In the United States, transit projects are chronically expensive and time-consuming. With the collapse of Highway I-85 in Atlanta, Georgia, and the nation’s Highway Trust Fund rapidly approaching insolvency, when are we going to admit that our approach to infrastructure simply does not work?
(ANTIMEDIA) Protesters across the country have taken to the streets, outraged at the immigration enforcement raids that swept the country this week. The raids resulted in the detainment of hundreds of undocumented immigrants in the first official crackdown under the Trump administration.
Emory University Hospital in Atlanta is currently treating an American health care worker who was diagnosed with Lassa fever, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said on Sunday.
Emory is the same hospital which treated 4 Ebola patients in 2014.
The patient, a physician’s assistant who had been working with a missionary organization in Tongo, was transported from West Africa to Atlanta at the request of the U.S. State Department after doctors suspected she had the virus. [1]
Despite widespread opposition from the entire political spectrum, TPP negotiators are meeting this week to finalize the deal.The post TPP Negotiators Meeting This Week to Finalize Corporate Trade Deal appeared first on The Anti-Media.
Healthful food choices are becoming increasingly abundant in the United States – this can be exemplified by the fact that organics are booming like crazy. But as many as 23.5 million people in this country don’t have access to this overflow of nutrition because they live in “food deserts” – areas of the country where there are no grocery stores but plenty of mini-marts offering sugar-filled snacks and artery clogging prepared foods. [1]
By Noel Brinkerhoff and Danny Biederman | AllGov | January 29, 2014
Privatization of the criminal justice system has extended beyond prisons that are run for profit and now includes probation operators making a buck off Americans who have violated the law.
