July 23, 2021
Sidney's Picks: Looming Plant Shutdown; Unvaccinated Covid Casualties
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Illustration of masks, Yoriko Yoshida, Creative Commons.
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July 16, 2021
Sidney's Picks: Burger King Rebellion, Minimum Wage Woes
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Liberty Leading the People by Eugene Delacroix.
The Best of the Week’s News:
- “We all quit,” Nebraska Burger King employees vote with their feet over unsafe working conditions. (WREG)
- Full-time minimum wage workers can’t afford rent anywhere in the US. (CNBC)
- How to get labor law reform past the filibuster. (Washington Monthly)
- Liberté, Egalité, Britney! The investigative reporters excavating the Spears conservatorship fiasco. (ProPublica)
- Hillman Prize-winner Jamelle Bouie describes the two fronts in the GOP war on voting. (NYT)
July 9, 2021
Sidney's Picks: Fast Food Strike, Team Owner Tax Dodge, and Bangladesh Factory Blaze
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July 2, 2021
Sidney's Picks: Lead Reckoning; Amazon Revolt; Voting Rights Catastrophe
The Best of the Week’s News:
- EPA confirms findings of Sidney-winning exposé of Florida’s only lead smelter, consequences expected (Tampa Bay Times)
- Portland Amazon delivery companies enter open revolt against the retailer. (Vice)
- Australian scientist who was at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in the fall of 2019 speaks out. (Bloomberg)
- Poll: Americans want less crime, but not more cops. (WaPo)
- Supreme Court guts the Voting Rights Act. Adam Serwer explains John Roberts’ hostility to the VRA. (NPR, MoJo)
June 25, 2021
Sidney's Picks: Teamsters vs. Amazon; More Unmarked Graves
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The Saskatchewan residential school where over 700 unmarked graves were located.
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June 18, 2021
Sidney's Picks: Critical Astroturf Theory and Lab Leak Follies
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June 11, 2021
Sidney's Picks: Rich Tax Dodgers & the Paradox of Bipartisanism
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June 4, 2021
Sidney's Picks: Hidden Graves and Slow Meat
The Best of the Week’s News:
- Amazon workers are more likely to get hurt on the job. (WaPo)
- Survivors call for action, but a lack of records stalls efforts to identify the Indigenous children found in 215 unmarked graves at a former Canadian residential school. (CBC)
- A whistleblower warned that residential schools were death traps in 1922, but the Canadian government ignored him, so he became an investigative journalist, and the public ignored him, too. (Tyee)
- Trump let meatpackers unsafely accelerate their lines during COVID, now Biden is telling them to slow down. (HuffPo)
- More twists in the Sidney-winning investigation into Florida’s only lead smelter. (TB Times)
May 28, 2021
Sidney's: Picks: Bread and Roses & A Digital Bounty Hunt Goes Awry
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NwongPR, Creative Commons.
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May 21, 2021
Sidney's Picks: James Turns Up the Heat on Trump
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UFT/Sidney Hillman
The Best of the Week’s News:
- New York AG Tish James announced that her office is joining a criminal probe into the Trump Organization, a rare cooperation between the AG and DA Cy Vance. (CNN, NPR)
- The trustees of UNC took the extraordinary step of refusing tenure to distinguished journalist and Hillman Prize-winner Nikole Hannah-Jones, a move a board member attributed to “politics.” (NC Policy Watch)
- Amazon tells workers to chill out from the crushing pace and constant surveillance with the AmaZen meditation program. (Vice)
- A $9/hr job as a port-a-potty attendant pulled Dawn Woudenberg out of homelessness and helped her save lives from ODs. (WaPo)
- The Supreme Court is gearing up to kill Roe v. Wade. (Rewire.news)
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