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Ad Campaign Latest Effort to take Smithfield Foods to Tasknew

Faith leaders, elected officials and Smithfield workers will gather in D.C. to unveil a series of advertisements decrying working conditions at the company's sprawling hog processing plant in North Carolina. The ads will soon begin appearing on the sides of buses and metro station walls across the D.C. metropolitan area.

Port Folio Weekly | Vernal Coleman | 06-18-2008 | Business & Labor

Tags: North Carolina, unions, advertising, D.C., business & labor, factory farms, hog processing, Smithfield Foods, work conditions

The Untold Story of the Michael Vick Scandalnew

Vick's journey to federal prison began on March 2, 1999, when he was 18 years old, when cops stopped a Ford Econoline van with Virginia plates and a dangling pinetree air freshener and found two kilos of cocaine and a half kilo of heroin. Michael Vick had no connection with this bust, nor with the three men in the van. Yet the stop would have everything to do with the fate of the young star.

Port Folio Weekly | Joe Jackson | 06-18-2008 | Animal Issues

Tags: football, Virginia, animal issues, dog fighting, drug trafficking, Michael Vick

Virginia's Pro-Choice Lobby Daynew

Members of the National Organization for Women, Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion Rights Action League gathered at the capital on Thursday to rally in support of legislation that would add FDA-approved methods of contraception to the state code governing sex education.

Port Folio Weekly | Vernal Coleman | 02-07-2008 | Sex

Tags: sex & reproductive issues

Blackwater Trial, Reduxnew

Steve Baggarly and the six other protestors arrested at Blackwater USA’s Moyock headquarters finally got what they had been denied after a judge abruptly closed the courtroom during their hearing in October: a public forum.

Port Folio Weekly | Vernal Coleman | 01-31-2008 | Civil Liberties

Tags: civil liberties

What a Difference a Year Has Made for Ethanolnew

Touted as the solution to global warming and dependency on foreign oil, ethanol was offered up as the fuel of the future by its own industry and numerous politicians. Now skeptics of the biofuel are more vocal now than ever. Their concerns: the corn-based fuel's impact on the economy, the environment, consumer issues and, of course, politics.

Port Folio Weekly | Jennifer O'Donnell | 11-16-2007 | Environment

Tags: energy, ethanol, environment

Bill Cosby Is Right ... Againnew

Cosby has told the truth about these social ills and familial dysfunctions that affect too many in the black community, and I hope the truth will set us free.

Port Folio Weekly | John Horton | 10-24-2007 | Race & Class

Tags: bill, race relations, cosby

Conservationists Are Betting on the Farm Billnew

Just when it seemed as though politicians were willing to give conservation programs a little attention (and a little money) through the 2007 revised farm bill, the tide began to turn.

Port Folio Weekly | Jennifer O'Donnell | 10-17-2007 | Environment

Tags: environment

Sallie Mae Buyout is Another Blow to Student Borrowersnew

If Sallie Mae changes its status from a publicly traded company to a private one, it will no longer be as susceptible to scrutiny.

Port Folio Weekly | Jennifer C. O'Donnell | 09-20-2007 | Education

Tags: Education, loans, student

Smithfield Foods Workers Rally for Justicenew

Workers from the company's North Carolina plant ally with national labor activists, clergy, and civil rights representatives to rally against shareholders.

Port Folio Weekly | Hannah Serrano | 09-12-2007 | Business & Labor

Tags: business & labor