BREAKING NEWS: AP, Media Fumble News Story
On the Sunday before the final presidential debate, Mitt Romney and some of his senior staffers played a flag football game with members of the Press Corps on Delray Beach, Fla. Ashley Parker of the […]
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Keystone XL Fundraising Drive: Help Send One of Our Own to the Blockade
Dear Raging Chicken Press Readers: Over the past couple of weeks, I have been throwing around the notion that I would like to spend a month this summer covering the Keystone XL blockade actions in […]
Fracking in Pennsylvania: Shock Doctrine to Systematically Dismantle Higher Education
For an example of institutional hypocrisy, I would highly recommend you to send an email to PASSHE Chancellor John Cavanaugh. Seriously, send an email to jcavanaugh@passhe.edu, and ask him why he openly thanked Governor Tom […]
And the Winner Is…
Want to know who is going to win this year’s presidential election? I can tell you. In fact, I am so confident that I am correct, I would stake everything I own on this prediction. […]
Why I Am Taking My Christian Fundamentalist Views Into The Voting Booth
All too often, we have heard an undiscerning, one rule fits all mantra against religion and politics. That rule says that religion and politics don’t mix except for the extremists. It matters not whether the […]
Buried Beneath some Shrubs and Grass and Wildflowers is Nothing but Frack-Tastrophe: Compressor Station Construction, Janet Hock Road, Sullivan County, Pennsylvania, 10.13.12
It’s difficult to capture the sense of palpable anxiety I felt taking these sets of photographs. This is the Janet Hock Road compressor construction site in Sullivan County, Pennsylvania that I have been documenting for […]
The NRCC Launches Racist ads in PA’s 8th Congressional District: Fitzpatrick Remains Mum
During the 2008 election, John McCain came across a character defining moment that would be the highlight of his campaign. He was confronted by an elderly lady who questioned Barack Obama’s religion. She said “I […]
The Industrialization of PASSHE: Where the Public Good, its Students, and its Faculty are Auctioned Off to the Extraction Profiteers (Or: Extortion by Extraction)
1. Pennsylvania Senate Bill 367 and Chancellor Cavanaugh’s Plan to Industrialize Higher Education Dory Hippauf’s “Welcome to PA Frack-U” offers an excellent profile of the Pennsylvania State Senate Bill 367: “an act providing for indigenous mineral […]
You Can Tell A Lot About A College By The Way It Treats Its Adjuncts
To borrow a turn of phrase, you can tell a lot about a college by the way it treats its adjuncts. If you read the PASSHE Negotiation Objectives recently distributed to PASSHE faculty via email […]
Bedlam On House Floor: PA Republicans Walk Off Before Vote to Investigate Corbett
Update 1: In the article I explained that Sam Smith – House Leader – cancelled today’s legislative session. He did not. Today’s session – October 4th – is a non voting session. […]