This just in from CNN: Residents of Alaska and Hawaii may now participate in a Harry Potter essay contest run by Scholastic, according to this story. When the contest was first announced, only kids from the Lower 48 could enter. Alaskans cried foul, and Scholastic corrected the rules.
\”Your company\’s treatment of Alaskans — particularly our children — as second-class citizens reminds me of the colonialist attitude which the federal government often displays to our state and residents,\” [Ketchikan mayor Bob Weinstein] wrote. \”In closing, you can be like Harry Potter or Voldemort — the choice is yours.\”
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