February 8, 2021 Pearl River     I didn’t know Anne Fenney, but I stayed in her house. I’m not sure how that counts in degrees of separation, but I would mark it as pretty close. Fenney was a folk singer, political activist, union leader, and friend to ACORN and its organizers in Pittsburgh forever. She passed …

February 7, 2021             Pearl River     There’s no question democracy is under attack all around the world, and, sadly, we are all engaged in a battle to protect the semblance of it that’s left in the United States as well. In a weird way I was a passing witness to a how strong the heartbeat …

February 6, 2021 New Orleans  In the latest issue of Social Policy, we asked a gang of folks to make suggestions for the incoming Biden administration.  Perhaps the item most often mentioned by one and all was climate change and the need to address global warming aggressively. Receiving a recent bulletin from Environment America, led …