January 31, 2014
#Sidney's Picks: VW Plant May Unionize; Botched Bloodwork; Snowy Owls
The Best of the Week’s News
- A Volkswagon plant in Tennessee is poised to become the first unionized auto plant in the American South.
- How the myth of the “Negro Cocaine Fiend” shaped U.S. drug policy.
- South Carolina is the slowest state when it comes to delivering results on the potentially life-saving blood tests that all babies get during their first days in the hospital.
- The Polar Vortex is like a portal from another dimension, sucking snowy owls in to our reality.
[Photo credit: Wander Mule, Creative Commons.]