Nearly every public school in Detroit was shut down on Monday as teachers city-wide held a “sickout” over news that the embattled district would not be able to pay them past June 30. The protest kept 94 out of 97 schools closed after the Detroit Federation of Teachers (DFT) announced the action on Sunday. Detroit…
According to MLive, the individuals charged are Flint employee Michael Glasgow and Michigan Department of Environmental Quality employees Steven Busch and Michael Prysby. MLive reports: “These charges are the only beginning and there will be more to come. That I can guarantee you,” said Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette. “So many things went so terribly wrong,…
Deeming their release “in the public interest,” The Intercept on Monday published a large, download-ready batch of NSA internal document leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden. Though the release comes with a promise that even more files from the Snowden archive will be released in this manner over time, the journalists said today’s document release—re-formatted pdf…
After a nearly six-week strike, Verizon workers are celebrating a huge victory on Friday after a deal was reached in principle with the telecom giant that will bring gains for union members and end one of the nation’s largest work stoppages in recent history. The deal, announced Friday afternoon by U.S. Labor Secretary Thomas Perez,…
Laying bare how dangerous it could be for Democrats to ignore populist opposition to corporate-friendly “free trade” deals, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Tuesday attacked Hillary Clinton for her stance on trade in general and the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) in particular. Speaking in Monessen, Pennsylvania, Trump said the “TPP would be the death…
The Hill’s Amie Parnes and Jonathan Allen are following up on their bestseller “Shattered” with a new book on the 2020 presidential election. The new untitled book, to be published by Crown Publishing Group, will cover what appears to be a wide-open race for the Democratic nomination for president and President Trump’s own reelection bid….
Provo, Utah Mayor John Curtis won the Republican nomination Tuesday in a race to fill the House seat vacated by former Rep. Jason ChaffetzJason ChaffetzThe myth of the conservative bestseller Elijah Cummings, Democratic chairman and powerful Trump critic, dies at 68 House Oversight panel demands DeVos turn over personal email records MORE (R-Utah) in June. …
State and local threats to voting rights have exploded in the three years since the U.S. Supreme Court attacked a critical constitutional protection for minority voters, despite overwhelming evidence of discrimination, a new report by the NAACP reveals. Democracy Diminished (pdf), released by the NAACP’s Legal Defense and Education Fund (LDF), looks at disenfranchisement around…
The latest victims in “a tidal wave of displacement,” about 670 people are set to be evicted from a rent-controlled housing complex in San Jose, California, to make way for more upscale development. The Guardian reports Thursday on the residents of the Reserve Apartments—”located five miles away from Apple’s headquarters, 14 miles away from Google…
The next relaunch of the XFL is targeted for 2022. Click Here: Cardiff Blues Store Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Dany Garcia released a video today announcing that the XFL will return in spring 2022. The league was purchased by Johnson, Garcia, and RedBird Capital Partners for $15 million this August. “The XFL represents the idea…