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Truckers Play a Key Food Safety Role
Food safety is running afoul in Springdale — in more ways than one. First, meat and grain agribusiness giant Cargill Inc. recalled 36 million pounds of ground turkey linked to a salmonella outbreak and temporarily shut its turkey processing plant in the Arkansas city in early August. Then, a Tyson Foods driver died after being pinned between two truck trailers outside a Springdale poultry plant.
Can’t Anybody Here Play This Game?
With the economy foundering like a man overboard in heavy seas, we’ve attempted to rescue it by throwing it an anchor. We’ve put productive public workers on the street in the name of fiscal prudence. We’ve backed away from the building of the roads, bridges, and other public works vital to a vibrant economy. We’ve cut back on our investment in public education, stunting the best hope for future prosperity.
Illegal Foreclosure Epidemic
Two-year-olds often go running around the house too wildly and crash into something. They get an “ouchie” and fall down crying, but they learn from it.
We’ve Come a Long Way, Baby, Since 1776
National Public Radio presented a dramatic reading of the Declaration of Independence on the Fourth of July. It properly honored the brilliance, perseverance, and clarity of the document’s authors and the people they represented in challenging the British Empire. Yes, the colonists admitted wanting to exterminate the “savages” whose land they coveted, which was dead wrong. But their powerful phrasing could easily resonate today in Sudan, Afghanistan, Palestine, or East Timor.
Deporting Mom and Dad
The Lineup: Week of Aug. 8-14, 2011
In this week’s OtherWords editorial package, Jim Hightower calls for a “national, FDR-style jobs program” while Sam Pizzigati relays how President Franklin D. Roosevelt deftly handled his debt-ceiling standoff with conservative Republicans. Get all this and more in your inbox by subscribing to our weekly newsletter. If you haven’t signed up yet, please do.
What would FDR Do?
How much can a U.S. president committed to greater equality hope to accomplish when lawmakers devoted to helping the rich hold the upper hand?
The Ugly Business of Lethal Injection
The pretense of lethal injection as a peaceful and painless way to execute prisoners is unraveling, and this may change the face of the death penalty in the United States.
Watching Out for Our Water
Water is at risk in the United States and around the world. Its quality and availability is in peril. Today, nearly one in eight people lack access to adequate supplies of safe drinking water. Globally, water-borne diseases kill more people than tuberculosis or malaria, and five times as many children die of diarrhea than of HIV/AIDS.
Waiter, There’s a Newfangled Technology in My Soup
The U.S. food system has a new bedfellow, and it may already be on your plate.
