What We’re Reading – Tuesday, May 10, 2016
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Seven Atlanta Schools Improve Enough to Avoid Potential State Takeover
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Plano, Texas, Shows how Rail Transit Can Positively Transform a Suburban City
Saporta Report
http://saportareport.com/plano-texas-shows-rail-transit-can-positively-transform-suburban-city/
Solar Freakin’ Highways: The U.S. Has Enough PV to Cover One Lane of Its Interstate Highway System
Green Tech Media
http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/solar-freakin-highways
New Orleans Plan: Charter Schools, with a Return to local Control
New York Times
www.nytimes.com/2016/05/10/us/charter-driven-gains-in-new-orleans-schools-face-a-big-test.html
Colorado Springs Agrees to Stop Jailing People Too Poor to Pay Court Fines
NPR radio news
Oregon Lays Out Sweeping Protections for Transgender Students
Oregon Live
http://www.oregonlive.com/education/index.ssf/2016/05/oregon_lays_out_sweeping_prote.html
The Political Moment Finally Caught Up to Bernie Sanders’s Message
NPR radio news
http://www.npr.org/2016/05/05/476927333/bernie-sanders-has-a-message-for-the-political-moment
Researchers develop human-derived antibody that appears to destroy cancer cells
Fox 5 Atlanta television news
http://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/137960298-story
Prince Did Not Die from Pain Pills, He Died from Chronic Pain
Raw Story
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/05/prince-did-not-die-from-pain-pills-he-died-from-chronic-pain/
What Would Happen if we just Gave People Money?
Five Thirty Eight
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/universal-basic-income/
Aeropostale to Close 100 Stores, may File for Bankruptcy
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
http://www.ajc.com/news/business/aeropostale-closing-over-100-stores-may-file-bankr/nrGkw/
Bill Introduced to Remove Housing Barriers for People with Criminal Records
National Low-income Housing Coalition
http://nlihc.org/article/bill-introduced-remove-housing-barriers-people-criminal-records
Missouri Becomes Nineteenth State to Decriminalize Marijuana Possession
http://blog.mpp.org/prohibition/missouri-becomes-19th-state-to-decriminalize-marijuana-possession/
Three States where a Legal Marijuana Vote is a Guarantee (Nevada, Florida, Maine)
The Motley Fool
Germany to Legalize Medicinal Marijuana in 2017
CNN television news
http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/04/europe/germany-medicinal-marijuana/
(END/2016)