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OUR Walmart gets ‘er done as 500,000 earn a raise…but $10-an-hour is still not enough
It was one heck of a David and Goliath moment.
That was the social media shout-out when Wal-Mart announced on February 19th it was giving almost half of its 1.3 million US workers a raise. Across Facebook, activists from OUR…
What Humpty Dumpty doesn’t want you to know: Davis-Besse’s cracked containment snow job
On October 10, 2011, news broke at Davis-Besse that cracking in the concrete containment shield building had been discovered, during breaching operations to install the third lid in a decade atop the problem-plagued reactor. As revealed much more…
Ohio’s crumbling hunk of radioactive junk: Who will pay for it?
As the world’s nuke reactors begin to fall, none crumbles faster than FirstEnergy’s infamous Davis-Besse, near Toledo. But Ohio citizens now have a good chance to shut it down---if we act quickly. You can start by contacting the…
Bob Bites Back: U.S. Elections: Worst among established democracies
Over fourteen hundred international election experts gathered data last year and pronounced the United States last in election integrity among long-standing democracies. On a 100-point scale, the U.S. received an integrity rating of 69.3 percent…