From my old home state of North Carolina comes a six-part expose on the poultry industry, documenting the lives of North Carolina’s 28,000 poultry workers. Editor Rick Thames kicks off the series with a searing editorial that compares these workers, mostly illegal immigrants with few rights, to the South’s most notorious historical underclass. But it [...]
Exceptional Drought - Exceptional Stupidity
As most of you are aware, I am back in Georgia, where I was born and raised, and the big news, as it always is in an agricultural state (yes, GA is an agricultural state, ask anyone but the recent transplants to ATL) is the weather, particularly the rain, of which there hasn’t been enough [...]
Lesson For Today
Things are not so good in Hot-lanta these days: It seems that they could run out of drinking water within a month and foreclosures are at an all-time high.
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