Manchester Two words heard regularly in the UK are “sorted” and “bits.” Sorted makes sense in a way. Get organized, straighten out, arrange in place, whatever, to sort something is to put it right, and the term is ubiquitous. Almost as common is a reference to “bits” with is a catchall for a miscellaneous everything …
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Renters’ Rising
Buckhorn, Ontario It is starting to feel like we’re getting real traction in what has become a global fight for tenants’ rights. Not only has ACORN built an effective organization for tenants to resist the arbitrary, capricious, and sometimes dangerous and unhealthy practices of landlords in an often uncertain legal environment, but as importantly we …
Hating Immigrants is the Wild Card in the Electoral Deck
New Orleans Wow! It must have suddenly become hate-on-an-immigrant day and Hallmark didn’t prepare any condolence cards for the rest of us. In one day the lives of immigrant millions of families were cast into limbo with the split, no-decision 4-4 polling of the Supreme Court and the 52-48 so-called Brexit vote for Great Britain …