December 30, 2020 Pearl River What’s the saying, “if wishes were horses, beggars would ride….” The old Scottish nursing rhyme harkens to the days when the differences between the rich and poor might be a matter of transportation. The line came to me as I began reading a recent New York Times article that catalogued …
Month: December 2020
Hey, Congress, Lay Off ACORN Already
December 29, 2020 Pearl River Good news! The still President, or as some call him the President-Unelect Donald Trump, went to sign his golf card in Florida and toady South Carolina Senator Lindsay Graham slipped the latest $900 billion coronavirus relief bill to him instead, and, wham-bam, relief finally came. Well, maybe not exactly like …
Black Lives Matter, the Tides Foundation, and the Future
December 28, 2020 Pearl River The Black Lives Matter movement erupted after the killing of George Floyd, as demonstrations, perhaps as many as 8500, occurred throughout the country and the world. BLM, prior to the Minneapolis uprising, was a loosely-knit, unstructured, network of local chapters with a somewhat leaderless structure nationally. In many ways that …