Bob Hennelly
Salon.com
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The runaway train lobby: Rail giants spent millions to fight stricter rules before Ohio disaster
Railroads have spent $285 million on lobbying and close to $50 million on Congressional donations over last decade. → Read More
“Traveling bombs”: Ohio disaster shows how both parties enable 21st-century rail robber barons
The rail monopoly got a stranglehold on Congress, the executive branch and federal regulators. → Read More
"We basically nuked a town with chemicals": East Palestine volunteers risk mass toxic exposure
"There should have been a playbook on this," emergency expert says. → Read More
The worst thing Biden could do: Replace Labor secretary with a "political hack" or "absolute loser"
Marty Walsh was actually the first Labor Secretary to come out of the union movement since the 1970s. → Read More
"Banana republic level": Murder, justice, and Jersey politics
Just days after the gruesome murder of N.J. councilwoman, Gov. Phil Murphy publicly speculates on her death. → Read More
Big corporations are buying up homes and “eroding the American dream of homeownership”
“Investors bought 24 percent of all single-family houses sold nationwide last year," according to new report. → Read More
Building bridges to the future: Infrastructure, the climate crisis and the pandemic
Infrastructure, climate change and public health are all connected: Consider this story of two highway projects → Read More
"Profound danger": Two years after Jan. 6, the insurrection is still ongoing
The architects of the attempted coup are poised to take back control of the very chamber their minions desecrated. → Read More
Overworked, underpaid and understaffed: EMS in crisis as NYC faces tridemic
Inadequate staffing, longer hours and surging 911 calls put residents at risk. → Read More
Budgets are choices: The $1.7 trillion omnibus and growing Beltway disconnect
The bill is an immoral document executed by leaders increasingly out of touch with reality of life. → Read More
Congress' 9/11 betrayal: Money for war, none for first responders
"How can we increase the money for defense and not put money in the budget for the first defenders on 9/11?" → Read More
At labor rally in D.C., rail workers and progressive allies vow to push Biden on sick days
Bernie Sanders, Rashida Tlaib and many union leaders join rail workers in protest over enforced contract → Read More
NYC Mayor Eric Adams's terrible plan to forcibly hospitalize homeless people with mental illness
Adams has no answer for homelessness — he should ask frontline workers. → Read More
Loco-Motive: Pact forced on US railroad workers — sick days still in doubt
“We firmly believe in the workers’ right to fight for their own best interests," one union says. → Read More
How Democrats can build toward a blowout in 2024 — and vote the GOP into extinction
The lesson of 2022: If Democrats focus on core progressive issues that affect people's lives, anything is possible → Read More
COVID comes home: My sister Rachel Patricia Hennelly, 1960-2022
Rachel was a puppeteer, a dancer and a folk artist of courage and imagination. Her death points to our failure → Read More
"You are going to hear our voices": Rev. William J. Barber on the midterms and the road ahead
Don't fear the word "poor," Barber says: If poor people voted in large numbers, that would change everything → Read More
George Gresham wants labor leaders to support younger organizers
The 1199SEIU president talked about how the old guard can learn from people like Amazon Labor Union President Chris Smalls. → Read More
New York City’s public sector unions are stuck in limbo
Medicare Advantage has stalled labor contract renewal negotiations. → Read More
The steep decline in US life expectancy raises questions most politicians want to avoid
The worst decline in a century reveals our for-profit healthcare system for what it really is → Read More