Three airline industry companies slated to receive $338 million in public money designed to preserve jobs in the hard-hit industry have laid off thousands of workers anyway, according to Treasury disclosure filings and public layoff data.....Read more

And on July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, declaring: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness." .........Read more

* "Tonight saw a Friday night news dump that will go into the history books". || by Heather Cox Richardson from Letters from an American

* "Fractured Skulls, Lost Eyes: Police Often Break Own Rules Using ‘Rubber Bullets" || by Liz Szabo and Jay Hancock ~ KHN 

* The Trump Administration Paid Millions for Test Tubes — and Got Unusable Mini Soda Bottles || by J. David McSwane and Ryan Gabrielson

Employees of Apple, Google, and Microsoft have raised millions of dollars for the Black Lives Matter Foundation thinking it's the international racial justice movement seeking to end police brutality. That couldn’t be further from the truth............... Read more

From late March into April, Timothy Regan had severe coughing fits several times a day that often left him out of breath. He had a periodic low-grade fever, too.

Wondering if he had COVID-19, Regan called a nurse hotline run by Denver Health, a large public health system in his city. A nurse listened to him describe his symptoms and told him to immediately go to the hospital system’s urgent care facility..........................Read more

FALLS CITY, ORE. — A few hundred feet past this Oregon timber town, a curtain of Douglas fir trees opens to an expanse of skinny stumps.
The hillside has been clear-cut, with thousands of trees leveled at once. Around the bend is another clear-cut nearly twice its size, then another, patches of desert brown carved into the forest for miles.

Logging is booming around Falls City, a town of about 1,000 residents in the Oregon Coast Range. More trees are cut in the county today than decades ago when a sawmill hummed on Main Street and timber workers and their families filled the now-closed cafes, grocery stores and shops selling home appliances, sporting goods and feed for livestock..........Read more

* What Happened to Crime in Camden? by Sarah Holder - Citylab

* Former Police Chief Of Reformed Camden, NJ Force: Police Need 'Consent Of The People' || by James Doubek ~ NPR 

The 5 year request is for use of the State Parks for up to 3 days at a time, and up to 36 training events a year. Time frames  cover all year except December, including the parks' peak season of June through November. The requests also include three, 5 year renewal options. Which means 20 years.
You can read all 29 requests here. The Cama Beach S.P. request is on page 11 and the one for Camano Island S. P. is on page 20.  Learn more or Comment online 

* Should the role of the Police be redefined?  Read: A talk with Alex S. Vitale, author of the 2017 book The End of Policing || by Leah Donnella ~ NPR

* The J1 Visa. A State Department "cultural exchange program" with little oversight that amounts to a privatized guest-worker program — one in which the worker pays to obtain a job. Read: She Paid Thousands for a Visa to Work in the U.S. Then She Got Laid Off. Now, She’s Trapped. || by Bernice Yeung ~ ProPublica