http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/watchdog/pork/
Hundreds of hog confinements have been constructed across Illinois in recent years, using a factory-like system to grow millions of pigs and put inexpensive bacon on your plate. But a Tribune investigation finds all that cheap meat is coming at great cost to rural communities.
Moving doesn’t get easier with experience – Art Menius
At a certain age, we delude ourselves into thinking accumulated experience helps us avoid repeating mistakes. Then we decide to move and prove that wrong. The very act of voluntary moving is a misstep.
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/community/chapel-hill-news/chn-opinion/article92360572.html
https://www.thenation.com/article/progressives-need-to-stop-ignoring-rural-communities/
Why have rural communities moved so far to the right? Why have farmers, miners, drillers, loggers, and a host of other working folks become so enthralled with the antigovernment, anti-environmentalist, and antilabor pundits and politicians?
UNC class of 1920 graduate and renowned author Thomas Wolfe’s life has been brought to the silver screen in the film “Genius”. The film, starring Colin Firth and Jude Law, was released to limited audiences in major cities on June 10, and will make its N.C. debut tonight in Asheville’s Thomas Wolfe Memorial House.
Read more:http://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2016/06/wolfe-legacy-lives-on-in-film-genius
Quoted from The Daily Tar Heel
http://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2016/06/wolfe-legacy-lives-on-in-film-genius
http://www.wsj.com/articles/this-bluegrass-jam-has-banjos-corny-jokes-and-a-side-of-fries-1466010162
Musicians find West Virginia Hardee’s, other fast-food joints welcoming venues
Alice Gerrard was inducted in the Hall of Fame in the category of “promoter, organizer and special contributor.”
She was inducted by Art Menius, a major figure in bluegrass circles and formerly a major force behind MerleFest.
listen here: http://chapelboro.com/columns/the-commentators/what-kind-of-republicans-are-these
I have to ask, “What kind of Republicans are these?”
Most of the discussion about HB2 has concerned the serious civil rights violations in that law. Attacking basic civil rights, however, perfectly masked HB2’s ALEC-driven governmental overreach attacking municipal home rule.
HB2’s less publicized provisions eliminate the rights of local governments to protect citizens from discrimination and adopt minimum wages more than the state’s while eliminating the rights of victims of discrimination to pursue redress in the state courts. And McCrory calls the Charlotte ordinance overreaching?
These right wing senators and representatives are the real RINOs, Republicans in name only, who care nothing about both party traditions and the Constitution of the United States. They aren’t ignorant of constitutional law, they just don’t care about it or anything opposing their agenda of recreating a homogeneous, white, Christian, heterosexual America that never really existed.
Instead of following Republican principles of small government, pro-business, and individual rights they decimate all three in one poorly constructed bill.
They refuse to reverse course. These radicals are willing to sacrifice a billion dollars of federal education funding and who knows how much job creation. Revenue from conventions, sports, events, and tourism seem to matter not one bit. Nor do the taxes businesses and events would generate for state and local governments.
Again I have to ask, what kind of Republicans are these?
— Art Menius
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