Workers, it got a lot of exposure. There was a really great piece on healthcare workers, transporters and environmental services, people who do not like doctors and nurses necessarily, i wonder to what degree these narratives are reaching people who are not already aware. I feel very frustrated about a number of people. It is not that i am a show off or want to be a center of attention, but i dont feel a sense of a platform and sense of people interacting with me right now. And there is a way in which. The people in south carolina, to gather the most important purposes. And and early on, the earliest people to strike, amazon retaliated, the cold wave of companies retaliating. And and amazon is one of the most prominent, stamped down on worker organizing. The attorney general getting investigated, he is nationwide, entirely done online. And it is attracting a very interesting diverse mix of workers which amazon has, ages and skin color and Different National backgrounds and everything a
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Jagged edge takes its title from f. Scott fitzgerald who is the author probably most famously of the great gatsby and if you remember your gatsby from back in high school or college you will remember nick carowinds is from minnesota. He went off to war and this would have been world war i and when he came back he decided that he thought it would be sort of dull to move back to minnesota which he saw as the ragged edge of the universe and he decided to move to new york and he got nixed up and arrained 20s on long island with gatsby and all that cast of characters from his book. In the end when he sees what happens to many of these characters he begins to see the ultimate west where he came from as the warm center of the world and so that contrast is what i tried to draw out in my new book book, warm center to jagged edge. In the decades after the civil war the midwest was seen by many commentators as the pacesetter region, the place that is the most active the place where there were som
Re where are we right now . Heart of oldin the sioux falls, settled in the 1860s. Just to the north of us is the famous falls on the big sioux rivers from which the city takes its name. Right now we are on one of the main thorough fears thoroughfares on south dakota. Buildings oflder sioux falls, where you get a good feel for what would be considered the main street of sioux falls. This is part of the sculpture walk in downtown sioux falls. To the left is the federal courthouse. It is built out of this pink sioux falls courthouse. This is one reasonto the left il courthouse. They chose this because it is an plentiful supplies. That would be downtown sioux falls, or is that representative of historical sioux falls . John historical sioux falls. Downtown is coming back. Downtown is coming back. For a while downtown moved out to the west side where the malls where. There has been a big resurgence in downtown sioux falls, like a lot of downtown in many cities across the country. To break d
Is the famous falls on the Big Sioux River from which the city takes its name. Right now we are on one of the main thoroughfares of sioux falls, south dakota. I lost some of the older buildings of sioux falls where you get a good feel for what would be considered the main street of sioux falls. This is part of the sculpture walk in downtown sioux falls. To the left is the federal courthouse. You can see that it is built out of this pink sioux falls quartz, which is on the reasons the sellers chose this because it is an plentiful supplies. That would be downtown sioux falls, or is that representative of historical sioux falls . John historical sioux falls. Downtown is coming back. For a while downtown moved out to the west side where the malls where. There has been a big resurgence in downtown sioux falls, like a lot of downtown in many cities across the country. To break down the population are the Ethnic Diversity here as far as numbers are concerned. John well, let me give you a fact