In Tuesday’s primary, four New York Democrats face challenges on their left US Representative Joseph Crowley has been working on his Spanish. Last week, as the fourth-ranking member of the House Democratic leadership crisscrossed his district, he peppered sentences with “de nada” and “gracias.” He talked about how his own kids were learning Spanish in […]
Toys Are Us – Gone
The World’s Biggest Toy Store Didn’t Have to Die The early tale of Toys “R” Us brims with ambition, energy, and no small amount of ruthlessness, as creation stories often do. Charles Lazarus had gone from high school straight to the U.S. Army, where he served as a cryptographer during World War II, and as […]
Donald Where Is Our Tax Break?
Where’s that $4,000 Raise the GOP Promised Workers? When Republicans in Congress passed a big, fat tax break bill in December, they insisted it meant American workers would be singing “Happy Days Are Here Again” all the way to the bank. The payoff from the tax cut would be raises totaling $4,000 to $9,000, the […]
Facebook Data-Sharing
Facebook reveals data-sharing deal with Chinese tech giants Facebook has confirmed its data-sharing partnership with several Chinese firms including Huawei which has been previously flagged by US intelligence agencies as a security threat. The agreements between the social network and Huawei, Lenovo, OPPO and TCL provided the Chinese firms with access to users’ data in […]
Sloane Stephens Tennis New Venus
The Calm of Sloane Stephens Sloane Stephens doesn’t grunt when she hits her groundstrokes. She coos, gently, sort of dove-like—even when the shot in question is an eighty-mile-per-hour backhand, down the line, that she has thrown her whole body into. Long-legged and quick as she is, there is no flurry as she moves toward a […]
Tent Cities Increasing
Why there are so many unsheltered homeless people on the West Coast One-quarter of homeless people in the U.S. live in California, despite Californians making up only 12 percent of the population. Not only is homelessness more common on the West Coast but it is also more visible, because a higher proportion of homeless people […]
California Ballot Initiative
Amazon, Microsoft, and Uber are paying big money to kill a California privacy initiative As data-sharing scandals continue to mount, a new proposal in California offers a potential solution: the California Consumer Privacy Act would require companies to disclose the types of information they collect, like data used to target ads, and allow the public […]
Jackson Public School System Pt III
Jackson Public School System Cont. ALL ABOUT ‘EDUCATION POLITICS’ “It’s all about the politics of public education,” explains Steve Suitts. Suitts, an Alabama native, led the Southern Regional Council and then worked at the Southern Education Foundation in Atlanta. He now works in a consulting firm. “There is an enormous hostility in the state to […]
Jackson School TakeOver P II
A LEGACY OF WHITE RULE White rule in Mississippi has long made Jackson schools a target of either malevolent neglect or authoritarian abuse. From the end of Reconstruction in 1875 to the landmark Supreme Court ruling Brown v Board of Education that ended legal racial segregation of public schools in 1954, the needs of black […]
Jackson MS School TakeOver
State Takeover of Jackson Schools a Step Forward?? “Are these state government takeover of our children school system warranted?? Look at the educational cost of taking on Local School Control. I then ask where are: PTA”s, Community Outrage, School Administration, Teachers and last but not least the students??” America’s ongoing solutions to “reform” public schools […]