Feb 18, 2021
View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
The country which beats its chest about being the beacon of democracy for the world continues to inch toward a police state.
Sweeping the country is a wave of legislation that puts a chill on the freedom to assemble and engage in direct action. This is the devilish…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
The most significant bump is 31 percent, from the current $290 per week (for a full-time week) to $380 per week. Even with that increase, though, a family of four is living below the poverty line of $26,500.
Now that the impeachment trial of the 45th President is over, perhaps our legislators can turn their attention to working people, or more accurately, those who…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
If workers vote affirmatively, they would have the first unionized Amazon workplace in the United States.
Thousands of warehouse workers at an Amazon plant in Bessemer, Alabama, are at the center of a potentially game-changing union vote taking place right now. On…
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Commentary
Columnist
there is little appetite to provide the necessary funding, during this pandemic, to support the in-person education of these students in a safe and healthy way.
The nation’s changing demographics are at the core of the controversy concerning the reopening of schools. As people of color begin to overwhelm the longstanding White…
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Commentary
Columnist
For the former president, nothing is sacred, if it doesn’t have the possibility of making money for him and his grifting family. He taught them well and they all will go on grifting after the dust-up of his taking over the Republican Party and changing it into a version of one of his properties.
Although President Biden ordered a stop to any construction activity along the Mexican-U.S. Frontier to further the former president’s “beautiful wall,” apparently the word didn’t get…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
the other side of the coin is that once one is aware, a moral imperative arises.
In trying to explain systemic racism, I’d like to use a metaphor. Sometimes I compare racism to having a significant carbon footprint. The population of the…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
We are talking about change. How do we bring about social democracy that includes all of our citizens?
Too often, when I listen to a podcast in which two or more white Americans are conversing, it feels as if I’m eavesdropping. They have forgotten…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
Well-seasoned 50-year-old Black coaches can’t get a head coaching job, yet White, unqualified 32-year-old boy geniuses are hired every year.
Sports, the games we play, the national pastimes, mirror our greater polarized society and offer a selfie of who and what we are – our “isms”…
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