Month: September 2024

the Assembly: “The Labor Department has a daunting task: protecting the safety and health of more than 4.4 million workers who toil in all kinds of environments–from farm fields to small businesses to corporate offices. And workplace fatalities have climbed in recent years. The Charlotte Observer found that a construction worker dies on the job every 10 days in North…

NOTUS: “Rep. Matt Gaetz attended a drug-fueled sex party in 2017 with the 17-year-old girl at the center of the alleged sex trafficking scandal, according to legal documents filed to a Florida federal court shortly before midnight Thursday, which cite sealed affidavits from three eyewitness testimonies. The minor, who was a junior in high school…

WaPo: “Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) on Wednesday signed an executive order banning “conversion therapy” for minors — skirting the Republican-led state legislature and setting up a likely legal challenge. Beshear said the new policy, which goes into effect immediately, is an overdue step to protect children from a widely discredited medical practice that attempts…

Alternet: “A survey of professors at Florida universities found that new state government limits on tenure and academic freedom, plus the state’s political climate, have prompted many of them to apply for jobs outside the Sunshine State. Of approximately 350 faculty working almost exclusively in Florida public institutions, 135 — 39% — reported that since…

NY Times: “As is the case for many people who grew up in the Deep South but have lived somewhere else for many years, the Southern accent I once had has given way to the “nowhere man” accent that I think of as generically American. But it comes roaring back when I visit my family…

MSN: “Priscilla Dunn of Bessemer, a career educator who served 24 years in the Alabama Legislature and inspired other Black women who followed her into politics, has died. Dunn was 80. Dunn served in the Alabama House from 1998 until 2009, when she defeated seven Democratic opponents to win a vacant seat in the state Senate. Voters…

NY Times: “On Tuesday, Mr. Martin told a jury that he had not only pursued that driver, Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, but that he had also punched and kicked him, and then lied about what happened. He identified the other officers there that night: all men with whom he had an unspoken understanding…

Pro Publica: “In her final hours, Amber Nicole Thurman suffered from a grave infection that her suburban Atlanta hospital was well-equipped to treat. She’d taken abortion pills and encountered a rare complication; she had not expelled all of the fetal tissue from her body. She showed up at Piedmont Henry Hospital in need of a…

MTSU Sidelines: “Roughly 90 Uber, Lyft and taxi drivers, members of the newly-formed Tennessee Drivers Union, marched down Nashville’s Broadway Sept. 13 as part of their series of strikes that began Aug. 30. A cacophony of classic rock and country music covers blared over car horns and the tweets of traffic officers’ whistles. The smells…

The Guardian: “A Tennessee judge has ruled that three gun control questions can go on the November ballot in Memphis, even as top Republican state leaders have threatened to withhold tens of millions of dollars in state funding should city leaders put the initiative before voters. The Daily Memphian reports that Shelby county chancellor Melanie Taylor Jefferson sided with the Memphis…