Posted at https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/11/setback-voting-rights-supreme-court-upholds-ohios-voter-purge-process Published on Monday, June 11, 2018 by Common Dreams The ruling, Justice Sotomayor writes in dissent, “entirely ignores the history of voter suppression against which the NVRA was enacted.” By Andrea Germanos, staff writer Protesters gather during … Continued
Posted at https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/11/horrific-sessions-says-survivors-domestic-and-gang-violence-will-no-longer-qualify Published on Monday, June 11, 2018 “In what world does the United States turn its back on people who have suffered persecution, trauma, and extreme distress from domestic or gang violence?” By Jessica Corbett, staff writer, Andrea Germanos, … Continued
From Education Voters of Pennsylvania (http://www.educationvoterspa.org/): On Tuesday, June 12, the PA Senate Education Committee considered Senate Bill 1198, legislation that would: Continue to mandate publicly labeling schools as successful or failing based primarily on students’ standardized test scores using … Continued
From Pennsylvania Interfaith Power and Light (http://www.paipl.org): There’s hidden sweetness in the stomach’s emptiness. We are lutes, no more, no less. If the soundboxes stuffed full of anything, no music. If the brain and belly are burning clean with fasting, … Continued
From PennEnvironment (http://www.pennenvironment.org): Eleven million gallons of oil and gas wastewater filled with radioactive radium, toxic lead, and other heavy metals were spread over Pennsylvania’s roads in 2016. That wasn’t a result of some catastrophic accident. This toxic cocktail was … Continued
From the Pennsylvania Health Access Network (http://www.pahealthaccess.org): On Thursday night, the Trump Administration announced that it would not defend the Affordable Care Act in court, arguing that pre-existing condition protections are unconstitutional even though the law has already been upheld by the … Continued
From the Center for American Progress (http://www.americanprogress.org): Continuing the trend of the Trump Administration’s punishment of low-income Americans, HUD Secretary Carson—recently making headlines for spending tax dollars on luxuries for himself—proposed a plan to raise rents for people in subsidized … Continued
From Pre-K for PA (http://www.prekforpa.org/): PPC and other principal partners of Pre-K for PA this week released the findings of a recent poll commissioned by the campaign and conducted by Harper Polling that shows 75 percent of likely voters support … Continued
Posted at https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/07/shattering-mark-set-during-dust-bowl-us-just-had-hottest-may-ever-recorded Published on Thursday, June 07, 2018 by Common Dreams “If you thought it was a strangely warm May, you’re right.” By Jake Johnson, staff writer April 1938: A dust bowl farmstead in Dallam County, Texas, showing the … Continued
From the Alaska Wilderness League (http://www.alaskawild.org): The U.S. Forest Service just started a process that opens the door for a massive old-growth logging project where bears, salmon, Sitka black-tailed deer and wolves live in the Tongass National Forest. The largest … Continued