Wasted Funds, Destroyed Property: How Sheriffs Undermined Their Successors After Losing Reelection
This story was originally published by ProPublica, which produced the article in partnership with AL.com, a member of the ProPublica Local Reporting Network. Shortly after Phil Sims became the sheriff of Marshall County, Alabama, at 12 a.m. on Jan. 14, he found a cardboard box in a storage closet containing five government-issued smartphones, each with multiple holes…
Why It Matters That a City Council in Louisiana Repealed a Ban on Saggy Pants
A young man walks down a sidewalk wearing sagging pants.Mike Brown/The Commercial Appeal/ZUMA Lawmakers in Shreveport, Louisiana voted 6-1 on Tuesday to repeal a 12-year-old ordinance banning pants that sag below the waist after outcry over the death of Anthony Childs, who was stopped by police for violating the law. Childs was walking down a sidewalk…
Trump Never Said He’d Take Oppo From a “Foreign Government”
The latest outrage on Twitter is George Stephanopoulos’s interview with Donald Trump: President Trump on Wednesday said he would consider accepting information on his political opponents from a foreign government, despite the concerns raised by the intelligence community and special counsel Robert S. Mueller III over Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. In an…
Kraft Invents New Way to Trick Your Kids Into Eating Kraft Products
Kraft is providing parents with a new ploy to trick their kids into eating salads: The food company is disguising its ranch dressing and relabeling it as salad “frosting,” packaging it in a slim white tube with flecks of vibrant color that resembles a confetti cake. The deception that parents can wield to get their…
Indigo Ag Wants Better Farming to Help Fight Global Warming
The Washington Post reports today on the Terraton Initiative from Indigo Ag, a supplier of seed treatments and agricultural logistics. The idea is simple and appealing: we need to do more than simply reduce carbon emissions if we want to avoid the worst effects of global warming. We need to remove carbon from the atmosphere.…
Republicans Bet “Medicare for All” Hearings Would Divide Democrats. They Were Wrong.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019.Andrew Harnik/AP Republican lawmakers had bet that hearings for the House’s “Medicare for All” bill would surface deep disagreements among Democrats over their vision for the country’s health care system. But on Wednesday the bill was debated…