US judge blocks postal service changes that slowed mail | News | DW | 17.09.2020

A federal judge temporarily blocked the US Postal Service from making operational changes amid concerns over election mail slowdown. He called the changes "a politically motivated attack on the efficiency of the USPS."....
https://www.dw.com/en/us-judge-blocks-postal-service-changes-that-slowed-mail/a-54970523

Trump’s USPS slowdown has devastated small businesses ‘like somebody turned off a switch’: report – Raw Story

On Monday, USA Today explored how the recent Postal Service slowdown, seen since the takeover of President Donald Trump’s new postmaster general Louis DeJoy, has crippled small businesses that rely on mail delivery for their services. “On-time handling for first-class mail has declined since June, according to an August report from the Postal Service,” reported Aimee Picchi. “A separate August report from Senator Gary Peters of Michigan, a Democrat, found that delayed mail items more than doubled at the Postal Service Michigan Metroplex, a major sorting facility, after DeJoy stepped into his role.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/09/trumps-usps-slowdown-has-devastated-small-businesses-like-somebody-turned-off-a-switch-report/

What Can Mayors Do When the Police Stop Doing Their Jobs? — ProPublica

In cities across the country, leaders face a phenomenon encountered in Baltimore and Chicago: officers slowing their work in the wake of high-profile episodes of police violence. Reporter Alec MacGillis asks: Will the result be different this time?

https://www.propublica.org/article/what-can-mayors-do-when-the-police-stop-doing-their-jobs

New Postal Service Documents Show Nationwide Delays Far Worse Than Postal Service Has Acknowledged | House Committee on Oversight and Reform

Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, released new internal Postal Service documents warning Postmaster General Louis DeJoy about steep declines and increasing delays nationwide over the last two months as a result of his drastic operational and organizational changes.
https://oversight.house.gov/news/press-releases/new-postal-service-documents-show-nationwide-delays-far-worse-than-postal

In manufacturing Midwest, signs of trouble amid good times - The Washington Post

A Wisconsin town shows the disparate fortunes of global and U.S. consumer markets as the economy starts slowing...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/in-manufacturing-midwest-signs-of-trouble-amid-good-times/2019/10/29/f4fd41cc-f118-11e9-89eb-ec56cd414732_story.html

Republicans just got another dose of bad news - The Washington Post: Opinion

If we are headed into an economic slowdown, Trump has few tools to keep the economy afloat...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/03/28/republicans-just-got-their-second-doze-bad-news/