What We’re Reading – Wednesday, May 18, 2016
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No Names Allowed: DeKalb County Prohibits the Public from Speaking Commissioners’ Names
CBS 46 television news
Worst Commissioner Ever? DeKalb Mayors Pan Sutton’s Performance (article from 2014)
Decaturish
Georgia Considers Tightening Coal Ash Storage Rules
WABE radio news
http://news.wabe.org/post/georgia-considers-tightening-coal-ash-storage-rules
Historic Prattville Records Cleaned, Preserved
Montgomery Advertiser
Outreach Workers will have Two Weeks to try to Move Hundreds of People out of The Jungle
The Stranger (Seattle, Washington)
Marc Morial on the State of Black America: “All Gears have been thrown in reverse”
NOLA.com (New Orleans, Louisiana)
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/05/marc_morial_on_the_state_of_bl.html
Fanning Confirmed as First Openly Gay Army Secretary
Washington Blade
http://www.washingtonblade.com/2016/05/17/fanning-confirmed-as-first-openly-gay-army-secretary/
How the Other Fifth Lives
New York Times
www.nytimes.com/2016/04/27/opinion/campaign-stops/how-the-other-fifth-lives.html
How Safe is Bike Commuting? Perhaps Less than You Think
Washington Post
Hillary Clinton Embraces Progressive Federal Reserve Reforms
Huffington Post
Clinton Less Than [sic] 100 Delegates from the Nomination (fewer than)
The Hill
The Sad Decline and Fall of Bernie Sanders
Mother Jones
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/05/decline-fall-bernie-sanders
Obama: Election Day Should Be a Holiday
USA Today via 11 Alive television news
Gender-neutral Baby Clothes shed the pink and blue
WABE radio news
http://news.wabe.org/post/gender-neutral-baby-clothes-shed-pink-and-blue
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