Creede Newton

As the midterm cycle ends, a grassroots battle against Trump’s energy policy heats up
By Creede Newton
As the midterm election cycle enters its final days, a battle over Donald Trump’s energy policy from grassroots organizers is just beginning. The Atlantic Coast Pipeline is a proposed 42-inch-diameter pipeline that will transport fracked natural gas…
Double standard emerges as activists see special airline boarding pass designation
By Creede Newton
It was in July that Klee Benally first saw the Secondary Screening Security Selection designation on his boarding pass, when he was flying to New York from Arizona. He was hit with delays at the airport from the increased searches of his person and…
Milo Yiannopoulos and Steve Bannon spoke in Hungary — it cost $60K, seemingly in taxpayer money
By Creede Newton
BUDAPEST, Hungary — The cost of getting Milo Yiannopoulos and Steve Bannon to Hungary for hourlong speeches in Budapest in May was upwards of $60,000 — including a $20,000 speaking fee for each, or nearly the equivalent of four years of low-skilled…
A year after Charlottesville, money for injured residents is drying up — or never arrived
By Creede Newton
A year after the deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, became a watershed moment in recent United States history — one viewed by many as a picture of the social climate across the country — members of the community in the…