Read up on redlining and where the US installed its highways in cities in the 50/60/70s.

In almost every case, they cut right down the middle of a black neighborhood, a neighborhood that people had been forced into living in due to redlining. This of course destroyed the neighborhood, and made any adjacent homes and buisnesses highly undesirable, gutting black and minority wealth again and again and forcing those residents to live next to road/noise pollution.

Leading off by acknowledging that this may be a modern day case of the same practice is why they added a "black woman" to the headline.

I personally read this as a case of nimbyism, as most of their complaints aren't based on likely issues, but i can understand the distrust the community has for this kind of project.

Jenny McCarthy got a big boost from her in the beginning of her antivax crusade too:

Of course, the notion that vaccines cause autism has never been supported by science. But Oprah gave McCarthy a vast audience via her TV show in 2007.Science journalist Seth Mnookin, who covered this meeting of the minds in his book The Panic Virus, reported that Winfrey “praised McCarthy’s unwillingness to bow to authority, her faith in herself, and her use of the Internet as a tool for bypassing society’s traditional gatekeepers.” Here’s an excerpt from the interview transcript:

MCCARTHY: First thing I did

Google. I put in autism. And I started my research.

WINFREY: Thank God for Google.

MCCARTHY: I’m telling you.

WINFREY: Thank God for Google.

MCCARTHY: The University of Google is where I got my degree from. ... And I put in autism and something came up that changed my life, that led me on this road to recovery, which said autism — it was in the corner of the screen — is reversible and treatable. And I said, What?! That has to be an ad for a hocus-pocus thing, because if autism is reversible and treatable, well, then it would be on Oprah.

Days after that Oprah appearance, McCarthy was invited on Larry King Live and Good Morning America to spread her anti-vaccine message even further. Between the three shows, she reached between 15 million and 20 million viewers with her anti-vaccine message, Mnookin estimated.

To this day, the episode featuring McCarthy, “Mothers Battle Autism,” is featured on Oprah’s website, without any correction or acknowledgment of the problems with McCarthy’s claims.

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/1/9/16868216/oprah-winfrey-pseudoscience

I feel like the character was underutilized, but i've honestly never been blown away by her acting as Tasha in the show. Maybe with time and a chance to grow into the role, but as is it doesn't feel like the series missed much.

Forbes as Ro hit that "hard edged but actually kind survivor" note much better, and I think it just came down to acting chops, honestly.

From a different thread.

This cures obesity, one of the widest impacting and deadliest diseases in the world.

It is also shown to have had startling positive effects on addiction of various types, from alcohol to hard drugs, etc. It does something to help moderate the reward centers in the brain to reduce the appeal of these addictions. Many people prescribed the drug report losing weight and ending addictions.

This and its analogs may earnestly be the most successful and most impactful disease curing drug in human history, and has the potential to improve billions of lives.

The attempted murderer said very specific racist things while trying to drown the child.

It's a hate crime as well as attempted murder.

What hes describing above is common enough to have a term : highway hypnosis.

It's well passed "zoned out." I've personally experienced it. Youre on such autopilot that you dont even recall the drive. Its more likely to happen for routine or monotonous drives.

I think it makes more sense if you read "outdoors enthusiast" as outdoors "enthusiast."

Im 99% sure the author is just engaging in some dry wit and being sarcastic about his outdoor prowess, seeing as he was so deeply unprepared that "boot cup" became his primary means of survival.

There isn't now, but there was then. He isn't likely to face any charges. Civil trial is more possible, but still difficult.

He sexually assaulted a 12 year old over and over for years, became a millionaire pastor, and now is retiring while his church does damage control, "both sideing" their support for both him and his victim. The church leaders claim they "just didn't know" how young she was when he was assaulting her, even though hes been publically talking about his "redemption for his sin " for 30yrs+.

As usual with church sexual abuse, everyone walks away unscathed but the victim, who takes all the pain and has to deal with all the shame.

Repeatedly sexual assaulted a 12 year old child. The abuse happened over a 5 year period.

Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said that graduates would be screened “to exclude all communists, radical Islamists, Hamas supporters, America haters and public charges.”

Literally the plan.

Rich, white, christian conservative foreigners only. They want a path to citizenship for hand picked voters from other countries.

"Not a drag queen" keeps its streak going.