ProPublica is a gem. Their reporters continually produce perhaps the best investigative journalism in America. Today's drop is a maddening deep dive in Tyson's utter indifference to the workers dropping.
This is a hard-hitting piece on the horrible leadership of Kim Reynolds and other Iowa Republicans on COVID-19. The story of the coronavirus in this state is one of government.
When Republicans won control over all branches of government in Iowa, they passed one of the strongest anti-union laws in the country. Not only did the state go right-to-work, which.
In the era of COVID, we have defined "essential worker" as "someone we don't mind dying for us, but hey you're a hero!" Many of those essential workers are poor,.
One of the worst things about modern America are ag-gag laws, passed in many states over the past decade to keep undercover animal rights reporters from finding out and publicizing.
My blogging has been extremely light since the first of the year due to a long research trip in Boise and then driving across the country. I was in Iowa.
When Scott Walker and the Wisconsin Republicans pushed through their draconian anti-public union law, one of the ways they succeeded is to cleave the police and firefighter unions off of.
Iowa is going full Wisconsin to destroy its public sector unions by outlawing most parts of collective bargaining. Cops excepted of course. "I think it’s an extremely bold proposal," said.
