We say goodbye to North Carolina-set TV shows The Unicorn and Bless the Harts Brooke Cain, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
May 21 It was nice while it lasted, that tiny bit of spotlight shining on Raleigh all the way from Hollywood.
But with CBS cancellation of The Unicorn last week goes the Oak City s most prominent national pop culture moment since Barney booked the corner room at the Y. The Unicorn was a sweet comedy about a recently widowed dad of two young daughters, living in Raleigh and trying to reenter the dating world with the support of a handful of close friends.
The Atlantic
‘One Oppressive Economy Begets Another’
Louisiana’s petroleum industry profits from exploiting historic inequalities, showing how slavery laid the groundwork for environmental racism.
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Sharon Lavigne was teaching a special-education class when her daughter called to tell her about the Sunshine Project. Named for its proximity to Louisiana’s Sunshine Bridge, the operation, helmed by the Taiwanese behemoth Formosa Plastics, was on track to build one of the world’s largest plastic plants. Already the air Lavigne breathed in her native St. James Parish was some of the most toxic in the United States. Now Formosa planned to spend $9.4 billion on facilities that would make polymer and ethylene glycol, polyethylene, and polypropylene ingredients found in antifreeze, drainage pipes, and a variety of single-use plastics just two miles down the road from her family home. The concentration of carcinogens in the atmosphere could triple.
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