Olivia Riggio
Olivia Riggio is a journalist based in New Jersey and New York. You can follow her on Twitter @oliviariggio97 and her website at oliviariggioblog.wordpress.com.
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Views Friday, August 21, 2020 At Washington Post, Defunding Police Is a Step Too Radical Since the May 25 murder of George Floyd by the Minneapolis police, calls across the US to defund police departments—shifting resources from law enforcement to social services—have grown louder. In June, New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio shifted $1 billion from the NYPD—at least on paper ( Gothamist... Read more |
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Views Friday, September 06, 2019 NYT Remembers David Koch More as 'Philanthropist' Than Polluter David Koch may be dead, but his legacy of support for far-right politics and climate change denial lives on. The New York Times , however, chose to focus more on his love for the ballet than on his pollution and profiteering. In its obituary ( 8/23/19 ), “David Koch, Billionaire Who Fueled Right-... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, June 13, 2018 Spiked Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Cartoonist Speaks Out Cartoonist Rob Rogers’ section on the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette website has remained static for the past week, displaying the same “Trade War” cartoon since last Tuesday ( 6/5/18) . Before that, six of his cartoons in a row were killed ( FAIR.org , 6/6/18 ), all of which criticized President Donald... Read more |
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Views Thursday, June 07, 2018 Anti-Trump Cartoons Stopped By Censor at Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The work of Rob Rogers, longtime political cartoonist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette , has been notably absent from his paper’s opinion page during this past week. Aside from a cartoon criticizing the trade war posted on Tuesday, June 5 , the most recent of Rogers’ drawings appeared last Thursday... Read more |