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Oregon and Washington have announced emergency rules protecting farmworkers and other outdoor laborers amid the extreme heat wave that has killed hundreds, including one farmworker, in the Pacific Northwest. "The heat experienced in our state this year...

Farmworkers and their advocates during a press call Thursday continued to shine a light on the ongoing need to pass both workplace protections and a pathway to citizenship for undocumented workers, citing a historic—and deadly—heat wave. Daily Kos’...

Over the past four years it’s become apparent from my social media feed and some other personal interactions that many of the people I knew in high school have evolved into far different people than the ones I knew when I was sixteen. Or perhaps, more...

Summer heat is a danger for farmworkers� every year , with� heat deaths �happening steadily. But with climate change and heat waves like the one that hit the Pacific Northwest in recent weeks ...

In an exciting change, the state Democratic Party of Montana ruled to create a formal, official role for Native Americans based on the tribes’ population ratio in the state. This means that Native folks will have a proportional representative role in...

Here are some of this week’s interesting science news: Arctic sea ice thinning twice as fast as previously thought. Bad fire year predicted for the Amazon and U.S. west coast. The human genome is nearly completely sequenced. The Biden administration...

May 7, 2020–my first COVID patient. May 7, 2021, one year on the front lines. This diary was compiled from my personal journals but I have tried to integrate into events happening outside of own nursing bubble. Hopefully, the numbers and dates don’t...

Arizona Native American voters won the election–now Republicans are punishing us. Here’s how we’re fighting back. Earlier this month Arizona’s Governor signed Senate Bill 1485 (early voting list) and Senate bill 1003 (limits ballot curing time) into...

This week, we’re focusing on books for fourth- and fifth-grade students — novels in Cleveland, and science books in Oklahoma City. We hope that readers who support quality public school education will help by sharing or supporting our featured...

Here are some of this week’s interesting science news: Scientists train honeybees to stick out their tongues when they detect coronavirus. Some mammals can breath through their intestines in ...