First seen in Denver Westword On Saturday, May 30, thousands of people gathered at the State Capitol in downtown Denver for the third day in a row to protest the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Protesters […]
Author: LJ Dawson
Founder of The Des and freelance criminal justice reporter based in Washington, D.C.
Under COVID Cloud, Prisons In Rural America Threaten To Choke Rural Hospitals
First seen in Kaiser Health News As the COVID-19 pandemic swept into Montana, it spread into the Marias Heritage Center assisted living facility, then flowed into the nearby 21-bed hospital. Toole County quickly became the […]
SLUGGISH LA COUNTY COURTS ARE LEAVING YOUNG PEOPLE LOCKED UP DURING THE PANDEMIC
While adults in the county have been granted expedited release in groups, the juvenile court continues to review cases individually.
How Cities’ Big Nonprofits Are Tackling Income Inequality
First seen in POLITICO Magazine By some measures, Chicago has one of the country’s largest and most diversified economies with 4 million workers, but the city has struggled to uplift historically segregated and economically depressed communities on […]
Why Atlantans Buy Their Produce on the Subway
First seen in Politico Magazine / photo MARTA tlanta is known for transportation snarls that can make people’s blood pressure soar. But city officials have come up with a way to use the city’s transit […]
How Mike Bloomberg Got New York to Eat Its Veggies
First seen in Politico Magazine / photo Michael Loccisano/ Getty Images for HBO Columbia University study published in 2014, found that Green Carts provided high quality fresh produce to neighborhoods with low consumption and availability […]
What Happened After an Appalachian Town Got Shamed Nationally
First seen in Politico Magazine / Photo Getty ver a decade ago, Huntington, West Virginia, endured a dose of civic fat shaming when the city was labeled the most obese in the nation. Forty Five […]
How Cities Are Turning Food Into Fuel: More and more cities are making biogas out of tons of wasted food instead of sending it to landfills.
First seen in Politico Magazine, photos by Sarah Blesener Every year, America throws away more than 80 million pounds of food. More than three-quarters of it ends up in landfills, where it takes up more room […]
Buttigieg smacks at Beto: ‘I don’t need lessons from you on courage’
First seen in Politico Pete Buttigieg attacked Beto O’Rourke on the debate stage in highly personal terms on Tuesday night, telling the former Texas lawmaker that, “I don’t need lessons from you on courage, political […]
Taking police officers out of mental health-related 911 rescues
DENVER — Every day that Janet van der Laak drives between car dealerships in her sales job, she keeps size 12 shoes, some clothes and a packed lunch — a PB&J sandwich, fruit and a […]
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