Sam Pollak is an editorial fellow at the Lever. He has also written for the Provincetown Independent, where he covered housing, criminal justice, and municipal dysfunction on Cape Cod.
For years, David Keeling oversaw health and safety operations at companies where workers fell ill and died in extreme heat. If confirmed as the head of OSHA, he could help their campaign to block federal heat protection rules.
Private equity firms are exploiting loopholes to tap billions in publicly supported funds from the Federal Home Loan Bank System, a little-known relic of the Great Depression originally established to encourage affordable mortgage lending.