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The best of the week’s news by Lindsay Beyerstein

Sidney's Picks: Filthy Water Towers, an Historic UAW Vote, and More

The Best of the Week’s News

  • If they look like decrepit relics from the 19th Century, that’s because they are! New York City’s rustic-looking rooftop water towers are unregulated vats of filth.
  • In a historic vote, Volkswagen workers in Tennessee will decide next week whether to join the United Auto Workers.
  • 1 million Texans have fallen into the Medicare coverage gap because their state refused to expand the program under Obamacare.
  • The Koch Brothers left a confidential document at their last donor confab, now Mother Jones has it.

 

[Photo credit: Wander Mule, Creative Commons.]