July 2021

July 30, 2021

Sidney's Picks: Infrastructure & Remembering Robert Moses

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Robert P. Moses, courtesy of the Algebra Project, Creative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News:

Infrastructure deal struck, but fate of reconciliation companion bill in doubt. (Prospect)
Police shot and killed more people in 2020 than any year on record. (WaPo)
New gerrymandering scheme dropped: The right takes aim at kids (Brennan Center)
Remembering civil rights legend, algebra evangelist, and 2021 Hillman Officers’ Award-winner Robert P. Moses.
Tireless local activist shut out of sewer board, $2.9 million wastewater upgrade in peril. (AL.com)

July 23, 2021

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Illustration of masks, Yoriko Yoshida, Creative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News:

A devastating plant shutdown looms in West Virginia, but politicians are nowhere to be seen. (In These Times)
“I’m sorry but it’s too late:” Alabama doctors speak out about the grim task of caring for terminal covid patients who refused vaccines. (AL.com)
Meet 115 of the service workers who kept New York City going during the darkest days of the pandemic. (NYT)
Activists raise the alarm about Raytheon building a plant in their North Carolina city. (Facing South/Responsible Statecraft)

July 16, 2021

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Liberty Leading the People by Eugene Delacroix.

The Best of the Week’s News:

“We all quit,” Nebraska Burger King employees vote with their feet over unsafe working conditions. (WREG)
Full-time minimum wage workers can’t afford rent anywhere in the US. (CNBC)
How to get labor law reform past the filibuster. (Washington Monthly)
Liberté, Egalité, Britney! The investigative reporters excavating the Spears conservatorship fiasco. (ProPublica)
Hillman Prize-winner Jamelle Bouie describes the two fronts in the GOP war on voting. (NYT)

July 9, 2021

The Best of the Week’s News:

Fast food workers strike. (Business Insider)
Sports team owners dodge millions in taxes with this one weird trick. (ProPublica)
Factory fire in Bangladesh claims at least 52 lives. (BBC)
Qanon is mutating. (Texas Monthly)
Ayn Rand Foundation head says Surfside condo dead “suffering the consequences” of their own “bad decisions.” (Mediaite)

July 2, 2021

The Best of the Week’s News:

EPA confirms findings of Sidney-winning exposé of Florida’s only lead smelter, consequences expected (Tampa Bay Times)
Portland Amazon delivery companies enter open revolt against the retailer. (Vice)
Australian scientist who was at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in the fall of 2019 speaks out. (Bloomberg)
Poll: Americans want less crime, but not more cops. (WaPo)
Supreme Court guts the Voting Rights Act. Adam Serwer explains John Roberts’ hostility to the VRA. (NPR, MoJo)