Sarah L. SwanFeb 25, 20221 min readSwan's Picks: Gerrymandering, local journalism, and civil liberties are in the headlines this week “Red states are remaking the civil liberties landscape” Like here, where Texas targets trans kids …and Texas has important District Attorney elections coming up A Tennessee County spends its American Rescue Plan Act relief funds on jails And also in Tennessee, gerrymandering rips Nashville apart “Black City. White Paper.” The Philadelphia Inquirer takes a hard look at itself and how its “coverage has helped maintain discriminatory status quos within the city’s other institutions” The next chapter in the NYC taxi medallion issue
“Red states are remaking the civil liberties landscape” Like here, where Texas targets trans kids …and Texas has important District Attorney elections coming up A Tennessee County spends its American Rescue Plan Act relief funds on jails And also in Tennessee, gerrymandering rips Nashville apart “Black City. White Paper.” The Philadelphia Inquirer takes a hard look at itself and how its “coverage has helped maintain discriminatory status quos within the city’s other institutions” The next chapter in the NYC taxi medallion issue
