By Dave Fidlin | The Center Square contributor/July 30th, 2021 (The Center Square) – Collectively, governing entities across New York state levy more than twice
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READERS DIDN’T GIVE UP ON LOCAL NEWS. CORPORATIONS DID.
Corporations gutted local newspapers and then wondered why people stopped buying them. By Jim Hightower | July 28, 2021/First published in Other Words Mega-investor Warren Buffett once
All Cops Should Submit DNA Samples to Avoid Crime-Scene Confusion: Federal Report
Reuven Blau, THE CITY This article was originally published on Jul 15 at 8:39pm EDT by THE CITY When 22-year-old German police officer Michele Kiesewetter
ENGAGING WITH EXTREMISM
It’s tragic that people die because of vaccine conspiracy theories. But the answer may be to listen, not confront. By Jill Richardson | July 14, 2021/Previously published
TIP OF THE ICEBERG
Khalil Bendib / OtherWords.org Assorted Ideas, Large & Small A federal indictment against the Trump Organization might be just the beginning of Donald Trump’s future
TO FIGHT POVERTY, CUT THE PENTAGON BUDGET
For me, the military wasn’t a way out of poverty. Instead, militarism is why so many of us are poor in the first place. By T.J.
Barriers for Black women set U.S. economy back by $500 billion, report finds
The persisting wage gap has set Black women — and the American economy as a whole — back for the past six decades, according to
The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax
by Jesse Eisinger, Jeff Ernsthausen and Paul Kiel Originally published in ProPublica ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story
BIDEN’S UNCONSCIONABLE MILITARY BUDGET
With the Afghanistan War finally ending, we shouldn’t squander our “peace dividend” on costly weapons or military bloat. By Lindsay Koshgarian | June 2, 2021 First published
A PLAN TO END POVERTY IN THE UNITED STATES
A new congressional resolution asserts it’s not only possible to end poverty, but morally necessary. By Sarah Anderson | June 2, 2021 Originally published in OtherWords Amidst