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For this episode of Partisan Gardens, we learn about the conditions facing migrant farm workers in California. We share a two conversations: one between Partisan Gardens and Nikola Garcia, author of a recent article in Inhabit: Territories called “The Farmworker Caravan: Mutual Aid in California’s Migrant Worker Communities.” The other is a conversation between Nikola and Darlene Tenes, founder of …

Today much of the history of American radicalism, including the work of cartoonist Art Young, languishes in obscurity just when it is needed most. But be cheered, along with Michael Mark Cohen’s website, Cartooning Capitalism: Art Young and the Cartoons of American Radicalism, there are now two collections of Young’s work in print, both out from Fantagraphics, To Laugh that …

A staff photographer at The Herald-Times is dismissed, as newspapers are sold to GateHouse Media; Indiana legislators support a ‘tax amnesty’ program; Supporters of redistricting reform push legislators to act; Sen. (R-Lawrenceberg) Chip Perfect withdraws bill eliminating child labor laws, after conflict of interest scandal; EPA re-schedules a public comment period for East Chicago Superfund site. FEATURE The Monroe County …

Schools across Indiana and much of the Midwest are cancelling classes, as temperatures drop into dangerous territory; An Indiana lawmaker’s efforts to eliminate the state’s child labor laws have raised conflict of interest concerns; The Herald-Times of Bloomington is among 8 Indiana newspapers sold to Gatehouse Media; A hike in storm-water fees proposed by the City of Bloomington Utilities Department could get even …