First seen in Washington City Paper Slow and lax enforcement hampered efforts to regulate illegal cannabis sales in D.C. Green, white, and gold balloons marked an early 4/20 celebration for a D.C. medical cannabis dispensary […]
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D.C. City Council listens, expands cannabis social equity license requirements
The District of Columbia’s cannabis industry is coming out of the shadows after almost eight years functioning under the I-71 initiative – a law that allowed cannabis to be gifted in small amounts. A plethora of gray market […]
Overdose Deaths Behind Bars Rise as Drug Crisis Swells
First seen in PBS NewsHour and KHN. Annissa Holland should be excited her son is coming home from prison after four long years of incarceration. Instead, she’s researching rehab centers to send him to as […]
COVID-19 RIPS THROUGH WEST VIRGINIA WOMEN’S PRISON AS FEDERAL AGENCY TAKES HEAT
First seen in CNN. Rory Adams did not know that Christmas in a small rural hospital in West Virginia would be the last time he saw his wife alive. She’d entered prison in early January 2021 […]
Many Undocumented Immigrants Left Out Of Pandemic Relief Package
First seen in Newsy
WITHOUT A PANDEMIC SAFETY NET, IMMIGRANTS LIVING IN US ILLEGALLY FALL THROUGH THE CRACKS
First seen in Kaiser Health News Ana’s 9-year-old son was the first in the family to come down with symptoms that looked like covid-19 last March. Soon after, the 37-year-old unauthorized immigrant and three of […]
Minority students are disciplined more often than their white counterparts. What are districts doing about it?
First seen in the Colorado Springs Indy On the third day of online school in August, Dani Elliott called her 12-year-old son. She was terrified. She told him to lock every door, turn off the lights […]
The societal impacts of redlining are still seen today
First seen in the Colorado Springs Independent It was 1960 and Juanita Stroud Martin had just arrived back in Colorado Springs with four children and one on the way. After serving in the Navy and living […]
ACLU pressures Polis to release more inmates at risk for COVID-19
First seen in the Colorado Springs Indy Marsha Brewer’s fifth wheel has been sitting on her and her husband Jim’s ranch in Yoder for the last month, detailed and ready to quarantine him if he […]
Eviction notice
First seen in the Colorado Springs Independent Mucking horse stables, finding yardwork, driving for Uber — 47-year-old Monument resident Jody Raye has spent the last five months in a desperate hustle to pay bills and hold […]
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