The mayor of Alabama's largest city got into a fight with a city councilman during a meeting Tuesday, sending both men to the hospital.
A video of the council meeting captures sounds of a man repeatedly shouting "No!" from outside the council chamber before the presiding member calls for a recess.
Members scurry past double doors decorated with Christmas wreaths toward the noise as the gavel slams down, and a perplexed look crosses the face of a man who was making a presentation.
After the dust settled, Mayor William Bell and Councilman Marcus Lundy both had minor injuries. The council meeting ended early. A man dressed up as Santa Claus sat slouched in a chair outside council chambers afterward while police lingered in the hallway.
A veteran newspaper reporter who was promoted to editor of Bowling Green’s daily newspaper in 2013 was fired Monday for insubordination.
Jan Larson McLaughlin, 53, said she was handed a letter of termination accusing her of insubordination for allowing news staff members at the Sentinel-Tribune to read an editorial about the NRA that she had written, as was her normal practice.
Sentinel Publisher and Vice President Karmen Concannon killed the editorial and subsequently declined to discuss the matter with staff members who asked her to reconsider publishing it.
- Tim Gunn rocks it on “Project Runway” and he nails it here:
The uniforms of female Senate pages are not up to the standards of fashion expert Tim Gunn. The co-host of “Project Runway,” and now the spinoff “Project Runway Juniors,” wanted one of the challenges in the show to be fixing their uniforms.
But even though female pages are wearing men’s clothes, Congress “refused” to let the show take this on, Gunn told the Daily Mail. He added, “And do you want to know why? They say that they don’t want to sexualize the girls. How insulting is that? Can you imagine?”
Gunn brought up the uniforms in his 2013 book, “Tim Gunn’s Fashion Bible.” [...] He figured out that when women were introduced to the ranks of Senate pages, the uniforms were not altered.
His book continues, “Doesn’t it speak volumes for the cultural and social perception of women in the workforce, when you’re told that even though you have a woman’s body, you’re only allowed to wear clothes made for men? The message sent by this policy is that if women are to be accepted into the exclusive ranks of men, then they have to look like men: buttoned up, stuffy and no-nonsense.”