Midwest Outpaces South in Manufacturing Jobs
If you read much, you’d be tempted to believe that the Southeast is getting all the manufacturing jobs these days, and that the Midwest and the North in general are losing out. It’s a familiar narrative — that the historic factory prowess of former Union...
Agency: Study Reconstruction Sites
The National Park Service has commissioned the first comprehensive review of nationally significant historical sites of the Reconstruction Era. The project, a National Historic Landmark Theme Study on the U.S. Reconstruction Era, 1861-1898, will bring attention to the...
Here Comes Caitlyn!
If you’re a student of public relations, you had to be impressed. The rollout of Bruce to Caitlyn has been handled with such mastery that you’d think we live in a country that long ago shed any deep hostility toward those who don’t easily fit into...
South Rises Again in Brazil
SANTA BARBARA D’OESTE, BRAZIL (AP) – It had all the trappings of a down-home country fair somewhere well below the Mason-Dixon line: Lynyrd Skynyrd medleys, mile-long lines for fried chicken, barbeque and draft beer, and a plethora of Confederate flags...Obiter Dicta
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