Arguably, the local election is probably harder to influence successfully than at the national scale. Federal-level lobbying and donations are hidden from sight, local elections tend to have much more scrutiny and direct community involvement.
Way opposite experience. I recently switched from manjaro/windows to the new mbp16, and I was surprised by how much I prefer it to windows especially. I'm happy with what MS is doing with wsl/wsl2, but it's not there yet.
Do you have a background in corporate finance? If not, weird to form an opinion that the article seems like outrage porn without also holding the stance that buyback strategy was the way to go...
From personal experience, this breaks down all boundaries before work and personal life. I know it's romantic to think about founders working and collaborating 24/7, but for me this path led to burnout, and eventually some estrangement and tension because decompression is next to impossible.
Reuters has a 'policy' of neutrality, but they're a for-profit org, and the news started getting more skewed after Thompson bought them. Even before they got all click-baitey, they used to suppress climate change news and feature outright quack climate change deniers. Before they got bought out, the news was just a side product to their market data product.
AP is the one that is a straight newswire service, that provides story stubs and fact outlines from around the world, which other journalists then sensationalize.
All that being said... This article didn't seem all that sensational. Would you have preferred "Paris Zoological Park Showcases Slime Mould Exhibit"?
The entire reason those manufacturing jobs were offshored is because the cost of cheap, unskilled (legal) labor in the US is relatively exorbitant, moreso in unionized industries.
The big failure of manufacturing-dependent states has been the lack of modern skills training for workers with outmoded skillsets. There's also an argument to be made that unlike assembly line work, not everyone has the intellectual capacity to do the specialized, highly-technical manufacturing work that the US specializes in now. Definitely not to the extent that entire communities can be propped up around manufacturing anymore.
What you're advocating is a regressive solution that doesn't really comport with modern realities.