Mike Lee
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@MikeLeeFW
Covering Texas energy/environment, politics for @eenewsupdates and @POLITICO. Formerly @Business, @Startelegram. Email mlee@eenews net, Signal mikeleenews.71
Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp. Despite how difficult this job can be, I am proud to be a foreign correspondent at The Washington Post.
Our unit will vote to ratify soon, but here’s some of what we won: -$65k salary minimum -Just cause -Layoff moratorium through the end of the year -Raises of over 10% during the term of the contract -Over $400,000 in healthcare cost reimbursements
The purchase put GOP mega donor Harlan Crow in an unusual position: He now owned the house where Clarence Thomas’ elderly mother was living. Soon after the sale was completed, contractors began work on tens of thousands of dollars of improvements. propublica.org/article/claren…
EXCLUSIVE: The Texas Observer, the crusading liberal magazine founded in 1954, which Molly Ivins edited in the ’70s, is closing down and laying off its staff. The board voted on Wednesday, and again today, to proceed with the shutdown. texastribune.org/2023/03/26/tex…
