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Congressional Town Halls: Forums for Anti-Trump Resistance

Sue Sturgis Facing South
This week marked the first recess of the 115th Congress, when lawmakers typically return home to meet with their constituents in what are usually sanitized low-key town hall meetings. But this year the "Resistance Recess" campaign is giving Republican legislators an earful. Constituents, mobilized by the election of President Trump, have seized on the town hall meetings, at least 90 in the South alone, to voice their opposition to the Republican legislative agenda.

Tom Perez is New Democratic Party Chair

Lauren Gambino The Guardian
Former labor secretary and progressive congressman call for unity against Trump after party race that became symbol of centrist-progressive divisions.

NAACP Calls for International Boycott of North Carolina

Diane Ravitch Diane Ravitch's blog
NAACP National President Cornell William Brooks and NC State President and National Board Member Rev. Dr. William Barber to Announce Boycott at Friday Press Conference at NC Statehouse.

MBTA Outsourcing is Not Paying Off

Craig Hughes CommonWealth Beacon
The 18.6 million dollar repair contract for the 32-bus fleet, which was bid in 2013, was the only bid the T received and came in nearly 18 percent below estimate.

Forecast

Philip Fried Terrain.org
The weather report is never good news, in Philip Fried's poem, about the atmospheric patterns of the nuclear age.

Trump and the Rebirth of Press Freedom

Tony Karon Project Syndicate
Journalists should not fear being on the wrong side of power. On the contrary, that is exactly where they belong.