Month: August 2020

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• Health

Federal judge says Texas still needs oversight to fix its ‘broken’ foster care system

August 11, 2020 Editorial Board

By The Texas Tribune | Jan 19, 2018 | Children, Inequality, Policy, Social Work, Stories, Texas   In a 116-page...

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• Health

Business Is Booming for Dialysis Giant Fresenius. It Took a $137M Bailout Anyway.

August 11, 2020 Editorial Board

by Jordan Rau and Rachana Pradhan August 10, 2020 As the coronavirus pandemic paralyzed most nonemergency medical practices this spring,...

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• Coal
• Energy

Making coal from food waste, garden cuttings – and even human sewage

August 11, 2020 Editorial Board

by Rex Merrifield, Horizon   Food waste, garden cuttings, manure, and even human sewage can be turned into solid biocoal...

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• Opinion

Op-Ed: The cost of silence by the silent majority

August 11, 2020 Editorial Board

By William Haupt III | The Center Square   The words 'silent majority' are very descriptive of what is happening...

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• Politics

Bill Barr Has Done This Before

August 11, 2020 Editorial Board

by Mick Dumke, ProPublica | July 31, 5 a.m. CDT ProPublica Illinois is an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism with...

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• Business
• Covid-19

Your Favorite Store or Restaurant Is Open. How Do You Know It’s OK to Go In?

August 11, 2020 Editorial Board

by Julie Appleby, Kaiser Health News August 7, 2020   Just because many businesses are open again doesn’t mean the...

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• Covid-19
• Science

Emissions dropped during the COVID-19 pandemic. The climate impact won’t last

August 11, 2020 Editorial Board

By Jonathan Lambert, Science News AUGUST 7, 2020 AT 5:00 AM   ‘Green’ policies built into coronavirus recovery plans could leave...

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• Business

How a Celebrity Chef Learned to Love Farmed and Frozen Fish

August 11, 2020 Editorial Board

by Lindsay Abrams, News Deeply   To feed a growing population, sustainable seafood advocate Ned Bell is encouraging fellow chefs...

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• Business

Millions of America’s working poor may lose out on key anti-poverty tax credit because of the pandemic

August 10, 2020 Editorial Board

by Rebecca Hasdell, Stanford University; Alice Milivinti, Stanford University, and David Rehkopf, Stanford University   The pandemic is driving American...

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• Covid-19
• Education

As we talk about reopening schools, are the teachers ok?

August 10, 2020 Editorial Board

by Jackie Mader, The Hechinger Report   Experts call on states to consider teacher mental health as officials push to reopen...