Tag: english

In a state where daily life often depends on being able to drive, access to a driver’s license matters. But, a newly proposed bill in the Iowa legislature could make it harder for residents who don’t use English as their primary language to get behind the wheel legally. House File 2102 passed the House in…

North Carolina Governor creates Commission on Accessibility, targeting better language access for the state’s evolving communities.

In early reporting on the Iran War as “the ultimate war of choice,” the New York Times spoke, as usual, in the sanitizing language of political realism. This is the lingua franca of the foreign policy elite in the Atlanticist alliance, consisting of the self-anointed ‘liberal democracies.’ It is definitely a more refined and less objectionable manner of labeling an unprovoked ‘war of aggression’ than the brazen utterances of the U.S. president, Donald Trump, who had the audacity to trivialize the bloodshed and devastation traumatizing Iran’s innocent population as ‘an excursion.’

I read that a resident from Woodside Close, just off the Garvaghy Road, Irish Hagan, has won a Judicial Review case, (a JR IS where a judge reviews the lawfulness of a decision, action, or failure to act by a public body. It focuses on whether the correct legal process was followed),  against Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council over their refusal to erect Irish language signage in the street despite the criteria under ABC Council being met.  https://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/courts/irish-signs-to-be-erected-in-portadown-following-legal-battle-6034520 The …

If you picked a random bill filed in the General Assembly this year, there’s more than a one in ten chance the original version would be devoid of meaningful content. They’re called shell bills and here’s why Kentucky lawmakers use them so much.

From Airbus to Siemens, English has become the default language of Europe’s most powerful boardrooms. The question is no longer how it got there—but who it’s leaving behind.

The Ministry of Education wants to create an option in the Population Register to allow people to list two native languages and define their own nationality.

Decades after the Sault’s ‘English-only’ edict made headlines across the country, the city has made good on a promise to hire a receptionist who can serve francophone residents

Staff writer Neha muses on the politics of a dominant language in a bilingual world.