Alison Morrow
Politics • News • Television
I am a former TV news reporter, married to a USMC veteran. I have transitioned my work to independent media analysis, focusing on bias and free speech issues, both on-air and online.
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The Orange & The Green 🇮🇪 : my family heritage

I shared in yesterday’s editorial board meeting that my great grandfather was a young man when his family left Belfast. I mentioned my family came from the Protestant side of the mounting religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants, so we wear orange on St Patrick’s Day. My mom followed up with the following:

“The Irish Civil War of the 1920s was "resolved " By a partition of the country Into 26 counties green and six northeast counties orange, under English rule.

This was unacceptable to many, which ultimately led to the Irish Republican Army and the terrorism of the 1970s against the English government, known as the Troubles. 30 years of urban guerrilla terrorism which was brought to an end in 1998 with the Good Friday accords.

John Black and family emigrated at the beginning of the Irish civil disturbances back in 1906 when he was 16 years old. Anne Murray Black and her husband, John Black , (Your great, great grandfather) left Belfast with six of their nine children (the ...

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Hurricane season is underway!

This was just a typical afternoon storm. Our power flickered but thankfully stayed on. Hurricane season ends November 30…yeehaw!

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More money freed up for so-called artificial intelligence (AI). They are determined. And, will spend double if they need to now. For the long game of having less humans to pay later.

Huge Cuts! Google Cuts $50 Million From The Google TV Budget - YouTube

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Lawyers Market Big #MeToo Verdicts, but Their Clients Struggle to Collect
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