Here are three excellent stories from today's news you might want to read.
First, this Washington post story on two West Virginia school bus drivers that give an excellent peek into a world most Washington Post readers are scarcely aware of ... It's very well done.
One hates Trump. The other loves him. Two West Virginians wait for the president to come to town.
Their bus yard was starting the year 15 drivers short, which meant they constantly seemed to be running late picking up their kids. The reason for the shortage: Most adults who could pass a drug test did not want the low-wage, high-stress work.
Next, if you want to understand why NFL players kneel and why Black Lives Matter gains relevance, this piece in The Guardian looks at a worst-case scenario for cops killing citizens at will: Los Angeles.
Hundreds dead, no one charged: the uphill battle against LA police killings
From 2010 to 2014, police in LA county shot 375 people, about one person every five days. Black residents make up 9% of the population, but represented 24% of deaths... Since the district attorney Jackie Lacey was elected in 2012, roughly 400 people have been killed by on-duty officers or died in custody, according to Black Lives Matter LA. Lacey even declined to file charges when the chief of the LA police department (LAPD) called for the prosecution of one of his own officers.
And third, a story on the sorry state of the Democratic Party. It appears the Democrats learned nothing from the Clinton debacle. The superdelegate system pretty much mocks the voters.
‘We’re going to fight it like hell’ Democrats feud over superdelegate overhaul.
The superdelegate issue has bedeviled the party for the past two years, ever since the bulk of superdelegates — the members of Congress, governors and DNC members and other top officials who made up about 15 percent of delegates during the 2016 convention — overwhelmingly sided with Hillary Clinton in the 2016 primary. In some cases, their support for Clinton came in defiance of the popular vote outcome in their states, leading Sanders’ supporters to rage against a nominating process they contended was tilted in Clinton’s favor.
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