Like gun violence, chronic poverty and unequal health care coverage, the problem of unchecked greenhouse gas pollution won’t solve itself. As important as local and state efforts to reduce the emissions imperiling our planet are, a … [Read more...]
Miraculously the Republicans Rediscover the Average American
As if by magic, the Republican Party has rediscovered most of the rest of us. My neck is still stiff from the political whiplash I sustained when the Grand Old Party radically made its 180-degree course change back to the political middle. … [Read more...]
Let’s end child poverty
We are a wealthy state in a wealthy nation, and yet one out of every seven people in Massachusetts lives in poverty. And even that doesn’t tell the true story. The number is 29% among African Americans here; 40% among Latinos. … [Read more...]
Animal Farm and income inequality
What if no CEO of a so-called nonprofit - or its management, and no head of a Quasi Public Agency earned more than 10x the average worker in that nonprofit or Quasi-public Agency? Or 5x? -No matter from what source. -including … [Read more...]
Shame on Kerry
When I pointed out that this was blackmail, the man on the phone agreed and said that Kerry was trying to make the compromise "better". When I pointed out that you can't make the compromise "better" unless you … [Read more...]