What We’re Reading – Wednesday, April 13, 2016
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FBI Arrests Atlanta Charter School Leader on Theft charges
Atlanta Journal-Constitution (subscription)
Stockbridge Annexes Land for $300 million Mall
Marietta Daily Journal
Controversial Klan Figure to Lead Stone Mountain Rally
Atlanta Journal-Constitution (subscription)
Judges’ ‘judge’ resigns, cites political take-over of judicial watchdog commission (Lester Tate, Judicial Qualifications Commission)
11 Alive television news
Opinion: Why I’m Supporting Bernie Sanders (U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR))
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/13/opinion/why-im-supporting-bernie-sanders.html
Marijuana Sales Top Spending on Wine and Milk in Spokane County
Spokesman-Review newspaper (Spokane, Washington)
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2016/apr/11/marijuana-sales-top-spending-on-wine-and-milk-in-s/
Sorry Feds: Kids can sue over climate justice, judge says
Think Progress
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/04/10/3768092/climate-trust-suit-moves-forward/
Striking Verizon
Jacobin magazine
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/04/verizon-wireless-strike-bernie-sanders-cwa/
The Lonely Death of George Bell
New York Times
www.nytimes.com/2015/10/18/nyregion/dying-alone-in-new-york-city.html
Obama to Forgive the Student Debt of Permanently Disabled People
Washington Post
Octopus Slips out of Aquarium Tank, Crawls across floor, escapes down pipe to ocean
Washington Post
We Analyzed the Names of Every Chinese Restaurant in America, this is what we learned
Washington Post
How Singapore Fixed its Affordable Housing Problem (Investment in public housing)
City Lab blog, the Atlantic Magazine
www.citylab.com/housing/2015/03/how-singapore-fixed-its-affordable-housing-problem/388451/
Hawking & Milner to send interstellar craft to Alpha Centauri ‘within a generation’
RT
https://www.rt.com/news/339352-hawking-breakthrough-starshot-space/
(END/2016)