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Candidate for New York’s 22nd Congressional District Claudia Tenney says taking down the statue of Christopher Columbus in Utica would be erasing history. The candidate sent the following statement on the matter: Christopher Columbus’s dangerous journey to explore the new world led to the discovery and eventual founding of the greatest country in t...

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Senator Joe Pennacchio (R-26) released the following statement in reaction to a published report of the launch of an online petition seeking the removal of the Christopher Columbus monument in Parsippany. A bust of Columbus was installed on a granite base on Parsippany Boulevard in 1992 to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Italian explorer lan...

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The status of a Christopher Columbus statue outside the Ohio State Capitol is likely to come up at a future meeting of the agency that manages the Statehouse grounds, after support has grown in Columbus to remove the city’s other prominent statues of the Italian explorer. Laura Battocletti, executive director of the Capitol Square Review and Adviso...

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There is a renewed push to remove a Christopher Columbus statue in Lancaster, and County Commissioner Craig Lehman is spearheading the movement following nationwide protests surrounding racial inequality. Cities, states, and municipalities across the country have removed similar statues. “My thinking was that this would bring about a necessary nati...

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While the City of Boston re-evaluates the future of a decapitated Christopher Columbus statue, strong opinions from residents have emerged on both sides. The Italian American Alliance in Boston are pushing for the statue’s restoration and return, with the view that Columbus is a symbol of hope for many immigrants seeking economic opportunity. But m...

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Columbus statues have been pulled down all over the country.  He’s the trending symbol of hatred, of oppression, of racism and bigotry, so the good and tolerant folk who hate the things they think he did (according to Howard Zinn and other hostile biographers) have been exorcising his spirit by vandalizing his image. In most cities, they’ve been su...

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Workers covered a Philly statue of Christopher Columbus with wood Tuesday morning after three straight days of heated gatherings around it, and as statues of the 15th-century explorer are coming down around the country. Images from SkyForce 10 showed the Columbus statue in Marconi Plaza surrounded by trucks and workers from the Streets Department,...

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Wilkes-Barre city council members weighed in Monday on whether a monument honoring Christopher Columbus should be removed from Public Square after it was vandalized for the second time in three days. Council members who responded to inquiries were split on whether the 10,000-pound, 7-foot-tall monument should be removed, as requested in an online p...

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The New London City Council has voted to permanently remove the city's Christopher Columbus statue. New London Mayor Michael Passero decided to remove the statue last week to protect it from more potential vandalism. It was taken down on Sunday. At a virtual meeting Tuesday, more than 60 spoke before city councilors passed an ordinance stating that...

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