The spot where Emmett Till’s body was found is marked by this sign. People keep shooting it up There are moments in our young lives that is embedded in thoughts that will never be forgotten and one of those incidents for me was the death of Emmett Till. My children and grandchildren weren’t even a […]
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My Car My Home
Vehicular homelessness is on the rise Each night at 6 p.m., San Diego’s New Life Assembly church opens its parking lot to dozens of people who will spend the night in their cars. The church is one of three sites in the city where the homeless can park overnight without fear of being ticketed or […]
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Trillion Dollar Deficit Reality
Trump’s trillion-dollar-plus deficits put America on path to fiscal ruin “Though no one in Washington will admit it, our nation’s finances are in deep trouble. Spending is up, revenue is down, and this will only get worse.” It became very clear this month that neither the Trump White House nor its allies on Capitol Hill […]
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Tenants Striking
These Tenants Are Leading the Largest Rent Strike in LA History “Residents of three buildings in Central Los Angeles are refusing to pay rent until their landlord agrees to fair rent increases” Los Angeles’s housing market is in crisis. Low-income communities of color across the city are facing systematic displacement due to gentrification. Skyrocketing housing […]
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QR Code Voting??
QR Code Voting A Novel Idea In China, QR codes are everywhere, used to pay for seemingly every single thing all day long, adding up to an estimated $1.65 trillion in transactions in 2016 alone. Not so much in the U.S., where, apart from some experimental use by Snap and Facebook, people barely notice the […]
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Musk Boring Company Again
Elon Musk Wants a Boring Tunnel to Transport L.A. Fans to Dodger Stadium in Under 4 Minutes Even less predictable than how long a baseball game will last is how long it will take to drive to and from it through L.A. traffic. On Wednesday, Elon Musk’s Boring Company proposed an underground tunnel between Dodger […]
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New Electricity Jobs
Supersized solar farms are sprouting around the world In a quest to cut the cost of clean electricity, power utilities around the world are supersizing their solar farms. Nowhere is that more apparent than in southern Egypt, where what will be the world’s largest solar farm — a vast collection of more than 5 million […]
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Trump Sells Out Military
White House Takes Aim At Financial Protections For Military The White House is proposing changes to the Military Lending Act that critics say would leave service members vulnerable when they buy cars. The Trump administration is taking aim at a law designed to protect military service members from getting cheated by shady lending practices. NPR […]
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China-US Farmers Tariff
China says U.S. farmers may never regain market share lost in trade war China is the world’s biggest importer of soybeans, but a top official said the country is happy to take its business elsewhere. China can easily find other countries to buy agricultural goods from instead of the U.S., its vice agriculture minister said, […]
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Dollar General Country
Where even Walmart won’t go: how Dollar General took over rural America When Dollar General came to Haven, Kansas, it arrived making demands. The fastest-growing retailer in America wanted the taxpayers of the small, struggling Kansas town to pick up part of the tab for building one of its squat, barebones stores that more often […]