by Mick Dumke Article Reprint The reporters were told to wait outside the meeting room. The suggestion was that something big was happening in there.
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SEIU Local 73 gives Mayor Rahm $25,000
by Ben Joravsky Article Reprint CHICAGO IL. I was sitting by a pond on a bright sunny day, watching the little ducks float around, when a friend texted to say: SEIU Local 73 donated 25
Read moreMaureen Dowd’s Weed Candy Experiment Personifies White Privilege
By Terrell Jermaine Starr Article Reprint I never smoked marijuana before, and Maureen Dowd‘s haphazard experience with a weed-laced candy bar in her Denver hotel room certainly isn’t motivating me to book a plane ticket
Read moreSame-sex marriage stands in Oregon after Supreme Court denies stay of ruling
In a one-line order, the US Supreme Court denied a stay of a federal judge’s ruling that Oregon’s ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional. Oregon officials had ceased to defend the ban. By Warren Richey
Read moreSecret KGB Torture House Opens Its Doors in Riga
For decades, the Corner House stood as a silent reminder of Russian oppression. Now, the former KGB headquarters are open and exposing the horrors committed against the people of Riga. By: Brandon Presser Article Reprint
Read moreThe City of Detroit Just Got a Huge Bailout
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan Legislature’s $195 million lifeline to help prevent steep cuts in Detroit’s pensions and the sale of city-owned art is being hailed as a major step forward in ending the
Read moreShoring up the abandoned class
By: Dawn Turner Trice Article Reprint Marc Sims is not a politician. He’s not a preacher. He’s not a police officer. Nor is he a professor of sociology or an executive director of a nonprofit.
Read moreJuror’s sudden absence deepens mystery of fugitive drug trio
By: Robert Snell Article Reprint Detroit— A federal judge is investigating why a juror in a major narcotics trial went AWOL around the same time the fez-wearing drug defendants disappeared.
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