I’d like to resolve, like Susan Mernit, that I’ll blog every day this year. I doubt that I’ll make it – but I’m going to try. And maybe re-make the resolution on the first of every month.
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Tennessee’s Very Bad, No Good, Awful Example
Less than two weeks ago, Tennessee ordered an end to all vaccination in schools and no more information to teens about vaccine availability—for Covid-19 or for anything else. Just three weeks ago, only 195 people in Tennessee were hospitalized with COVID-19. In Memphis, Methodist University Hospital had no COVID patients at all. Now numbers are soaring. […]
Why I’m Staying Far Away From My Unvaccinated Relatives
Just three weeks ago, only 195 people in Tennessee were hospitalized with COVID-19. In Memphis, Methodist University Hospital had no COVID patients at all. Now numbers are soaring. Covid-19 hospitalizations across Tennessee almost tripled, to 579. More than 95 percent of these new wave of COVID patients are unvaccinated. Nearly 80 percent are tied to the […]
Complicating the Simpleminded Story About Crime
Screaming about crime is a favorite past time of conservative politicians and headline writers. Like most things, facts about crime are more complicated than the fear-mongers want us to know. Here are a few of the complicated facts. Murders are up in 2020 and 2021, compared to 2019. That is true in many states and […]
Too Lazy to Work? Not Really.
Some employers say they can’t find workers after the pandemic. People are lazy. They would rather collect unemployment. Et cetera. Do I believe that? No. The story is more complicated. Many of the jobs that go unfilled are low-wage jobs. They pay so little that people literally cannot afford to work.
MN Republicans are not serious about law and order
You might think Republican law-and-order types would support funding for more prosecutors. Nope. Not when that request comes from Minnesota’s chief prosecutor, Attorney General Keith Ellison. In this legislative session, they would not fund much-needed attorneys for the criminal division of the attorney general’s office. Originally published in the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder
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- Mary Turck is a writer, editor, and blogger. She is also the former editor of theTC Daily Planet and of the award-winning Connection to the Americas and AMERICAS.ORG and a recovering attorney.
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