My latest story investigates the multi-billion dollar petrochemical barge industry and its effect on two unincorporated communities in TX. If you’re looking for something to read during holiday downtime, this topic I’ve lived and breathed for months and am so excited to share.

Texas is in the midst of a petrochemical building boom— constructing + expanding plants that make chemicals used in plastics, detergents, fertilizers + more. Here are 13 scenes illustrating the potential impact of this boom, from Public Health Watch➡️ tinyurl.com/txpetchem 1/15

Everyday misery, loneliness, injuries, mistakes, and in some cases ... death. There are good Michigan nursing homes and wonderful staff. But when things go wrong, they REALLY go wrong. bridgemi.com/michigan-healt…

Texas Clears the Way for Petrochemical Expansion as Experts Warn of Health Risks - Public Health Watch publichealthwatch.org/2025/12/30/tex…

After a white county in South Carolina rejected a data center, developers have sets their sights on a Black community for a proposed data center complex the size of 1,200 football fields capitalbnews.org/data-center-so…

As Xcel Energy prepares to dig up more than 1 million cubic yards of toxic coal ash, residents and local officials say the company’s proposed air quality monitoring plan falls short. They are working to build their own. boulderreportinglab.org/2026/01/06/bou…

Nearly half of Trump-appointed experts involved in shaping the new dietary guidelines have financial ties to meat and dairy industries. Exclusive with Sarah Todd and Elizabeth Cooney: statnews.com/2026/01/07/new…

In MN, officials at Roosevelt High School said armed U.S. Border Patrol officers came on school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people, handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders. mprnews.org/story/2026/01/…

The last worker in the US who knew how to make Tubas is having his union job shipped to China by hedge fund billionaire and Trump advisor John Paulson who made the TV rounds to defend tariffs as a way to bring jobs back to US

ICE agents choked a 16-year-old when they arrested him alongside his undocumented father. He filmed much of it, but ICE didn't give his phone back when he was released. He later found it in a vending machine for used electronics; suggesting an agent stole it and sold it for cash.

Sharing this beautiful interaction again. We need more compassion and love here. #SesameStreet #AndrewGarfield #Elmo

.Karoline Leavitt absolutely nukes a Fake News loser: "You're a left-wing hack. You're not a reporter. You're posing in this room as a journalist... You and the people in the media who have such biases but fake like you're a journalist — you shouldn't even be sitting in that seat."

Harris County, Texas, is the deadliest place in the United States for Black mothers to give birth capitalbnews.org/black-maternal…

KAROLINE LEAVITT warns Tony Dokoupil on his Trump interview: "Make sure you guys don’t cut the tape....if it’s not out in full, we’ll sue your ass off." Scoop (with audio) w/ Michael M. Grynbaum nytimes.com/2026/01/17/bus…

The White House has confirmed its official X account posted a fake image of a woman arrested in Minnesota after interrupting a service at a church where an ICE official appears to be a pastor. The White House image altered the actual photo to wrongly make it seem like the

Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning I was sent this video of agents at her door: