Chicago It used to be a daily thing, now, thankfully, sometimes weeks will go by without some rightwing troll hurling a word bomb my way. I read them sometimes, if I’m not familiar with the author in order to see if there’s a new twist or something imaginative in the effort of insult. For me, …
Month: June 2019
Giving Some Love to Postal Banking
New Orleans The rise of interstate banking since 1980 has led to countless consolidations as major money center banks have reduced headquarters locations and branches where customers can easily do financial business. The Wall Street Journal reported that 1700 branches closed in a one-year period highlighting a trend after acceleration up to 2009 when …
Optimism in the Face of Voter Suppression
New Orleans It is impossible to deny that there is a huge, concerted effort to suppress voters in the ostensibly democratic process of elections in the United States. Voter identification laws have proliferated more widely than fetal heartbeat bills. The blatantly racist and partisan effort to embed a citizenship question into the 2020 Census, now …