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Gloria Gordon Is Turning 100, And She Wants to Talk About Climate Change

2 years 3 months ago
If a director were filming a documentary about Gloria Gordon for her 100th birthday, they might start with her first job: organizing, at 22, a standing-room-only rally for presidential candidate Franklin Delano Roosevelt, which led to a second job that captured the interest of Eleanor Roosevelt. Or they might skip ahead to show Gordon in the 1960s, coordinating the now-famous Baby Tooth Survey, which gathered literal proof of radioactivity entering children’s bodies after above-ground tests of nuclear weapons.
Jeannette Cooperman

On slavery: Gov. DeSantis and his crack education team are all about facts

2 years 3 months ago

THE OLD PLANTATION — Here in Florida, we’re teaching our young ’uns the God’s own truth about history. Not what a bunch of book-reading, degree-holding, data-citing, socialist, so-called professors say. The Indians were glad to go live on reservations. The change of scenery inspired them to make a good living crafting souvenir jewelry and decorative […]

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Diane Roberts

Discount Health

2 years 3 months ago
Dollar General is part of a trend of major retailers trying to move into medical care. Cut-rate treatment is the last thing needed in the vulnerable populations dollar stores serve.
Luke Goldstein