GOP’s Recount Rhetoric in Emails to Constituents
A few weeks ago, I started getting emails from donaldjtrump.com and the GOP. I had no idea why until I remembered that I’d filled out the GOP’s 100-day plan of action survey, which will supposedly […]
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EPA Changes Course: Fracking Can Contaminate Water Supply
The Environmental Protection Agency walked back its controversial claim that fracking had caused no “widespread systemic” water contamination in the final version of its long-awaited study released today. The claim that appeared in the June […]
Philly Newspaper Normalizes White Supremacy with Support for Phillies’ “Pistachio Girl”
Last week, the Philadelphia Inquirer editorial board published an opinion piece on outed white nationalist and white supremacist Emily Youcis, better known as the “Pistachio Girl” from Citizens Bank Ballpark. The opinion piece titled “Firing ‘Pistachio Girl’ […]
What Diane Ravitch Means To Me
Am I crazy? That’s what many of us had been wondering before we read Diane Ravitch. As teachers, parents and students, we noticed there was something terribly wrong with our national education policy. The Emperor […]
Sanctuary Campuses Come Under Fire in Pennsylvania
College students across the country have launched local campaigns to make their campuses safe places for undocumented students since the election of Donald Trump. “Sanctuary campuses” promise to protect undocumented students from federal authorities and […]
Justifying My 64 hour Work Week
Every semester I along with all my colleagues have to fill out a “Faculty Workload Analysis.” The analysis is part of the “Snyder Report” – much catchier than the official title, the “Instructional Output and […]
12 Actions You Can Take Now to Protect Civil Liberties under Trump
On Wednesday night, folks in Pittsburgh held an emergency meeting called “Let’s Unite To Stop President Trump,” followed by a protest outside. Several hundred people showed up to the meeting, quickly filling up the small […]
Pennsylvania Gubernatorial Hopeful Wants to “Make Pennsylvania Great Again.”
Gubernatorial hopeful Republican State Senator Scott Wagner waited exactly until 3:19 Wednesday afternoon to send an email congratulating his supporters on Donald Trump’s victory, and proclaiming that he will “Make Pennsylvania Great Again.” Pennsylvania Republicans picked up three […]
APSCUF Strike at Kutztown – KUTV
Student media was ever-present during the first day of the APSCUF strike on Kutztown Universtity. Two KUTV students, Tyler Snyder and Amanda Sergeyev produced this excellent piece yesterday and worked with Raging Chicken Press last […]
As Historic Strike Deadline Grows Near, PASSHE and APSCUF Negotiators Go Media Silent
On Wednesday, October 19, about 5,000 faculty members teaching in the PA State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) will either have a tentative contract agreement or they will be on strike. That has been the […]