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Kicking the Can: SNAP during the shutdown and charter schools await their fate

Posted November 14, 202500:25:42

The shutdown is over, how did the state do in protecting its most vulnerable. And charters await their fate with state evaluations. [...]

“A Fundamental Reset”

Posted October 31, 202500:31:05

Fossil fuel companies rebrand as "energy" producers. Also construction of a new LNG terminal is halted by a federal judge. [...]

Boxing Up Choice: Louisiana AG sues the FDA to halt the shipment of abortion meds. And the Leah Chase School Principal Resigns.

Posted October 17, 202500:24:39

Greg LaRose on Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill's lawsuit against the FDA challenging the distribution of abortion drugs by mail. Marta Jewson...

Protected Speech or Anti-Semitism? A university syllabus draws scrutiny.

Posted October 10, 202500:26:04

Delaney Nolan on a Tulane program manager who was fired. Bernard Smith on "outrageous" phone call rates in jails after new FCC Chairman delays mandated...

Energy Monsters: AI data centers prompt concern about a ‘Digital Cancer Alley.’ Also, the first U.S. climate refugees have regrets

Posted October 3, 202500:26:48

Gus Bennett on Big Tech data centers that threaten more environmental and economic harm in Cancer Alley. Terry Jones on climate refugees 10 years after...