Robert Parry | A Deflategate Slapdown of NFL and MSM
Robert Parry, Consortium News
Parry writes: "It's been my experience from nearly four decades in Washington journalism that it's increasingly rare when a powerful institution protects an individual from unfair and abusive treatment by another powerful institution."
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Robert Parry, Consortium News
Parry writes: "It's been my experience from nearly four decades in Washington journalism that it's increasingly rare when a powerful institution protects an individual from unfair and abusive treatment by another powerful institution."
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Washington State Supreme Court: Charter Schools Are Unconstitutional
John Higgins, The Seattle Times
Higgins writes: "The ruling is a victory for the coalition that filed the suit in July 2013, asking a judge to declare the law unconstitutional for 'improperly diverting public-school funds to private organizations that are not subject to local voter control.'"
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John Higgins, The Seattle Times
Higgins writes: "The ruling is a victory for the coalition that filed the suit in July 2013, asking a judge to declare the law unconstitutional for 'improperly diverting public-school funds to private organizations that are not subject to local voter control.'"
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There Are No Union Mines Left in Kentucky
Dylan Lovan, Associated Press
Lovan writes: "Kentucky coal miners bled and died to unionize. Their workplaces became war zones, and gun battles once punctuated union protests. In past decades, organizers have been beaten, stabbed and shot while seeking better pay and safer conditions deep underground. But more recently the United Mine Workers in Kentucky have been in retreat, dwindling like the black seams of coal in the Appalachian mountains. And now the last union mine in Kentucky has been shut down."
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Dylan Lovan, Associated Press
Lovan writes: "Kentucky coal miners bled and died to unionize. Their workplaces became war zones, and gun battles once punctuated union protests. In past decades, organizers have been beaten, stabbed and shot while seeking better pay and safer conditions deep underground. But more recently the United Mine Workers in Kentucky have been in retreat, dwindling like the black seams of coal in the Appalachian mountains. And now the last union mine in Kentucky has been shut down."
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Hillary Clinton's Southern Strategy
Patrick Healy and Amy Chozick, The New York Times
Excerpt: "Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign is methodically building a political firewall across the South in hopes of effectively locking up the Democratic nomination in March regardless of any early setbacks in the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary."
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Patrick Healy and Amy Chozick, The New York Times
Excerpt: "Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign is methodically building a political firewall across the South in hopes of effectively locking up the Democratic nomination in March regardless of any early setbacks in the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary."
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The Court Case That Could Shut Down Kansas's Courts
Russell Berman, The Atlantic
Berman writes: "On Wednesday, a district court ruled against the state, and threw out a 2014 law passed by Republicans that took the power of appointing chief judges away from the Kansas Supreme Court and handed it to local judges. But that rather simple question of judicial administration could have further-reaching consequences."
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Russell Berman, The Atlantic
Berman writes: "On Wednesday, a district court ruled against the state, and threw out a 2014 law passed by Republicans that took the power of appointing chief judges away from the Kansas Supreme Court and handed it to local judges. But that rather simple question of judicial administration could have further-reaching consequences."
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'Now We Feel Safe': Refugees Arrive in Austria for Final Leg of Journey
Dan McLaughlin, Al Jazeera America
McLaughlin writes: "'Now we have food, water, and we are not in Hungary,' said Syrian refugee Ibrahim Momtaz, standing at the vast customs station just inside Austria's eastern border."
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Dan McLaughlin, Al Jazeera America
McLaughlin writes: "'Now we have food, water, and we are not in Hungary,' said Syrian refugee Ibrahim Momtaz, standing at the vast customs station just inside Austria's eastern border."
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The Phantom Menace Threatening Songbirds
Taylor Hill, TakePart
Hill writes: "There are plenty of roads in Idaho that scientists could have used to test out how highways and byways impact wildlife, but researchers in Boise decided to make their own-a phantom road."
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Taylor Hill, TakePart
Hill writes: "There are plenty of roads in Idaho that scientists could have used to test out how highways and byways impact wildlife, but researchers in Boise decided to make their own-a phantom road."
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