by Dalia Faheid | Mar 17, 2021 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON — Working conditions for Florida’s undocumented farmworkers could drastically improve under recently proposed immigration reform legislation that would put them on a long-awaited path to citizenship while also providing labor protections. “It’s something...
by Dalia Faheid | Feb 22, 2021 | Featured, Health
WASHINGTON – Every eight days, Gloria Romero’s 23-year-old son drives her half an hour away to the University of South Florida, then lines up among 700 cars and waits until a Feeding Tampa Bay volunteer places a box full of potatoes, onions, oranges and carrots in the...
by Dalia Faheid | Feb 3, 2021 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — Jason Smedley remembers the pain of his 2000 attack by lower-ranking Marines during a training exercise he led as a lance corporal at the Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton’s School of Infantry. While some held Smedley, the others beat him, knocking...
by Dalia Faheid | Jan 26, 2021 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s administration looks poised to crack down on a group of “forever chemicals” that have been linked to a range of health problems, a move that could put companies like 3M and DuPont on the hook for billions of dollars in cleanup costs....
by Dalia Faheid | Jan 24, 2021 | Business & Tech, Featured
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has frozen for 60 days last-minute rules from the Trump administration that would allow only higher-wage foreign workers to be employed in the U.S. Under a final rule issued Jan. 8 by the Homeland Security Department, only the...
