Congressional Democrats Launch a New Strategy to Restore the Voting Rights Act
NewsTaco November 4, 2015
*You can call it the VRA 2.0. When the Supreme Court gutted section 5 of the Voting Rights Act I saw a bright side – that the gutting provided the […]
Good reasons teachers stay in a challenging, unhappy profession
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*Ray Salazar does here what he does best: challenge us to think differently about something we think in rote, prescribed ways. So, what makes a happy teacher? This is good reading. […]
EPA Slow to Halt Use of Deadly Pesticide
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*This is a cause that doesn’t go away because the use of pesticides doesn’t subside. The chemical in this case, Endosulfan, is, according to an environmental toxicologist, “highly, highly, highly […]
Latino Mayoral candidate falls short in Houston
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*OK, ouch. Adrian Garcia resigned as Sheriff of Harris County to run for Mayor of Houston – he came in third. The first and second place finishers, Sylvester Turner and Bill King, […]