By Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / March 25, 2010
Hundreds of Hoosiers bundled up to gather outside of the Indiana Statehouse on Monday for the annual "March for Life" to show their opposition to abortion, as Indiana lawmakers inside the building hold off on major abortion-restricting legislation.
It’s obvious to a lot of people. To the Indiana cities that are taking steps to cut their emissions. To the Hoosier farmers who are seeing reduced crop yields from wetter springs and hotter summers. To the high school students who are scared for what their future may look like, demanding Indiana leaders make a change.
Members of the Patriot Front, an American Nationalist group labeled as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, marches along Constitution Avenue a head of the March for Life, an anti abortion demonstration, in Washington, D.C. on January 21, 2022. Photo: Samuel Corum/Sipa USA (AP)
On Wednesday, January 19, by a vote of 8 to 1, the Supreme Court refused to block the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) from releasing documents produced by the Trump White House to the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol. Last night, NARA handed over hundreds of pages of documents to the committee. Today, Betsy Woodruff Swan at Politico published one of them.
Hoo, boy.
“The Clock has become a universally recognized indicator of the world’s vulnerability to catastrophe from nuclear weapons, climate change, and disruptive technologies in other domains.” This year marks the closest estimate of the possible midnight disaster in 75 years.
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U.S. President Joe Biden answers questions during a news conference in the East Room of the White House on January 19, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Remember: With Republicans, every accusation is a confession.
Asking what President Biden and House and Senate Democrats can possibly do now to protect voting rights when two Democratic senators refuse to join them in passing legislation supporting the fundamental principle of American democracy is the wrong question.
In an environment historically saturated with men, women have recently become the majority.
The year 2015 was the first in which a higher percentage of women than men held bachelor’s degrees, according to Time magazine. In fact, the Chronicle of Higher Education reports that nationally, women are more likely to enroll in and graduate from college than men.
But that’s not true at Purdue.
Purdue’s fall 2021 enrollment sits at a 57-43% split between men and women, respectively, according to the Purdue Data Digest.
Judge Johnny, star of the Corporate People's Court , by DonkeyHotey is licensed under CC BY 2.0
When the Supreme Court blocked OSHA’s vaccine-or-test mandate on Thursday while upholding the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ vaccine requirement for all health workers, you might think this was a split decision with the justices just calling balls and strikes. You’d be dead wrong.
The National Labor Relations Board announced Monday that it had certified a victory for a union at a second Starbucks store in the Buffalo area, where votes were tallied in December but remained inconclusive as the union challenged the ballots of several employees it said did not work at the store.
Janine Jackson interviewed Craig Aaron about the future of local journalism for the January 7, 2022, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.
Brownsburg elementary teacher Christianne Bebe testified against SB 167, which would require teacher materials to be posted online and create a materials advisory commission. Bebe said that as an elementary teacher, she teaches seven subjects and uses over 75 materials a week, making the expectation for each material to be reviewed and approved unreasonable.
WASHINGTON — What if you attempted a coup but people were unwilling to wrap their heads around what you had done?
Audie Cornish, whom millions of listeners have tuned in to hear each week on NPR’s “All Things Considered” for the past decade, announced Tuesday she’s leaving the station.
“It’s time for me to try my hand at new journalism projects and embark on new adventures,” she wrote in a goodbye message to the staff.
Supporters of US President Donald Trump hold a rally outside the US Capitol as they protest the upcoming electoral college certification of Joe Biden as US President in Washington, DC on January 6, 2021. (OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)
To coincide with the 100th anniversary of the founding of the ruling Communist Party, the powerful Chinese Central Propaganda Department commissioned a blockbuster film that depicts a US defeat in the Korean War.
This week, the holiday break is over for many Indiana students, and local food banks say their goal is to ensure kids have enough to eat this semester.
One in every seven Hoosier children faces hunger at home, according to the nonprofit Feeding America.
Emily Weikert Bryant - executive director of Feeding Indiana's Hungry - said food banks across the state can help those kids and their families get what they need, on and off school grounds, this semester.
Gov. Eric Holcomb, with Dr. Kris Box, state health commissioner, and Dr. Lindsay Weaver, the state’s chief medical officer, address the state’s response to the the COVID-19 pandemic Wednesday.
As Gov. Holcomb and his team talked, the state released the biggest single-day COVID numbers of 2021. About that … and the choice words Holcomb had for Attorney General Todd Rokita
New, independent digital outlets and nonprofits have begun to fill some of the gap left by fading local newspapers. Limited resources and the pandemic have driven many toward providing community news, information and services rather than traditional accountability journalism.
CounterSpin interview with Caleb Nichols on defending public libraries
Janine Jackson interviewed librarian Caleb Nichols about defending public libraries for the December 17, 2021, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.
This is the most opportune time for millions of workers in Big Box retail stores and fast-food outlets to form unions. McDonald’s, Walmart, Amazon, Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts, Burger King, and other giant chains are having trouble finding enough workers.
Indiana's redistricting process concluded in October, but one voting rights group is eyeing ways to ensure fair representation in the future.
From introduction to final approval, it took Indiana lawmakers less than three weeks to adopt new legislative and congressional maps. Julia Vaughn, policy director with Common Cause Indiana, said that timeline meant few opportunities for the public to weigh in on the process.
SOUTH BEND, Ind. - It isn't often that a vending machine can save someone's life, but that's the case in South Bend, where a free overdose kit vending machine is installed at the St. Joseph's County Jail. It's the first step in an initiative that will eventually roll out across the state.
Marianne Boruch is a professor emerita of English and the founding director of the MFA in creative writing program.
Avi Kak teaches electrical and computer engineering at Purdue
As a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, I am obviously delighted that my department was able to grow by leaps and bounds even during the last two years of the pandemic while hiring in most of the rest of the departments was put in the deep freeze. I suppose that this unprecedented hiring spree was driven by our surging enrollments at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Donald Trump is no more of a threat to democracy than the U.S. Constitution itself.
Credit...Mustafa Hussain for The New York Times
English Department Head Dorsey Armstrong defended the department in a response to the College of Liberal Arts Dean David Reingold's statement.
Armstrong said in a statement sent Wednesday morning:
"I’m sorry, but I need to correct a few things here.