February 14, 2021 Pearl River       Nursing homes have been ground zero of the Covid-19 killing zone. People with dementia are twice as likely to be infected by the novel coronavirus. Tens of thousands of nursing home workers in the US have also died in the pandemic. This is a worldwide problem, but especially intense …

February 13, 2021 Pearl River       Back when welfare was “as we know it,” we organized to oppose “workfare,” the requirement that poverty alone did not qualify someone for benefits to survive, but they also had to prove they had made efforts to seek employment or had successfully gotten some menial job. Sometimes these requirements …

February 12, 2021 New Orleans       The scurrilous, criminal provocateur, James O’Keefe, and his Project Veritas have finally been reined in after a dozen years of mayhem and damage. Ironically, they are being hobbled by a new sheriff in the public space where many live: Twitter. The latest O’Keefe escapade seems to have involved some …