleanup.

Darrin Johnson said…

Special thanks to Shane Baker and everyone that has shown support for the Deputies injured in the line of duty. For a Deputy to openly show support and not conceal his identity while making his comments I felt compelled to share my story to let everyone know how I was injured. My injury occurred while I was rendering aid to a lady trapped inside an overturned vehicle following an auto accident.

The injury I suffered dramatically changed my life forever and left me needing multiple surgeries to walk again and attempt to reclaim my independence. After my first surgery I was told that I would not walk again without the assistance of crutches, a walker or a cane unless I had a second surgery. I am now going through the process of of healing and walking with pain & limitations. I am thankful that I am able to walk again. In my career for the past 29 years I’ve faithfully served the citizens of Wicomico County.

A new 24-hour cable news channel aimed at an African American audience has once again delayed its launch – this time until Black History Month.

The Black News Channel, a new venture co-founded by former Republican Congressman JC Watts, was originally scheduled to go on the air on November 15.

The network then announced that it pushed back its launch date to January 6.

But now the channel is expected to be beamed into 70 million homes across the country starting on February 10. 
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Golden Globes host Ricky Gervais kicked off the 77th annual awards show by telling the night’s soon-to-be winners not to use their acceptance speeches to make political statements.

“So, if you do win an award tonight, don�t use it as a platform to make a political speech, right?” the actor and comedian said during his opening monologue. “You�re in no position to lecture the public about anything. You know nothing about the real world. Most of you spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg.

He added, “If you win, come up, accept your little award, thank your agent and your God, and f— off.”

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Iranian state TV, citing a military statement, says the country ‘unintentionally’ shot down a Ukrainian jetliner, killing all 176 aboard, after mistaking the aircraft for a hostile, enemy target.

The statement came Saturday morning, local time, and blamed ‘human error’ for shooting down the plane on Tuesday.

Specifically, Iranian officials says the aircraft ‘took the flying posture and altitude of an enemy target’ as it neared the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps base and attending personal didn’t recognize it as a passenger plane.

‘Under these circumstances, because of human error, [the plane] came under fire,’ the statement read, according to the New York Times.

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