Trisha Marczak is a Mint Press staff writer and investigative reporter specializing in the oil industry, environment, education and immigration. She has worked in Australia with several NGOs, and as a staff writer, reporter and an award-winning editor at various newspapers, magazines, and public radio stations throughout the Midwest. Contact Trisha at [email protected] or follow her on Twitter at @TrishaMarczakMP.
An Alabama congressman calls the Common Core novel “The Bluest Eye” exactly that: “child pornography.”
For Alabama state Sen. Bill Holtzclaw (R-Madison), Nobel Prize in Literature winner Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye” is inappropriate for the public school setting, as the 1970 novel, which illustrates the life of a young Black girl who grows up longing to be White, has a storyline that exposes the reality of incest, rape and
Residents of Youngstown, Ohio didn’t even know what an earthquake felt like before the fracking industry came to town.
For the residents of Youngstown, Ohio, the recent onslaught of earthquakes came as a surprise. Before the fracking wastewater industry came to Ohio, Youngstown residents didn’t know what an earthquake felt like -- their community of 66,000 had never experienced anything like it. Yet by 2011, a year after the industry sprouted up in their
Some locals are crying foul after Alaska Environmental Task Force officers took a heavy-handed approach to enforcing the Clean Water Act.
The small gold mining community of Chicken, Ala. became the center of national controversy when a local newspaper reported the Alaska Environmental Task Force conducted an unexpected investigative attack on a local mine, startling workers and area residents. Clad in body armor and jackets with the word, “Police,” armed agents stormed the mine,
A recent psychological study concludes that men’s self-esteem is disproportionately affected when faced with a partner’s success.
A new study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology is giving credence to what successful, single women have been saying for decades: men are intimidated by their female partners’ achievements. The study, “Gender Differences in Implicit Self-Esteem Following a Romantic Partner’s Success or Failure,” was co-authored by
According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, fracking water “killed virtually all aquatic wildlife” at the site of one spill.
Think fracking spills pose little threat to fish and wildlife? Think again. A new study conducted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S. Geological Survey is drawing attention to the devastating impacts of fracking wastewater spills, profiling a 2007 Kentucky incident that left in its wake a decrepit environment unsuitable for animal
The oil and gas industry is drooling over carbon-rich shale formations in the Land of Lincoln.
In the oil and gas industry’s quest to tap resources hidden in shale formations throughout the nation, companies involved in the fracking movement are focussing their attention on the next big hot spot, moving attention away from North Dakota and Texas and looking ahead to the future of the industry. That future, at this point, is seen in
A new study suggests that physical environment could be just as important to learning as the education itself.
The physical environment in which students learn could be just as important as the educational material itself, according to a University of California-Los Angeles study. The argument comes in the midst of a nationwide debate, with concern over a lack of consistency related to the level of education provided, often measured through textbook and