Advance Morning News
It's Thursday, February 13. Today's stories include our History Thursday feature on Cecil Reid and his cottage courts, and a retired attorney guiding local immigrant families through trying days.
BLACK HISTORY MONTH QUOTE
“The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.”
-Ida B. Wells, from the book The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader
History Thursday: Cecil Reid’s Cottage Courts
By Adele Uphaus
Reid’s Court and Caroline Terrace are both approaching 100 years old but are examples of developments that could solve housing shortage and affordability problems that plague Fredericksburg today, experts told the Advance in January.
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The Executive Order Project - Immigration: Optimism in a Time of Fear
By Martin Davis
A local volunteer attorney is taking what he sees and acting on it to help immigrants. Along the way, he's also inspiring the next generation of civil rights and immigration workers.
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So, is Mr. Reid guiding legal immigrants or illegal immigrants (aliens), or both? Legal -- good on him. Illegal -- no, he does not have the right to spend my money on law breakers, who are here without permission and using public largess that is being taken from Americans.