The Weekly Town Crier (02/21/20)
All the week’s news that’s fit to cry about (02/14/20).
Read “DJ and producer Andrew Weatherall has died” at Vinyl Factory.
Read “Pete Buttigieg On Faith ‘As A Source of Unity’ And Its Role In The 2020 Election.”
Read “James Cone looked evil in the face and refused to let it crush his hope Antiblackness is outrageous, but it does not have the last word” at Christian Century.
Read/watch “Christians surprise Pride parade marchers with signs apologizing for anti-LGBTQ views” at 10tv.
Read “Will the Real Pro-Life Political Party Please Stand Up?” by Shane Claiborne at Red Letter Christians.
Read “There is beauty and joy at the end of life, too” at Globe And Mail.
Read “Deliver Us, Lord, From the Startup Life In the Midwest, Christian entrepreneurs are searching for relief from the corrosive grind of company-building—while some faith leaders preach the gospel of crushing it” at Wired.
Read “Trump critic Russell Moore, ERLC to face scrutiny by Southern Baptists” at Religion News Service.
Read “First Asian American sheriff in California vows to protect immigrants from Trump policies” at AZ Central.
Read “The No. 1 reason you’re still broke even if you received a pay raise last year” at Market Watch. “When adjusted for cost of living increases, real wages actually declined 1.3% since the end of 2017.”
Read “At the border, “law and order” looks a lot like chaos Trump’s new policies are creating confusion and misery” at Christian Century.
Read/Watch “Why Trump’s outreach to black voters is raising ethical questions” at PBS News Hour. “"It seems like the president suggested that the scholarship for Janiyah Davis was part of a government program. But then we found out that it was paid for by the personal charity of one of his employees," says Donald Sherman of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.”
Read “Trump Administration To Waive Contracting Laws To Build Border Wall” at KJZZ.
Read “Primary Season Is Here And 'Hispandering' Is Back” at NPR.
Read “The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Will Officially Become a Part of Oklahoma School Curriculum Beginning in the Fall” at The Root.
Read “There Is Not Some Separation Between Jesus and Justice.' How Rev. William J. Barber II Uses His Faith to Fight for the Poor” at Time.
Read “Psychology shows it’s a big mistake to base our self-worth on our professional achievements” at Quartz.
Read “Boy Scouts seek bankruptcy under wave of new sex abuse lawsuits” at Los Angeles Times.
Read “If we can't stop active shooter drills, let's at least do them without traumatizing kids” at AZ Central.
Read “US ranks lower than 38 other countries when it comes to children's wellbeing, new report says” at CNN.
Read “A Second School in California Will Be Named After Michelle Obama Michelle Obama Elementary School opens its doors in August” at Global Citizen.
Read “Arizona charter school principal pleads guilty in $2.5 million enrollment scheme” at AZ Central.
Read “Trump Calls For End To Student Loan Forgiveness Program” at Forbes.
Read “To promote success in schools, focus on teacher well-being” at Brookings.
Read “Children stage mass-walkout after teachers were forced to quit for being gay” at Metro.
Read/Watch “Poverty is a winning issue for 2020” at CNN.
Read “'Just Plain Ugly': Proposed Executive Order Takes Aim At Modern Architecture” at NPR.
Read “1,100 Former DOJ Employees Call On Barr To Resign After Intervening In Stone Case” at NPR.
Read “Federal judges' association calls emergency meeting after DOJ intervenes in case of Trump ally Roger Stone” at USA Today.
Read “2.5M Pounds Of Radioactive Waste Illegally Dumped In Oregon Landfill” at OPB.
Read “Greece Elected an Environmentalist as Its First Woman President Katerina Sakellaropoulou gained support across party lines” at Global Citizen.
Read “Bloomberg set to debate in Nevada after qualifying in new poll” at The Hill.
Read “Trump Commutes Sentence Of Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich” at NPR.
Read “Trump Threatens to Sue ‘Everyone All Over the Place’ Another morning, another Twitter outburst” at Rolling Stone.
Read “How Much Has the Government Spent at Trump’s Properties? It Won’t Say” at ProPublica.
Read “Japan’s Lost-and-Found System Is Insanely Good” at City Lab.
Read “The Next Smithsonian Might Be A Women's History Museum” at NPR.
Read “The gloriously unhinged progressive pushback against the Babylon Bee The humor may or may not be to your taste but it’s hardly about to bring the republic crashing down in a slurry of ignorance” at Spectator USA.
Read “Court Records Confirm Works From Nirvana, Elton John And Others Damaged In 2008 Fire” at NPR.
Read “Grateful Dead To Release 15-CD ‘June 1976’ Box Set” at Jambands.com.
Read “New Adventures with The Kernal” at Sound And Soul.
Read “Facing Hearing Loss, Huey Lewis Releases What 'May Be' His Last Album” at NPR.
Read “New Musical ‘Get Up, Stand Up! The Bob Marley Story’ to Open in London in 2021” at Rolling Stone.
Read “The Day The Music Became Carbon-Neutral” at The New Yorker.
Read “An Attempt To Explain The “Difficult” Neil Young Records” at Vinyl Me Please.
Read “Neil Young Pens Open Letter to Donald Trump: ‘You Are a Disgrace to My Country’ Now an American citizen, Young rails against the president” at Rolling Stone.
Read “Henry Rollins To Voice Tri-Klops In Netflix’s He-Man Reboot” at Stereogum.
Read “Feature-Length Ronnie James Dio Documentary Is Being Made The film is being produced by BMG and will span the singer's illustrious career” at Consequence of Sound.
Read “Watch More Than 400 Classic Korean Films Free Online Thanks to the Korean Film Archive” at Open Culture.
Read “The Original Renegade A 14-year-old in Atlanta created one of the biggest dances on the internet. But nobody really knows that” at New York Times.
Read “LeBron James to release his first children's book this summer” at Entertainment Weekly.
See “This Graffiti Artist Makes Walls Appear Transparent Using Nothing But Spray Paint” at Bored Panda.
See “Portraits of “Most Beautiful Chickens on the Planet” Capture Their Underrated Beauty” at My Modern Net.
Read “Improving the prognosis of health care in the USA” at Science Direct.
Read “Scientists detect an unexplainable radio signal from outer space that repeats every 16 days” at AZ Central.
Read “Generations of Handwritten Mexican Cookbooks Are Now Online North America’s largest-known Mexican cookbook collection inspires both tears and restaurant dishes” at Atlas Obscura.
Read “Arpaio Leads in Sheriff’s Race Cash, But Just 1 in 8 of His Donors Are Arizonans” at Phoenix New Times.
Read “Lawmaker would ban students from listing dormitories on voter registration” at AZ Central.
Read “Caverns Grotto In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.” at Atlas Obscura.
Read “7 Arizona Locations On Pier 1 Imports Store Closing List” at KJZZ.
Read “Arizona Governor, GOP Lawmakers End Sanctuary City Ban Push” at KJZZ.