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National/World A former member of the National Economic Council under Biden asked if anyone can “think of another way to save over $38 billion that doesn’t involve vandalizing agencies.”… By Eloise Goldsmith | Common Dreams on Feb 28, 2025Comments Off on As Musk Attacks Public Workers, Analysis Details $38 Billion in Taxpayer Gifts to World’s Richest Man “This is nothing more than a backdoor benefit cut and an insult to Americans who have paid into the system and earned their Social Security—all to pay for… By Jake Johnson | Common Dreams on Feb 28, 2025Comments Off on Official Installed by…

ABC News(SPARTA, Ga.) — History tells us that the railroad helped put America on the right track, when trains started moving people and goods across the country in the 1800s. They were yesterday’s highways, making it possible to traverse the nation in four days instead of 30.This travel revolution is one of the reasons that it made sense to give railroads, which are still privately owned in most cases, some of the same powers to claim someone else’s land as a power company, an airport or a public school system.It’s also why 72-year-old Blaine Smith, his wife Diane, his brother…

ANN ARBOR, MI — For 82-year-old Shirley Beckley, the term “urban renewal” still conjures up bad memories.It’s what took away her family home — the house at 115 W. Kingsley St. on the edge of downtown Ann Arbor, where she grew up in the 1950s and where she was raising her own children in the 1960s when the city came knocking, she said.“The whole thing was disturbing,” she said.The city wanted to demolish her home and others to make way for a controversial Packard-Beakes bypass, a traffic route proposed to cut through the Black neighborhood.A Black Lives Matter flag hangs…

The stories of the Mississippi Gulf Coast can be found in its historic sites. But many of these places are at risk. Over the years, buildings have been lost to the push for development, to simple apathy and, especially, to hurricanes. Hurricane Katrina, for example, destroyed many of the state’s oldest structures. The Mississippi Heritage Trust hopes its list of the 10 Most Endangered Historic Places in the state, published every two years, will energize preservation efforts and highlight the stories behind these sites. The 2021 list was announced in October and includes two Coast sites: _ For decades before…

One day after the presidential election, and in the days following, Black people across the country, reportedly as young as middle schoolers, received text messages addressing them by name and telling them that they would be transported to plantations to work as slaves and “pick cotton.”While the exact language of the messages vary slightly, most appear to tell recipients that they have been “selected“ or “chosen” to perform cotton picking, i.e. work that was historically performed by enslaved people in the American South. Many were told that they would be picked up by a van and then searched.X contentThis content…