#Sidney's Picks: VW Plant May Unionize; Botched Bloodwork; Snowy Owls | Hillman Foundation

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The best of the week’s news by Lindsay Beyerstein

#Sidney's Picks: VW Plant May Unionize; Botched Bloodwork; Snowy Owls

The Best of the Week’s News

  • A Volkswagon plant in Tennessee is poised to become the first unionized auto plant in the American South.
  • How the myth of the “Negro Cocaine Fiend” shaped U.S. drug policy.
  • South Carolina is the slowest state when it comes to delivering results on the potentially life-saving blood tests that all babies get during their first days in the hospital.
  • The Polar Vortex is like a portal from another dimension, sucking snowy owls in to our reality.

 

[Photo credit: Wander Mule, Creative Commons.]