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Welcome to the best opinion pieces of the week from News From The States. Our commentary includes our own journalists from across our extensive network as well as outside voices to bring a wide range of perspectives and ideas. In addition to the sampling below, you can look through all our commentary here.

 

 TOP COMMENTARY OF THE WEEK 

Black people live every day with hurdles that former health chief tried to diminish

Roger Chelsey | Virginia Mercury

 
Virginia Health Commissioner Colin Greene faced questioning from Faye Prichard (right) and other members of the state's Board of Health over his comments dismissing the role of racism in public health disparities. (Kate Masters/Virginia Mercury)

Virginia Health Commissioner Colin Greene faced questioning from Faye Prichard (right) and other members of the state's Board of Health over his comments dismissing the role of racism in public health disparities.
(Kate Masters/Virginia Mercury)

News this week that the richest Black mothers and their babies are twice as likely to die in the year after childbirth than their white counterparts is just one indicator of why Colin Greene, the onetime chief of the Virginia Health Department, was rejected by the state Senate.  

Similar medical facts contribute to why Democratic legislators, African-Americans around Virginia and department employees were so appalled by Greene’s pronouncements last year about racism. The state health commissioner downplayed more than a century of second-class treatment, stereotypes and structural barriers that Black people and other minorities have faced regarding health care in this country. 

The account Sunday in The New York Times, citing a study by the nonpartisan National Bureau of Economic Research about births in California, also found maternal mortality rates were just as high among the richest Black women as they were among poor white women.  

 

Pa. shouldn’t wait any longer to abolish the death penalty

John L. Micek | Pennsylvania Capital-Star

 

‘Don’t say Kim?’ Governor’s bill would regulate schools’ use of nicknames

Kathie Obradovich | Iowa Capital Dispatch

 

Fulton indictments coming in 2020 election probe, just not reeling big fish

Jay Bookman | Georgia Recorder

 

Restoring funding for Wisconsin public schools should be a no-brainer

Ruth Conniff | Wisconsin Examiner

 

Ohio’s billion-dollar bailout bribery trial showcasing rampant arrogance, corruption, and enabling

David DeWitt | Ohio Capital Journal

 

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